“Bird Science: Basic Questions to Conservation Applications”
IN PERSON meeting at the Highland Country Club. 11:30am buffet lunch with Club meeting from 12:00 to 1:00pm
Scott MacDougall-Shackleton has degrees in both psychology and biology, and has been a faculty member at Western University since 2002 where he is now Professor in the Department of Psychology which he chaired for eight years, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Biology and a member of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience.
He also serves as the Director of the Advanced Facility for Avian Research, a globally unique bird research facility at Western. Throughout his career he has combined approaches from Psychology and Biology to research cognitive, neural, and hormonal mechanisms of bird behaviour. He has published over a hundred research articles and book chapters on topics including birdsong, bird reproduction, migration, and seasonal changes. He has co-authored a book on birds for a popular audience, What is a Bird?, and authored a textbook on evolution and human psychology.
His topic is “Bird Science: Basic Questions to Conservation Applications”