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Congrats to Jay (and Scott, Michael Castaño-Diaz, Sebastian Gallan-Giraldo, Joseph See!) for publishing a recent paper in Ecology - The Scientific Naturalist that describes possible caterpillar mimicry by white-necked
Congrats to Nate, Sam, and Sara for being awarded research grants from the Denver Field Ornithologists! Nate will use his funds to study incubation patterns and differences between black-capped and mountain chickadees. Sam will
Congratulations to Sara and Sam for recently being awarded research grants from the Colorado Field Ornithologists! Sara will use her funds to sequence black-capped chickadee genomes as she continues to explore the genetic
Congratulations to Will for publishing his first first-author paper in the Journal of Avian Biology! Will's paper describes a region of probable secondary contact between northern house wren subspecies along the Front Range of the
Olivia and Scott recently chatted with in the NoCo's Erin O'toole about Olivia honor's thesis work that was recently published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Listen to the episode here: https://www.kunc.org/podcast/inthenoco/2024-11-19/how-
Lab collaborator Amber Rice and Scott were recently on an episode of the American Birding Association Podcast hosted by Nate Swick. Nate had lots of questions about hybridization between black-capped and Carolina chickadees as well as black-capped
The October issue of Scientific American featured a story about chickadee hybridization by Rebecca Heisman that highlighted ongoing work in the lab: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hybrid-chickadees-reveal-how-
Past and present members of the lab recetly attended the 3rd joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology in Montreal. Sheela received an American Society of Naturalists Early Career Award and gave an excellent plenary talk. Haley and Kathryn
Scott recently discussed the Boulder Chickadee Study with Host Susan Moran from How on Earth, the KGNU Science Show. Listen here!https://howonearthradio.org/archives/9639
Last week marked the final nestling banding of the 2024 Boulder Chickadee Study field season wrapping the 6th year of the study. The team of Will, Sara, Olivia, Ajay, Nikki, Blake, and Sage counted 464 eggs, banded 431 nestlings, and