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Speaker Series: Kaeli Swift

  • Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society (SCVAS) 22221 McClellan Road Cupertino, CA, 95014 United States (map)
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All over the world, crows, ravens, and other corvids have infiltrated nearly every part of our lives. Join us as we host Dr. Kaeli Swift as she answers some of the most common questions about these birds and discusses of what makes them so uniquely captivating


Dr. Swift earned her PhD from the University of Washington where she studied American crow behavior, with a special emphasis on behaviors around death. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Washington, where she is studying the breeding ecology of the Tinian monarch. You can read her popular science articles on her blog, corvidresearch.blog.  You can also find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at the @corvidresearch handle. Video, audio, and print reports of her research have been featured by: National Geographic, PBS, the New York Times, The Atlantic, Ologies podcast, Science Friday and many others.