Friday, March 6th: Congers Lake Community Center – 6 Gilchrest Road, Congers, NY
Doors open for refreshments at 7:00. Program begins at 7:30. 
Presented by: Dr. Douglas Robinson, Jr. 

Bird migration is one of the most incredible phenomena on our planet and one we are still learning about. In the course of a single year, nearly all the Earth's birds will migrate some distance, some as far as thousands of miles.  How do they do it?  How does a young bird know where to fly as he prepares to head to his winter home, a place he has never visited before? How do birds find their way back to their breeding grounds each year, navigating cities, forests, bodies of water and weather events?  Professor Douglas Robinson will take us on the fascinating journey of bird migration.  

Dr. Douglas A. Robinson, Jr., is an evolutionary behavioral ecologist whose teaching and research experiences have focused on organismal biology. He has taught classes on animal behavior, ecology, ornithology, vertebrate biology, and a course on conservation biology in New Zealand. The questions that guide his research revolve around how behavior is shaped by ecological and social environments.  Dr. Robinson has been teaching at Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, since 2010.