RESEARCH RESULTS

Droege, Sam. 2003. Spring Arrivals of Maryland and Washington, D.C. Birds. Maryland Birdlife, Volume 59, No. 1-2.

Current Research Projects:

The Bird Phenology Program is currently looking at Barn Swallow data to explore it’s quality and characteristics. After this is assessed, the BPP will analyze more specific information with this data set such as the cycle of arrival dates over time, the association of spring temperatures, and latitudes and longitudes throughout North America.

Please click on the links below to view North American maps of Barn Swallow data locations by decade.

Maps created by Jane Fallon:

BARS 1870s	BARS 1930s
BARS 1880s	BARS 1940s
BARS 1890s	BARS 1950s
BARS 1900s	BARS 1960s
BARS 1910s	BARS all data
BARS 1920s

Agathe Duponteil, has recently come to work with the BPP from Rennes, France. While here until February 2009, she will be completing an internship focusing on a bio-statistical study on the relationship between climate change and arrival dates of Barn Swallows and Purple Martins.
Agathe is currently in a highly-selective agronomic institution: ENSAR (Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Agronomie de Rennes). As part of her schooling, she is spending the first semester of her second year here with the BPP, to complete an intensive University course. She will obtain an Engineering Degree upon completion at her University.