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09 October 2019

AOS

Ten Tips for Applying for Small Ornithology Grants

In the first two years of my PhD I applied for a slew of small grants and was roundly rejected from every single one. Multiple times.

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Researchers take a blood sample from a swallow. Photo provided by Tara Imlay.
08 October 2019

AOS

Winter Experiences Carry Over into Swallows’ Breeding Success

There’s no shortage of studies demonstrating that conditions during one part of birds’ annual of breeding and migration cycle can affect individuals in subsequent stages — a phenomenon known as carry-over effects.

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Greater Prairie-Chickens occupy noisy habitat but avoid trees and row crops when living near a wind energy facility. Photo by Cara Whalen.
07 October 2019

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Do Prairie-Chickens Care More About Land Cover or Wind Turbine Noise?

Imagine living in a grassland landscape with an almost constant low-frequency hum from spinning wind turbine blades. The humming is distracting, so what do you do?

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Song Sparrows are among the birds tracked by researchers studying riparian restoration in California. Photo by Frank Lospalluto.
04 October 2019

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Songbirds Indicate Short-Term Restoration Success

To understand the impact of restoration efforts, one of the things we can do is study the wildlife that lives in these human-restored habitats.

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Yellow-billed Duck male and hybrid female from Cape Town, South Africa. Photo by Jeffrey L. Peters.
06 September 2019

AOS

The Threat of a Green-Headed Monster

Affectionately known to some as the “green-headed monster,” the Mallard is one of the world’s most recognizable species of waterfowl.

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A female Blue-throated Starfrontlet. Photo by Santiago Rosado Hidalgo.
05 September 2019

AOS

Chasing Evolutionary Processes in Andean Coeligena Hummingbirds

I am lucky that one of the species of hummingbird I study, the Blue-throated Starfrontlet (Coeligena helianthea), occurs on my university’s campus in the mountains of Bogotá, Colombia.

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Chao Zhao, expert on the region’s fauna (left), Mingxia Zhang (center), and Eben Goodale (right) at a lookout in the Gaoligongshan region of Yunnan, China. Photo by Liping Zhou.
27 August 2019

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Seeking Mixed-Species Flocks in China’s Misty Mountains

Have you ever looked up at a mountaintop in the distance and wondered what birds might be living there? When mixed-species flocking fanatics like ourselves see that mountain, another set of questions catches our imagination.

21 August 2019

AOS

How to Send a Graduate School Inquiry Email

If you are considering attending graduate school, the quality of your inquiry email to a potential advisor can make or break your chances of a receiving a response.

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Researchers collecting data in a patch of burned forest. Photo by Jean Hall.
06 August 2019

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Black-backed Woodpeckers & the Emerging Threat of Homogenous Forest Fires

It’s fire season again in northern California. In some parts of the state, the evenings will glow with those too-familiar burnt orange sunsets while residents keep a wary eye on the news.

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An adult Piping Plover wearing a numbered leg band. Photo by Katie Walker.
05 August 2019

AOS

Reproduction Versus Immigration in North Carolina’s Piping Plovers

The beach: the sun, the sand, the water. It’s a wonderful place to be in the summer, whether you’re a shorebird or a human.

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