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Liam Ulysses Taylor

Affiliation: Biology
Doherty Kent Island Postdoctoral Scholar in Biology

I am an ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, studying how social structures influence the ecology, evolution, and conservation of birds. My postdoctoral research is focused on pair-bonds in imperiled seabirds. My graduate research investigated the evolution of adolescent birds in colonies and leks.

I am broadly interested in using a wide range of tools and perspectives—from phylogenetics, life history theory, and ethology to conservation genetics, disease ecology, and cultural anthropology—to understand the radical diversity of birds. My weird-academic passions include gull conservation and the tidyverse package in R. My normal-person passions include bagels, The Mountain Goats, and bird-watching (rather than birding).

Fieldwork on Kent Island involves Leach’s Storm-Petrels, American Herring Gulls, Black Guillemots, and Tree Swallows. Previous fieldwork projects have included Golden-winged Manakins (in the cloud forests of Ecuador), White-throated Manakins (in the Brazilian Amazon), and Semipalmated Plovers (just beyond the tree line in Churchill, Manitoba).

Liam Taylor holding a seagull

Education

  • PhD, Yale University (anticipated)
  • MS, Yale University
  • BA, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College