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  • chickadee
    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
  • Jay in the field
    The Taylor Lab welcomes Dr. Jay Falk, an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow joining the lab this month. Jay studies the evolution of sex differences and similarities, and is broadly interested in how social interaction leads to biodiversity both
  • parasites and vectors logo
    Congrats to Angela and Colleagues for their article recently accepted to the journal Parasites and Vectors. The article titled “Survey of Haemosporidian Parasite Infections in an Endangered High Alpine Bird,” is an exploration of
  • Erik with a rosy finch
    Congrats to Erik and his colleagues! The final chapter of Erik's PhD thesis was recently accepted for publication in Evolution. Erik's manuscript explores genotype-phenotype associations for plumage color and elevation in rosy finches
  • living bird
    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,
  • mountain chickadee
    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
  • Haley
    The Taylor Lab welcomes Dr. Haley Kenyon, the newest Postdoctoral Associate to join us in Boulder. Haley will be expanding upon her PhD research on chickadee signaling by working within the Boulder Chickadee Study. A fellow Canadian, Taylor Lab
  • Sara Padula
    Sara Padula, first year PhD student in the lab, has published her undergraduate research in Wader Study entitled Kiawah and Seabrook islands are a critical site for the rufa Red Knot. The rufa Red Knot is a long distance migratory shorebird that has
  • meadowlark
    There is a newly recognized species of meadowlark in North America, the Chihuahan Meadowlark, thanks to the hard work of Johanna Beam and her direct undergraduate honors thesis supervisor Erik Funk. Read all about this new development here:
  • New students 2022
    Welcome to our incoming PhD students Sara, Nikki, and Ajay, as well as our incoming NSF REPS Fellow Abi. Check out their profiles to learn more about our newest lab members! 
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