Broader Impacts

The biggest impact we can have is through which questions we ask and the communities we build along the way.

Here, we highlight our efforts to build community and improve the impact of our basic science.

comic cartoon of Nora birdwatching, looking at a woodpecker through binoculars and engaging with Cornell Lab of Ornithology Educational material. There is a word box that says Anyone can enjoy bird watching. There is so much we can learn about communicaiton from birds.

A Birdsong Program:

because anyone can enjoy birds

A Birdsong Program is an affinity space where students come together to learn about birds, social behavior, and perception. By creating inclusive community spaces where anyone can learn about birds, connect with bird researchers, we share our curiosity about science and love for birds with the wider Ithaca community.

Accessible spaces do more than create space for anyone (including those that are neurodivergent or disabled) to be apart of our scientific community - but it also challenges us all shift our communities’ assumptions about what communication entails and become more flexible communicators.

Building Connections...

We build connections with communities in various ways - through art, engagement and media.

Check out some of our work in the media!

On Bird's Perception of Acoustic Fine Structure

What Do Birds Hear When They Sing Beautiful Songs?, NPR cosmos and culture (2016)
A Sense of Time, BBC Radio’s (2019)
Birds prefer sound texture over order, A research outreach article (2020)
An Immense World by Ed Young (2022)

On Social Relationships and Monogamy in Birds

What Bird's Can Teach Us About Love, The World (2023)

On Research and Identity

Social Interactions - Linking Brain and Behavior on Animal Behavior Podcast S2E5 Nora H. Prior

...An individual’s social world emerges from, and persists within, their sensory experiences.

Broader Impacts

Building Connections...