Silence of the Songbirds
Bridget Stutchbury
Thursday, 31 Mar 2011 at 6:00 pm – Gerdin Business Building Auditorium, Rm 1148
Bridget Stutchbury studies the ecology and behavior of songbirds in North America and the New World tropics. Her 2007 book Silence of the Songbirds looks at the recent decline in migratory songbirds and the factors most threatening their extinction, from pesticides to habitat destruction and city lights to climate change. Her other books include The Bird Detective: Investigating the Secret Lives of Birds and Behavioral Ecology of Tropical Birds. Stutchbury completed her Ph.D. at Yale, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She is a professor in the Department of Biology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and holds a Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology. The Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Symposium Keynote and part of the Women in STEM Series.Cosponsored By:
- Grad. Research in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology
- Graduate and Professional Student Senate
- ISU ADVANCE
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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