Ecology Hour: Astonishing Feats of Migratory Shorebirds

April 11, 2023--Hosts Tim Bray and Bob Spies speak with  Dr. Nathan Senner, director of The Senner Lab at the University of Massachusetts, who has been studying the remarkable adaptations that enable migratory shorebirds to switch between breeding and wintering territories that are thousands of miles apart. He is also discovering the effects of climate change on the critical timing of these movements, and the effects of human alteration of key habitats.