Contact Information
Urbana, IL 61801
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Principal Research Scientist, Ornithology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Stuart L. and Nancy J. Levenick Chair in Sustainability, Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
Recent Publications
Jones, T. M., Chiavacci, S. J., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Nesting and post-fledging predation risk influence diel patterns of songbird fledging. Ibis, 166(2), 411-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13119
Di Giovanni, A. J., Miller, M. J., Jones, T. M., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2023). Hatching failure is greater in altricial bird species with cavity nests and large clutches. Ornithology, 140(1), Article ukac048. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithology/ukac048
Enos, J. K., Ducay, R., Paitz, R. T., Ward, M. P., & Hauber, M. E. (2023). Female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) do not alter nest site selection, maternal programming, or hormone-mediated maternal effects in response to perceived nest predation or brood parasitism risk. General and Comparative Endocrinology, 341, Article 114322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2023.114322
Enos, J. K., Smith, E. B., Ward, M. P., Swaddle, J. P., & Hauber, M. E. (2023). Increasing perceived predation risk through playbacks reduces Red-winged Blackbird abundance in agriculture late in the breeding season. Ornithological Applications, 125(4), Article duad034. https://doi.org/10.1093/ornithapp/duad034
Jones, T. M., Di Giovanni, A. J., Hauber, M. E., & Ward, M. P. (2023). Ontogenetic effects of brood parasitism by the Brown-headed Cowbird on host offspring. Ecology, 104(3), Article e3925. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3925