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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

BIO 530. Ornithology: Research and Current Advances

Cross listed with: BIO 430
Credits 4.00 PeopleSoft Course ID: 014167 Grading Basis GRD

Students will design and engage in course-based research projects using modern approaches to ornithology. Classes will investigate current primary literature on ornithological research, recent technological advances and conservation. Lectures and labs will explore the biodiversity of birds, identification by sight and sound, and the ecology, evolution, physiology and behavior of birds. Labs will involve fieldwork, data collection and workshops such as sound analysis and geographic tracking. BIO 530 will be taught concurrently with BIO 430. Prerequisite(s): Credit may not be earned in both BIO 430 and BIO 530.