Robert Payne

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Robert Payne
Professor and Curator

Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1965

U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology

Contact information
University of Michigan
3019 Museums Bldg.
1109 Geddes Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: (734) 647-2208, office
(734) 764-0457, lab
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: rbpayne@umich.edu

Fields of study
Behavioral ecology and evolution, bird song and systematics

Academic background
I completed the B.S. at the University of Michigan in 1960, and the Ph.D. at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1965. I have done fieldwork in Africa beginning with a NSF postdoctoral fellowship for two years at the University of Cape Town, and have continued with shorter periods of fieldwork. I have done fieldwork in Western Australia for three years, and in Michigan for 20 years on population studies of indigo buntings and their brood-parasitic brown-headed cowbirds.

Graduate students
Elen Oneal