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The Evolutionary Ecology of The Bird Nests, David Ocampo, GS (CA48F7FC)

Birds build diverse nest types, and this ability might be why some groups have thrived throughout their evolutionary history. Passerine birds, including the tyrant flycatchers, have managed to spread…

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Measuring Natural Selection in the Wild, Max Gotts, UG '24 (9D2FCEE5)

Fitness landcapes are incredibly powerful tools for visualizing the action of natural selection on rapid timescales. However, collecting the relevant empirical data to generate them is costly and…

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Understanding the Backyard Bird Can Improve Aircraft Design, Hannah Wiswell, GS (2F33196F)

Bioinspired design connects biology and engineering, allowing us to gain insights about a particular species while also improving structural design. Birds, for example, have provided inspiration to…

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Tracking the Evolution of Emarginated Primary Feathers with Flight Style, Lilia Burtonpatel, UG '27 (A6DA3782)

This project explores how a special type of flight feather on birds - emarginated primary feathers - have evolved different shapes across evolutionary history. These feathers make up the wingtips of…

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EEB 522 Seminar Series - Dan Blumstein

EEB 522 Seminar Series Colloquium on the Biology of Populations Presented by Dan Blumstein "Translational Behavioral Biology: A Fearful Perspective"

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EEB 522 Seminar Series | Carrie Branch

EEB 522 Seminar Series Colloquium on the Biology of Populations Presented by Carrie Branch "Sexual selection, female choice, and cognitive adaptation in a food-caching bird"

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EEB 522 Seminar Series | Peter Marra

EEB 522 Seminar Series Colloquium on the Biology of Populations Presented by Peter Marra "Studying birds in the context of the full annual cycle"

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Penn Library's LJS 445 - Prenosticatio (Video Orientation)

Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 445 - Prenosticatio, by Johannes Lichtenberger. Written in Nuremberg, Germany, after 1488, in Middle High German. German…

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Bradford Seminar: "Overexploitation of Wildlife In China"

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PLI Sarah-Jane Leslie

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Migratory flight on the Pacific Flyway: strategies and tendencies of wind drift compensation, Patrick_Newcombe_Video - Patrick Newcombe, UG '25 (2768215)

Applications of remote sensing data to monitor bird migration usher a new understanding of magnitude and extent of movements across entire flyways. Millions of birds move through the western USA, yet…

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Making Models and Mining Mimics: Insights From Computer Vision Into How Biological Systems Solve Visual Problems, Yael Stochel, UG '22 (3965102)

Heliconius butterflies, a genus of butterfly that lives in South America, exhibit Mullerian mimicry, a type of mimicry in which toxic unrelated species evolve to share warning signals to teach and…

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2022.02.28 MAE Faculty Search

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Energy At Sea: The Future of Offshore Wind

featuring Kris Ohleth

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Virtual Birding: Exploring Audubon's 'Birds of America'

Grab your binoculars and join us for an hour of virtual birding, as we turn the pages of John James Audubon’s gigantic, hand-painted "Birds of America" (1827-38).Rarely does the…

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Faber Lectures: Page duBois

The Politics of the Swarm

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