Birdsong offers delight to our ears and also reveals hidden aspects of birds’ lives. Join us on Zoom as David Haskell discusses how careful listening can help us understand why birdsong is so diverse, how birdsong is embedded in the other sounds of the world, and the role of sound in conservation.
About the speaker:
David George Haskell is a writer and a biologist. His books about the natural world have won numerous awards, including twice being finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His latest book, Sounds Wild and Broken, invites readers to listen more deeply to the stories of sound in nature. Haskell is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, and a Guggenheim Fellow.