Song sparrow field season wraps up

My first field season working with song sparrows in New England came to a close in mid-June. I was lucky enough to be joined by Emily Overby, a Rivier University undergraduate who is working with me on her senior research project. Together, we assessed boldness (response to heterospecific alarm calls) and territorial aggression in urban and rural song sparrows in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. While we were only able to band a few birds, we did make behavioral observations on over 40 individuals and obtained plenty of data for Emily’s project and potentially a paper.