Happy to congratulate junior undergraduate Lily Day for publication of her field study from our Field Ecology & Evolution course in Costa Rica in Spring 2020. (We were lucky to… Read more »

Over the last two decades, our long-term research on chickadee hybridization has focused more and more on the population at Hawk Mountain … because this site supports a thoroughly mixed… Read more »

We have again been approved to hire a first-year student under the CRF Match program. I am accepting applications until 8 Nov. I will interview all applicants during November (after… Read more »

The lab group has spent a couple of meetings reviewing the major new study about a 30% drop in breeding bird abundance in the USA and Canada (Rosenberg, K. V.,… Read more »

Do chickadees in our thoroughly mixed chickadee populations—which includes Black-capped Chickadees, Carolina Chickadees, and a lot of hybrids—settle across the site in ways that suggest either positive assortment (birds with… Read more »

by Nicole Dib (CLAS ’20, Biology), May 2019 During the Spring 2019 semester, I lead a lab meeting discussion regarding a recent paper published on the relationship between chickadees spatial… Read more »

by Caraline Gammons (CLAS ’20, Biology) May 2019 For one of the Lab’s weekly meetings, I had the opportunity to lead a discussion on a paper that is relevant to… Read more »

My crew had great success today installing a bunch of new artificial nest snags at Hickory Run State Park (Carbon Co., PA), adding to snags installed previously by collaborator Amber… Read more »

Busy week! Congratulations to Ari Rice ( @AriBirdman ) for received GRFP Honorable Mention from NSF! Congratulations to Caraline Gammons ( @CaralineNova ) and Lily Day for receiving Villanova Undergraduate… Read more »

Plans are shaping up for our Field Ecology & Evolution course sequence for the next academic year. The sequence will start with a 2-credit lecture course in F19 that will… Read more »