Kelly Perkins
PhD Student / Research Support Specialist II, Natural Resources and the Environment
Kelly provides general research support for the New York Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Her work includes data management, archiving, writing scripts for data processes and analyses, GIS work, and camera trap datasets. She also advises and provides analytical support on state wildlife projects. She has a background in ornithology, bat acoustics, and wildlife and habitat associations.
Kelly is also in the employee degree program pursuing a PhD. Kelly is working on a project modeling avian abundance as part of the NY Breeding Bird Atlas III, especially for species of concern in New York. The project combines data from avian point counts conducted by technicians with bioacoustics dataset collected with SwiftOne autonomous recording units (ARUs) in an integrated model. For certain species Kelly will be working on getting abundance/density estimates from the bioacoustics data using coupled distance estimates by humans with sound pressure level measurements extracted from the ARU data.
Advisor: Angela Fuller
Education
- Master of Science, West Virginia University, 2006
- Bachelor of Science, University of Delaware, 2002
Recent Research
- Perkins, Kelly A., and Petra Bohall Wood. 2014. Selection of forest canopy gaps by male Cerulean Warblers in West Virginia. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 126: 288-297.
- Perkins, Kelly A., et al. 2004. Flushing, capture, and bleeding do not affect return rate of female wood thrushes (Hylocichla mustelina) in Delaware. The Auk 121: 354-360.
- Wood, Petra Bohall, and Kelly A. Perkins. 2012. Behavioral activities of male Cerulean Warblers in relation to habitat characteristics. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124: 497-505.