Heather_Williams_(biologist)

Heather Williams (biologist)

Heather Williams (biologist)

American ornithologist

Heather Williams (born 1955 in Spokane, Washington) is an American ornithologist, and professor at Williams College since 1988.[1][2] She graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in biology in 1977, from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1985, and was postdoctoral fellow, Field Research Center. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow. Williams' most notable work highlights bird song data[3] gathered on Kent Island, also known as the "Bowdoin Science Station".

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Works

  • Zeigler, Harris Philip; Marler, Peter (2004). Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong. New York Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-1-57331-472-5. OCLC 55078517.
  • Williams, Heather; Scharf, Andrew; Ryba, Anna R.; Ryan Norris, D.; Mennill, Daniel J.; Newman, Amy E. M.; Doucet, Stéphanie M.; Blackwood, Julie C. (11 July 2022). "Cumulative cultural evolution and mechanisms for cultural selection in wild bird songs". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 4001. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.4001W. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31621-9. PMC 9276793. PMID 35821243.

References

  1. [1]
    "Williams Biology Faculty and Staff Williams". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-04-30.
  2. [2]
    "She knows why the caged bird sings Heather Williams studies the secrets of bird song", The Boston Globe, M. R. Montgomery, August 26, 1993
  3. [3]
    "The (Bird) Song Does Not Remain the Same". Kent Island. Retrieved 2022-09-28.


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