The 710th Mita Public Speaking Event: "Bird Migration and Global Environmental Conservation" by Hiroyoshi Higuchi (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo / Visiting Professor, Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University)

2021/10/22

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[Lecture Abstract]

Many birds undertake seasonal migrations of several thousand to tens of thousands of kilometers each spring and fall. In recent years, research on bird migration has advanced dramatically, thanks to methods such as satellite tracking. As a result, the astonishing realities of their journeys have come to light. Some birds visit every country in East Asia one by one. Others travel between the Arctic and the Antarctic. There are even birds that fly continuously for 10 months. This lecture will introduce these surprising facts and discuss various global environmental issues surrounding migratory birds.

[About the Speaker]

March 1975: Completed Doctoral Programs in the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Ph.D. in Agriculture.

April 1977: Assistant, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo

April 1986: Visiting Researcher, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, USA

April 1988: Director, Research Center, Wild Bird Society of Japan

June 1994: Professor, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

July 1998: Yamashina Yoshimaro Award

March 2012: Retired from The University of Tokyo

April 2012: Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

June 2012: Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo

May 2015: Minister of the Environment's Award for Distinguished Service in Wildlife Conservation

April 2017: Visiting Professor, Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences, Keio University

[Major Publications and Translations]

"Tori no Seitai to Shinka" (The Ecology and Evolution of Birds), "Akai Tamago no Nazo" (The Mystery of the Red Egg) (Shisakusha); "Toritachi no Seitaigaku" (The Ecology of Birds) (Asahi Shimbun); "Tobenai Tori no Nazo" (The Mystery of Flightless Birds) (Heibonsha); "Uchu kara Tsuru o Ou" (Tracking Cranes from Space) (editor, Yomiuri Shimbun); "Hozen Seibutsugaku" (Conservation Biology) (editor, The University of Tokyo Press); "Toritachi no Tabi: Watadori no Eisei Tsuiseki" (The Journey of Birds: Satellite Tracking of Migratory Birds) (NHK Publishing); "Inochi Nigiwau Aoi Hoshi: Seibutsu no Tayosei to Watashitachi no Kurashi" (A Blue Planet Teeming with Life: Biodiversity and Our Lives) (Kagaku-Dojin); "Akai Tamago no Himitsu" (The Secret of the Red Egg) (Komine Shoten); "Tori, Hito, Shizen: Inochi no Nigiwai o Motomete" (Birds, People, and Nature: In Search of a World Teeming with Life) (The University of Tokyo Press); The Journey of Birds: Satellite-tracking Bird Migration (SELC); "Nihon no Takagaku: Seitai to Hozen" (The Study of Hawks in Japan: Ecology and Conservation) (editor, The University of Tokyo Press); "Nihon no Tori no Sekai" (The World of Japanese Birds) (Heibonsha); "Tori tte Sugoi!" (Birds Are Amazing!) (Yama-to-Keikoku Sha); "Tori no Watari Seitaigaku" (The Ecology of Bird Migration) (editor, The University of Tokyo Press); "Nyusu na Karasu, Kansatsu Funtoki" (Newsworthy Crows: A Chronicle of Observational Struggles) (Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan); and others.

(co-translator) "Darwin's Finches: The Ecology of Evolution," "Evolution: The Diverse World of Anseriformes," "An Invitation to Field Ornithology" (Shisakusha); (co-translator) "Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective," "The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time" (Hayakawa Shobo); and others.

[Contact Information]

General Affairs Section, Administrative Affairs Office, Keio University

Tel: 03-5427-1517

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