February Community Meeting feturing Elise Ferree speaking on Wintering White-crowned Sparrows

Name: February Community Meeting feturing Elise Ferree speaking on Wintering White-crowned Sparrows
Start: 2025-02-06T19:00:00-08:00
Location: Alexander Hughes Community Center

Schedule

Thu, 06 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Alexander Hughes Community Center | Claremont, CA

Join us Thursday, February 6, 2025 for our community meeting featuring our guest speaker Dr. Elise Ferree. She is currently investigating the behavior of migratory white-crowned sparrows that migrate from Alaska to overwinter in southern California. Her talk will highlight findings based on the past seven years of observations that examine how these sparrows return to and utilize the Bernard Field Station as an overwintering site. She will also share some preliminary data comparing the return rates and behavior of white-crowned sparrows overwintering in Claremont suburban neighborhoods.
Dr. Elise Ferree teaches biology at the Department of Natural Sciences of Scripps and Pitzer Colleges. Her research focuses on behavioral ecology, with wild populations of birds and spiders as study organisms. Elise is also interested in nutrition and public health, as well as sustainability and urban ecology of plants and animals. She attended The College of William and Mary, Wake Forest University for her MS, received her PhD at UC Santa Cruz and was a postdoctoral associate at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.