Timothy O'Connell

PeerJ Reviewer

Summary

BS, Natural Resources, Cornell University
MA, Biology, College of William and Mary in Virginia
PhD, Ecology, Pennsylvania State University

I’ve been interested in wildlife (especially birds) for as long as I can remember. If there is one pervasive theme to my research, teaching, and personal life, it probably lies in my desire to share my enthusiasm for nature with others, and the hope that new-found empathy will spur greater awareness of, and dedication to, wildlife conservation.

For more information, check out:
http://timoconnell.wordpress.com/
http://eatmorecookies.wordpress.com/
http://birdsmack.wordpress.com/
http://okstateornithology.wordpress.com/

Biodiversity Biogeography Ecology Environmental Sciences Natural Resource Management Zoology

Work details

Associate Professor

Oklahoma State University

Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Research and teaching in the department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. (We're the Cowboys, not the Sooners.) Also President, Wilson Ornithological Society (https://wilsonsociety.org/) and Past-President of the Payne County Audubon Society (https://paynecountyaudubonsociety.com/) and Oklahoma Ornithological Society (http://www.okbirds.org/). In my lab, we apply principles of landscape ecology to advance conservation of native wildlife. We strive to learn how wildlife populations –– in particular those of non-game birds –– persist across human-dominated landscapes where they face habitat loss and fragmentation, degradation from unsuitable management, mortality from collisions with human structures, and an increasing frequency of weather extremes.

Websites

O'Connell Lab at OSU

PeerJ Contributions

Reviewed 2

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

August 29, 2025

Seasonally frugivorous forest birds and window collision fatalities: novel integration of bird counts in fall improves assessment of species vulnerability to collisions

Viviane Zulian, Louise K. Blight, Jon Osborne, Adam C. Smith, Andrea R. Norris, Rebecca Golat, Krista L. De Groot

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19943 PubMed 40900753

July 28, 2021

Bird-window collisions: Mitigation efficacy and risk factors across two years

Barbara B. Brown, Sabrina Santos, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11867 PubMed 34395093