Robert L. Curry

Professor

Department of Biology
Villanova University

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Office: 190A Mendel Hall

Lab: 106/106A Mendel Hall

Tel: (610) 519-6455 (office)

Tel: (610) 519-5652 (lab)

FAX: (610) 519-7863

robert.curry@villanova.edu

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Department of Biology

Villanova University

800 Lancaster Avenue

Villanova, PA  19085-1699

www.homepage.villanova.edu/robert.curry/

Page last updated: 31 Oct 2008

The bird is RSL-, a 13-year old Florida Scrub-Jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens, at Archbold Biological Station

Chair, Committee on Local Arrangements, AOU 2009, 12 - 15 August, UPenn

Disciplines

Ornithology

Ecology

Animal Behavior

Conservation Biology

Research study systems

Chickadees: evolutionary and behavioral ecology

• Hybridization, mating systems, Black-capped and Carolina chickadees

• Mating system, Boreal Chickadee

Island-endemic Mimidae (mockingbirds and allies): conservation and behavioral ecology

• Galápagos mockingbirds

• Socorro Mockingbird

• Cozumel Thrasher

• St. Lucia White-breasted Thrasher

Florida Scrub-Jays

• Habitat & resource ecology

Courses taught

• Bio 3011/3012 Animal Behavior lecture/lab

• Spring 2009 (Team-taught with Dr. Iyengar)

• Bio 3255 Introductory Ecology

  • Fall 2009 (team taught with Dr. Iyengar)

• Bio 4451 Field Ecology & Evolution lecture

  • Fall 2009: Yucatan, Mexico, version

• Bio 4452 Field Ecology & Evolution lab (field course)

  • Spring 2009: includes field trip in Yucatan, Mexico, 27 Dec 2009 through 11 Jan 2010

• Bio 4801 Conservation Biology

  • Spring 2009 (3-credit lecture-only course)

• Bio 7105 Vertebrate Ecology

  • Fall 2008 (lecture + lab graduate course, open to qualified undergraduates)

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