Hastings!

This post is way overdue!

Starting in February, I have been working at the Hastings Natural History Reserve in wonderful Carmel Valley, CA. My postdoc with Walt Koenig, a senior researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, focuses on acorn production in local oaks, and the consequences that the variation thereof has on seed predation and dispersal by western scrub-jays.

This fall, my crew and I will be color-banding and chasing jays to find out what they do with their acorns, and how that behavior is affected by different contexts of seed-availability and social interactions.

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