Shannon R. Curley- PhD
- PostDoc Position at Cornell University
Shannon R. Curley
- PhD
- PostDoc Position at Cornell University
I am currently using weather surveillance radar to describe offshore bird migration in the US.
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Introduction
I am a avian ecologist interested in bird migration and how changing migration patterns and range shifts can influence community-level dynamics. I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology where my work focuses on using weather surveillance radar to study offshore bird migration patterns and phenology.
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Publications (16)
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Seasonality governs species composition at a given place and time. However, the effects of climate and land‐use change can vary by season, altering species composition. These changes can lead to a loss of distinct seasonal community composition, representing a novel form of biotic homogenisation. We ask if breeding and winter bird communities a...
Migration is a prevalent strategy among birds used to track seasonal resources throughout the year. Individual and population‐level migratory movements provide insight to life‐history variation, carry‐over effects, and impacts of climate change. Our understanding of how geographic variation in a species' breeding or wintering grounds can impact mig...
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Species distributions are altered by climate change, resulting in changes in community composition. How communities are changing with climate is important for understanding the dynamics of changing diversity patterns. In this study, we employ two community weighted means (CWMs) of temperature (CTI) and precipitation (CPI) to evaluate patterns i...
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For many migratory avian species, winter and breeding habitats occur at geographically distinct locations. Disparate magnitudes and direction of shifts in wintering and breeding locations could lead to altered migration distances. We investigated how shifts in the centre of abundance (COA) of winter and breeding ranges have changed for 77 speci...
Autumn 2023 saw the biggest single arrival of Nearctic landbirds ever
recorded in Britain and Ireland, with around 99 individuals of 27 species. This paper
examines the likely causes of this unprecedented event, including the well-timed
and ideally attributed transatlantic storm system that likely carried many birds to
Europe, as well as indirect c...
Objectives: We sought to determine the habitat associations and pathogen status of Amblyomma maculatum ticks in New York City, New York, USA, a newly expanded portion of their range.
Methods: We collected 88 ticks from two New York City parks on Staten Island, one of the five boroughs of New York City, and compared our findings to similar habitat...
Cistothorus platensis (Naumann) (Sedge Wren) are highly specialized songbirds typically associated with grasslands, wet meadows, and the fringes of marshes. In New York State, where they are listed as a threatened species, Sedge Wrens breed in low numbers far from coastal urban areas. Nevertheless, from August–October 2020, we documented breeding b...
Dryocopus pileatus (Pileated Woodpecker) is an endemic North American woodpecker that, following widespread declines during the mid-to-late 19th century, re-bounded and has become relatively common resident throughout its range. In New York City, Pileated Woodpeckers were breeding residents until the early to mid-1800s, but were extirpated due to t...
Brief presentation on the results of the 2019 grassland birds survey at Freshkills Park, Staten Island. Freshkills Park is a reclaimed grassland in New York City established on what was formerly the world's largest landfill.
We identified and photographed five Adelaide's Warblers (Setophaga adelaidae) in the Lameshur Bay area on the southeastern corner of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, during January 2015, and found eight birds in the same area during Janu-ary 2016. Adelaide's Warblers, endemic to Puerto Rico and Vieques Island, the latter 67 km to the southwest of St....
The breeding range of the Cerulean Warbler has expanded into second-growth forest and con- verted agricultural land in the northeastern United States where, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey, the population is increasing. Despite this expansion in one part of its range, the population as a whole is still in rapid decline implying...
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Question (1)
New to learning this type of skill! Looking to select Level II base data clear air mode ONLY. Do I need to manually scan each day to find desirable times/conditions ? Or is their an option that allows you to pull out clear air mode scans from precip scans? Seems like a lot of weeding through data (which is fine) but just wanted to see if there was an easier way, or something I may be missing to do. Thanks!
