Houston Audubon’s Fall Event: That’s Crowbiz!

Title: Houston Audubon’s Fall Event: That’s Crowbiz!
Location: United Way Center, 50 Waugh
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Description: Speaker: Kevin J. McGowan, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: Social at 7:00 PM, Meeting at 7:30 PM
Place: United Way Center, 50 Waugh

Come hear about the complex and fascinating social life of the American Crow, one of our most interesting but least appreciated birds. Kevin will share insights gained from 25 years of following the life stories of over 2,000 banded individual crows. Family values, care giving, slumber parties, neighborhood watch, dynasties, treachery, and murder. It’s all there!

Kevin is the instructor for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Home Study Course in Bird Biology and online short-course, Courtship and Rivalry in Birds. Kevin received a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of South Florida for work on the behavior of Florida Scrub-Jays. He was the co-editor and primary author for the recently-published book The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State. He also helped create and write the Lab’s All About Birds, one of the most popular bird sites on the internet. He has been studying a population of crows in central New York since 1988. An avid birder as well as a professional ornithologist, Kevin enjoys all aspects of birds (especially crows), from behavior to physiology, and from ecology to evolution. He is interested in spreading the appreciation of birds to all possible audiences, through all possible avenues.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-09-27