Chapter Meeting and Program

Name: Chapter Meeting and Program
Start: 2026-05-21T17:45:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-21T19:30:00-05:00
Location: Springfield Conservation Nature Center

Schedule

Thu May 21 2026 at 05:45 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Springfield Conservation Nature Center | Springfield, MO

Our programs are free and open to the public. We meet on the third Thursday of each month, from September to November and January to May, at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center. The meetings run from 5:30 pm to 7:45 pm. Refreshments and socializing start at 5:30 pm. The program begins at 6:15 pm, followed by the membership meeting at the Springfield Conservation Nature Center, located at 4601 South Nature Center Way, Springfield, MO 65807.
Nadje Najar, PhD is a visiting assistant professor at MSU teaching ornithology, biogeography, introductory biology, and biostatistics.
We know so little about female hummingbirds despite so much of our understanding of how hummingbird mating systems work resting on assumptions about their behavior and preferences. I can go over what we do and don't know, which includes research I did with Allen's and Rufous Hummingbird in California. I could also talk about my other main research projects, which includes how migratory behavior influences other life history traits (like female song, overall song complexity, and plumage dichromatism), what we know about the influence of genetics vs the environment on migratory behavior in birds, or what makes for a fast-flying hummingbird.