Rick Stanley, PhD candidate in SNRE, has recruited Marlyn Zuluaga (PhD student, WEC), Liz Hurtado and Wenyi Zhou (PhD students, Biology) to join him in the Dominican Republic for 2 weeks to help capture palmchats, an endemic bird of Hispaniola.  Rick’s PhD will investigate the social behavior and ecology of palmchats, which are primarily frugivorous and roost and nest together in small colonies.  To do so, he needs a population of individually color-banded birds.  Stay tuned for more reports from the field!

“Palmchat (Dulus dominicus)” by sussexbirder is licensed under CC BY 2.0.