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Movement of Two Israeli Raptors

Picture of a buckeye leaf with Thompson Library far in the background.
April 17, 2015
All Day
3150 Smith Lab

Environmental Science 7899 – Issues in Environmental Sciences

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Seminar Chair: Gil Bohrer, bohrer.17@osu.edu
Seminar Coordinators: Michelle Smith, straley.23@osu.edu; Yanting Guo, zhao.1093@osu.edu

Course Requirements

This course is graded S/U. Satisfactory participation in this course includes all of the following: 

  1. Attentive and active participation in lectures and discussion. 
  2. Attendance at all classes, with one excused absence. If you must miss more than one class, see Dr. Bohrer.
  3. Advance reading for any seminars for which it is required

Movement of Two Israeli Raptors

By Krystaal McClain

The long-legged buzzard (Buteo rufinus) and short toed eagle (Circaetus gallicus) have large overlap throughout their range, and in areas of Israel nest in close proximity. Although the species share a number of biological similarities, the long-legged buzzard migrates north to Turkey for winter, a phenomenon known as reverse migration, while the short toed eagle flies south to Chad and Sudan for winter. In examining habitat use on a micro-scale, I have found that birds of a feather do flock together when it comes to foraging by the two species during the breeding season. Future analysis will examine potential environmental drivers of migration of these species using Env-DATA, an environmental variable annotation system through Movebank.org.

Krystaal McClain is a second year Master's student working with Dr. Gil Bohrer to examine environmental drivers of bird migration. She received her undergraduate in Conservation Biology, from New College of Florida, and took a semester off of graduate school to study soil respiration in Panama through the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. She will be graduating in August 2015, and hopes to find a position working in park management or environmental outreach and education.