Congratulations to PhD student Derrick Groom on being awarded a prestigious Journal of Experimental Biology Travel Fellowship. This award will fund Derrick’s return trip to Brazil to continue building a fantastic data set on the hovering kinematics and energetics of Brazil’s varied hummingbirds.

Congratulations to PhD student Derrick Groom on being upgraded to a prestigious NSERC CGS-D Canada Graduate Scholarship! This funding represents a substantial upgrade in support. NSERC CGS-D scholarships are among Canada’s most prestigious.

A paper led by MSc student Lily Hou and former Directed Research in Biology (BIOD98) project undergraduate student Michael Verdirame was just published online in the Journal of Avian Biology. This is the first publication for either Lily or Michael. This study analyzes patterns of mass change in wild hummingbirds over multiple time scales by automating the collection of data from perch-fitted […]