The December meeting of the Cayuga Bird Club will be held next Monday, Dec. 9 at 7:30pm at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (new auditorium space). Alyssa Sargent, PhD Candidate, University of Washington, Behavioral Ecophysics will present "Hitchhiking on Hummingbirds Using Tiny Tech". What does a day in the life of a hummingbird entail? Where do they travel, and which rival is worth attacking? Does it pay off to stay near home, saving energy for inevitable battle, or to fly further afield—facing new perils—to find food? Cutting-edge technologies can help us to answer these questions. In my PhD, I study hummingbirds in Colombia using "on-board" devices, which we equip to the birds themselves; these tiny electronics allow us to map where individual hummingbirds disappear to, how active they really are, and how thick the competition can get at a given feeder. Come join me and take a peek, up close, at the swashbuckling lives of the world's smallest birds! Bio: Alyssa J. Sargent is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, where she's a part of the Behavioral Ecophysics Lab. In her current work, she studies hummingbird movement and behavior in Colombia, where she works with a wonderful field crew at Centro de Investigación Colibrí Gorriazul. Alyssa loves to come up with creative ways to share her research with people, and is even working on a board game, "Hummingbird Sugar Rush," to teach people about the decisions hummingbirds must make every day. Before starting her PhD, she also studied fairywrens in Australia, owls in Canada, storm petrels in the Azores, Kirtland's Warblers in Michigan, hummingbirds in Arizona, and songbirds in Missouri. There will be a speaker dinner with Alyssa at Sumo Restaurant at 5:30 pm before the meeting. Please rsvp to cl...@juno.com by noon on Monday so reservations can be made. Colleen RichardsCorresponding SecretaryCayuga Bird Club Cayuga Bird Club meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, September through June, and are free and open to the public. In-person meetings start with social time at 7:00pm, the reading of the bird list at 7:20pm, and club business at 7:30pm, followed by the speaker's presentation starting around 8:00pm and ending by 9:00 pm. We will attempt to make presentations available virtually as a recording posted a few days later, on our YouTube channel @cayugabirdclub. Some meetings may shift to Zoom if warranted by circumstances. --
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