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Students presented research on how supplemental feeding affects overwinter survival in dark-eyed juncos, and how juncos use habitats within the landscape during the winter. Students also presented...

The Williams Avian Ecology Lab updated Motus towers and conducted maintenance.

Members of the Williams Avian Ecology Lab presented research at the American Ornithological Society Meeting in Estes Park, Colorado. October 2024

The Williams Lab presented our research at the Ohio University Student Expo on April 11, 2024. We presented four posters, three of which were judged and won awards. 

Window Pain: A Survey of Avian...

The Williams Avian Ecology Lab took over songbird and owl banding at Kelleys Island this weekend! We banded 17 Northern Saw-whet Owls and 42 songbirds in 2 days and 2 nights. Thanks so much to Cheryl...

OU students Gabi Lindsey (HTC, Environmental Studies) and Jacob Morgan (MS, Biological Sciences) completed training to earn US  Geological Survey Bird Banding Permits under Dr. Kelly Williams.

We captured two Slate-colored Juncos during bird banding demonstrations on 21 October and 28 October. Neither of these birds were recaptures, however, we have begun to see color banded individuals...

Students Jacob Morgan (MS) and Gabi Lindsey (HTC undergraduate) presented their research from the lab at the 2023 Ohio Avian Research Conference held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center in Columbus...

Students Jacob Morgan (MS) and Gabi Lindsey (HTC undergraduate) presented work from the lab in London, Ontario, Canada at the 2023 American Ornithological Society and Society of Canadian...