Chickadee News
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-
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
Congratulations to Olivia and her co-authors Kathryn, Angela, Harriet Leeson and Carrie Branch for publishing a recent paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology. After initially embarking on her undergraduate career as a Violin Performance
The 2024 field season has been a busy one - here are some updates from members of the lab currently in the field: Sara: It has been a wild and exciting field season so far! With the addition of our new nestboxes on flagstaff mountain it is gearing
The good news keeps coming! Nikki (Documenting responses to experimental and natural nest intrusions in two species of cavity-nesting chickadee) and Will (Using acoustic and genomic data to evaluate the taxonomic status of Northern Pygmy Owls) were