January 2025 Speaker Program

Thursday, January 9, 2025 at

Temple Beth Hatfiloh and via Zoom (register below)

Beautiful, Remarkable Bird Songs

Kim Adelson

Throughout the ages, bird song has inspired poets, essayists, and composers. During this talk, you’ll get to hear examples of some of the world’s most beautiful bird songs as well as snippets of some of the poems and concertos they have inspired; you’ll also have to opportunity to learn about the birds that produce those songs. (What kind of a bird is a lark, anyway? Where does it live? What does it eat?)  In addition, you’ll be able to take a listen to some of the most extreme bird songs: the loudest, the lowest pitched, the most complex, etc., and we’ll also take a little dive into the vocal apparatus that allows such wondrous melodies to be created. We should have a harmonious evening!

Kim Adelson is the current Vice President and Education Committee Chair of the Black Hills Audubon Society and she is the Southwest Regional Representative to the Audubon Washington Advisory Board. She was a professor of psychology for almost 30 years. Before she switched fields in order to better study behavioral evolution, she earned a master’s degree M.A. in evolutionary biology. She has given numerous talks about birds to BHAS as well as other Audubon chapters about topics such as bird evolution, climate change’s effects on birds, and bird cognition.

Social time at the Temple begins at 6:30 pm. The program starts at 7:00 pm. Registration is required to view the program via Zoom; click this link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdu6spzIqHd2vOfSzJpgpGQK8ENgH29f7

Photo created digitally by Kim Adelson.