Before I begin, I would like to thank Colleen McLinn, Robert Payo, and Jennifer Schaus for inviting me to particpate in this blog - many thanks guys.
The primary motivation behind any study (regardless of whether the study species is a bird or not) should be to address an interesting question. You know that coming up […]

Hi everyone,
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell Univeristy and a member of a large interdisciplinary group of researchers at the Lab of Ornithology studying House Finch-Mycoplasma gallisepticum dynamics (the notorious finch eye disease). I have worked on this project for five years, and have really enjoyed having an […]