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Recent scientific publications:

Bonter, D.N., B. Zuckerberg, and J.L. Dickinson. In Press. Invasive birds in a novel landscape: habitat associations and effects on established species. Ecography.

Bonter, D.N., S.A. Gauthreaux, Jr., and T.M. Donovan. 2009. Characteristics of Important Stopover Locations for Migrating Birds: Remote Sensing with Radar In The Great Lakes Basin. Conservation Biology 23:440-448.

Brooks, E. W. and D. N. Bonter. In Press. Long-term changes in avian community structure in a successional, forested, and managed plot in a reforesting landscape. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

Bonter, D.N. and W.M. Hochachka. In press. A Citizen Science Approach to Ornithological Research: Twenty Years of Watching Backyard Birds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Partners In Flight Conference, McAllen, Texas.

Bonter, D., E.W. Brooks, and T.M. Donovan. 2008. What are we missing with ground-level mist nets? Using elevated nets at a migration stopover site. Journal of Field Ornithology 79:376-381.

Cooper, C. and D. Bonter. 2008. Artificial nest site preferences of Black-capped Chickadees. Journal of Field Ornithology 79:193-197.

Bonter, D. and M.G. Harvey. 2008. Winter Survey Data Reveal Range-wide Decline in Evening Grosbeak Populations. Condor 110:376-381.

Bonter, D., T.M. Donovan, and E.W. Brooks. 2007. Daily mass changes in landbirds during migration stopover on the south shore of Lake Ontario. Auk 124:122-133.

Harvey, M.G., D.N. Bonter, L.M. Stenzler, I.J. Lovette. 2006. A comparison of plucked feathers versus blood samples as DNA sources for molecular sexing. Journal of Field Ornithology 77:136-140.

Recent Popular Publications & Media:

Watch a movie about the bird banding process that was produced for NPR's Science Friday web site.

Listen to an hour of talk about bird migration on National Public Radio's Science Friday broadcast.

I publish the annual magazine Winter Bird Highlights, summarizing results from Project FeederWatch.

I edit and design The Marsh Wren, the biannual newsletter of Braddock Bay Bird Observatory.

Read about the decline of the Evening Grosbeak in the February 2008 issue of The Conservationist magazine.

Read about my Field Ornithology course on Appledore Island in BirdScope.

Listen to an interview about Project FeederWatch on National Public Radio, originally aired on January 1, 2006.






Banding a Black-capped Chickadee at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.


Blackburnian Warbler, Braddock Bay Bird Observatory.


Banding at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory.