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
Turner, A. M., Sluis, V. N., Ward, M. P., & Hauber, M. E. (2026). Corticosterone shortens foreign egg ejection distance but not latency in American robins (Turdus migratorius). Physiology and Behavior, 303, 115148. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2025.115148
Mackay, A. J., Yan, J., Kim, C. H., Cara, C., Chesser, L., Alfaro, E., Avara, M., Ward, M., Magle, S., Murray, M., & Stone, C. M. (2025). Infection and host-feeding patterns of West Nile virus vectors varies by urban greenspace composition. Science of the Total Environment, 1009, Article 181098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.181098
Skinner, A. A., Korpach, A. M., Åkesson, S., Bakermans, M. H., Bayne, E. M., Benson, T. J., Boano, G., Brigham, R. M., Christiansen, S. S., Conway, G. J., Davy, C. M., Evens, R., Fraser, K. C., Harrison, A. L., Hedenström, A., Henderson, I. G., Honkala, J., Jacobsen, L. B., Lathouwers, M., ... Knight, E. (2025). Environmental and Geographic Conditions on the Breeding Grounds Drive Bergmannian Clines in Nightjars. Journal of Biogeography, 52(10), Article e15176. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15176
Brewer, D. E., Gehring, T. M., Ward, M. P., Dunton, E. M., & Pierce, R. (2024). Experimental evidence suggests that broadcasting rail calls overnight can influence broad-scale site selection by migrating rails. Avian Conservation and Ecology, 19(1), Article 18. https://doi.org/10.5751/ACE-02649-190118
Di Giovanni, A. J., Jones, T. M., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2024). Embryonic heart rate is higher in species that experience greater nest predation risk during incubation. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), Article e11460. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11460