An exciting update about our findings on tail flaring in hummingbirds.

With the recent publication of our paper in Functional Ecology, I was approached to write a post for the journal's companion blog, Functional Ecologists! This presents an overview of the paper, a little bit about how we did the work, and most of all how I grew as a scientist. The research paper itself took many years. As a result, the blog post provided space for a reflection on those years and the ways I've grown as a scientist. I return time and time again to how grateful I

Wow, this post has been a long time coming! I started this project as an undergraduate working with Dr. Don Powers, where I measured feeding rates of hummingbirds while eating dilute nectars. This started with four species, working at Southwestern Research Station in 2015. I continued working with some pretty charismatic species in Ecuador after that, such as this White-booted Racketttail ( Ocreatus underwoodii) . I continued the project for many years, as I applied to gradu

I am excited to be attending the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology Conference in Seattle Washington next week! At SICB this...

In August of 2022, I presented on the maximal feeding rate of compensatory feeding in hummingbirds across north and south America. To...

Title: Bene‘fit’ assessment in pollination coevolution: mechanistic perspectives on hummingbird bill-flower matching Written with...