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Photo courtesy of Camilla Cerea
I am an evolutionary ecologist primarily interested in understanding animals as individuals, especially the development of individual variation, while simultaneously promoting community-level conservation. My current work explores bird populations across the state of Ohio (USA).
I previously (2024) completed my PhD in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Program for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology in the labs of Dr. Mark Hauber and Dr. T.J. Benson. Our work investigates the impact of maternally-derived hormones on avian embryonic growth (see "Research" tab for more details).
In 2019 I defended my M.Sc. in Biology at Kansas State University in the lab of Dr. Alice Boyle. Check out our sparrow aggregation paper in the journal Ecology and keep an eye out for our work on the development of grassland songbirds!
Email: skwinnicki@gmail.com
Photo by Camilla Cerea
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Grasshopper Sparrow
Konza Prairie Biological Station, 2016
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Check out this video that we compiled of some amazing nest predation events caught on our nest cameras!
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