Accepted for publication: 'Effects of age, breeding strategy, population density, and number of neighbors on territory size and shape in Savannah Sparrows.' 🐦
Coming to Ornithology. Led by amazing undergrad Sarika Suarez Sharma SarikaS w/ a big team of sparrow collaborators.

Male Savannah Sparrows are arriving from migration in the fog of the Bay of Fundy. Our research team Bowdoin Kent Island is banding the males, mapping their territories, and recording their songs.

#UofG ecology professor Dr. Dr. Ryan Norris and PhD student Karen Ong will appear on today's episode of the program 'Secrets of the Forest' on @TVO Kids

College of Biological Science Integrative Biology news.uoguelph.ca/2024/05/integr…

#teambutterfly has officially started their annual monitoring program PineryPP where we reintroduced Mottled Duskywing in 2021! All males flying today- they are always first and will establish territories while they await female emergence!

Since 2020, Bird Safe Guelph, led by Integrative Biology students, have been working to make the city and university safer for birds🪶

Don’t miss their Guelph Bird Day event Saturday, 9 am to 1 pm in the Arboretum Centre!

Learn more about Bird Safe Guelph: uoguelph.ca/cbs/news/2024/…

Our new paper is out in Animal Behaviour: “Birds respond more strongly to locally common versus locally rare songs: a playback experiment with Savannah Sparrows.” 📢🎶🐦
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…
Paper summary by Jaclyn Aubin in the 🧵 below ⬇️

Read our full paper here:
doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…
Many thanks to my co-authors, @SDobney, Sarah Foreman, Stéphanie Doucet, Dr. Ryan Norris, Heather Williams, and Dan Mennill. We thank NSERC / CRSNG for financial support and @BSSKentIsland for logistic support. 6/6

#teambutterfly is back in action! Today we took over 600 endangered mottled duskywing larvae out of an environmental chamber to 'wake them up'. It's spring guys! Time to pupate! They are destined to repopulate formally occupied areas in Ontario.

I agree with every word Brian McGill writes. Academic publishing is a mess, we are publishing too much, and letting for-profit publishers drive us into the ground. And we’re all complicit in this!

2nd field season for my #phd is officially underway ! The 1st CatCams have gone on our furry friends here in the south Okanagan ! How many and what types of animals do cats hunt? What welfare risks do they face ? Imma find out 👀

After one final planning meeting, our team is off to the Bay of Fundy for spring field research on migratory Savannah Sparrows. What a dynamic team with 2 graduate and 4 undergraduate ornithologists from Science UWindsor!

When the only habitat left is in isolated patches, plants might need a little help spreading their seeds - but concerns about ecological integrity are holding us back. Read our latest story by J.L. McCune here:
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/conse…

... in which I explain how caribou are a lot like wood-poppies! Liber Ero Fellows NatureConservancy.ca | Conservationdelanature.ca Wilder Institute Dr. Ryan Norris Emma Neigel Kayanase Greenhouse

Starting into the week with a new feature in celebration of the recent #IWD2024

We would like to highlight Dr Merritt Turetsky (Dr. Merritt Turetsky) who challenges taboo topics in academia and encouraging work-life balance for #WomeninSTEM and #mumsinscience .

#GradStudent scholarships and #Postdoc fellowships got a raise today for the first time in 21 years🙌

Immensely grateful to all those who have been pushing for this. It truly takes a village!

Still processing and will have more thoughts soon! But overall this👇 is great news!

If you’re going to CSEE (CSEE SCEE Meetings) or OE3C (@oe3c_official) and are looking to start a PhD – please get in touch! I'll be there recruiting PhD students to start in 2025 and would love to chat. Info about the lab at: tessgrainger.ca

New funded MSc position University of Guelph to study potential impacts of radio transmitters on the flight #behaviour & #ecology of insect #pollinators co-supervised by Dr. Ryan Norris & me. Application deadline May 15, to start Fall 24. #Entomology #Radiotracking #Bees #Butterflies Please RT

Job Alert! Are you an Indigenous student looking to gain experience in terrestrial ecology? NRSI is looking to hire a field assistant for a turtle tracking program!

New MSc position! Radio-tracking monarch butterflies and bees with Nigel Raine and myself.
College of Biological Science UofGWeBeIB. Details below.

#UofG | PhD student Jonathan Chu talks to @GlobalNews about taking his 'cat cam' research to B.C. 🐈‍⬛

Integrative Biology College of Biological Science

WATCH: globalnews.ca/news/10407636/…