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AES Student Submission form
Submitted: 2026-03-13 03:12:07
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ID: 39
Faculty and/or Staff Mentor(s)
- All student submissions for presentations at AES must have the approval of a WOU faculty or staff mentor. To learn more about this requirement please visit http://wou.edu/pure/academicexcellenceshowcase/students/. The identified and approving mentor(s) will be automatically notified upon completion of this form.
- If you do not have a mentor's approval, please discuss your presentation ideas and proposal abstract with a faculty or staff member and ask them for their approval and sponsorship before completing this form.
- You must have approval BEFORE submitting or your presentation may not be included in AES.
Mentor Email
ID: 30
Mentor Name
ID: 29
First: Jim
Last: Dawson
Do you have more than one mentor who should be listed for this submission?
ID: 32
Yes
Additional Mentors
ID: 1
| Mentor Email | Mentor First Name | Mentor Last Name |
|---|---|---|
| dawsona@mail.wou.edu | Amy | Dawson |
Has your faculty or staff mentor reviewed your proposal and approved it for submission?
ID: 3
Yes: Yes
Presenters
ID: 4
| WOU Email | First Name | Last Name | vNumber | Major | Year (Senior, Junior, etc.) | Home Town |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aweathers22@mail.wou.edu | Adrien | Weathers | V00392098 | Biology | Senior | Keizer |
What type of session are you participating in?
ID: 6
Presentation
Do you have a session key provided by your faculty mentor(s)?
ID: 8
No
Select the session topic(s) that best match your presentation
ID: 12
- Need a session assigned
Title of your presentation/poster/performance
ID: 7
Seeking Higher Ground: How Native Raptors in the Pacific Northwest Utilize Man-Made T-Perches
Are there any accompanists or composers that should be recognized in the program?
ID: 14
No
Did your project involve Human Subjects?
ID: 15
No
Abstract or image files
ID: 17
I will add an abstract now
Abstract
ID: 21
Seeking Higher Ground: How Native Raptors in the Pacific Northwest Utilize Man-Made T-Perches.
Adrien Weathers, Jim Dawson, and Amy Dawson, Department of Biology, Western Oregon
University (345 Monmouth Ave N, Monmouth, OR, 97361)
Native raptors in the Pacific Northwest use perches, like trees, to get clearer views of their surroundings, gaining an advantage when hunting. Raptors have also been observed utilizing man-made structures presumably for similar behaviors. Although little is known specifically about how raptors utilize these structures. T-perches are man-made structures that are often erected around agricultural fields and nature preserves to motivate raptor predation in the area. This is beneficial to encourage raptors to use open habitats that lack tree perches. In order to determine how raptors were utilizing T-perches in the Willamette Valley, we mounted trail cameras 12ft away from six different T-perches adjacent to agricultural fields in Monmouth OR. Each camera recorded footage for two weeks in the Spring and Autumn 2025. This footage was later categorized by raptor species and behavior while perched, with frequency of behaviors of different species analyzed. Data from the Spring 2025 and Autumn 2025 trials support that each raptor species observed (except Cooper’s hawks in the Spring 2025 trial) most frequently displayed scanning behaviors to search for prey. With data supporting that raptors primarily use T-perches for predation, this could be further reason to encourage raptor activity with perches in agricultural fields as a form of natural pesticide, and supports the use of T-perches as an effective tool for reintroducing raptors into recovering nature preserves.
Do you give us permission to publish your work online in partnership with Hamersly Library?
ID: 16
Yes
Would you be interested in submitting your work to PURE Insights?
ID: 24
Yes
Model release statement
ID: 18
Yes
Are you willing to allow WOU to make a video recording of your session?
ID: 23
Yes, but I want to know one or more weeks before AES
I am interested in participating in a session to learn about preparing:
ID: 25
Don't send me information: Don't send me information
