"Why Do Birds Sing?": In-person Badger Talk in Port Washington, WI

Join presenter Lauren Riters on September 17, 2025, at 1:30 PM at the Port Washington Adult Community Senior Center as a part of the Lakeside Tea series. Tea and dessert with follow this talk exploring why birds sing.

Scientists have known how birds sing for decades but why they sing is still a puzzle. Do they sing for pleasure? For love? To mark a territory? And how do birds know when and what to sing? This talk will explore these questions and also address what birds learn by listening to songs.

Lauren Riters is a Professor in the area of Behavioral Neuroscience in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She received a PhD in Psychology in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Bowling Green State University where she studied how birds migrate and return home from distant locations. This was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Liege in Belgium and at The Johns Hopkins University where she began to study how and why birds sing.

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