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Mennill Lab
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Blaine conducts playback during a Winter Ecology of
Birds field course at QUBS.
Photo: B.
Landsborough, March 2017
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Scoping for early migrants during the Winter Ecology
of Birds field course at QUBS.
Photo: I.
Moran, March 2017 |
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| 2016
Mennill Lab
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The Mennill Lab 2016.
Back Row: Kelly Schoenberger, Raven Oullette, Dan Mennill, Zachary
Kahn, Fatima Serhan, Blaine Landsborough, Kristina Hick, Christopher
Moser-Purdy, Cody Fields, Sayf Al-Khazraji, Irtiah Kahn. Front Row:
Albana Berberi, Justin Johnson, Alex Bailey, Katie Tracey, Ines Moran,
Rachel Hasson, Alana Demko, Reem Srour, Brendan Graham, Vivian
Hui, Nabil Sherghin.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Mennill Lab Members past and present delivered
research presentations at the North American Ornithological Congress,
NAOC VI, in Washington D.C. Left to right: Dan Mennill, Kristina Hick,
Christopher Moser-Purdy, Karan Odom (now postdoc at Leiden University,
Netherlands), Brendan Graham, Ines Moran, Alana Demko, Brendan Graham,
Rachel Hasson, Roberto Sosa (now research faculty at CIIDIR, Mexico),
and Zach Kahn.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Brendan presents his research on genetics of wren
song at the NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Kristina presents
her research on vocal and visual signals in wrens at NAOC VI.
Photo: D. Mennill, August 2016
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Ines presents her research on aggressive signaling
in sparrows at NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Blaine presents his research on nocturnal flight
calls at NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Alana presents her findings on Rufous-capped Warbler
song at NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Chris presents his findings on sparrow territorial
signaling at NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Rachel presents her findings on bird migration at
NAOC VI.
Photo: Z.
Kahn, August 2016
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Zach presents his findings on wren communication at
NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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Mennill Lab affiliate Jenn Foote presents her
findings on Piping Plovers at NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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University of Windsor students answer ornithological
questions in the Jeopardy-style "Student Quiz Bowl" at the NAOC VI.
Photo: D.
Mennill, August 2016
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| 2015
Mennill Lab
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Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Savannah Sparrow on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Ines returns from a morning of field recordings.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Dan records a Savannah Sparrow on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Helmi and Brad preparing to mist-net sparrows.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Amy and Brad erect a mist net to capture sparrows.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Ines poses with a Savannah Sparrow.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Sparrows amidst the Herring Gulls on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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A Herring Gull with three chicks on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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A paddling of Common Eiders on Kent Island.
Photo: S.
Doucet, June 2015
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Rachel on a hike during a research trip to Sault
Ste. Marie.
Photo: R.
Hasson, June 2015
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Blaine during a research trip to Sault Ste. Marie.
Photo: R.
Hasson, June 2015
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Kristina with a Long-billed Gnatwren in Guanacaste,
Costa Rica.
Photo: K.
Hick, May 2015
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Zach bands a Rufous-and-white Wren in Costa Rica.
Photo: K.
Hick, May 2015
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The 2015 Mennill Lab Costa Rica Research Team:
Roberto Sosa, Brendan Graham, Angela Demarse, Alana Demko, Nick
Rehberg-Besler, Zachary Kahn, Kristina Hick (left to right).
Photo by:
K. Hick, May 2015
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Alana with a Rufous-capped Warbler in Costa Rica.
Photo by:
N. Rehberg-Besler, May 2015
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Angela holds a rufous-capped Warbler in Costa Rica.
Photo by:
N. Rehberg-Besler, May 2015
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Dusky-capped Flycatcher in Costa Rica.
Photo: B.
Graham, May 2015
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Young Caiman in Cano Negro, Costa Rica.
Photo: B.
Graham, May 2015
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Blaine bands a Golden-winged Warbler at Cabot Head
with the Bruce Peninsula Bird Observatory.
Photo: B.
Landsborough, May 2015
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Chris releases a Red-winged Blackbird at Queen's
University Biological Station.
Photo:
C. Moser-Purdy, May 2015
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2014
Mennill Lab
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Brendan presents his poster on wren genetics at the
AOU meeting in Colorado.
Photo by K. Hick:
Colorado, Sept. 2014
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Alana presents her poster on Rufous-capped Warbler
song at the AOU meeting in Colorado.
