Heather Williams (biologist) explained

Heather Williams
Birth Place:	Spokane, Washington
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Ornithology
Alma Mater:	Bowdoin College Rockefeller University

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".

Works

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

External links

• Bird Song Discoveries May Lead To Refinement Of Darwinian Theory . ScienceDaily . Williams College . 31 January 2009 .
• Essel Program, Annual Report 2002
• Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary, Editors Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara Smith Shearer, Greenwood Press, 1996,

Notes and References

1. Web site: Williams Biology Faculty and Staff Williams . 2010-04-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101230072950/http://www.williams.edu/Biology/Faculty_Staff/hwilliams/hwilliams.shtml . 2010-12-30 . dead .
2. http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-8242495.html "She knows why the caged bird sings Heather Williams studies the secrets of bird song"
3. Web site: The (Bird) Song Does Not Remain the Same . 2022-09-28 . Kent Island . en.