Award-Winning Professor of Animal Behavior Joan E. Strassmann, “The Social Lives of Birds"

Evolutionary biologist and author of “Slow Birding,” Joan Strassmann examines what it means for birds of a feather to flock together. With stories of birds from around the world—from broad-winged hawks that migrate south together in the fall, tree swallows that roost together in the thousands, and guira cuckoos that nest in communes—”The Social Lives of Birds” explores the different kinds of bird groups and what to look for when watching them. Above all, it reveals this fact: solitary life, it seems, is not for the birds.

Joan Strassmann will be in conversation with Jonathan Losos, Washington University-Professor of Evolutionary Biology and director of the Living Earth Collaborative.

Presented in partnership the St. Louis Audubon Society.

Books available from Left Bank Books.

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