Photo by K. Hick:
Colorado, Sept. 2014
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Kristina presents her research on territorial
interactions in wrens at the AOU meeting in Colorado.
Photo by K. Hick:
Colorado, Sept. 2014
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Katrina presents a poster on diel and seasonal
variation in sparrow vocalizations at the AOU meeting in Colorado.
Photo by K. Hick:
Colorado, Sept. 2014
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The Mennill Lab and an elk at the AOU meeting in
Colorado.
Photo by L.
Sandoval: Colorado, Sept. 2014
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Mennill Lab postdoc Lauren Fitzsimmons presents her
reseach on dawn singing behaviour of chickadees at the ISBE meeting in
New York.
Photo by L. Foote:
New York, August 2014
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Nick presents his research on toad visaul
communication at the ABS meeting at Princeton.
Photo by N.
Rehberg-Besler: New Jersey, Aug. 2014
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Between the frog bioacoustics symposium that
followed the ISBE in New York, and the ABS conference at Princeton,
Nick explored the sights of New York City..
Photo by N.
Rehberg-Besler: NYC, Aug. 2014
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Kristina
holds a wren in the Guanacaste Conservation Area.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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The 2014 Costa Rica field team looking down from the
volcanos of Guanacaste.
Photo by B.
Graham: Costa Rica, May 2014
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Tiffany and a wren in the Costa Rican dry forest.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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Luis helps Brendan to band Rufous-and-white Wrens in
Costa Rica's Central Valley.
Photo by B.
Graham: Costa Rica, May 2014
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The 2014 Costa Rica team in the neotropical Dry
Forest.
Photo by B.
Graham: Costa Rica, May 2014
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Brendan catches a gnatcatcher.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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Kristina observes a playback interaction in Costa
Rica.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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Kristina modeling her wren models.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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Kristina had an up-close encounter with a tapir.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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A Howler Monkey baby sticks out his tongue.
Photo by K. Hick:
Costa Rica, May 2014
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Nick and a Neotropical Yellow Toad.
Photo by N.
Rehberg-Besler: Costa Rica, May 2014
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Nick shows of his clay models of male and female
Yellow Toads.
Photo by N.
Rehberg-Besler: Costa Rica, May 2014
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Christopher bands a sparrow in the dawn light of the
Queen's University Biology Station.
Photo by C.
Moser-Purdy: QUBS, May 2014
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Christopher and his QUBS research colleagues in the
Cow Island Marsh.
Photo by C.
Moser-Purdy: QUBS, May 2014
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The Mennill Lab is testing out the new Wildlife
Acoustics SM3 Song Meters this spring.
Photo by L.
Fitzsimmons: Peterborough, May 2014
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Maddie mounts a secondary microphone for an SM3 Song
Meter.
Photo by L.
Fitzsimmons: Peterborough, May 2014
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Innovative use for baby stroller: transporting
microphone array equipment.
Photo by L.
Fitzsimmons: Peterborough, May 2014
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Lauren lanches an SM3 Song Meter in a forest near
Peterborough.
Photo by L.
Fitzsimmons: Peterborough, May 2014
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C'mon get happy... A Happy Wren in Mexico.
Photo by R. Sosa:
Mexico, March 2014
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Roberto holds a Happy Wren captured during a
research expedition in Chamela, Mexico.
Photo by R. Sosa:
Mexico, March 2014
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On the occasion of
Luis Sandoval's doctoral defense, Katrina baked Dr. Sandoval a Melozone cake.
Photo: Windsor,
April 2014
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Can you identify
this Melozone ground sparrow
species from its cake likeness?
Photo: Windsor,
April 2014
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Mennill Lab Group Photo 2014
In
March 2014, we took a group photo of the Mennill Lab in front of our
Biology Building. Left to
right: Dan Mennill, Katrina Lukianchuk, Nick Rehberg-Besler,
Brendan Graham, Matt Watson, Dave Wilson, Kristina Hick, Alana Demko,
Alex Harris, Crystal Kelly, Christopher Moser-Purdy, Luis Sandoval,
Lauren Fitzsimmons. (In the field: Roberto Sosa.)
Photo: Windsor, March 2014. Photo by P.
Martin.
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2013 Mennill Lab
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The Mennill/Doucet
Lab celebrated a great year by having a Christmas Dinner at Rino's
Kitchen. Back row from left to
right: Kristina, Matt, Luis, Roberto, Brendan, Pierre-Paul, Emily
(honourary member), Dave, and Cory (honourary member). Seated from left
to right: Nick, Alex, Pamela (honourary member), Katrina, and Alana.
