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Category: Graduate Students

Wednesday November 1, 2023

NSF Grant Empowers Student Research in Spain

Over the years we have sent a number of students to the city of Tarifa, Spain to participate in counts of soaring birds, trapping and banding of Black Kites, banding of songbirds and flamingos, and countless other incredible activities.

Wednesday November 1, 2023

Camas National Wildlife Refuge: How has Migration Changed?

Between fall 2005 and spring 2007, IBO measured an impressive volume and diversity of migrant birds that were using Camas NWR. But in the years since then, the refuge has conspicuously changed, perhaps most notably the vegetation community.

Wednesday November 1, 2023

Conservation Insights: Navigating Human-Wildlife Interactions Within the Birds of Prey NCA

Many important habitats for birds overlap with public lands where people enjoy the outdoors. One example is the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area, or the NCA, where IBO has studied breeding Long-billed Curlews. The NCA also is home to the greatest concentration of nesting birds of prey in North America.

Wednesday November 1, 2023

An Immersion in the Science, Culture, and Migration of Southern Spain

It’s not every day that you get to embark on an adventure that feels like a dream. I had the privilege of working as an International Research Intern with IBO and the Spanish bird conservation organization, Fundación Migres, at a site in one of the world’s most important migratory flyways.

Wednesday November 1, 2023

Announcing the American Goshawk Project

I am so excited to be joining IBO’s Team Goshawk as a new graduate student! I will be studying the newly renamed American Goshawk, with a special focus on the ecology of breeding goshawks.

Wednesday April 26, 2023

A new, old project for IBO

If you’ve spent much time at our research stations, you probably know IBO’s research director,…

A New Mexico Curlew Trapping Odyssey

By Stephanie Coates, IBO Research Biologist Shortly after arriving at the Rio Mora National Wildlife…

Tuesday November 16, 2021

The Incredible Baobab Tree

By Rebecca Bishop, M.S. student in Boise State’s Raptor Biology program co-advised by Jay Carlisle…

Gorongosa Vulture Research Continues: Graduate Students on two continents join forces

After our graduate student, Teague Scott, finished his thesis on the vultures of Gorongosa Park…

Wednesday November 25, 2020

IBO Co-authors New Publication Documenting Illegal Killing of Birds and Snakes

By: Jay Carlisle Earlier in my career, I definitely didn’t have aspirations to write or…

Wednesday November 25, 2020

Taking a Closer Look at the Horned Lark

By: Madeline Aberg There’s a good chance you’ve seen a Horned Lark. They have a…

Wednesday November 25, 2020

New Migratory Mysteries Revealed: Tracking Curlews From the West Central Mountains

By: Heather Hayes If you have spent time in higher elevations of the West Central…

Thursday August 6, 2020

Team Goshawk Co-authors New Telomere Study

We would like to congratulate Boise State University PhD Candidate Stephanie Hudon on getting her…

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