Decline of the North American avifauna
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 »
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Chickadee settlement patterns at Hawk Mountain
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 »
Smart is the new sexy
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 »
Signal honesty in Tree Swallows
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 »
Can you ever have too many study sites?
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 »
Celebrating student successes
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 »
Tropical Ecology, F19 – S20: Costa Rica
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 »
Mendel Science Experience Post-doctoral Fellow
Exciting! I was just approved by Villanova’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences to hire a MSEPF. This postdoctoral fellow position will start in August 2019 and continue for 2… Read more »
Bird ringing in Greece: volunteering with the Antikythira Bird Observatory
by Rebecca Garlinger (@RD_Garlinger) and Holly Garrod (@hmg_ornithology) After finishing up our Masters coursework in spring 2018 and our respective field seasons in summer 2018, we had an amazing opportunity… Read more »
Villanova first-year match opportunity
The undergraduate research folks at Villanova’s Center for Research and Fellowships (CRF) recently selected my lab as one of those offering a university-supported position for a first-year student interested in getting… Read more »