Photo by L. Wilson
(also an honourary member): Windsor, December 2013
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The Mennill Lab participated in the Cedar Creek
Christmas Bird Count in mid-December.
Photo by C.
Sanders: Essex County, December 2013
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The counters surveyed a route that the Mennill Lab
has done for the last eight years.
Photo by C.
Sanders: Essex County, December 2013
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Five Mennill Labbers had a full day of birding in
heavy snowfall.
Photo by C.
Sanders: Essex County, December 2013
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The counters tallied more than 400 birds of 21
species. This is slightly lower than our typical count; but our typical
count isn't done during almost 20cm of snowfall!
Photo by C.
Sanders: Essex County, December 2013
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The Mennill Lab 2013 CBC team: Sarah Baldo (Mennill
Lab aluna and intrepid driver), Brendan Graham, Kristina Hick, Alana
Demko, and Claire Sanders (Mennill Lab alumna). Great counting!
Photo by C.
Sanders: Essex County, December 2013
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The Mennill Lab took a break from the busy fall
semester, to enjoy the Craft Beer
Festival in Walkerville.
Photo by B.
Graham: Windsor, October 2013
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Throughout the sring and fall migrations, Mennill
Lab Honours Student Matt Watson has been banding birds with the Holiday
Beach Migration Observatory. Here's Matt with a colourful male oriole.
Photo by Caroline
S.: Essex County, Ontario
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I am on sabbatical
in 2013-2014. I am conducting research at the French Museum of Natural
History, one of the largest museum collections in the world.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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The museum is a
complex of buildings surrounding a beautiful park. It is an inspiring
place to conduct sabbatical research.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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My hosts have
provided me with an excellent sabbatical office, which I share
with other visitors to the museum.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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It is a great
office for my studies, just steps from the rooms that house the
bird collection, and with many
outstanding ornithological resources on hand.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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The museum's research collection is across the
street from the
famed "Grand Hall of Evolution", the public part of the museum.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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Birds on display in the Grand Hall of Evolution.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Paris, September 2013
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Claire defended her Master's degree in late July
2013. Congratulations Claire! In honour of the occasion, Kristin baked
cookies that depict some of the warblers in Claire's thesis.
Photo: Windsor,
July 2013
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The cookies were both biologically accurate and
delicious. The lab celebrated Claire's successful defense while
munching on their
favourite species.
Photo: Windsor,
July 2013
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Adrianna also defended her Master's degree in late
July 2013. Congratulations Adrianna! Knowing that Adrianna is
going to medical school, Kristin baked her an "Operation" cake.
Photo: Windsor,
July 2013
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The cake gave Adrianna some early practice with
surgical techniques when she sliced it up to share with the lab after
her defense.
Photo: Windsor, July 2013
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Kristin also defended her Master's degree in late
July 2013. Congratulations Kristin! Her Costa
Rica
field-mates Brendan, Alana, and Kristina worked together to bake
a cake. The cake bar was set very high by Kristin.
Photo: Windsor, July 2013
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The cake was a success. It featured a caramel
Rufous-and-white Wren bringing licorice nesting material to its icing
acacia tree nest.
Note that the acacia tree nest is accurate right down to the ants on
the leaves (or are they Beltian bodies?).
Photo: Windsor, July 2013
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Luis delivered a talk on his White-eared
Ground-sparrow study to the International
Bioacoustics Conference in Pirenopolis Brazil.
Photo: Brazil,
September 2013
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Luis poses with his Brazilian friend in Pirenopolis.
Photo: Brazil,
September 2013
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Alana poses with a banded Rufous-and-white Wren in
Costa Rica.
Photo: Costa Rica,
June 2013
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Brendan is ready to release a Rufous-and-white Wren
in Costa Rica.
Photo: Costa RIca,
June 2013
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Kristina bands a Rufous-and-white Wren in Costa Rica.
Photo: Costa RIca,
June 2013
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Nick weighs a toad during the toad emergence
research day in Costa Rica.
Photo: Costa Rica,
May 2013
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Nick holds a toad in Costa Rica, showing off the
toad-coloured gloves he wore for the occasion.
Photo: Costa Rica,
May 2013
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Kristina gathers data on the toad emergence in
Costa Rica.
