ASO Monthly Meeting

Title: Surviving in a Challenging World: How Parasites and Environmental Stressors Interact to Shape the Health of Wild Birds

Time and Date: Wednesday, November 18th at 7 PM

Location: Sharon Centre in Sharon Woods, 11450 Lebanon Road, Sharonville, OH 45241 and Zoom (see link below)

Speaker: Dr. Ashley Love, Miami University 

Organizer: Ryan Jorgensen at jorgensen28ryan@gmail.com

 Wild birds face a variety of challenges that can affect their health and survival, including energetically demanding migrations, changing environmental conditions, exposure to pesticides, and infection with pathogens and parasites. Rarely do these stressors act alone, so how do birds cope when they pile up? Dr. Ashley Love, an avian disease ecologist at Miami University, studies how parasites and other environmental stressors interact to influence bird behavior, physiology, and reproduction. In this presentation, she will highlight the challenges facing resident and migratory birds in southwestern Ohio and explore how interactions between parasite infection and other stressors influence bird health.

This meeting will also be available on Zoom at: https://zoom.us/j/91785456171?pwd=GTFJj3Mbg06cOlWnOeE57mILjhGEO8.1

Meeting ID: 917 8545 6171

Passcode: 561775