On Saturday June 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Jamestown Community College Hamilton Collegiate Center there will be a buffet dinner and keynote address by noted Canadian ornithologist Bridget Stutchbury.  Dinner and Speaker $30.00.

Keynote Program:

The Private Lives of Birds: Bridget Stutchbury, a professor of biology at York University, roams forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and explains the science behind the surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing behavior of birds. In her new book The Private Lives of Birds, Stutchbury, author of Silence of the Songbird, will explain, why some birds readily divorce their partners, why parents don’t treat their sons and daughters equally, why females sneak copulations with neighboring males, why mothers sometimes desert their babies, and why some adults forego breeding altogether. On a more serious note, she talks about how, and if, bird behaviour can help species adapt to the drastic changes humans are making to the environment.

On Saturday June 12, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Jamestown Community College Hamilton Collegiate Center there will be a buffet dinner and keynote address by noted Canadian ornithologist Bridget Stutchbury.  Dinner and Speaker $30.00.

Workshop:

On Saturday June 12, 2010from 1:00 to 2:00 PM at the Jamestown Community College Carnahan Center Dr. Bridget Stutchbury will be presenting a program titled Behind the Scenes with Songbirds - An introduction to the breeding behavior of songbirds, from territory defense and conflict over mating to cooperation in parenting.  How do researchers observe and study bird behavior? Bridget will demonstrate some of the common techniques and tools of bird detectives.

Bio:

Bridget Stutchbury was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. She completed her M.Sc. at Queen’s University and her Ph.D. at Yale, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University, Toronto. Since the 1980s, she has studied the behind-the-scenes details of the social lives of birds to understand why females cheat on their mates, what makes a male attractive, why some pairs divorce, how birds claim a territory, and what all this means not only for our avian friends, but for us as well. She is author of the book Silence of the Songbirds (2007) and The Private Lives of Birds (2010).