The Leland Township Library will host author and biologist Joan Strassmann on Thursday, June 25, at 4 p.m., for a presentation on her new book, “The Social Lives of Birds.”
In her book, Strassmann explores the surprising ways birds cooperate and form communities. She shares stories of species from around the world, including broad-winged hawk that migrate together each fall, tree swallows that gather in roosts numbering in the thousands, and guira cuckoos that nest in communes. Through these examples, she reveals the many ways birds live and interact with one another — and why solitary life, it seems, is not for the birds.
Staussmann is an award-winning teacher of animal behavior, first at Rice University in Houston and then Washington University in St. Louis, where she is Charles Rebstock professor of biology.
