education and training
- B.A., University of Arizona
- M.S., Louisiana State University
- Ph.D., Dartmouth College
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Sillett, T. Scott
Research Wildlife Biologist
Avian ecology, population biology, animal behavior, conservation biology, life history of migratory birds, ecological impacts of climate change.
Geographic Focus
- Americas Transnational Region
- United States of America Country
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2019
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
Research And Grants
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- Scaling the Bird Friendly Impact awarded by Knobloch Family Foundation 2020 -
- Assessing anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in a wild population of American kestrels (Falco sparverius) in the western US awarded by Liphatech, Inc 2019 -
- Task Order 13: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy 2019 -
- Task Order 14: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy 2019 -
- A population viability analysis for Island Scrub-Jay awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Breeding Ecology and Habitat Associations of Island Scrub-Jays (Task Agreement 3) awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Coffee Shade Tree Catalogue: Indonesian Edition awarded by Conservation International
- Collaborative Research LTREB: Behavioral and Demographic Response of Migratory Birds to Climate Change awarded by National Science Foundation
- Conservation Partnerships for Painted Buntings awarded by Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund
- Development of a Monitoring Framework for the Island Scrub-Jay awarded by U.S. Geological Survey
- Does winter habitat quality affect the phenology of seasonal events for a migratory songbird wintering in the Caribbean? awarded by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards
- Ecology and Conservation of Landbirds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Ecology, Habitat Associations, and West Nile Virus Prevalence in Island Scrub-Jays awarded by The Nature Conservancy
- Framework for a vulnerability assessment of forest birds in the National Capital Region awarded by National Park Service
- LTREB Renewal: Collaborative Research: RUI: Behavioral and Demographic Responses of Migratory Birds to Climate Change awarded by National Science Foundation
- Task Order 15: Ecology and Conservation of Land Birds on the California Channel Islands awarded by The Nature Conservancy
Publications
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- Differential survival throughout the full annual cycle of a migratory bird presents a life-history trade-off 2021
- Hierarchical distance sampling reveals increased population size and broader habitat use in the endangered Bahama Oriole 2021
- Priority areas for vulture conservation in the Horn of Africa largely fall outside the protected area network 2021
- The inaugural issue of Ornithology 2021
- Variance in within-pair reproductive success influences the opportunity for selection annually and over the lifetimes of males in a multibrooded songbird 2021
- Seasonal insect migrations: massive, influential, and overlooked 2020
- An integrated model decomposing the components of detection probability and abundance in unmarked populations 2019
- Climate-Related Distribution Shifts of Migratory Songbirds and Sciurids in the White Mountain National Forest 2019
- Effects of grassland management on overwintering bird communities 2019
- California Island Rediscovery: building an archive to improve conservation today and equip the historical ecologist of tomorrow 2018
- Environmental predictors of nestling condition, postfledging movement, and postfledging survival in a migratory songbird, the Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) 2018
- Equipping tomorrow's historical ecologist: priorities for documenting conditions of the terrestrial fauna of Santa Cruz Island, California 2018
- Oak habitat recovery on California's largest islands: Scenarios for the role of corvid seed dispersal 2018
- Offspring growth and mobility in response to variation in parental care: a comparison between populations 2018
- Quantifying the strength of migratory connectivity 2018
- Responses of migratory species and their pathogens to supplemental feeding 2018
- Variation in nest characteristics and brooding patterns of female Black-throated Blue Warblers is associated with thermal cues 2018
- A comparative assessment of SNP and microsatellite markers for assigning parentage in a socially monogamous bird 2017
- Bill morphology and neutral genetic structure both predict variation in acoustic signals within a bird population 2017
- Characterizing selection in black-throated blue warblers using a sexual network approach 2017
- Ecological and Social Factors Constrain Spatial and Temporal Opportunities for Mating in a Migratory Songbird 2017
- Equipping the 22nd-Century Historical Ecologist 2017
- Partial support for the central-marginal hypothesis within a population: reduced genetic diversity but not increased differentiation at the range edge of an island endemic bird 2017
- Seasonal survival estimation for a long-distance migratory bird and the influence of winter precipitation 2017
- Spatial and temporal drivers of avian population dynamics across the annual cycle 2017
- Spatially biased dispersal of acorns by a scatter-hoarding corvid may accelerate passive restoration of oak habitat on California's largest island 2017
- The relationship between female brooding and male nestling provisioning: does climate underlie geographic variation in sex roles? 2017
- Adaptive divergence despite strong genetic drift: genomic analysis of the evolutionary mechanisms causing genetic differentiation in the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) 2016
