Much maligned, yet loved birds, the American Crow and Common Raven have complex social lives and amazing intelligence. Crows have been proven to recognize familiar human faces and the raven, honored by Native Americans, is the largest "perching" bird, the size of a hawk. A remarkably adaptable bird, living as a scavenger and predator, it can survive at all seasons in surroundings as different as hot desert and high Arctic tundra. Once driven from much of its eastern range, the raven is now making a comeback and is populating Long Island! Join us tonight and learn about the natural history of these amazing birds.
Professor Doug Robinson is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist whose teaching and research experiences have focused on organismal biology. He has taught classes on animal behavior, ecology, ornithology, vertebrate biology, and a course on conservation biology in New Zealand. The questions that guide his research revolve around how behavior is shaped by ecological and social environments.
