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SUMMARY:Bird Love: An evening with Wenfei Tong
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DESCRIPTION:Bird Love: An evening with Wenfei Tong\n\n02/11/26 07:00 PM CST\n - 02/11/26 08:30 PM CST\Description:\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n			Register Now\n\n			\n				\n					\n						\n						\n							\n								\n									\n									Birds exhibit a wide array of behaviors—from sabotaging budding romances to outsourcing childcare duties. Why do they behave as they do? Using diverse examples from around the world, Dr. Wenfei Tong will present vignettes about the private lives of birds in an evolutionary context, to show the science behind how much humans and birds have in common. She will discuss stories from her books Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior that highlight the work of participatory scientists as well as professional biologists, and illustrate the talk with her art and photographs.\n									\n								\n							\n						\n						\n						\n						\n							\n								\n									\n								\n							\n						\n						\n					\n				\n			\n			\n		\n	\n\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n				\n					\n						\n						\n							\n								\n									\n									About the Speaker\n\n									 \n\n									Dr. Wenfei Tong is a biologist with a passion for understanding and conserving the natural world. She enjoys sharing her love of birds and biology through her paintings, photography, teaching, and writing. Her books, Bird Love and Understanding Bird Behavior, use scientific discoveries to show how much humans and birds share, including some of literature’s most basic themes. Her ultimate aim is to inspire as many people as possible to care for and thus protect nature.\n\n									 \n\n									Wenfei grew up in Singapore, where she started birding at 12. She first got hooked on field biology as an undergraduate at Princeton and Oxford, and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard. She has guided natural history tours in Tanzania, the Galapagos, and Montana. She now works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY.\n									\n								\n							\n						\n						\n					\n				\n			\n			\n		\n	\n\n
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									<p>Birds exhibit a wide array of behaviors&mdash;from sabotaging budding romances to outsourcing childcare duties. Why do they behave as they do? Using diverse examples from around the world, Dr. Wenfei Tong will present vignettes about the private lives of birds in an evolutionary context, to show the science behind how much humans and birds have in common. She will discuss stories from her books&nbsp;<em>Bird Love&nbsp;</em>and&nbsp;<em>Understanding Bird Behavior</em>&nbsp;that highlight the work of participatory scientists as well as professional biologists, and illustrate the talk with her art and photographs.</p>
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									<p><strong>About the Speaker</strong></p>

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									<p>Dr. Wenfei Tong is a biologist with a passion for understanding and conserving the natural world. She enjoys sharing her love of birds and biology through her paintings, photography, teaching, and writing. Her books,&nbsp;<em>Bird Love</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Understanding Bird Behavior</em>, use scientific discoveries to show how much humans and birds share, including some of literature&rsquo;s most basic themes. Her ultimate aim is to inspire as many people as possible to care for and thus protect nature.</p>

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									<p>Wenfei grew up in Singapore, where she started birding at 12. She first got hooked on field biology as an undergraduate at Princeton and Oxford, and has a PhD in evolutionary biology from Harvard. She has guided natural history tours in Tanzania, the Galapagos, and Montana. She now works at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY.</p>
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