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Congratulartions to PhD student Sara Padula who is the first ever recipient of the Sarah Crump Memorial Fellowship. The fellowship was created by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) and Sarah Crump’s family in

Congratulations to Mia who recently completed her Master's degree. Mia joined the lab in 2020 and was an integral member of the Boulder Chickadee Study over the last three years. During that time she banded over 250

Living Bird, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's publication, recently featured our collaborative work on chickadee spatial cognition in their Winter 2023 issue. This work is conducted with Dr. Valdimir Pravosudov, Dr. Carrie Branch, Ben Sonnenberg,

Congrats to Kathryn and her co-authors Theresa Burg and Ken Otter for their recent paper in Global Change Biology. One of Kathryn's main thesis chapters, this paper describes the relationship between human landscape disturbance and

The 2022 field season of the Boulder Chickadee Study has wrapped. Mia banded and bled the final mountain chickadees of the season during an outreach event at the MRS with folks from the Denver Field Ornithologists on July 10th. This field season was

Congratulations to the Taylor Lab graduates of 2022! From left to right, Will recieved his undergraduate degree with honors, while Dr. Grabenstein, Dr. Theodosopoulos, and Dr. Funk all had their PhD conferred. Not pictured is Cori who also recieved

Congratulations to Angela who just found out that she won a Fulbright Award for Sweden starting this fall!  Angela will be using her time as a Fulbright recipient to expand on her recent discovery (published in Biology Letters) that

Congrats to Olivia for being awarded a summer UROP grant! Olivia's project project aims to further our understanding of birdsong evolution by exploring whether our local canyons act as isolating barriers that facilitate song divergence

Congrats to Kathryn and her co-authors for their recent pulbication in Ecology and Evolution "Sympatry leads to reduced body condition in chickadees that occasionally hybridize". Kathryn reports an interesting pattern of reduced body condition in

Congratulations to Cori for sucessfully defending her honors thesis! Cori gave an excellent presentation about her work examining links between urbanization, arthropods, chickadee diet, and nestling condition. Cori joined the lab as a