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With the banding of our final mountain chickadee nest at the CU Â鶹ӰԺ Mountain Research Station this morning, the 6th season of the Â鶹ӰԺ Chickadee Study comes to an end. Thanks to the hard work of Haley, Nikki, Sara, Will, Ajay, Olivia, Athena
Congrats to Angela and her coauthors Kathryn, Mia, and Vanessa for their recently accepted publication in Ornithology! The lay summary of the paper, which is about avian malaria in our local Colorado chickadees, is below! Lay Summary:
Abi, Sara, Ajay, Will, Peter, Georgy, and Scott recently attended the 2023 Evolution meeting in Albuquerque New Mexico. This was the first large meeting for Abi, Sara, Ajay, and Will! Sara and Ajay presented posters about their upcoming PhD
Congrats to Georgy and his coauthors Claire Curry, Michael Patten, and Jason Weir for a recent publication on titmouse hybridization in Ornithology. By studying two differently aged contact zones, Georgy found consistent hybridization dynamics
Jay's research on sexual mimicry in hummingbirds was highlighted in a documentary from PBS Nature, "The Hummingbird Effect"! You can watch the clip here, and be sure to check out the rest of the hour-long special which covers lots of recent
The 5th season of the Â鶹ӰԺ Chickadee Study is in full swing with many chickadees raising young in Â鶹ӰԺ and eggs about to hatch the higher elevation sites! One of our landowners has set up a livestream on the black-capped chickadee nest on
The Great Taylor Lab Bakeoff returned to mark the end of the Spring 2023 semester and the end of the first academic year for Sara, Nikki, and Ajay! Although Scott's muffins were described as "tasting like playdough" the entries were
Congratulations to Olivia who recently defended her honors thesis! For her honors thesis Olivia studied the songs of black-capped and mountain chickadees in regions where they both occur (Â鶹ӰԺ County, Colorado) compared to regions where
Congrats to Haley and Sara who were recently awarded research grants from the Colorado Field Ornithologists! Haley will be using this funding to study the influence of color pattern differences between black-capped and mountain chickadees on
Congratulartions to PhD student Sara Padula who is the first ever recipient of the Sarah Crump Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship was created by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Sarah Crump’s family in