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    The quarterly publication of the Association of Field Ornithologists emphasizes the descriptive or experimental study of birds in their natural habitats.
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Bergstrom Award helps Ph.D. student with research on threatened grassland birds in Argentina

Bergstrom Award helps Ph.D. student with research on threatened grassland birds in Argentina

Bergstrom Award helps Ph.D. student with research on threatened grassland birds in Argentina   When I was awarded my Ph.D. grant I was filled with excitement and joy as I would be able to study some of the most iconic

Melanie Browne February 24, 2021February 24, 2021 Grants & Awards, Member research, Students Read more

Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee

Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee

Grad student experience from a Latin American Bergstrom awardee Click here to view the article in Spanish I could come up with a long and boring lecture picturing how my 5-year PhD came together. Opposite to that, the picture of

Juan Manuel Rojas Ripari November 18, 2020November 18, 2020 Funding, Grants & Awards, Meetings, Member research, Students Read more

Gambling at a high-elevations: the risks of enlarged eggs for Mountain Bluebirds

Gambling at a high-elevations: the risks of enlarged eggs for Mountain Bluebirds

Gambling at a high-elevations: the risks of enlarged eggs for Mountain Bluebirds Most studies that have looked at why female birds lay the number of eggs they do, and no more, have focused on the consequences of having too many

Mariah Maxwell August 26, 2019September 21, 2020 Grants & Awards, Member research, Students Read more

Member notes from the field: David Millican

Member notes from the field: David Millican

Member notes from the field: David Millican   Entry 1 It’s early October, “springtime” in Namibia. This is not the cool Blacksburg spring to which I’m accustomed. This “springtime” is dry, dehydrating, and desiccating; the discovery of true damnation. The

David Millican August 26, 2019September 18, 2020 Field Methodology, Member research, Students Read more

Greg Davies: AFO’s 2019 Skutch Research Award recipient

Greg Davies: AFO’s 2019 Skutch Research Award recipient

Greg Davies: AFO’s 2019 Skutch Research Award recipient This year’s Pamela and Alexander F. Skutch Research Award goes to Greg Davies for research on Sungrebes in Costa Rica.

Matthew Shumar August 18, 2019September 21, 2020 Funding, Grants & Awards, Students Read more

The effect of whisper calls on the settlement decisions in female Veeries

The effect of whisper calls on the settlement decisions in female Veeries

One of this year’s Student Presentation Awards goes to William Fetzner, who recently graduated from Texas Tech University with an M.S. in Biology. William presented his research in an oral presentation in a Vocalization & Communication session of the joint

Matthew Shumar July 29, 2018September 18, 2020 Grants & Awards, Meetings, Students Read more

Implications for using singed feathers in determining geographic origin with wildlife forensics approaches

Implications for using singed feathers in determining geographic origin with wildlife forensics approaches

One of this year’s Student Presentation Awards goes to Abigail Reid, a high school student in the Science Research Program at Pawling High School, NY. Abigail presented her research as an oral presentation in a Methodology & Techniques session of

Matthew Shumar June 29, 2018September 18, 2020 Grants & Awards, Meetings, Students Read more

Response of gut microbiota to the energetic demands of long-distance passerine migration

Response of gut microbiota to the energetic demands of long-distance passerine migration

One of 2013’s Bergstrom Award recipients was William Lewis, a Master’s student at the University of Southern Mississippi. Below is a contributed post from William on his research:   My name is William Lewis and a few years ago the

Matthew Shumar April 30, 2016September 21, 2020 Grants & Awards, Students Read more

Crowdsource Funding for Graduate Students

Everyone has big ideas – cool experiments to conduct in exotic locations or with interesting but hard to work with organisms – but that can cost money… and research funding is increasingly competitive. Experiment.com is a crowd-sourced funding platform for

Reed Bowman December 9, 2015September 18, 2020 Funding, Students, Technology Read more

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