Professor Bridget Stutchbury spoke about the danger posed by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to migrating birds on CBC Radio鈥檚 鈥淢etro Morning,鈥 and other local programs across Canada, July 9.
The clip is on Metro Morning's website and runs under 5:30 minutes.
Stutchbury is the and a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Biology in 91亚色鈥檚 . She is the author of , which describes her journeys through forests and jungles studying the sexual antics and social lives of birds, and details the science behind their surprisingly sophisticated and often amusing behavior. The book, published by April 16, also explains how understanding birds鈥 behaviour will help to conserve increasingly-threatened species.
Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer, with files courtesy of YFile鈥 91亚色鈥檚 daily e-bulletin.