Personnel

Dr. Walter Piper has studied territoriality of Common Loons since 1993 in Oneida County, Wisconsin.

In 1999, Charles Walcott of Cornell University joined the project to investigate territorial defense via the yodel call, which is given by male loons. Jay Mager has spearheaded the study of yodels for territory defense since 2001, first as a Ph.D. student with Walcott and now as a professor at Ohio Northern University. Two to five undergraduate students from Chapman, Cornell and other universities join the field team each year.

Click to view Walter Piper's Curriculum Vitae