Erin Strasser

Erin began working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2023 as a Renewable Energy Biologist. Through her work she aims to advance science and conservation of migratory birds across their full annual cycle while considering sustainable human development. Erin spent 9.5 years with Bird Conservancy of the Rockies collaborating with partners in Mexico, the USA, and Canada to fill knowledge gaps on nonbreeding demographics, movement patterns, and drivers of population declines in grassland birds. Other experience includes monitoring sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.

Learn more about sagebrush songbirds under the SageSTEP project with U.S. Geological Survey and trapping migrating raptors with the Intermountain Bird Observatory. Erin has a B.S in zoology from Northern Arizona University where she studied social behavior in pinyon jays. She researched the impact of human disturbance on American kestrels for her M.S. in raptor biology from Boise State University. See her Research Gate profile for a list of her publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Erin-Strasser