Bird migration: discovering where they go
From old speculations, and observations of birds in other places when they are not at their breeding sites, we now have many different approaches for describing their journeys. In particular, individual birds may be tracked throughout the trip, which has produced some very surprising and exciting results. These will be especially important in conservation as both their world and ours continues to change.
Organizer
Adrian Craig is a retired professor of zoology, who spent his working career lecturing at Rhodes University in South Africa. He has also given many talks to school groups and other audiences. His research has always focused on African birds, involving field studies, museum specimens, and historical records. Apart from formal scientific publications, Adrian has written many popular articles for birdclub magazines, and contributed to handbooks such as “The birds of Africa” and “Handbook of the birds of the world”.