Valentina Gómez-Bahamón, PhD Student, in the News
CNN.com released a story on Sept. 22 about Valentina Gómez-Bahamón’s study of the fork-tailed flycatcher. Gómez-Bahamón found that males of the species make a vibrating sound with their feathers when they fight, and that the birds have different "accents” according to their subspecies. By analyzing patterns in subspecies, she hopes to contribute to our knowledge of speciation, or how new species arise.
She was also featured on an episode of Science Friday on Sept. 24th.
Valentina Gómez-Bahamón is a PhD student in Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a researcher at the Field Museum. She is the co-author of “Sonations in Migratory and Non-migratory Fork-tailed Flycatchers” in the August issue of Integrative and Comparative Biology.