Native Bird HabitatStepfanie Aguillon
2016 The Frances M. Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat
Stepfanie M. Aguillon is a PhD student at Cornell University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, NY. Her project is titled, "Reanalysis of a classic avian hybrid zone: using genomics to characterize hybridization in the Northern Flicker." She will use new genetic approaches to re-sample a transect across the Northern Flicker hybrid zone of the Great Plains originally performed in the mid-1950’s. In this zone, western Red-shafted and eastern Yellow-shafted Flickers meet and hybridize. She will assess what changes have occurred over the last 60 years.
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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