Welcome to the Land and Sea Bird Migration Research Group!

Our research group primarily focuses on the nutrition, physiology, and ecology of wild vertebrates, with an emphasis on migratory birds of conservation interest

Some of our research topics include:

How offshore wind farms affect migratory birds

Early successional forest management to support healthy bird populations

Exercise physiology of long-distance migratory songbirds

Greater Scaup with transmitter (Photo by Peter Paton)

Interactions between aquaculture and waterbirds

Movement ecology of migratory and resident seabirds, gamebirds and songbirds

Habitat use, diet, and nutrition of arctic-nesting geese, sea ducks, migratory songbirds and shorebirds

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