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Recipients of 2005 AOU Research Awards

ALLISON ALVARADO, University of California Los Angeles
Subspecific differentiation in the Hermit Thrush: The role of migratory divides in promoting diversification

JONATHAN W. ATWELL, Indiana University
Endocrine mechanisms of behavior and reproduction in a unique season strategist, the Phainopepla (Phainopepla nitens)

BRADLEY H. BAKKEN, University of Wyoming
The osmoregulatory quandary of nectarivory: modeling the effect of body size on mechanisms of water balance

JON BEADELL, University of Maryland, College Park
Disease, genetic bottlenecks and the evolution of immune response in island avifauna

FRANCES BONIER, University of Washington
Life in the city: Physiological variation in urban-adapted birds

ALAINE F. CAMFIELD, University of British Columbia
Environmental variability, reproductive success and parental effort in alpine populations of Horned Larks and Savannah Sparrows

SHARON J. COE, University of California, Riverside
The influence of temperature on avian reproduction

JAMIE M. CORNELIUS, University of California-Davis
Unraveling the complexity of nomadic migration: environmental and social effects on migratory physiology in Red Crossbills (Loxia curvirostra)

VALENTINA FERRETTI, Cornell University
Disentangling breeding synchrony from extra-pair paternity in birds

BETH HAHN, University of Michigan
Habitat selection by a migratory songbird, the American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla): the role of social facilitation and population density

BRENT HORTON, University of Maine
Are adjustments in baseline corticosterone mediating reproductive trade-offs?

JILL E. JANKOWSKI, University of Florida
Interspecific territoriality as a mechanism for avian species replacements along tropical altitudinal gradients

JENNIFER B. KLOMP, Portland State University
An evaluation of avian cloacal microbes with DGGE: Do microbes affect nesting success, health, return rates, and change with diet?

SHANA LAVIN, University of Wisconsin
Is most nutrient absorption in birds passive?

DANIEL A. LEVITIS, University of California-Berkeley
Chemical defense in birds: Linking diet, toxicity and defense

JENNIFER L. NEWBREY, North Dakota State University
Effect of female immune function on carotenoid tradeoffs in free-living Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus)

JACQUELINE K. NOOKER, Kansas State University
Testosterone -mediated life history trade-offs in male Greater Prairie Chickens

JUAN LUIS PARRA, University of California at Berkeley
Mechanisms of diversification in Andean hummingbirds: Geographic isolation and non-random mating

NOAH PERLUT, University of Vermont
Experimental manipulations of synchrony: the relationship between social and genetic mating systems

DOROTHEE RAULIN, University of Pau and "Pays de l'Adour"
Parent-offspring resemblance in dispersal behavior: which processes are involved? An experimental approach in the Collared Flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis)

MATTHEW REUDINK, Queen's University
Molting latitude, winter habitat, plumage quality, and mate choice in the American Redstart

ORIEN RICHMOND, University of California-Berkeley
Incorporating temporal habitat variability into avian metapopulation dynamics

WENDY M. SCHELSKY, University of Florida
Does what your neighbors do matter?

RACHEL E. SEABURY, University of Texas at Austin
Endocrine regulation of physiology and behavior in fasting seabirds

DAIZABURO SHIZUKA, University of California-Santa Cruz
Multiple signals, dominance status, and behavior: The evolution of crown plumage in Golden-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia atricapilla)

WENDY P. TORI, University of Missouri - St. Louis
Are female white-crowned manakins choosing mates to gain genetic heterozygosity for their offspring?

NINA E. TRICHE, The University of Texas at Austin
Systematics, biogeography and evolutionary history of fossil and extant penguins (Aves: Spheniscidae)

AMY WILSON, University of British Columbia
Patterns and processes of intraspecific divergence in insular populations of Song Sparrows (Melospiza melodia)

PAUL ZWIERS, Smithsonian Institution and University of Maryland
A test of MHC-dependent mate choice in the Satin Bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus)

Members of the 2008 AOU Research Awards Committee