Hello, tweeters.

The evening classes on bird biology that I'm teaching for the Burke Museum this spring aren't filled yet, so I thought I would mention them again. They are offering bird classes to go along with Paul Bannick's exhibit that has opened there (not that I'm doing a class on owls and woodpeckers).

You can find these classes at the Burke's website: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/events/index.php
Bird Feeding Behavior

Are you interested in knowing the function of that monstrous bill on a pelican? Why hummingbirds hover? How a hawk uses its bill and feet to get a meal? Why flamingo and skimmer and toucan bills are so strange-looking? The class consists of two slide-illustrated lectures showing feeding adaptations and discussing feeding strategies of birds all around the world. Burke Museum specimens will be available to illustrate anatomical modifications for feeding.

March 31, April 7

Bird Migration

One of the most amazing natural phenomena in the world is the annual migration of birds, millions of them sweeping north across all the continents in spring and returning south in fall. Our own state features dozens of species that are involved in these movements. The class consists of two lectures that will explain the phenomenon of migration and illustrate it with species from Washington and elsewhere. Burke Museum specimens will be available to illustrate adaptations for migration.

April 21, April 28


Bird Breeding Behavior

Although all of them lay eggs, in every other way birds show great variation in their reproduction, from albatrosses that lay a single egg that takes over two months to hatch to cowbirds that lay 40 eggs in a season in the nests of other birds. Bird eggs vary in shape and size and color and number, their nests are among the most complex examples of animal architecture, and they raise their young in every way you can imagine. The class consists of two slide-illustrated lectures that will attempt to make order of the array of bird breeding strategies. Burke Museum specimens will be available to illustrate nests and eggs.

May 12, May 19

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Dennis Paulson
1724 NE 98 St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-528-1382
dennispaulson at comcast.net



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