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Kent received his Masters degree in Biology from Antioch University New England in Keene, NH where he studied the effects of roads on the bird community in a Belize rainforest with Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences. He completed his undergraduate degree in environmental studies at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He was a Peace Corps volunteer working with rural farmers in Caazapa, Paraguay from 1989-1992 where he learned Spanish. It was the bright birds of Paraguay that attracted Kent to conservation biology. After a few months in the country he bought a cheap pair of binoculars and a bird guide and became a fanatic. Kent has lived in Vermont since 1994 and has been a member of the Woodstock Fire Department since 2001. His latest obsession is native bees, which he hopes to survey across the entire state over the next decade. e-mail: kmcfarland AT vtecostudies.org
Select Scientific Publications Townsend, J.M, C.C. Rimmer, and K.P. McFarland. 2010. Winter territoriality and spatial behavior of Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus bicknelli) at two ecologically distinct sites in the Dominican Republic. Auk 127:514-522. Rimmer, C.C., E.K. Miller, K.P. McFarland, R.J. Taylor, and S.D. Faccio. 2009. Mercury bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in the terrestrial food web of a montane forest. Ecotoxicology. DOI 10.1007s10646-009-0443-x. Townsend, J.M., C.C. Rimmer, and K.P. McFarland. 2009. Investigating the limiting factors of a rare, vulnerable species: Bicknell's Thrush. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners in Flight Conference: Tundra to Tropics: 91-95. Townsend, J.M., C.C. Rimmer, J. Brocca, K.P. McFarland, and A. K. Townsend. 2009. Predation of a wintering migratory songbird by introduced rats: can nocturnal roosting behavior serve as predator avoidance? Condor 111(3): 565-569. Frey, S.J.K., C.C. Rimmer, K.P. McFarland, and S. Menu. 2008. Identification and sex determination of Bicknell's Thrushes using Morphometric Data. Auk 79: 408-420. Rodenhouse, N.L., S.N. Matthews, K.P. McFarland, J.D. Lambert, L.R. Iverson, A. Prasad, T.S. Sillett, and R.T. Holmes. 2008. Potential effects of climate change on birds of the Northeast. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 13: 517-540. Strong, A. M., C. C. Rimmer, K.P. McFarland and K. Hagan. 2002. Effects of mountain resorts on wildlife. Vermont Law Review 26(3): 689-716. Rimmer, C.C., K.P. McFarland, W.G. Ellison, J.E. Goetz and H. Ouellet. 2001. Bicknell's Thrush (Catharus bicknelli). In The Birds of North America, (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. Rimmer, C.C. and K.P. McFarland. 1999. Sky Island Songbirds. Natural History 9:35-39. Rimmer, C.C., K.P. McFarland, and J.E. Goetz. 1999. Distribution, habitat use, and conservation status of Bicknell's Thrush in the Dominican Republic. El Pitirre 12: 114. Hochachka, W.M., T.E. Martin, and 28 other authors including K.P. McFarland in alphabetical order. 1999. Scale dependence in the effects of forest coverage on parasitization by brown-headed cowbirds. Studies in Avian Biology 18: 80-88. Faccio, S.D., C.C. Rimmer and K.P. McFarland. 1999. Results of the Vermont Forest Bird Monitoring Program, 1989-1996. Northeastern Naturalist 5: 293-312. Rimmer, C.C., J.E. Goetz and K.P. McFarland. 1998. Bird Observations in threatened forest fragments of the Sierra de Neiba. El Pitirre 11(2):15-17. Rimmer, C.C. and K. P. McFarland. 1998. Two new avian records for Hispaniola: Swainson's Warbler and Song Sparrow. El Pitirre 11(1): 15-16. Rimmer, C.C. and K.P. McFarland. 1998. Tennessee Warbler (Vermivora peregrina). In The Birds of North America, (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, D.C. Sleeper, D. (ed.), J. Andrews, L.A. Dupigny-Giroux, S. Faccio, J. Jenkins, W.S. Keeton, R. Kelley, J. Kellogg, T. Hanson, K. McFarland, E. Miller, H. Pembrook, R. Poirot, C. Rimmer, D. Ross, J. Shanley, T. Simmons, C. Still, T. Villars, B. Wemple, and S. Wilmot. 2009. Vermont's changing forests: key findings on the health of forested ecosystems from the Vermont Monitoring Cooperative. Vermont Monitoring Cooperative, South Burlington, VT. 40 pp. McFarland, K.P., C.C. Rimmer, S.J.K. Frey, S.D. Faccio, B.B. Collins. 2008. Demography, Ecology and Conservation of Bicknell's Thrush in Vermont, with a Special Focus on the Northeast Highlands. Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Norwich, VT. Technical Report 08-03. 71 pp. McFarland, K.P., C.C. Rimmer and J.E. Goetz. 1999. Demography and Ecology of Montane Forest Bird Populations in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Unpublished Progress Report. McFarland, K.P. and C.C. Rimmer. 1995. Investigations of High Elevation Bird Communities in the Northeastern United States and the Dominican Republic. Unpublished Progress Report. McFarland, K.P. 1994. Preliminary results of long term monitoring of wetland plant communities associated with beaver (Castor canadensis) activity on the Wildwood Property, Dublin, NH. Unpublished Report. Select Natural History Writing Northern Woodlands: The Outside Story Vermont Entomological Society (VES) newsletter: Winter of the Bumblebee and Monarch Hitchhikers McFarland, K.P. and C.C. Rimmer. 2008. Blackpoll Warbler. Pp. 506-507 in The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State (McGowan, K. J. and K. Corwin, eds.). Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. Wooster, C. ed. 2007. The Outside Story. Northern Woodlands, 210pp.
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A co-founder of the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, Kent McFarland is a conservation biologist, photographer, writer and naturalists with over 20 years of experience across the Americas. Kent's writing and images have appeared widely in magazines, newspapers and Audubon Guides mobile field guides. He has coauthored over 25 scientific journal articles and a field guide to the birds of Hispaniola.
Kent with Chris Rimmer and the oldest known Bicknell's Thrush they captured on Stratton Mountain, Vermont in 2007. It was first banded in 1997 on the same peak when it was one year old.|
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