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Entomology & Wildlife Ecology

This department offers outstanding academic programs for undergraduate and graduate students preparing for research, teaching, and Extension careers in entomology, ecology and wildlife conservation. Our teaching, research, and extension efforts emphasize whole-organism biology, conservation biology, and the interactions between humans and other species.

Steve Earley | The Virginian-Pilot

Researchers track migratory birds in the region


By: Diane Tennant


Migrating birds on a radar screen look like doughnuts. Not individual Boston creams or anything like that, but a single giant yeast-raised doughnut inflating on the radar screen as flocks of birds lift off from their roosts and fly away.

"They take off shortly after sunset," Jeffrey Buler, at the University of Delaware's Aeroecology Lab, said. "You can almost track the path of the sun setting across the United States as you see this onset of bird migration."

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Newark, DE 19716
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