BIO 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Orinthology with Lab

4 credits (Spring Term 1)

This course will help students gain a broad appreciation and understanding of birds, including bird evolution, taxonomy and phylogenetics, anatomy and physiology (particiularly in regards to bird flight and reproduction), and behavior and ecology. Students will accomplish this by participating in lecture and lab activities, including field work dedicated to bird identification. Students will also develop an appreciatation for birds and bird watching through participation in citizen science-led research, using birds as study systems.

Prerequisite: BIO 252.
Instructor: Meyers