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Michael Patrick Ward

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Contact Information

1102 S. Goodwin Ave.
Urbana, IL 61801

Professor

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

Recent Publications

Di Giovanni, A. J., Miller, M. J., Jones, T. M., Benson, T. J., & Ward, M. P. (2023). El fracaso de la eclosión es mayor en especies de aves altriciales con nidos en cavidades y nidadas grandes. 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, Article duad034. Advance online publication. 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

Lawson, S. L., Enos, J. K., Fernandez-Duque, F., Kleindorfer, S., Ward, M. P., Gill, S. A., & Hauber, M. E. (2023). Absence of Referential Alarm Calls in Long-term Allopatry from the Referent: A Case Study with Galapagos Yellow Warblers. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77(8), Article 99. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-023-03372-0

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