About us

Animal Aeroacoustics Lab

Principal Investigator: Christopher J. Clark

About Us


We study of the sounds animals make, when they fly. We study both the sounds birds make during courtship displays (and much of this work is on hummingbirds).  We also study quiet flight of owls, nightbirds, certain hawks, and certain kestrels. Our work integrates the fields of flight biomechanics, animal behavior and physical bioacoustics. 

Graduate students in the Animal Aeroacoustics lab have generally studied hummingbirds or quiet flight, but their research has not been limited to wings making sounds.  For example, lab alumnae Dr. Katherine Johnson studied song learning in Costa's Hummingbird. 


News

October 2024

Nadje, Mary and Soumyadeep present in AOS 2024 in Estes Park, Colorado! 

August 2024

Dr. Ayala Berger successfully defended her doctoral disseration titled "A 'tail' of two signals: acoustic courtship displays in Anna's and Costa's hummingbirds."

January 2024

Clark Lab joins SICB 2024 in beautiful Seattle!

September 2023

The lab welcomes incoming graduate student Mary Tucker (fall 2023), and apologizes that the 'news' tab was silent between 2017-2023 (many good things happened).