Tom Ridge Environmental Center
Keynote Speaker
Noted ornithologist, Bridget Stutchbury, will be the keynote speaker at the banquet on Saturday night.
Bridget Stutchbury was born in Montreal and raised in Toronto. She completed her M.Sc. at Queen’s University and her Ph.D. at Yale, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institution. She is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University, Toronto. Since the 1980s, she has studied the behind-the-scenes details of the social lives of birds to understand why females cheat on their mates, what makes a male attractive, why some pairs divorce, how birds claim a territory, and what all this means not only for our avian friends, but for us as well. She is author of the book Silence of the Songbirds (2007) and the upcoming The Bird Detective (2010).
