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SUMMARY:Dr. Karan Odom – September 2026
DESCRIPTION:\n7:00 pm, Tuesday September 8, 2026The Liederkranz Club, 6 East 87th Street, New York CityFree and open to the public. Doors open at 6:30 pm.\n\n\n\nClick here ( https://www.linnaeannewyork.org/programs-registration/?debug=n&program_speaker=Dr.+Karan+Odom&program_title=A+Female+Perspective+on+Birdsong&program_location=Liederkranz+Club&program_address=6+East+87th+Street%2C+New+York+City&program_date=9%2F8%2F26&program_weekday=Tuesday&program_doors_open=6%3A30+pm&program_time=7+pm&program_registration_closes=9%2F7%2F26+11%3A59+pm ) to register for in-person attendance. Please register at least a day before the event.The Liederkranz Club opens for socializing at 6:30 pm, with a beer, wine and beverage cash bar.\n\n\n\nDisability access to the Liederkranz Club: see below* \n\n\n\nYou can also attend online via Zoom. Click here to register for the Zoom webinar.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Female Perspective on Birdsong \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Karan Odom for a journey through female birdsongs. Karan will explain how female songbirds turn what we know about birdsong on its head. From exploring the broad, multifunctional ways that females use their songs to the paradigm-shifting realization that females evolved song millions of years ago alongside males, Karan Odom will tell us about how her female perspective on birdsong expanded our understanding of this ubiquitous bird behavior. Once thought to be a behavior displayed mainly by males, Karan Odom will also explain how she is now using what we learned from decades of research on males to challenge perspectives on how birds produce their songs. Everyone, in fact, can play a role in discovering and documenting female birdsongs by participating in her community science project: Female Bird Song ( http://www.femalebirdsong.org )\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaran Odom ( https://www.karanodom.com/ ) is Assistant Professor at University of the Pacific and is based in Stockton, CA. She entered the field of birdsong research studying the raucous caterwaul duets of Barred Owls. This experience made her realize that female songs received less attention than males’ but are no less interesting. She then received her PhD at University of Maryland, Baltimore County exploring the functions of female songs in Puerto Rico and digging into female song evolution in New World blackbirds and songbirds as a whole. Although Karan has traveled the world to study female birdsongs, from Belize to Australia and even a postdoc in The Netherlands, she feels she earned her “street cred” as a postdoc at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. After that, she returned to the University of Maryland, College Park to embark on learning the neuroscience of female songs. She now runs her own lab at University of the Pacific studying everything from genes and hormones to the social interactions that cause females to sing.  Find more at  www.karanodom.com\n\n\n\n*Access: The Liederkranz Club has an elevator, but the building is accessed by stairs from the street. If you call (212) 534-0880 the day before your visit, the Club can make an elevator available via a walkway on the building’s east side. However, the bathrooms are accessed by three steps.\n
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