I retired from Villanova in summer 2024. I would like to give away available lab and field equipment to ornithologists and organizations who can make use of these items. Please… Read more »

Rebecca Heisman has authored a nice new piece in Scientific American that features our research program. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hybrid-chickadees-reveal-how-species-boundaries-can-shift-and-blur

Two decades ago, my students and I began studying hybridizing chickadees at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, an extension of our broader research program. Recently, former M.S. student Robert Driver took the… Read more »

by Kiki Edmark (CLAS Bio ’24) Songs and calls are important modes of communication for birds. They use them to convey information about a wide variety of topics including threats,… Read more »

by Carlos Garriga (CLAS ’23 Biology) Genetics has always fascinated me, especially how it is a crucial component of evolutionary studies of animal populations. To understand the full impact of… Read more »

by Savrina Salartash (CLAS ’23, B.S.C.) This month, I led a discussion in our lab meeting of the study by Scully et al. (2020) about variation in chick-a-dee calls produced in… Read more »

CLAS ’21 graduate (Biology & Honors) Arianna Abbrescia recently published the results of her Senior Thesis research: Abbrescia, A. 2021. Dawn chorus male song patterns in relation to ancestry in… Read more »

Great to see the primary paper from Ari Rice’s M.S. thesis publiushed in The Auk a.k.a. Ornithology! Productive collaboration with Jason Weckstein and his excellent crew at the Academy of… Read more »

I am immediately launching a search for a Mendel Science Experience Postdoctoral Fellow (MSEPF). This postdoctoral fellow position will start in late January 2021 … renewable with satisfactory performance and… Read more »

I will present a lecture about our work at Hawk Mountain concerning behavioral aspects of chickadee hybridization next Saturday, 24 Aug.