Heather Williams (born 1955 in Spokane, Washington) is an American ornithologist, and professor at Williams College since 1988.^[1][2] She graduated from Bowdoin College with an A.B. in biology in 1977, from Rockefeller University with a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1985, and was postdoctoral fellow, Field Research Center. She was a 1993 MacArthur Fellow. Williams' most notable work highlights bird song data^[3] gathered on Kent Island, also known as the "Bowdoin Science Station".

Works

• Zeigler, Harris Philip; Marler, Peter (2004). Behavioral Neurobiology of Birdsong. New York Academy of Sciences. ISBN 978-1-57331-472-5. OCLC 55078517.
• Williams, Heather; Scharf, Andrew; Ryba, Anna R.; Ryan Norris, D.; Mennill, Daniel J.; Newman, Amy E. M.; Doucet, Stéphanie M.; Blackwood, Julie C. (11 July 2022). "Cumulative cultural evolution and mechanisms for cultural selection in wild bird songs". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 4001. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.4001W. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31621-9. PMC 9276793. PMID 35821243.