- Breeding timed to maximize reproductive success for a migratory songbird: the importance of phenological asynchrony 2016
- Climate, demography and lek stability in an Amazonian bird 2016
- Context-dependent seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding corvid 2016
- Scatter-hoarding corvids as seed dispersers for oaks and pines: A review of a widely distributed mutualism and its utility to habitat restoration 2016
- The interacting effects of food, spring temperature, and global climate cycles on population dynamics of a migratory songbird 2016
- Tracking the origins and diet of an endemic island canid (Urocyon littoralis) across 7300 years of human cultural and environmental change 2016
- An open-population hierarchical distance sampling model 2015
- Combining survey methods to estimate abundance and transience of migratory birds among tropical nonbreeding habitats 2015
- Experimental food supplementation reveals habitat-dependent male reproductive investment in a migratory bird 2015
- Full-annual-cycle population models for migratory birds 2015
- Islands within an island: Repeated adaptive divergence in a single population 2015
- Migratory connectivity of a Neotropical migratory songbird revealed by archival light-level geolocators 2015
- Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest Rapid Evolution of Dwarf California Channel Islands Foxes (Urocyon littoralis) 2015
- Non-breeding season habitat quality mediates the strength of density-dependence for a migratory bird 2015
- Non-breeding season habitat quality mediates the strength of density-dependence for a migratory bird 2015
- Ecological Change on California's Channel Islands from the Pleistocene to the Anthropocene 2014
- Identifying Evolutionarily Significant Units and Prioritizing Populations for Management on Islands 2014
- Inferences about population dynamics from count data using multistate models: a comparison to capture–recapture approaches 2014
- Partitioning the sources of demographic variation reveals density-dependent nest predation in an island bird population 2014
- Phenotypic plasticity in hormonal and behavioural responses to changes in resource conditions in a migratory songbird 2014
- Reintroduction of Historically Extirpated Taxa on the California Channel Islands 2014
- Stand Structure and Acorn Production of the Island Scrub Oak ( Quercus pacifica ) 2014
- Temperature Does Not Affect the Timing of First Nest Departure in Orange-Crowned Warblers 2014
- Advantages of nonlinear mixed models for fitting avian growth curves 2013
- Correlates and Consequences of Breeding Dispersal in a Migratory Songbird 2013
- Differential effects of food availability and nest predation risk on avian reproductive strategies 2013
- Do archival light-level geolocators and stable hydrogen isotopes provide comparable estimates of breeding-ground origin? 2013
- Male's return rate, rather than territory fidelity and breeding dispersal, explains geographic variation in song sharing in two populations of an oscine passerine (Oreothlypis celata) 2013
- Perennial Agroenergy Feedstocks as En Route Habitat for Spring Migratory Birds 2013
- Reproductive Ecology of the Island Scrub-Jay (Ecología Reproductiva de Aphelocoma insularis) 2013
- The Effects of Experimental Irrigation on Plant Productivity, Insect Abundance and the Non-Breeding Season Performance of a Migratory Songbird 2013
- Warm Springs, Early Lay Dates, and Double Brooding in a North American Migratory Songbird, the Black-Throated Blue Warbler 2013
- Are Agrofuels a Conservation Threat or Opportunity for Grassland Birds in the United States? 2012
- Breeding density, not life history, predicts interpopulation differences in territorial aggression in a passerine bird 2012
- Flightless ducks, giant mice and pygmy mammoths: Late Quaternary extinctions on California's Channel Islands 2012
- Hierarchical distance-sampling models to estimate population size and habitat-specific abundance of an island endemic 2012
- Demography of songbird populations in a rapidly changing world: the importance of long-term studies 2011
- Proactive Conservation Management of an Island-endemic Bird Species in the Face of Global Change 2011
- Surveillance for West Nile Virus and Vaccination of Free-Ranging Island Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma insularis) on Santa Cruz Island, California 2011
- Asymmetric discrimination of geographical variation in song in a migratory passerine 2010
- Conserving migratory land birds in the New World: Do we know enough? 2010
- Effects of bird predation on arthropod abundance and tree growth across an elevational gradient 2010
- Recent advances in understanding migration systems of New World land birds 2010
- Seasonal and population variation in male testosterone levels in breeding orange-crowned warblers (Vermivora celata) 2010
- Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in an island songbird exposed to a novel predation risk 2008
- An Experimental Study of Habitat Selection by Birds in a Coffee Plantation 2008
- Breeding Ecology of the Mangrove Warbler (Dendroica petechia Bryanti) and Comparative Life History of the Yellow Warbler Subspecies Complex 2008
- Dynamic occupancy models reveal within-breeding season movement up a habitat quality gradient by a migratory songbird 2008
- Potential effects of climate change on birds of the Northeast 2008
- The effects of delayed plumage maturation on aggression and survival in male red-backed fairy-wrens 2008
- Population density affects foraging behavior of male Black-throated Blue Warblers during the breeding season 2007
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Activities
professional service activities
- American Ornithological Society Editor-in-Chief, The Auk 2018 -
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Location
- National Zoological Park Academic Department
