About the event
No group of animals or plants attracts as much public attention as birds. A great benefit of this is that thousands of expert observers monitor bird populations, distributions, migrations and even health. This is vital to conservation and understanding the threats to nature, and ourselves, that human activities impose.
Being fascinated by birds from an early age led speaker Andrew Gosler to ask, why? It also led to a discovery of an extraordinary history of bird-human interaction expressed through stories and the names we give to different bird species. In this talk, Andrew explores both that journey and the worlds of ornithology and ethno-ornithology.
Speaker
Andrew Gosler holds a joint position as Professor of Ethno-ornithology at the University of Oxford between the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology in the Department of Biology and the Institute of Human Sciences, of which he is Director, in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. His research over more than 40 years spans pure and applied aspects of ornithology, including eco-morphology of birds, the function of speckling on birds’ eggs, the ethno-ornithology of bird folk-names, the natural-history knowledge of people in post-industrial communities and the role of religion in environmental stewardship. He is Research Director of the Ethno-ornithology World Atlas, and a Fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford.
Event information
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