What Color Means to a Bird (Everything!)

When:
September 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2020-09-15T19:00:00-05:00
2020-09-15T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
Online - Zoom
Cost:
Free
What Color Means to a Bird (Everything!) @ Online - Zoom

Color is one of the factors that attracts us to birds, from the stunning red of a Scarlet Tanager to the iridescence of a hummingbird’s throat when it catches the sun. But to the bird itself, color is more than a thing of beauty. It plays a role in how birds select food, choose mates, avoid predators and much more.

Mark E. Hauber, professor of integrative biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of The Book of Eggs, will explain how birds perceive color differently from humans, how their vibrant feather and egg colors are created, how avian color vision affects their eating, mating and parenting behavior, and other wonders of bird coloration – many of which have only been discovered in recent years.

ONLINE PARTICIPATION INSTRUCTIONS

The presentations will be on Zoom. You must install the Zoom application (Zoom Client for Meetings) on your computer. We strongly recommend doing this BEFORE the events. 

We will be emailing online participation instructions for each event. You must be on the email list to receive the link to the program.
Download the Zoom Client for Meetings here.

Questions? Tech support BEFORE the event? Test drive? Please call Sonny Cohen (847) 971-1101. NO SUPPORT WILL BE PROVIDED AFTER 4PM ON THE DAY OF EVENT.