{"id":1263,"date":"2014-05-08T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/?p=1263"},"modified":"2014-09-26T18:07:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T18:07:02","slug":"birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/2014\/05\/08\/birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Bird&#8217;s the Word at Trinity College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/05\/ScienceFair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1269\" alt=\"ScienceFair\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/files\/2014\/05\/ScienceFair.jpg\" width=\"519\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Above: Jennifer Lee, an eighth grader at the Two Rivers Middle Magnet school in East Hartford, presents her research on birds at Trinity&#8217;s Annual Science Symposium Poster Presentations.\u00a0 Jennifer was selected to present her work along with Trinity students, having been chosen for her standout research analyzing 10 years of bird banding data from Dr. Morrison\u2019s field site at Two Rivers.\u00a0 Jennifer worked with Dr. Joan Morrison (pictured), Professor of Biology at Trinity, and a long-time ornithologist.\u00a0 Jennifer was most surprised to learn from her research that the diversity of birds in the urban Hartford area is quite high and not dominated by any one species, and that birds&#8217; food of choice during the nesting season is, overwhelmingly, insects.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison works with area students throughout the year on tagging birds and researching their behaviors and distributions.\u00a0 In addition to studying birds in Connecticut, Morrison has returned repeatedly to the MacArthur Ago-ecology Research Center in south-central Florida for over 20 years to continue her studies of the Crested Caracara, a unique falcon found year-round on Florida\u2019s ranchlands and remnant prairies. Morrison\u2019s research now uses GPS\/GSM transmitters to study the caracara\u2019s movements. Her plan is to use this technology to facilitate the next research phase for this federally- and state-threatened species, to understand breeding pair responses to habitat conversion.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/94470425\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for a short video about Professor Morrison&#8217;s research on the Crested Caracara.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Above: Jennifer Lee, an eighth grader at the Two Rivers Middle Magnet school in East Hartford, presents her research on birds at Trinity&#8217;s Annual Science Symposium Poster Presentations.\u00a0 Jennifer was selected to present her work along with Trinity students, having been chosen for her standout research analyzing 10 years of bird banding data from Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/trinshots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}