> > The Queens County Bird Club will be meeting at the Alley Pond Environmental > Center, 228-06 Northern Blvd Douglaston, NY 11362 >Map of location< > <http://goo.gl/8cnmjT> > at 8:00 pm on Wednesday, May 17, 2017. Free admission. Refreshments served. > Public transit users: Meeting location is one mile from Bayside LIRR > station; you may either walk, take the Q12 bus, or use car service located > at the station. > > Kathleen Lynch, PhD, will present “Becoming a Neglectful Mother: Looking > inside the Brain of Avian Brood Parasites”.
Approximately 1% of avian species are obligate brood parasites. Avian obligate brood parasites do not build a nest, incubate eggs or provision the newly hatched nestlings or fledglings. Instead, obligate brood parasites always leave their eggs in the nest of a host species, a peculiar strategy that places their chances of reproductive success in the nest of another female. Brood parasites evade the costs of raising their own offspring and the expense is paid by the host that almost always endures substantial losses in the survival of their own offspring. Dr. Lynch will discuss the independent evolutionary events resulting in seven lineages of brood parasites across the world and how the brain of brood parasites may have evolved to produce neglectful mothers that have lost the maternal ability. Dr. Kathleen Lynch attended the University of Montana for her bachelor’s degree, which is where she first became interested in bird research. She then earned a Master’s degree at Idaho State University on studies with Worm-eating Warblers and conducted a PhD at the University of Texas at Austin working with Tungara frogs at Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She began working with birds again at Johns Hopkins University where she studied the neural mechanisms of mate choice. > > > Nancy Tognan > nancy.tog...@gmail.com <mailto:nancy.tog...@gmail.com> > Vice President, Queens County Bird Club > > See http://www.qcbirdclub.org/ <http://www.qcbirdclub.org/> for more > information on trips, speakers, and other events. > See our 'Birding Maps & Locations' page for directions to and info about many > local birding hotspots > > * QCBC is a tax exempt, charitable organization {501c3}. * -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
