Going Cuckoo! The Evolution of Behavioural Ecology

A Bit of a Do for Nick Davies

To mark the retirement of Professor Nick Davies FRS, the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and Pembroke College, Cambridge have sponsored an afternoon of talkson behavioural ecology and a drinks reception in his honour.

To book a place at this event, please contact Paula McPhee (pm309@cam.ac.uk) in the Department of Zoology. To cover costs, there is a registration fee of £30, although there is no charge for postgraduate students.

Reed Warbler by James McCallum

Timetable

12.30             Registration and refreshments (Elementary Laboratory)

13.00             Welcome in Main Lecture Theatre:  William Foster (University of Cambridge, UK)      

SESSION 1    Chair: Tim Clutton-Brock (University of Cambridge, UK)

13.15             Opening Remarks - John Krebs (University of Oxford, UK)

13.30             Cooperation, conflict and cassoulet - Ben Hatchwell (University of Sheffield, UK)

13.45             Eavesdropping on the neighbours - Rob Magrath (Australian National University)

14.00             Mexican waves: mechanisms and functions - Jens Krause (Humboldt University, Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries, Germany)

14.15             Encounters with cooperators - Daniela Canestrari (University of León, Spain)

14.30             From selfish cuckoos to selfish genes - Anna Lindholm (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

14.45             Riflebird, humpback whale, bowerbird - Rebecca Kilner (University of Cambridge, UK)

15.00 – 16.00            TEA (Part II Suite)

SESSION 2    Chair: Rose Thorogood (University of Helsinki, Finland)

16.00             Going cuckoo - oh, what a tangled web we weave... - Justin Welbergen (University of Western Sydney, Australia)

16.15             Cuckoos, conservation, and the costs of migration - Chris Hewson (British Trust for Ornithology, UK)

16.30             Going global: avian functional traits and ecosystem science - Joe Tobias (Imperial College, London, UK)

16.45             Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions in a warming world - Nat Seddon (University of Oxford, UK)

17.00             The RSPB centre for Conservation Science: solving 21st century conservation problems - David Gibbons (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK)

17.15             Saving the world's birds - Stuart Butchart (BirdLife International, UK)

17.30             Not the last cuckoo…       Closing remarks - Nick Davies

18.00 – 19.00            Drinks Reception                     Whale Hall

Cuckoo by James McCallum