Dr. Trevor Price – 148th Annual Meeting

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

148th Annual Meeting

Open only to members and their guests

Invitations will be mailed in February

Eisenmann Medalist Lecture
A Bird’s Life in the Anthropocene

Humans are causing many changes to nature. Dr. Price will describe some of the evolving birdlife of India, where he has worked for the past 50 years. After a general introduction to this biodiversity hotspot, he will focus on one species. The Hume’s Warbler breeds in the Himalaya and winters on the plains of India, numbering in the 10s of millions of birds. The warbler is breeding earlier and being affected by climate change. Its call has changed completely, apparently triggered by noise in cities. Together these challenges posed by changes in the environment have been ameliorated by a combination of plasticity (shifting lay date in response to earlier snow melt) and cultural evolution (copying of calls from others).

Trevor Price is a professor in the department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. His primary research has been how bird species form, focusing on the Old World warblers. He has published two books: Speciation in Birds (2008) and Ecology of a Changed World (2022).