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Learn about “Fascinating Feathers” with Dr.Susan Elbin at Audubon meeting
If clothes make the man, then feathers make the bird.
Join Susan Elbin, Ph.D., when she presents her program, “Fascinating
Feathers,” at the Monmouth County Audubon Society meeting on Wednesday,
October 9, at 8:00 pm. The meeting will be held at the Church of the
Nativity on Ridge Road in Fair Haven. The public is welcome; admission
is free.
Dr. Elbin will discuss how feathers play
a wide variety of roles in the lives of birds that are critical to
their specific lifestyles. Besides flight, facets that will be
discussed include how feathers impact attracting mates; breeding
success; territorial dominance; regulating body temperature; and
camouflage.
The presenter, Dr. Susan Elbin, is NYC
Audubon’s director of conservation and science and an ornithologist who
has worked in the field of behavioral ecology and conservation for
more than 25 years. Susan’s specialties are avian behavioral ecology
and conservation of colonial waterbirds. She is the chair of the
Ornithological Council and, locally, co-chair of the Harbor Herons
Subcommittee of the Restoration Committee for the Harbor Estuary
Program. Susan is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where
she teaches courses in ornithology and migration ecology.
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Before coming to NYC Audubon, Susan
worked in several departments at the Wildlife Conservation Society,
including the Education and Ornithology Departments and the Science
Resource Center of the Bronx Zoo. While at WCS she led a variety of
projects including studies of avian ecology and behavior in disturbed
or restored grassland habitats and of birds’ social behavior and use of
space in exhibits at the Bronx Zoo. She is currently active in
conservation in her home town, having served for five years on the
planning board in Parsippany, NJ, and is currently serving on its
environmental advisory committee.
