Can Ivory-billed Woodpeckers Help Save the World?
Dr. John W. Fitzpatrick, known for his recent discovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker in the wetlands of eastern Arkansas, will be the guest speaker at the 24th Annual Connell Lecture, hosted by the Biology Department at Valdosta State University. Dr. Fitzpatrick will present, “How Ivory-billed Woodpeckers (and other birds) Can Help Save the World,” on Wednesday, March 29, 2006, at 7 p.m., in the Hugh C. Bailey Science Center Auditorium. Dr. Fitzpatrick is a nationally renowned ornithologist (the study of birds). He will share his recent rediscovery of a species that was once thought to be extinct in North America. Fitzpatrick graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1974 and received his doctorate from Princeton University in 1978. He is currently a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology at Cornell University. He is also a fellow of the American Ornithologists’ Union, the oldest and largest organization in t
