This Monday, ornithologist Don Kroodsma in Grand Rapids

[Caleb Putnam]

All-

Just a last minute reminder that
on Monday evening (28 Jan) renowned ornithologist Don Kroodsma will speak in Grand Rapids.  This is an incredibly interesting talk, and I hope
you will attend.  Information below.

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
  St. just west of
E. Beltline)



Directions: Take I-96 to E. Beltline/M-37, and go north on E. Beltline to Leonard
  St.  Turn west on Leonard (Michigan
turn around) and turn left into the Seminary parking lot just past the large pond on the left.  For a map of
Cornerstone's campus see: 

http://assets.cornerstone.edu/pages/1372/File/CUCampusMap_8-06.pdf   
(Park in the lot labelled "K", enter Building #18)

Speaker:  Don Kroodsma

Topic: The Singing Life of Birds

Web: 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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