Bill DeLuca is the Director of Migration Science at the National Audubon Society. As part of the Migratory Bird Initiative, he works to ensure that full life cycle perspectives are included in Audubon’s conservation efforts across the Western Hemisphere. Bill strives to use the most appropriate data to answer conservation questions that have real-world impact and he appreciates the importance of working with people to achieve conservation goals.
Bill received his B.S. from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and went on to earn an M.S. in Biology at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. There he worked closely with the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center to understand the effects of watershed land use on Chesapeake Bay bird communities. Bill received a Ph.D. in Wildlife Conservation from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he studied the effects of climate change on New Hampshire’s mountain bird communities.
Before joining Audubon in 2019, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center (USGS) where he was a principal member of the Designing Sustainable Landscapes Project. It was also during this time where he began ongoing work to unveil the astonishing migration of Blackpoll Warblers. Bill is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a husband and the father of a son and daughter.
