PhD Student (2025-present)
My research focuses on mechanisms that may be driving the decline of Canada jays within Algonquin Provincial Park over the last 50 years. Using the long-term data, including field data I will collect over the next few years, I am studying how changes in the phenology of raptor migration in eastern North America may influence the survival and recruitment of juvenile Canada jays and how the abundance of Blue jays during the late winter breeding period may impact the reproductive success of Canada jays through competition for food resources. Additionally, through the use of Christmas bird count data, I am examining how climatic trends that have previously been linked to the population decline of Canada jays in Algonquin may exerte similar pressure on Canada Jay populations throughout the southern edge of their North American range.
Publications
Anderson, M. B., L. K. Ammerman, N. J. Negovetich, and B. R. Skipper. 2025. Song dialects of the mountain chickadee (Poecile gambeli) in the sky islands of Southeastern New Mexico. In press: The Southwestern Naturalist.
Anderson, M. B., G. H. Olsen, H. L. Thompson, S. Dunham, and M. M. Wellington. 2025. Comparisons of habitat use between parent-reared and costume-reared whooping cranes in the eastern Migratory population, 2012-2022. In press: Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop 16.
Anderson, M. B., G. H. Olsen, H. L. Thompson, S. Dunham, and M. M. Wellington. 2025. Comparisons of migration patterns between parent-reared and costume-reared whooping cranes in the eastern Migratory population, 2012-2023. In press: Proceedings of the North American Crane Workshop 16.
