ChickadeeNews
Closing out the Research & Innovation week at CU Boulder is the UROP Sidewalk Symposium. This year Sam and Eva both participated, sharing drawings of their honors thesis work, which was funded with UROP grants last summer. Awesome to see
Congratulations to Kathryn and her co-authors for the recent acceptance of her final thesis chapter in Evolution. The manuscript, titled Extensive local introgression despite rare contemporary hybridization between two backyard
A recent article in Living Bird magazine featured Olivia Taylor's honors thesis work (published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology) that was a collaboration between Olivia, Kathryn, and Carrie Branch. So awesome to see a
The 2025 summer field season has flown by with the last chickadee nests at the Mountain Research Station of the season scheduled to be banded on July 12. Folks have been busy collecting data for their individual projects along with our annual
Congrats to Sam, Nate, and Eva for receiving individual UROP awards to support their summer research! All three are collecting data for their honors thesis projects. Sam will be studying pox virus in our local chickadee populations, Nate will be
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
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-