Vicki Garcia

I currently work in the Conway lab on a variety of projects that deal with ecology and conservation of burrowing owls.  Current projects include:

• Developing a management plan to conserve burrowing owls on a naval base in California that also supports California least terns (an endangered prey species)
• Coordinating a Department of Defense project to determine whether burrowing owls are becoming less migratory and redistributing their numbers in favor of areas with irrigated agriculture
• Examining how differences in the way a nesting attempt is defined in the burrowing owl literature influences estimates of nesting success
• Examining the correlates of clutch size in burrowing owls