Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar Series concludes Friday, Nov. 6 - 2009-11-04

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PAUL SMITHS – Dr. Jennifer Thompson Bishop will discuss fertility of migratory tropical birds at the next lecture in the Paul Smith’s College Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar Series.

She will speak on Friday, Nov. 6, at 10:10 a.m. in the Pine Room of the College’s Joan Weill Student Center. The lecture, “Estimating Fecundity in Neotropical Migrants Using Swainson’s Warblers as a Case Study,” is free and open to the public.

Jennifer Thompson Bishop is a visiting professor at Union College in Schenectady, where she teaches ecology, environmental science and evolution. She is currently studying Common and Bahama Yellowthroats on Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas.

This is the semester’s third installment of the Fisheries & Wildlife Seminar Series. Previous sessions covered the ecology, evolution and conservation of giant Galapagos tortoises, and efforts to restore cottonwood trees in California.

The series will resume in the spring.

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