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The 2019 field season is up and running for the Boulder Chickadee Study! Our high elevation sites are still pretty snowy, but the birds in Boulder are keeping our team of undergraduate and Ph.D. students busy as they hustle to check nests, band
Erik was recently awarded the Donald L. Bleitz Award, a small research grant from the American Ornithological Society. The proposal he submitted to them was titled "Evolutionary impacts of historical and contemporary changes in habitat on alpine
Scott will be teaching Field Ornithology at the Mountain Research Station this summer, July 1st through the 18th! Students will study alpine and subalpine birds and will learn to implement various field techniques. More information, including links
Angela and Erik were both awarded a Graduate Student Research Award from the Society of Systematic Biologists!! This will help fund Erik’s investigation of the Gray-crowned / Black Rosy-Finch hybrid zone in Montana and Idaho. The money will be used
Along with collaborators Amber Rice from Lehigh University and Tim Roth from Franklin and Marshall College, the Taylor Lab has received NSF funding to explore the role that cognitive breakdown in hybrid chickadees may play in maintaining species
One of our undergraduate students, Katherine Feldmann, has decided to complete a Master of Arts in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in addition to her bachelor's degree. The concurrent program enables students to complete both degrees in five years
Scott collaborated with researchers from Cornell, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to investigate a tip from a birder about an odd sighting. Read the full paper here. /asmagazine/2018/12/03/declining-warblers-making-best-bad-
DNA extractions from the 2018 field season are done! Katherine F. and Kathryn G. tackled DNA extractions for all chickadees from the 2018 field season. These samples will be included in a larger population genomics sampling project.
We put up 100 nest boxes at the MRS! Thanks to the Taylor lab and additional EBIO helpers we had 14 pairs of hands on deck! Boxes were put up at elevations as high as 11000' despite a snow-covered road. These will be incorporated into The Boulder
Angela went to Pennsylvania. Erik went to Montana, and Kathryn posted up at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØMountain Research Station. Below, find some of each of their thoughts on their experiences: Angela: I started out my summer field season in Pennsylvania in and