Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Sieving Lab
Led by Katie Sieving · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
What we study
The Sieving Lab studies how birds communicate threats and how landscapes affect their behavior. They use fieldwork and experiments to understand avian ecology and conservation.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Wild animals
- Project
- 1
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
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Researching how birds encode and interpret threats in their calls.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Species-specific snag use and nesting ecology of cavity-nesting birds in managed plantations of Southern Punjab, Pakistan
2026 · Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
- Mixed-Species Flocks in a Changing World: Social and Vocal Adaptations Across an Urban-Natural Gradient
2025
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- Poke, gape, or escape? Diurnal anthropogenic noise disrupts Eastern Bluebird ( Sialia sialis ) incubation and nest attendance behavior
2025 · Journal of Field Ornithology
Shows how traffic and construction noise affects bluebird nest attendance and egg care.
- Laser scarecrows reduce avian corn‐foraging propensity but not bout length in aviary trials
2025 · Pest Management Science
Tests whether lasers scare birds away from corn and shortens their feeding time.
- A comparison of conventional methods and mosquito blood meal analysis to assess vertebrate diversity
2025 · Scientific Reports
Compares mosquito blood meal analysis with other methods to track vertebrate diversity.
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