About

Hello! Do you like birds? Well you're on the right lab website, friend. Welcome to the Yanagitsuru Lab, in the Department of Biology and Earth Systems Science at Wilkes University. Our work focuses on the behavior, physiology, ecology, and conservation of birds.

Our mission is to conduct research that is meaningful and rigorous. Wilkes University is a primarily undergraduate institution, so we have a strong focus on mentorship and helping our undergraduate members get the training and experience they need to be successful in their careers.

Publications

Who Agrees to Review a Manuscript in Ecology and Evolution? It Depends on Who Asks

Amy Yanagitsuru*, Ivan C. C. Provinciato*, Arley F. Muth, Jenny Ouyang

Ecology and Evolution, vol. 16(9), 2026, pp. e74214

Mechanistic regulation of begging behavior due to experimental food supplementation across an urbanization gradient

Ivan C.C. Provinciato, Amy M. Yanagitsuru, Ava Ciaccia, Olivia Oldham, Jenny Q. Ouyang

Hormones and Behavior, vol. 186, 2026, p. 106002

Experience and trust: The benefits of mate familiarity are realized through sex-specific specialization of parental roles in Cassin’s auklet

Amy Yanagitsuru, Chris Tyson, Frédéric Angelier, Mike Johns, Thomas Hahn, John Wingfield, Haley Land-Miller, Amanda Spears, Rebecca Forney, Elisha Hull

Royal Society Open Science, 2024

Energetic constraints give rise to sex-specific provisioning in the monomorphic Leach’s storm-petrel Hydrobates leucorhous

Chris W. Tyson, Sarah L. Jennings, Brian H. Hoover, Amy E. Miles

Journal of Avian Biology, 2022