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Noah Perlut and Peggy Friar present at North American Ornithological Congress

Noah Perlut and Margaret Friar
Noah Perlut and Margaret Friar

Noah Perlut, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Environmental Studies, and Margaret Friar, Ph.D., associate lecturer in the Department of Biology, recently returned from the North American Ornithological Congress, which was held in Washington, D.C., August 16-20. Both Perlut and Friar presented on previously published research.

Perlut鈥檚 talk, 鈥淔irst year survival and natal philopatry in migratory grassland songbirds,鈥 discussed the survival and site fidelity of two species of grassland songbirds, bobolinks and Savannah sparrows, that breed in agricultural fields in Vermont. The presentation was based on two papers that were co-authored by Perlut and were previously published, one in Animal Behaviour and the other in Journal of Avian Biology.

Friar presented a study that she, Perlut and other co-authors published recently in Waterbirds. The presentation and paper discussed a roof-top nesting gull project.

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