Antonio Celis-Murillo, Ph.D.
Biography
Antonio is a Biologist in the Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL), Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. He works with the BBL team to strengthen the data management system for bird banding and band encounters data sets, provide technical assistant to bird banders, support research projects that use banding data, and coordinate efforts in North America and the Western Hemisphere. Antonio also works with specific banding data sets to examine bird population patterns, including bird migration, movements, population dynamics and survival of species of concern.
Antonio is also an affiliated researcher at the Illinois Natural History Survey (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and a National Geographic Society’s explorer studying various aspects of avian ecology and behavior with the overarching goal of improving conservation efforts.
Antonio earned a B.S. in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México (2002), a Masters from the School of Integrative Biology from the University of Illinois (2008), a Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Science from the University of Illinois (2015) and held a postdoctoral position at the Illinois Natural History Survey (2016).
Science and Products
Bird Banding Laboratory
The Bird Banding Laboratory (BBL) is an integrated scientific program established in 1920 supporting the collection, archiving, management and dissemination of information from banded and marked birds in North America. This information is used to monitor the status and trends of resident and migratory bird populations. Because birds are good indicators of the health of the environment, the...