THE LINNAEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SPEAKERS PROGRAM
Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
The American Museum of Natural History, Linder Auditorium
Speaker: Kimberly Bostwick, Curator of Birds and Mammals at Cornell
University Museum of Vertebrates and Research Associate, Department of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
Subject: Cloud Forest Virtuosos: Discovering the Amazing Wing-
Instruments of Club-winged Manakins
We often have the sense that all the major biological
discoveries have been made long ago. In this talk, Bostwick
encourages the audience to discover for themselves the solution to a
mystery that puzzled even Darwin, and has only been worked out in
recent years. That is, some animals exhibit exceptions to the rule of
"survival of the fittest" and conform more to the idea of "survival of
the sexiest". Male Club-winged Manakins, an Andean cloud-forest bird,
is one of these exceptions; it has a unique, specialized, and very
costly method of courting females, that will be revealed and explored
in detail.
Kimberly Bostwick received her Ph.D. from the University
of Kansas. She has authored numerous papers on bird ecology and
evolution. She most recently appeared in the first episode of PBS’s
Nature series entitled Deep Jungle.
The meeting is open to the public, without charge. Please
join us for what promises to be a very exciting talk. Enter the Museum
at West 77th Street. If you would like to meet Dr. Bostwick prior to
the talk, join us at Pappardella's Restaurant, 75th Street and
Columbus Avenue at 6 p.m. The reservation will be in the name of Alice.
Alice Deutsch, Vice President
--
NYSbirds-L List Info:
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME
http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES
Archives:
1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html
2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html
Please submit your observations to eBird:
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/
--
