Wildlife Science with Dr Brad Fedy Brad Fedy teaches and researches at the University of Waterloo as an Associate Professor & Prominent Wildlife Scientist. He and his students study factors that influence the fitness of animal populations, such as Greater Sage Grouse, Tree Swallow, Golden Eagle, and Sandhill Crane. He will give us an excellent overview of the complexity and sophistication of modern ecological research and action as well as sharing many tidbits about the birds that he studies.
An accomplished writer and artist, Fiona Reid is the author and illustrator of A Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America. She has written and/or illustrated numerous other guides, including A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico, Bats of Trinidad and Tobago, The Wildlife of Costa Rica, a Field Guide, The Golden Guide to Bats of the World, Bats of Papua New Guinea, Mammals of the Neotropics (volumes 1-3), and several children’s books. Fiona recently led Headwaters Nature on a second field trip to study local moths — another of her favourite natural history subjects. She lives locally.
“It’s easy to forget that human beings form a tiny two-legged minority in an overwhelmingly six-legged world.” Dr. Stephen Marshall. Dr. Marshall will be amazing us with the fascinating world of flies, insects that we tend to abhor and swat. Marshall is a University of Guelph Professor Emeritus, researching the distribution and biology of insects. Stephen Marshall is passionate about bugs. He studies biodiversity and insect species, helps with the naming, describing and classifying newly discovered six-legged creatures. He himself has discovered hundreds of species, several new genera and two new subfamilies over the decades just a fraction of the estimated one to two million species of insects that live on our planet. Dr Marshall is the author of Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity which is considered the best resource anyone looking to identify North American insects could possibly invest in. Here’s an entertaining and informative talk on insect biodiversity… Read more »
