Biologist Ellen Ketterson admires resilience. And she believes we can learn a lot about it from a common songbird.
“If you want to study evolution in action,” says Ellen Ketterson, distinguished professor of biology, “the junco is the bird to study.” The prominent ornithologist and evolutionary biologist has been doing just that for more than 40 years, always conscious of a paradox expressed by the title of a documentary she produced: The Ordinary Extraordinary Junco.