{"id":18048,"date":"2025-02-03T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T20:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/?post_type=staff&#038;p=18048"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T23:28:24","slug":"james-kennerley","status":"publish","type":"staff","link":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/staff\/james-kennerley\/","title":{"rendered":"James Kennerley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m a natural historian at heart, and my research focuses on two intriguing avian phenomena: brood parasitism and molt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brood parasites, such as cuckoos and cowbirds, lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, deceiving the unknowing foster parents into raising their young. I study how these deceptive tactics have evolved and persist, especially in systems where multiple species of brood parasites coexist and target cooperatively breeding birds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Equally fascinating to me is the process of molt which, along with movement (i.e. migration) and breeding, is one of the three key life-history events in a bird\u2019s annual cycle. My research explores how molt fits into the annual cycle, particularly in tropical birds where seasonal changes have less influence on behavior than in temperate species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With much of my research focused on Australian birds, during the austral summer I\u2019m often out in the Australian bush seeking out fairywrens and the cuckoos that parasitize them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Ph.D., University of Cambridge, Zoology<br>B.Sc., Durham University, Biological Sciences<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18049,"parent":0,"template":"single-staff.php","program":[31,37,80],"project":[],"class_list":["post-18048","staff","type-staff","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program-macaulay-library","program-postdoctoral-fellows","program-researchers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff\/18048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/staff"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/staff"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"project","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project?post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}