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The Birds Who Watch You Back with Dr. Emily Faun Cory and "Shade"

  • 22 Feb 2023
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Sedona Public Library 3250 White Bear Rd

The Birds Who Watch You Back; Some Corvid Abilities - by Dr. Emily Faun Cory with "Shade" the Raven Wednesday, February 22. Come at 5:30 for ‘cookies & conversation’.  The program begins at 6:00pm. Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, Sedona, AZ.

Free to all ages. All invited! An overview of the abilities of Family Corvidae and the research, with Shade the African Raven and her wild kin. Dr. Cory will delight us with her photos and research, with her inquisitive raven, Shade, in attendance. Shade is an African White-necked Raven, Corbus Alibicollis. 

Emily Cory, PhD, was born and raised in Northern Arizona, playing in the wilds while working with hot air balloons with her parents for the family business, Northern Light Balloon Expeditions. She attended University of Arizona, where she accidentally earned far too many degrees, which include a Professional Science Master's in Applied Bioscience, an M.A. in Psychology (studying raven intelligence), and a PhD in Psychology with a minor in Astrobiology. During these years she interned at Reid Park Zoo and at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. In addition, she volunteered for the Desert Museum for 14 years, in departments such as Raptor Free Flight and the Interpretive Animal Collection. Dr. Cory has traveled the world studying animal behavior, including Rwanda watching the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park. She is now back home with the family business, plotting new research for the future.

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