Native Bird HabitatAmanda Clauser
2014 The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
Amanda T. Clauser is a Master's candidate in Biology at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. The title of her research is "Climate-related challenges to reproductive success in costal populations of a threatened secretive marsh bird, the King Rail (Rallus elegans)." She will examine the impacts of storm surge associated with water level rise on the nesting success. She will also record daily incubation temperatures and will study the parental behavior at the nest in response to environmental changes.
The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
To provide financial aid to study areas in the United States that provide seasonal habitat for threatened or endangered native birds and to tend useful information for land-management decisions.
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