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Exploring the mechanistic links between the movements of individual animals and the dynamics of populations, with particular emphasis on migratory species.

Our research leverages emerging biologging technologies to generate insights about how individual animals interact with their environment, how these interactions affect life history, and how these processes scale up to produce emergent ecological phenomena - especially identifying those factors that regulate population growth dynamics. Learn more about our research here!


As of 2025, the Yanco Lab is part of the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, Migratory Bird Center.
​South Hills and Albion Mountain Range, ID

Spotlight

New paper out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution describing the ways tracking data can (and should) be used to help reverse the loss of biodiversity.
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A recent pair of papers examining the drivers of seasonal migration in birds.

Partial migration in Common Blackbirds

​New Paper co-led with Dr. Nils Linek published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. Using implanted biologgers we measured heart rate and body temperature in free living blackbirds.  Our findings shed new light on the drivers of seasonal migration in birds.

1000 Cranes: The environmental experience of migration

New Paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.  We reveal the complex ways that four species of migratory crane interaact with their environments using new methods that we developed.
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Illustration of a male blackbird with a radio-transmitted backpack and surgically implatted heart rate and temperature logger. Credit: & Yifan Pei & Nils Linek
Read more about our work in the New York Times and Popular Science!
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A white-naped, Siberian, and demoiselle crane in Mongolia. Credit: WSCC Mongolia

Read more about this work in Popular Science and Discover Magazine!

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