Rindy Anderson

Our lab is studying the behavioral ecology of Bachman's sparrow as a model for understanding the links between ecology, physiology, and social behavior in a wild songbird. Bachman's sparrow is a beautiful songster once common throughout the American southeast, but now declining due to loss of its habitat, longleaf pine forests. Students on our lab are studying social behavior, vocal communication, juvenile behavioral development, and animal "personalities." We aim to understand why these sparrows do what they do, and how we can use that information to conserve Bachman's sparrow, and other songbirds.

April 2018