Illinois Natural History Survey - University of Illinois

David A. Enstrom
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820
MC–652
Phone: 217-244-6872   Fax: 217-265-5110
Email: denstrom@inhs.illinois.edu
Title: Ornithologist
Office Location: Room 2069, I-BLDG

Activities Research: vocal communication in birds using remote sensing techniques. Developing web-based tools for bio-acoustics. Community assessment using bio-acoustic arrays. Radio telemetry and long-distant bird migration.
Onithological surveys in the state of Illinois.


Research
Avian Behavioral Ecology with an emphasis on song. Currently I am working with AM radio transmitters affixed to birds obtaining more extensive vocal recordings than previously possible. I'm also working on developing a wireless audio array for studies of populations and communities of calling animals in the wild. With others at the U of I and the INHS I am developing tools to process and interpret very large audio files of animal vocalizations.

Message to
Students
Please email me for information regarding my research group.

Recognition I am easily recognized. I have a moustache and I'm pretty short and a bit chubby.

Professional
affiliations
Animal Biology, University of Illinois.
Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois.

Selected
publications
K. Yasukawa, D.A. Enstrom, P.G. Parker, and T.C. Jones. 2009. Epaulet color and sexual selection in the Red-winged Blackbird: a field experiment. The Condor 111: 740-751.

K. Yasukawa, L.K. Butler and D.A. Enstrom. 2009. Intersexual and intrasexual consequences of epaulet colour in male red-winged blackbirds: an experimental approach. Animal Behaviour. 77:531-540.

Hill, J.A., D.A. Enstrom, E.D. Ketterson, V. Nolan Jr. & C. Ziegnefus. 1999. Mate choice based on static versus dynamic secondary sexual traits in the dark-eyed junco. Behavioral Ecology 10: 91-96.

Enstrom, D.A., E.D. Ketterson, & V. Nolan Jr. 1997. Testosterone and mate choice in the dark-eyed Junco. Animal Behaviour 54: 1135-1146.

Enstrom, D.A. 1992. Delayed plumage maturation in orchard orioles (Icterus spurius): tests of communication hypotheses. Animal Behaviour 45: 463-472.


Program
Affiliates
Animal Biology, University of Illinois.
Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois.


Professional
society
involvement
and activities
Animal Behavior Society
American Ornithologists' Union
International Behavioral Ecology Society

Education Post-Doc, Indiana University, 1992-1994
PhD, Biology, University of Illinois, 1990
BA, History, Knox College, Galesburg, IL, 1973



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