2011 Summer Field Expeditions

KU Ornithology staff and students have spread out around the world for summer field work, including five (count 'em!) collecting expeditions. We are on four continents ... Here is the list:

1. Mark Robbins - collections of wrens and other taxa across Nebraska and the northern Great Plains
2. Lynnette Dornak - censuses of Henslow's Sparrows across the eastern United States
3. Jaime Castro (Mexican student associate) - collections in Botswana with a team from Texas Tech University), planned for August
4. Town Peterson, Walter Wehtje (Research Associate), and Diego Roldan (Mexican student associate) - collections in western Mongolia with a team from the University of Nebraska
5. Robin Jones, Carl Oliveros, and Pete Hosner - collections at several sites in the northern part of the Philippines
6. Rob Moyle - collections in Bornean Malaysia with colleagues from Louisiana State University
7. Rob Moyle - exploring collaborations and permit arrangements in the Solomon Islands
8. Mike Andersen - collections in the Fiji Archipelago, including the remote Lau Islands.