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The Social Life of Cliff Swallows: Insights from a 45-year Field Study with Dr. Charles Brown

Birds of the World Discovery Seminar | The Cornell Lab of Ornithology | https://birdsoftheworld.org Birds of the World is the world’s leading scholarly ornithological platform featuring bird life histories and data resources for every bird in the world. This global ornithological resource drives scientific research, education and biodiversity conservation around the world. Subscribe with code WEBINAR to save 20% your first term. The Social Life of Cliff Swallows: Insights from a 45-year Field Study with Dr. Charles Brown https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/... Description: Charles Brown’s study of social behavior in Cliff Swallows of western Nebraska is one of the longest-running research projects on birds in North America. Brown’s work has sought to understand the social behavior of colonially nesting Cliff Swallows and in the process shed light on the evolution of group-living more generally. His findings on blood-sucking parasites and Cliff Swallow’s social feeding are used in textbooks to illustrate the disadvantages and advantages of group-living. The Cliff Swallow study is well known for documenting how these birds rapidly evolved shorter wings to avoid getting hit by cars. It was also the first to report within a species the widespread laying of eggs and physical transfer of eggs to neighbors’ nests, enabling colony residents to exploit the reproductive effort of other colony members. This presentation will give an overview of his work, focusing especially on how some of the costs and benefits of coloniality have changed over the 45 years of the study. Charles R. Brown became interested in Purple Martins nesting in his backyard at age 11 and published his first scientific paper in the Auk at the age of 15. He received his B.A. from Austin College and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is currently Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Tulsa. He has published over 200 papers, book, and monographs. His work on Cliff Swallows was recognized with his receiving the Elliot Coues Award from the American Ornithological Society in 2009 and the Exemplar Award from the Animal Behavior Society in 2011. He was an associate editor for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology for 25 years and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Field Ornithology for 5 years. His Cliff Swallow work was funded almost continually since the 1980’s by the National Science Foundation.