User profiles for Sirena Lao

Sirena Lao

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory
Verified email at ucla.edu
Cited by 383

Mapping migration in a songbird using high‐resolution genetic markers

…, EC Anderson, KL Paxton, V Apkenas, S Lao… - Molecular …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Neotropic migratory birds are declining across the W estern H emisphere, but conservation
efforts have been hampered by the inability to assess where migrants are most limited—the …

The influence of artificial light at night and polarized light on bird-building collisions

S Lao, BA Robertson, AW Anderson, RB Blair… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Collisions with buildings annually kill up to 1 billion birds in the United States. Bird-building
collisions primarily occur at glass surfaces: birds often fail to perceive glass as a barrier and …

[HTML][HTML] Factors influencing bird-building collisions in the downtown area of a major North American city

SR Loss, S Lao, JW Eckles, AW Anderson, RB Blair… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Bird-building collisions are the largest source of avian collision mortality in North America.
Despite a growing literature on bird-building collisions, little research has been conducted in …

Genomic divergence across ecological gradients in the Central African rainforest songbird (Andropadus virens)

…, KC Ruegg, EC Anderson, TC Ng, S Lao… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The little greenbul, a common rainforest passerine from sub‐Saharan Africa, has been the
subject of long‐term evolutionary studies to understand the mechanisms leading to rainforest …

Citizen science to address the global issue of bird–window collisions

…, P Inglet, BJ Jones, T Keys, S Lao… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bird–window collisions (BWCs) are a major threat to avian populations, annually causing up
to one billion bird deaths in the US alone and untold numbers of fatalities worldwide. Until …

Inclement weather and American woodcock building collisions during spring migration

SR Loss, S Lao, AW Anderson, RB Blair… - Wildlife …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Weather appears to influence collisions of migratory birds with human‐built structures
including buildings, but formal analyses are lacking. In 2018, as part of a two‐year study at 21 …

Bird–building collisions increase with weather conditions that favor nocturnal migration and with inclement and changing weather

S Lao, AW Anderson, RB Blair, JW Eckles… - Ornithological …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Collisions with building windows are a top bird mortality source, but few studies have evaluated
how bird–window collisions are influenced by weather. By monitoring collisions daily at …

Variation in tick load among bird body parts: implications for studying the role of birds in the ecology and epidemiology of tick-borne diseases

MA Roselli, SM Cady, S Lao, BH Noden… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Wild birds play important roles in the maintenance and dispersal of tick populations and tick-borne
pathogens, yet in field studies of tick-borne disease ecology and epidemiology there …

Seasonality dynamics of avian influenza occurrences in Central and West Africa

…, E Couacy-Hymann, T Chasar, GL Aplogan, S Lao… - bioRxiv, 2014 - biorxiv.org
Understanding seasonal cycles of viruses originating in wildlife can provide insight into their
likelihood of persistence in animal populations and inform policies to limit spillover to …

Investigating the effects of weather, artificial lighting, and polarized light on bird-building collisions in the downtown area of a major US city

S Lao - 2019 - shareok.org
Collisions with buildings are a major source of human-caused mortality of birds, killing up to
1 billion birds annually in the United States. Most bird-building collision studies have …