Sylvia Halkin's Publications

Some recent publications reflecting other areas of endeavor:

Halkin, Sylvia L.  2003.  Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics:  An Ant's-Eye View, and Found a Peanut:  Foraging Decisions by Squirrels.  Chapters 9 and 19 in Ploger, Bonnie J., and Yasukawa, Ken, editors.  Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field.  Academic Press/Elsevier Science, San Diego, CA.

Halkin, Sylvia L. and W. Herbert Wilson.  2002.  Recording Bird Sounds.  Exercise 6 in

            Burtt, Edward H., editor.  Wilson Ornithological Society's Manual of Field and Laboratory Exercises for Ornithology.  http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/WOSManual/Intro.html

Halkin, Sylvia L., and Linville, Susan U.  1999.  Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).  In The Birds of North America, No. 440 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.).  The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Comprehensive review of published information on the natural history and behavior of northern cardinals, 32 pp.)

Kroodsma, Donald E., Byers, Bruce E., Halkin, Sylvia L., Hill, Christopher, Minis, Dolly, Bolsinger, Jeffrey R., Dawson, Jo-Anne, Donelan, Elizabeth, Farrington, Jeffrey, Gill, Frank B., Houlihan, Peter, Innes, Doug, Keller, Geoff, Macaulay, Linda, Marantz, Curtis A., Ortiz, Jan, Stoddard, Philip K., and Wilda, Christa.  1999.  Geographic Variation in Black-capped Chickadee Songs and Singing Behavior.  Auk 116:  387-402.

A more comprehensive list of recent publications and presentations:

Halkin, Sylvia L.  2003.  Foraging Behavior of Ants, or Picnics:  An Ant's-Eye View, and Found a Peanut:  Foraging Decisions by Squirrels.  Chapters 9 and 19 in Ploger, Bonnie J., and Yasukawa, Ken, editors.  Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field.  Academic Press/Elsevier Science, San Diego, CA.

Halkin, Sylvia L. and W. Herbert Wilson.  2002.  Recording Bird Sounds.  Exercise 6 in

            Burtt, Edward H., editor.  Wilson Ornithological Society's Manual of Field and Laboratory Exercises for Ornithology.  http://www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/birds/WOSManual/Intro.html

Halkin, Sylvia L.  2001.  Ground-roosting Crows:  Why Leave Safe Trees?  Poster presented at the national meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Corvallis, Oregon, July 2001.

Halkin, Sylvia L. and Evans, Christopher S.  2000.  Contextual Use of Vocalizations by Emus. Talk presented by Sylvia Halkin at the joint international meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Society of Canadian Ornithologists, and British Ornithologists' Union, St. John's, Newfoundland, August 2000.

Halkin, Sylvia L. and Evans, Christopher S.  2000.  The Low-frequency Calls of Emus:  Form Fits Function.  Talk presented by Sylvia Halkin at Fifth Annual Bird Song Workshop, Millbrook, New York, July 2000.

Halkin, Sylvia L., and Linville, Susan U.  1999.  Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis).  In The Birds of North America, No. 440 (A. Poole and F. Gill, Eds.).  The Birds of North America, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  (Comprehensive review of published information on the natural history and behavior of northern cardinals, 32 pp.)

Halkin, Sylvia L., and Evans, Christopher S.  1999.  Between- and Within-Sex Variation in the Low-Frequency Calls of Emus.  Talk presented by Sylvia Halkin at American Ornithologists' Union national meeting, Ithaca, New York, August 1999.

Halkin, Sylvia L., and Evans, Christopher S.  1999.  Form Fits Function in the Low-Frequency Calls of Emus.  Talk presented by Sylvia Halkin at Animal Behavior Society national meeting, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, June 1999.

Halkin, Sylvia L.  1999.  Post-Undergraduate Employment in Ornithology and Field Biology. 

            Presentation as invited panel member in workshop, Getting Started without a Graduate

            Degree, Wilson Ornithological Society annual meeting, June 1999.

Kroodsma, Donald E., Byers, Bruce E., Halkin, Sylvia L., Hill, Christopher, Minis, Dolly, Bolsinger, Jeffrey R., Dawson, Jo-Anne, Donelan, Elizabeth, Farrington, Jeffrey, Gill, Frank B., Houlihan, Peter, Innes, Doug, Keller, Geoff, Macaulay, Linda, Marantz, Curtis A., Ortiz, Jan, Stoddard, Philip K., and Wilda, Christa.  1999.  Geographic Variation in Black-capped Chickadee Songs and Singing Behavior.  Auk 116:  387-402.

Halkin, Sylvia L., Steele, Michael A., Beam, Matthew, Mitsopoulos, Katina, and Smallwood, Peter D.  1998.  Deceptive Caching by Eastern Gray Squirrels.  Poster presented by Sylvia Halkin at Animal Behavior Society national meeting, Carbondale, Illinois, July 1998.

Halkin, Sylvia L.  1997.  Nest-vicinity song exchanges may coordinate biparental care in northern cardinals.  Animal Behaviour 54:  189-198.

Representative Co-authored Presentations by my Central Connecticut State University Students:

Wright, Marissa, O'Driscoll, Matthew, and Halkin, Sylvia L.  2003.  European Badgers at Dusk:  A Field Study.  Poster presented by Marissa Wright at Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Ithaca, New York, April 2003, and at the CCSU Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day.

Dodakian, Rachel, and Halkin, Sylvia L.  1999.  Can Northern Cardinals Recognize their Neighbors by their Songs?  Poster presented by Rachel Dodakian at Eastern Colleges Science Conference, Fairfield, Connecticut, April 1999.

Carruthers, Edward L., Halkin, Sylvia L., and King, Thomas R.  1998.  Mouse Barbering:  Investigations of Genetic and Experiential Control.  Poster presented by Edward Carruthers at Animal Behavior Society national meeting, Carbondale, Illinois, July 1998. 

Zurstadt, Donna, and Halkin, Sylvia L.  1997.  Diet study of the monk parakeets, Myiopsitta monachus.  Paper delivered by Donna Zurstadt at Eastern Colleges Science Conference, New Britain, Connecticut, April 1997.

Placzek, Dana W., and Halkin, Sylvia L. 1996.  The Forming of Canada Goose "V" Formations:  Timing Relative to Takeoff.  Poster presented by both authors at Animal Behavior Society national meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona, August 1996.