News
December 10, 2022
Congratulations to the Forpus Field Team (Janel Alas, Jose Gregorio Acosta, Nurialby Viloria, Aura Jimenez and Felix Zapata) for completing the 34th consecutive year of parrotlet population studies. Bravo!!
August 15, 2022
Congratulations to Rory Eggleston, for beginning a doctoral program in population ecology at the Utah State University.
August 1, 2022
Congratulations to Carmen Reisdorf, co-winner of the first prize in Biology for her research on parrotlet vocal babbling and preening presented at the Annual HIGH Scholars Symposium at Math & Science Academy.
June 26, 2022
Avian Lab Resarch shown in myRGV.com article
June 22, 2022
Avian Lab Resarch shown in Phys.org article
June 21, 2022
Karl Berg comments in Forbes Article about "Baby Parrots Babble Like Baby People"
June 14, 2022
Karl Berg comments in Psychology Today Article about "Baby Parrots Babble Like Human Infants"
June 13, 2022
June 5, 2022
CBC Article gets posted in r/science subreddit
June 3, 2022
Karl Berg was interviewed by the Canadian Broadcast Channel regarding parrotlet vocal babbling.
June 1, 2022
The Lab of Avian Ecology worked with Oxford Scientific Films to produce the Netflix Docuseries: The Hidden Life of Pets: Communication.
May 31, 2022
Congrats to the parrotlet team for their paper on parrotlet vocal babbling.
May 4, 2022
Congrats to Abigail Pozulp and Karl Berg were awarded a seed grant from the Office of Faculty Success & Diversity, allowing for filming of development in wild Red-crowned Parrots on the Brownsville campus.
May 3, 2022
Karl Berg was awarded the 2022 UTRGV Faculty Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Works
March 30, 2022
Karl Berg was interviewed regarding a recent study of dolphin signature whistles.
March 24, 2022
December 7, 2021
Congratulations to the the Forpus Field Team for completin of the 33rd year of parrotlet population studies in Venezuela.
December 3, 2021
December 3, 2021
Congratulations to Abigail Pozulp for successfully defending her M.Sc. Thesis on duetting in Red-crowned Parrots.
November 15, 2021
August 1, 2021
Congratulations to Uzair Bilal for winning 2nd Prize in Biology for his work on microplastics in marine invertebrate communities of the delta of the Rio Grande at the Annual HIGH Scholars Seminar at the Math & Science Academy.
January 1, 2021
Congratulations to Caleb Arellano for his new position with Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.
September 12, 2020
August 17, 2020
Congratulations to Celia McLean for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis proposal
August 12, 2020
Congratulations to Jessica Majors and Celia McLean for presenting their thesis research at the VII North American Ornithological Conference
July 31, 2020
Congratulations to Alvaro Mayorga-Kintanar, Carlos Hernandez and Elizabeth Pina presented their research findings at the Math and Science Academy’s HIGH Scholars Symposium 2020.
July 28, 2020
Congratulations to Abigail Pozulp for presenting her research at the 57 th Animal Behavior Society Conference.
June 15, 2020
Good luck to the 2020 Forpus Field Team (Janel Alas, Nurialby Viloria, Aura Jimenez and Isidro Delgado) as they embark on the 32nd year of parrotlet population studies in Venezuela.
April 28, 2020
Congratulations to Abigail Pozulp for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis proposal
April 24, 2020
Karl Berg commented on friendships in flamingos for National Geographic
March 27, 2020
Karl Berg commented on "The adaptive value of numerical competence" for National Geographic
January 24, 2020
Congratulations to Rory Eggleston for defending her M.Sc. thesis.
January 9, 2020
Karl Berg commented on kindness in parrots
December 11, 2019
Congratulations to our brave field team and collaborators, for completion of the 32 nd consecutive year of ecological population monitoring of green-rumped parrotlets in Venezuela!
September 24, 2019
Karl Berg presented research conducted on Lonestar5 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Symposium for Texas Researchers in Austin.
September 13, 2019
Congratulations to Jessica Majors for successfully defending her M.Sc. thesis proposal
September 13, 2019
Karl Berg is interviewed by Texas Climate News concerning recent paper by Radchuk and colleagues (2019) in Nature Communications
March 29, 2019
UTRGV's Effort to Protect the Red-Crowned Parrot
March 25, 2019
Lab work is featured on local news station KVEO regarding Red-crowned Parrots
March 15, 2019
Article in Brownsville Herald on local Boy Scout Zachary Edelstein, the Public Utilities Board of Brownsville and the City of Brownsville team-up with the Lab protecting Red-crowned Parrots.
January 31, 2019
Karl Berg comments on learning strategies of birds for Science Magazine
January 27, 2019
Article in Brownsville Herald on Lab’s work protecting Red-crowned Parrots