Wenatchee River Institue Talk

This Friday, January 27th, I will be presenting at the Wenatchee River Insitute (WRI) in Leavenworth, WA. This is a chance to broaden the impact of our research by reaching out to a community in prime crossbill habitat! Questions will be raised: what is a crossbill? (a type of finch!) - why are they unique? (many reasons!) - why should we care about their behavior? (climate change, for one!) how can citizen science help solve the mysteries of Nature's Nomad? (come find out!)

For more info please visit the WRI's website: http://www.wenatcheeriverinstitute.org/

SICB Presentation in New Orleans!

I recently presented preliminary results of stable isotope analyses at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) conference. The talk was well attended and well recieved! This is a potentially very exciting way to ask questions about nature's nomads!

Upcoming Crossbill Talk!

I will be presenting results from our summer 2015 field season at Point Blue in Petaluma, CA on Wednesday the 10th of March.

Point Blue is full of passionate people engaging in conservation science. They also run the major bird banding station at Point Reyes, CA, which is important for tracking migratory movements!

Click the logo above to check out their website.

I'm looking forward to talking crossbills with these guys and gals!

Check back to see how it went!

~V

Cones Collected!

We identified forest stands being used by crossbills, and surveyed to find trees they were actively foraging on.

Thanks to the help of Eric Forsman, we managed to collect cone samples from the canopy!

We will use the cones to analyze various characteristics of trees crossbills use vs those they ignore.

Stay tuned!

~V