You are all invited to the next ZOOM meeting
of Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society

Manakins, with UCLA Prof. Dr. Barney Schlinger
Zoom Evening Meeting, Tuesday, 8 October, 7:30 p.m.
Zoom waiting room opens 7:15 p.m.

Manakins are an extraordinary group of neotropical birds with amazing social systems and courtship behaviors.  Dr. Schlinger has studied one manakin in particular, the Golden-collared Manakin of Panama.  As with most manakin species, the males gather in groups to attract females through dance and song. But with the Golden-collared Manakin, each male performs an elaborate, noisy and acrobatic courtship display.  Dr. Schlinger will discuss his recent book entitled “The Wingsnappers: Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird” and explore why manakins have evolved such complex behaviors and how they have also developed neural, hormonal and muscular specializations to allow these athletic performances.  

Dr. Barney Schlinger is Associate Dean of Life Science and Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology & Physiology.  He has previously been an Associate Researcher at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, a Humboldt Award winner, a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany as well as a resident ornithologist at the Bernheim Forest in Kentucky.  He has published over 175 research papers and book chapters, mostly on birds, and is an avid bird watcher.  He has done extensive studies of Golden-collared Manakins – an exuberant tropical bird.  His fascination with bird behavior and its neurological and chemical underpinnings has led to his many studies of birds in the field as well as undertaking laboratory studies of the avian brain and the hormonal control of the bird’s brain and muscle function. 

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Meeting ID: 823 1094 2527
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