Royal Society Scientific Meeting

[ABS CO Staff]

When senses take flight: the evolution, development, mechanisms and function of avian senses
Thursday 4 – Friday 5 September 2014
The Royal Society at Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire, UK
 
Theo Murphy international scientific meeting organised by Dr Hannah Rowland, Professor Innes Cuthill and Dr Tom Pike
 
Event details
Birds are adapted to a diverse range of habitats, and operate within a broad range of dietary niches. This diversity of life histories has resulted in an equally varied suite of adaptations for acquiring mates, finding food, avoiding predators and for navigation.  In this meeting, a distinguished list of international researchers encompassing avian vision, taste, olfaction, geo-magnetic sense, nociception (pain), tactile sense, and emotion, will be brought together to discuss new and emerging evidence of the evolution, development, mechanisms and function of avian senses.
 
This meeting is free to attend but participants must request an invitation to attend before they can register.
 
See royalsociety.org/events/2014/avian-senses/ for further details or contact kavli....@royalsociety.org.