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Fall 2009 - John Marzluff
In the Company of Crows and Ravens

November 5, 2009 - 7:00pm
Room 1005, Forest Sciences Centre, UBC

  Crows and ravens are some of our most common, but least understood birds. Join John Marzluff to learn about crow ecology, natural history, and behavior. Hear amazing examples of tool use by crows, complex communication among ravens, and the conservation needs of the endangered crows of Hawaii and the Mariana Islands. Big, bold, and boisterous, crows and ravens are hard to miss and this talk will answer the many questions they conjure up in all who have watched them - and that is almost everyone.

John Marzluff, Professor of Wildlife Science at the University of Washington, began his career researching the social behavior and ecology of jays and ravens. He currently brings this behavioral approach to conservation issues as the leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Recovery Team for the critically endangered Mariana Crow, as a Fellow of the American Ornithologist’s Union and as a member of the Washington Biodiversity Council. The author of more than 100 scientific papers, his recent book with Tony Angell, In the Company of Crows and Ravens, blends biology, conservation, and anthropology to suggest that human and crow cultures have co-evolved.

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