renowned ornithologist Don Kroodsma to speak in Grand Rapids

[Caleb Putnam]

All-The Grand Rapids Audubon Club is pleased to announce that renowned ornithologist Don Kroodsma will speak in Grand Rapids next month.  The meeting is free to the public and will present the opportunity to have your book signed by the author.  I have attended this fascinating talk once before, and it is geared to the layman, easy to understand, and incredibly interesting.  Please attend and please help spread the word!Thanks,
Caleb Putnam


Date:  Monday, January
 28, 2008

Time:  6:30 PM social; 7:30 program

Location:  Grand Rapids Theological Seminary at Cornerstone University (Leonard just west of E. Beltline)

Speaker:  Don Kroodsma

Topic: The Singing Life of BirdsWeb: http://www.glsga.org/graud/grac_meeting.htm




 Come listen to birds as you’ve never listened before, using
what they have to say as a window on their minds, using what they have to say
not just to identify them but to identify with them. Hear a Song Sparrow work
through his repertoire, or listen to conversations among crows and jays. See
and hear the exquisite beauty in songs of thrushes and how each male uses his
songs to best effect. Listen to a babbling baby wren and baby human, realizing
how much we have in common with these songbirds. Come and learn to truly listen
to our most common birds in ways you never imagined possible.

Donald Kroodsma, professor emeritus at the University
 of Massachusetts, has studied birdsong for forty years. He was recognized
as the “reigning authority on avian vocal behavior” in the citation for his
2003 Elliott Coues Award from the American Ornithologists’ Union. 

He has edited three scholarly volumes on the field of
acoustic communication among birds, and authored more than one hundred articles
in both scholarly journals and popular magazines such as Auk, Condor, Birder’s
World, Living Bird, and Natural History. Kroodsma is a sought-after speaker on
bird vocalizations. 

Kroodsma majored in chemistry at Hope College and discovered birds in a local marsh during his last
semester. That summer he went to the University
 of Michigan field station in Pellston, taking beginning and advanced
ornithology courses simultaneously. From there he traveled cross-country to Oregon State University for graduate school, where a singing wren in his backyard
got him started on a lifelong passion for listening to birds. 

The Singing Life of Birds is Kroodsma’s first full-length
book.



Caleb G Putnam 
Grand Rapids, MI
larus10 at hotmail.com
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