Please join the Prince George's Audubon Society and the Patuxent Bird Club
(MOS) for what is bound to be an exciting talk, this Tuesday night at 7:30
at the College Park Airport Annex. See our website at
http://www.pgaudubon.org for directions. A description of the talk follows.
Forensic Ornithology: Identifying Birds from Feather Clues
presented by Carla Dove, a.k.a "the Feather Lady"
If you think identifying birds from photographs is difficult, try using
downy feather barbs! This presentation will demonstrate how Dr. Carla Dove
uses microscopic feather clues to aid in the identification of birds. An
important application of this research is to the field of aviation safety
in determining the identifications of birds that are ingested into aircraft
engines (birdstrikes) such as the one that caused US Airways flight 1549 to
crash into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. Dr. Dove often
collaborates with scientists in the fields of Anthropology, Ecology, and
Evolutionary Biology, and has served as a consultant to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service Law Enforcement Division, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, U.S. Customs, the USDA
Wildlife Services, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National
Transportation Safety Board, and many aircraft engine manufacturers.
Carla J. Dove is a Research Scientist in the Division of Birds at the
National Museum of Natural History where she is head of the Feather
Identification Lab.
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