Moving swiftly on from Ancient DNA to the mysteries of foraging seabirds, this week’s guest in the Second Nature events series will be Professor Graham Martin on the topic of Great Cormorants.
Photo by Sławomir Staszczuk
Graham is Professor for Avian Sensory Science at Birmingham University’s Centre for Ornithology and will be telling us about his work investigating how Great Cormorants have the highest foraging yield of all the marine predators when their underwater vision is as bad as ours.
Title: Through Birds’ Eyes: What does vision tell us about the aquatic foraging of Cormorants?
Speaker: Professor Graham Martin, Birmingham University
Location: Second Nature Island
Date: Wednesday September 19th, 2007
Time: Noon SLT/3pm EST/7pm GMT/8pm BST
SL Contact: Joanna Wombat
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