Featured publications

Scientific articles (trainee authors are underlined)

Hutt-Taylor K, Bassett CG, Kinnunen RP, Frei B, Ziter CD. 2024. Existing evidence on the effect of urban forest management in carbon solutions and avian conservation: a systematic literature map. Environmental Evidence 13(1): 23.

Frei B, Cox AR, Brown A, Dyson ME, Meyer S, Hanson A, Hick K, Gilliland SG, Lepage C, Tétreault M, Roy C. 2024. Uncovering habitat associations and thresholds—insights for managing breeding waterfowl in Eastern Canada. Landscape Ecology 39(8): 150.

Blanc-Benigeri A, Poirier V, Narango D, Elliott KH, Frei B. 2024. Diet of moulting Swainson's Thrushes (Catharus ustulatus) and Tennessee Warblers (Leiothlypis peregrina) at a stopover site during fall migration measured with fecal DNA metabarcoding. Scientific Reports 14: 9913

Frei B, Cox AR, Morales AR, Roy C. 2024. Community-science reveals delayed fall migration of waterfowl and spatiotemporal effects of a changing climate. Journal of Animal Ecology 93(4): 377 - 392.

Poirier V, Elliott KH, Frei B. 2024. Peri-urban forest margins are important stopover sites for moult-migrating songbirds. Journal of Nature Conservation 77: 126539.

Smith AC, Binley A, Daly L, Edwards BPM, Ethier D, Frei B, Iles D, Meehan TD, Michel NL, Smith PA. 2024 . Spatially explicit Bayesian hierarchical models for avian population status and trends. Ornithological Applications 126 (1) duad056

Poirier V, Frei B, Lefvert M, Morales A, Elliott KH. 2023. Moult migrant Tennessee Warblers undergo extensive stopover in peri-urban forests of southern Quebec. Canadian Journal of Zoology.

Cox AR*, Frei B*, Gutowsky S, Baldwin F, Bianchini K, Roy C. 2023. Sixty-years of community-science data suggest earlier fall migration and short-stopping of waterfowl in North America. Ornithological Applications. *Joint-first authors.

Hutt-Taylor K, Ziter CD, Frei B. 2022. What evidence exists for the use of urban forest management in nature-based carbon solutions and bird conservation. A systematic map protocol. Environmental Evidence 11:34.

Lalla KM, Fraser KC, Frei B, Fischer JD, Siegrist J, Ray JD, Cohn-Haft M, Elliott KH. 2022. Central-place foraging poses variable constraints year-round in a neotropical migrant. Movement Ecology 10:39.

 Andres BA, Moore L, Cox AR, Frei B, Roy C. 2022. An assessment of shorebird harvest in Coastal Guyana. Wader Study 129(1): 10.18194/ws.00263

Morales A, Frei B, Mitchell GW, Begin Marchand C, Elliott KH. 2022. Reduced diurnal activity and increased stopover duration by molting Swainson’s Thrushes. Ornithology 139(2): ukab083

Bégin Marchand C, Desrochers A, Taylor P, Tremblay JA, Berrigan L, Elliott K, Frei B, Morales A, Mitchell GW. 2021. Spatial structure in migration routes despite regional convergence among eastern populations of Swainson’s Thrushes. Movement Ecology 9(1) DOI:10.1186/s40462-021-00263-9

 Brennan CL, Boulanger E, Duval S, Frei B, Gorbet A, Head J, Shieldcastle M, Jones AW. 2021. Two cases of a previously undocumented New World warbler hybrid (Setophaga magnolia x S. ruticilla) in eastern North America. Wilson's Journal of Ornithology 132(3): 537-547.

Morales A, Frei B, Leung C*, Titman R, Elliott KH. 2020. Point-of-care blood analyzers measure the nutritional state of seventeen free-living bird species. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 240:110594.

Frei B, Queiroz C, Chaplin-Kramer R, Andersson E, Renard D, Rhemtulla JM, Bennett EM. 2020. ​A brighter future: Complementary goals of diversity and multifunctionality to build resilient agricultural landscapes. Global Food Security 26:100407.

Garra J, Frei B, Bennett E.M 2019. Bright spots among lakes in the Rideau Valley Watershed, Ontario. Ecology and Society 24 (3):22. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss3/art22/

Nip EJ, Frei B, Elliott KH. 2018 Temporal variation in body mass and fat stores in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus). Canadian Field-Naturalist 132: 368 – 377.

Frei B, Renard D, Mitchell MGE, Seufert V, Chaplin-Kramer R, Rhemtulla JM, Bennett EM. 2018. Bright spots in agricultural landscapes: Identifying areas exceeding expectations for multifunctionality and biodiversity. Journal of Applied Ecology 55(6):2731-2743.

Frei B, Bennett EM, Kerr JT. 2018. Agricultural land-use intensity strongest predictor of avian biodiversity loss in agroecosystems with a long history of agriculture. Regional Environmental Change.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-018-1343-5

Jarjour C, Frei B, Elliott KH. 2017. Associations between sex, age and species-specific climate sensitivity in migration. Animal Migration. https://doi.org/10.1515/ami-2017-0004

Frei B, Fyles J, Berl JL, Edwards JW, Nocera JJ. 2015. Low fecundity of Red-headed Woodpeckers at the northern edge of the range. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 127: 639-645.

Frei B, Smith KG, Withgott JH, Rodewald PG. 2015. Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpeserythrocephalus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Frei B, Nocera JJ, Fyles J. 2015. Interference competition and nest survival of the  threatened Red-headed Woodpecker. Journal of Ornithology 156:743–753.

Frei B, Fyles J, Nocera JJ. 2013. Maladaptive habitat use of a North American  woodpecker in population decline. Ethology 119: 377-388.

Guedes RNC, Matheson SM, Frei B, Smith ML, Yack JE. 2012. Vibrational detection  and discrimination in the masked birch caterpillar (Drepana arcuata). Journal of Comparative Physiology A 198: 325-335.

Frei B, Bird DM, Titman RD. 2010. Bobolink egg mass variability and nestling growth patterns. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 122: 432-438.

Hudson MA, Gahbauer M, Leckie S, Frei B. 2008. Unusually Extensive Preformative Molt in Hatching-year Song Sparrows. North American Bird Bander 33: 1-6.

Other publications

Wilson et al. (> 50 authors including B. Frei) .2024. Science and knowledge needs to support Canada’s implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. Environment and Climate Change Canada.

Frei B. 2023. Conservation Bright Spots: Focusing on Solutions Instead of Reacting to Problems. In Transformative Politics of Nature. Andrea Olive, Chance Finegan, Karen F. Beazley, eds. University of Toronto Press. 320 pp.