The Listening to Birds Project by Andrew Whitehouse
The Listening to Birds project is an anthropological investigation of the ways that people think about and respond to bird sounds. This talk explores some of the key areas of the research, particularly the numerous stories that members of the public contributed through the project website. These stories have highlighted the significance of bird sounds to people’s sense of place, time and season and the connections that bird sounds have with people’s own life stories. The ways in which bird sounds come to be known and recognised has been another aspect of the research and is a subject that birders can make an important contribution to.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/birdsong/
Andrew Whitehouse grew up in Northampton. He has been a birder since he was six and an anthropologist since he was twenty-four. Through his research into listening to birds he has productively combined these two interests. He teaches anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and previously studied for a PhD at the University of St Andrews.
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