Only time will tell if the hard work of biology students at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus will pay off. In spring 2016, a few of biology professor Dawn Lubeski’s students focused their attention on a semesterlong project of constructing, placing and watching over nesting boxes in the campus’ Tumbling Creek wooded area and trails. In the fall semester, biology major and sophomore Josie Orr continued that project with nesting boxes for 20 Eastern bluebirds, whose population declined between the 1920s and 1970s.
University of North Georgia students build houses for Eastern bluebirds, install them near campus
Project aims to boost declining population of birds
