Publications
2025
Williams, Kelly A., Jacob P. Sieg, Laura R. Dykstra, and Cheryl R. Dykstra. 2025. “Sitting in the Open: How Nest Microclimate Influences Incubation Behavior in an Open-Cup Nesting Passerine”. Journal of Avian Biology.
2023
Jenkins, J.R., I.G. Pope, M.A. Dykstra, J.J. Jenkins, C.R. Dykstra, and K.A. Williams. 2023. “Do Standard Behavioral Assays Predict Foraging Behavior of Individual Black-Capped Chickadees (Poecile Atricapillus) in Response to a Predator Model or Calls?”. Journal of Comparative Psychology.
Williams, Kelly A., M. B. Shumar, B. T. Shirkey L. J. Kearns, J. N. Mager, J. M. Lautenbach, M. A. Al-Saffar, A. M. Froehlich, et al. 2023. “The Second Ohio All-Bird Conservation Plan (2023)”. Ohio Bird Conservation Initiative, Columbus, OH.
Williams, Kelly A, Laura R Dykstra, Jacob P Sieg, and Cheryl R Dykstra. 2023. “Consequences of Topography on Nest Microclimate and Reproductive Success in an Open-Cup Nesting Passerine”. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 135 (1): 56-73.
2022
Route, William T, Cheryl R Dykstra, Kelly A Williams, James Campbell-Spickler, Mark S Martell, and Rebecca L Key. 2022. “Breeding Phenology and Nestling Morphology of Bald Eagles in the Upper Midwestern United States”. Journal of Raptor Research 56 (4): 398-411.
2021
Sudnick, Madeline, Bekka S Brodie, and Kelly A Williams. 2021. “Nature versus Nurture: Structural Equation Modeling Indicates That Parental Care Does Not Mitigate Consequences of Poor Environmental Conditions in Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia Sialis)”. Ecology and Evolution 11 (21): 15237-48.
Route, William T, Cheryl R Dykstra, Sean M Strom, Michael W Meyer, and Kelly A Williams. 2021. “Patterns and Trends of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Bald Eagle Nestlings in Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA”. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40 (6): 1606-18.
Dykstra, Laura R, Jennifer J Jenkins, Cheryl R Dykstra, and Kelly A Williams. 2021. “Individual Variation in Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile Atricapillus) Foraging Behavior in Response to a Predator Model.”. Journal of Comparative Psychology 135 (4): 480.
Dykstra, Cheryl R, William T Route, and Kelly A Williams. 2021. “Trends and Patterns of Perfluoroalkyl Substances in Blood Plasma Samples of Bald Eagle Nestlings in Wisconsin and Minnesota, USA”. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 40 (3): 754-66.
Dykstra, Cheryl R, Jeffrey L Hays, Melinda M Simon, Ann R Wegman, Laura R Dykstra, and Kelly A Williams. 2021. “Habitat and Weather Conditions Influence Reproductive Rates of Suburban and Rural Red-Shouldered Hawks Buteo Lineatus”. Ibis 163 (2): 623-40.
2020
Williams, Kelly, Madeline Sudnick, Rachel Anderson, and Meredith Fitschen-Brown. 2020. “Experience Counts: The Role of Female Age in Morning Incubation and Brooding Behavior in Relation to Temperature”. Journal of Avian Biology 51 (7).
2019
Dykstra, Cheryl R, Jeffrey L Hays, Melinda M Simon, Ann R Wegman, Kelly A Williams, and Laura R Dykstra. 2019. “Dispersal and Survival of Red-Shouldered Hawks Banded in Suburban Southern Ohio, 1996—2018”. Journal of Raptor Research 53 (3): 276-92.
Dykstra, Cheryl R, William T Route, Kelly A Williams, Michael W Meyer, and Rebecca L Key. 2019. “Trends and Patterns of PCB, DDE, and Mercury Contamination in Bald Eagle Nestlings in the Upper Midwest”. Journal of Great Lakes Research 45 (2): 252-62.
2017
Williams, Kelly A. 2017. “The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Ohio”. The Condor: Ornithological Applications 119 (2): 356-57.
2016
Sherry, Thomas W, Matthew D Johnson, Kelly A Williams, Jordana D Kaban, Caroline K McAvoy, Amanda M Hallauer, Shannon Rainey, and Sen Xu. 2016. “Dietary Opportunism, Resource Partitioning, and Consumption of Coffee Berry Borers by Five Species of Migratory Wood Warblers (Parulidae) Wintering in Jamaican Shade Coffee Plantations”. Journal of Field Ornithology 87 (3): 273-92.
Williams, Kelly A, and Donald B Miles. 2016. “Demographic Costs Associated With Differences in Habitat Space Occupancy”. Plos One 11 (11): e0165472.
2013
Williams, Kelly A. 2013. “Behavioral Plasticity in Hooded Warblers (Setophaga Citrina): Linking Behavior, Environmental Context and Reproductive Success.”