Delaware Valley Ornithological Club: Meeting This Thursday at 7:30 PM
Crested Auklets
Photo credit: bna.birds.cornell.edu
The next meeting of the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club (DVOC) is this Thursday, March 4, 2010, at 7:30 PM at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, PA. Everyone is invited to attend. Visitors are always welcome. The featured speaker will be Julie Hagelin on “Tales from a Tangerine-Scented Seabird: Sex, Perfume and Parasites of Crested Auklets”. Those who have been close to a Crested Auklet breeding colony know that these unusual birds smell like freshly-peeled tangerines, but no one has taken this observation as far as Dr. Julie Hagelin, Assistant Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College. Come and hear about these remarkable birds, learn about their social lives, breeding biology and much more, and hear about Julie’s field studies working with the indigenous Yup’ik of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Julie will also describe how the auklet work applies to the recovery of another scented avian species— the critically endangered Kakapo of New Zealand. Details at www.dvoc.org.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 3/2/2010 11:00 AM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: julie hadelin tangerine scented seabird alaska march 4 crested auklets dvoc delaware valley ornithological club
Categories: Birds
Tags: julie hadelin tangerine scented seabird alaska march 4 crested auklets dvoc delaware valley ornithological club
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