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Phone:  662-325-7988
Email:  wburger@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Bost Center, Room 211F
Thompson Hall, Rm 116
Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station
Box 9740
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9740

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Education:

• University of Missouri Ph.D., Wildlife Biology
• University of Missouri M.S., Wildlife Biology
• Murray State University B.S., Biology and Mathematics

Research Interests:

• National project coordinator for the USDA Northern Bobwhite Restoration Project
• Avian population dynamics and habitat relations in grassland, agricultural, and forest ecosystems
• Effects of land use practices and federal farm programs on farmland wildlife species
• Effects of habitat quality on body condition and survival of bobwhite
• Metabolic costs of thermoregulation in bobwhite
• Mating systems and reproductive strategies of bobwhite
• Further development of survival estimators
• Spatial information technologies
• Landscape modeling

Honors / Professional Activities:

• 2007 FWRC Dale H. Arner Professorship
• 2005 Annual Southeast Quail Study Group Award
• 2004 Mississippi Wildlife Federation Wildlife Conservationist Award
• 2004 CFR Faculty Research Award

Research / Extension Websites:

• Agricultural Ecology Lab
• Bobwhite Restoration Project
• CP33 Habitat Buffers for Upland Birds
• Forest and Wildlife Management
• Small- and Big-Game Management

Graduate Students

• Mark McConnell