Another spring and another season of following ruffed grouse. This year, Nick is largely responsible for recording ruffed grouse drumming and completing playback experiments with them. So far, we have a lot of birds in a very small area, which is making fieldwork considerably easier than previous years.

The lab also welcomes Ashley Jensen who will be starting her MSc this month with the Iwaniuk and Burg labs. Again, the focus will be on ruffed grouse and potentially linking behaviour with genetics.