If you missed last night's webinar on female songsters, a recording is available here (until next month's meeting):
https://tinyurl.com/cbc-2021-11-Odom For those asking for a list of North American birds with known female songs, see Appendix Table 5 in this Auk article from 2018: https://bioone.org/journals/the-auk/volume-135/issue-2/AUK-17-183.1/A-call-to-document-female-bird-songs--Applications-for/10.1642/AUK-17-183.1.full#i0004-8038-135-2-314-t05 Suan On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:11 PM Laura Stenzler <l...@cornell.edu> wrote: > > Listening to Nature’s Divas: what female songsters have to tell us > Speaker: Dr. Karan Odom > > Monday, November 8, 2021, 7:30pm EDT > Free and open to the public! > > Most bird enthusiasts are familiar with the intricate, beautiful songs of > male songbirds. However, it is less well known that females of many bird > species also sing. While male songbirds sing to attract mates or defend > territories, the reasons that females sing can be much broader, including > competing for year-round resources for herself and her young. However, there > is still a lot to learn about the extent of differences between male and > female songs, the reasons that female songbirds sing, and the evolutionary > pressures that led female songbirds to sing in the first place. Dr. Karan > Odom will provide a glimpse of the world’s diversity of female bird songs and > explain what these natural divas have to tell us. > > About the Speaker: Dr. Karan Odom is a behavioral ecologist interested in how > animals evolved their often complex behaviors. She is especially interested > in the evolution of elaborate bird songs in female as well as male songbirds. > She combines phylogenetic comparative methods with field studies in order to > tease apart the evolutionary processes responsible for the biogeographical > patterns we see in female and male song today. Karan is currently a > postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, and > recently completed a postdoc at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Karan > received her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) > studying male and female song in troupials, a tropical oriole in Puerto Rico, > and her masters at the University of Windsor in Ontario studying the function > and geographic variation in Barred Owl duets. Karan also runs a citizen > science project (the Female Bird Song Project – www.femalebirdsong.org), > encouraging wildlife enthusiasts to help document the understudied singing > behaviors of female songbirds. > > Dr. Karan Odom with a Troupial. > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- > -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
