Hummingbird researcher and inventor Dave Katz will present
“Hummingbirds are Amazing!”
on Tuesday, May 6 at the Saratoga Springs Public Library at 7:00 p.m.
Dave will share hummingbird facts, how to attract Ruby-throated Hummingbirds to your yard, and show photos of hummingbirds from his recent visit to Colombia, such as the Buffy Helmetcrest. He’ll discuss his hummingbird research at Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Basking Ridge, N.J.

Katz has spent time in Nicaragua
and Costa Rica studying and banding Ruby-throated Hummingbirds.

He has traveled within the United
States, and to Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Panama to study and photograph indigenous hummingbirds.

 
Katz is a retired design engineer for
a medical research company, as a
physicist/engineer for the U.S.
Department of Defense, and as an
engineering consultant. He holds a
bachelor’s degree in physics from
Syracuse University, and a master’s
in systems management from the
Florida Institute of Technology.
He is a federally-permitted hummingbird researcher and has designed patent pending equipment to assist hummingbird banders.

 He is an administrator on the Hummingbird Whisperers Facebook page, which is the largest educational hummingbird page in North America, with over 200,000 members. 

He volunteers and does research at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. He serves on the Board of the Directors of the nonprofit Friends group that supports the Refuge. He is also the designer and manufacturer of Fritz’s “Almost Famous” Hummingbird Feeder Hat.