Photo: Costa RIca,
May 2013
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A Savannah Sparrow sings a song on Kent Island, New
Brunswick.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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Dan and Ryan set up a playback experiment in New
Brunswick.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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Dan and Ryan at Bowdoin Scientific Station, New
Brunswick..
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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A Savannah Sparrow responding to playback.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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The 2013 Kent Island Savannah Sparrow research team.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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Dan prepares Song Meters for deployment outside the
Bowdoin Scientific Station on Kent Island.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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A longstanding
tradition at the Bowdoin Scientific Research
Station is to re-create an iconic photograph from 1934
called "The Four Pioneers". The original photo (at the top left)
depicted four of the first biologists to conduct research on Kent
Island. You can see three re-enactments above. These photos hang in the
dining
hall on Kent Island. At the end of our 2013 field season,
Stéphanie, Amy, Ryan, and I did our own re-creation (right). We
call it "The Four Playback Pioneers".
Photo: Kent Island
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Ryan and Amy drive a stake that will hold a Song
Meter to record sparrows on Kent Island.
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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Amy looks aghast when Ryan breaks a cardinal
Mennill-Lab rule: never cut a zip tie if it can be un-done
Photo by S.
Doucet: Kent Island, 2013
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During a recent field expedition in Mexico, who did
Roberto encounter in the middle of the jungle? Frank Gill! It was the
rarest sighting of the day.
Photo: Mexico,
February 2013
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In May, Roberto conducted a week of field research
at the
Field Museum in Chicago, with the support of a research grant that the
Field Museum kindly gave to him.
Photo: Chicago,
May 2013
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In April 2013, Mennill Lab Honours Student Matt
Battiston won the bronze medal for his presentation at the Honours
Thesis Colloquium.
Photo: Windsor,
April 2013
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Department Head Andy Hubberstey congratulates Matt
on his award-winning talk.
Photo: T. Pitcher,
Windsor, April 2013
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In April 2013, I was honoured to receive a
"Conservation Champion" award from the Essex Region Conservation
Authority. Here, Joe Bachetti, Chair of ERCA, presents the award.
Photo: ERCA,
Windsor, April 2013
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It was a great pleasure to be recognized alongside
other "champions of conservation" from Essex County.
Photo: ERCA,
Windsor, April 2013
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In February 2013, Mennill Lab PhD Candidate Luis
Sandoval received the University of Windsor Research Excellence Award.
Congratulations Luis!
Photo: B. Graham,
Windsor, February 2013.
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Some members of the Mennill and Doucet Labs
celebrate with Luis.
Photo: B. Graham,
Windsor, February 2013.
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Doucet Lab MSc student Katrina Lukianchuk recently
defended her Master's. In honour of the occasion, Kristin baked
Long-tailed Manakin cupcakes.
Photo: Windsor,
February 2013.
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Kristin with a tray of Chrioxiphia Cupcakes, including
cake pop heads and licorice tails.
Photo: Windsor,
February 2013.
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During Reading Week 2013, Mennill Labbers Angela
Demarse (undergraduate researcher), Adrianna Bruni (MSc student), and
Jessica Rose (Tropical Ecology alum) took a field course on winter
ecology.
Photo: A. Bruni,
Algonquin Park,
February 2013.
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In a paired design, chickadees showed a preference
for Angela's hand over Jessica's hand.
Photo: A. Bruni,
Algonquin Park,
February 2013.
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Jessica and Adrianna pause for a photo while
searching for owls on the winter ecology course.
Photo: A. Bruni,
Algonquin Park,
February 2013.
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Jessica, Adrianna, and Angela studied the winter
ecology of birds under Paul Martin (Queen's University) through the
Ontario Universities Program in Field Biology.
Photo: A. Bruni,
Lake Ontario,
February 2013.
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In 2010-2011,
Somboon Kamtaeja spent a year in the Mennill Lab conducting research on
bulbul vocalizations. Somboon recently convocated with his PhD from
Chaing Mai University in Thailand. Congratulations, Somboon!
Photo: S.
Kamtaeja, Chaing Mai, Thailand, February 2013.
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Here Somboon is
pictured with his PhD supervisor, Narit Sitasuwan, and the Animal
Behaviour and Ornithology Lab of Chaing Mai University, Thailand.
Photo: S.
Kamtaeja, Chaing Mai, Thailand, February 2013.
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