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Congratulations to Mia and Angela for being awarded Beverly Sears Graduate Student Grants to support their PhD research! Mia will be using her award to explore the effects of urnabization and elevation on chickadee nestling development and
Congrats to Erik for his recent publication in Nature Communications about an inversion supergene he disocvered in redpoll finches! Redpolls have puzzled birders and taxonomists for centuries because it is difficult to determine what "species" you'
Starting in July 2022, the EBIO Department will be running a new NSF funded four-week field course for the incoming cohort of graduate students. The grant, led by Dr. Valerie McKenzie, will provide funding for the incoming cohort of EBIO
The product of a very fun collaboration just came out in Current Biology! Using a long term dataset of spatial cognition from a wild population of mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada collected by Dr. Vladimir Pravosudov, Dr. Carrie Branch, Ben
The Taylor Lab recently carved pumpkins (Mia's are featured in the story thumbnail and one of Georgy's is feature here) while learning about the domestication history of pumpkins from Peter (see below!). Happy Halloween everyone! Cucurbita pepo
Nick Minor and Paul Dougherty (Carling Lab graduate students from the University of Wyoming) recently led a paper in Evolution exploring how we might best use eBird and other citizen science data to estimate avian hybridization in the wild. Check
Last week the 2021 joint meeting of the American Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists met virtually. Members of the Taylor Lab gave an array of talks throughout the meeting on topics ranging from redpoll (Erik Funk)
We just got the official word of some new funding from NSF! The newly funded work is a collaborative grant with Valdimir Pravosudov at the University of Nevada Reno. We'll examine the genetic basis of spatial cognition in food-caching mountain
2021 has been a busy and exciting year for the Â鶹ӰԺ Chickadee Study! With COVID subsiding and vaccinations completed we've been able to operate at our normal capacity. Joining the team this summer are Mia Larrieu (PhD student), Olivia
Congratulations to Katherine Feldmann on the publication of her honors thesis in the Journal of Field Ornithology! Her paper quantifies plumage differences between and within black-capped and mountain chickadees and sets the stage for