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Recipients of 2007 AOU Research Awards

Robert A. Aldredge, University of Central Florida
The influence of ambient temperature and incubation behavior on the hatching success of the Threatened Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

Kara L. Belinsky, University of Massachusetts
Color and song in Chestnut-sided Warblers: redundant signals or multiple messages?

Catherine A. Bradley, University of Georgia
Linking avifaunal community assemblage to avian malaria lineage diversity and prevalence

Curtis W. Burney, Louisiana State University
Testing for shared historical diversification in lowland neotropical birds using a comparative phylogeographic approach

Molly Dickens, Tufts University
Investigating the mechanisms underlying the "stress" of relocation

Quinn C. Emmering, Texas Tech University
Do songbirds assess nest-predation risk using auditory cues: experimental manipulation of a nest-predator vocalization

Patricia J. Hartman, University of Kentucky
The role of habitat structure in extraterritorial movements of two hybridizing warblers

Bobby Huang-Suo Hsu, University of Hawaii – Hilo
The transfer of maternal antibodies in Hawaii Amakihi

Anya E. Illes, University of Washington
Sexual selection and elaborate female song in Stripe-headed Sparrows

Jonathan P. Kelley, University of Washington
The effects of predation risk on the nest mortality in neotropical birds: the roles of landscape, behavior and physiology

Corinne Kozlowski, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Differential yolk androgen allocation and sex specific effects of elevated androgens in Eastern Screech Owl nestlings

Yun Kyoung Lee, University of Manitoba
Egg discrimination in an egg-color polymorphic species: is there sex-specific strategy of egg recognition

Neil Losin, University of California-Los Angeles
Evolution of competitor recognition in an avian contact zone

John McCormack, University of California Los Angeles
Is blue egg color a sexually selected trait in Mexican Jays?

Kelly Minton, College of William and Mary
Does prior mating experience affect subsequent mate preference of female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Jordan M. Moore, Cornell University
Neural correlates of song production and perception in acrocephaline warblers

Valerie A. O'Brien, University of Tulsa
Role of Cliff Swallows in transmission and amplification of a poorly known arbovirus

Kristina Paxton, University of Southern Mississippi
Assessment of intraspecific variation in migration strategies of a Neotropical migratory bird with stable isotopes

Michelle A. Rensel, University of Memphis
Long-term effects of developmental stress in the Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)

Christine M. Stracey-Richard, University of Florida
Is the composition of urban communities the result of changes in food resources and predation pressure?Sarah Rockwell, University of Maryland
The costs of migration and their influence on avian life history traits

Melissah Rowe, University of Chicago
Mechanisms and dynamics of sperm competition in the Splendid Fairy-Wren: male investment in sperm numbers and quality

Megan J. Sellick, University of Guelph
Geographic variation of stable-strontium isotopes (δ87Sr) in avian tissue: applications for tracking long-distance movements of passerines

Sampath S. Seneviratne, Memorial University
Do elongated feathers function as sensory organs? An overlooked ornament function of a group of subarctic seabirds

Kendra Sewall, University of California-Davis
Vocal learning and social barriers to intermixing

Helen Sofaer, Colorado State University
Ecological factors affecting growth rates in Orange-crowned Warblers (Vermivora celata)

Caitlin Stern, Cornell University
The influence of help on reproductive decision-making within cooperative groups

Matthew B. Toomey, Arizona State University
Diet-dependence of carotenoid accumulation in the avian retina: an experimental test

Travis E. Wilcoxen, University of Memphis
Reproductive senescence in the Florida Scrub-Jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)”.

Members of the 2007 AOU Research Awards Committee