LA AUDUBON’S MONTHLY PROGRAMS GO ONLINE

By Travis Longcore

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, LAAS has retooled our monthly program series to present the lectures as live streamed videos.

The first installment, a report on the Griffith Park Raptor Survey, went smoothly, with 25 online participants on a videoconference platform that allowed discussion between the attendees and with the presenter, Courtney McCammon and project collaborator Dan Cooper. The lecture also live streamed to Facebook and is recorded there and can be watched on demand. [https://www.facebook.com/events/215701746157559/]

Participation does not require Facebook, just contact Travis Longcore (travislongcore@laaudubon.org) for instructions to join the videoconference without Facebook.

For May, the presenter will be Dr. Allison Shultz of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Dr. Shultz was a recipient of a grant from the Schreiber Fund at Los Angeles Audubon Society when she was in graduate school and we are now delighted that she is the curator of ornithology at the museum where Dr. Schreiber worked. She will present on the evolution of feather color in the tanagers.

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Live stream Video conference, 7:15 PM – 8:45 PM

Dr. Allison Shultz Presents: Evolution of Feather Color in the Tanagers

Join Allison Shultz, Assistant Curator of Ornithology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, as she talks about the evolution of feather color in the largest family of birds - the tanagers. She will talk about why she is careful to use a bird’s visual perspective to study this important signaling trait, and how natural and sexual selection have shaped plumage color in males and females. She will end her talk by describing some of her current work on the mechanisms underlying the great diversity of colors in birds. The presentation will be online. Contact Travis Longcore at travislongcore@laaudubon.org for participation instructions.