Native Bird HabitatKevin Barnes
2013 The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
Kevin Barnes is a Master’s candidate at Ball State University, Muncie, IN. The title of his research is “Cerulean Warbler Settlement Cues: a con-specific attraction study.” Kevin will study why Cerulean Warblers, an endangered species, tend to settle in clusters within much larger expanses of suitable breeding habitat. Th e study relates to the Peacock Award’s goals of linking studies of habitat use and conservation. As one reviewer noted, “ This study adopts a novel approach and could change how we think about habitat selection and settlement criteria in this and other endangered species.”
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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