Students in my group over the past few decades have come from all parts of the United States and from six foreign countries in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America.

They have included about equal numbers of men and women, as well as people from many ethnic and racial groups.   We like human diversity as much as we like biodiversity!

People in my lab have often liked adventure ... intellectual as well as physical.   We think about everything and go anywhere to find our answers.

Wiley's facilities include equipment for . . .

recording and analyzing sounds of animals (real-time spectrum analysis, digital signal processing and sound synthesis, field recording and playback)

field studies of birds and other animals (audio recording, playbacks, mist netting, radio-telemetry, photography)

For four decades, we emphasized research, including experimentation, in the field. Students design their own projects and have always found funding for travel and supplies.

Students and postdocs have conducted field research at locations throughout the Americas. Wiley is currently engaged in research on avian vocalizations in tropical forests of upper Amazonia in Peru and Ecuador.

Other students and postdocs have worked close to Chapel Hill, including in the University's Mason Farm Biological Reserve, a 150-ha protected area of old-growth and successional bottomland forests and old fields, all just 5 minutes from Wilson Hall and the center of campus.

The forests of the Mason Farm Biological Reserve have a permanently marked 25-m grid. This site has two 12-hectare plots for Breeding Bird Censuses, conducted annually since 1976 and 1977, and has served for many studies of avian behavior and plant ecology.