Over the past 16 years The Peninsula Club has been a participating partner with Dr. Mark Stanback and Davidson University. Dr. Stanback and his graduate students have been studying bluebirds, chickadees and wrens at the Peninsula Golf Course since 1999.
Dr. Stanback and his students have been studying the nesting and breeding behaviors of these birds, documenting their group composition and the competition between nuthatches and chickadees. They have also collected small blood samples from all of the nuthatches for DNA analysis. The Peninsula Club has allowed them to put up over 40 birdhouses across the golf course for this research. The data they have collected has been integral in a variety of studies that have been published in multiple scientific journals.
Dr. Stanback and his students have been studying the nesting and breeding behaviors of these birds, documenting their group composition and the competition between nuthatches and chickadees. They have also collected small blood samples from all of the nuthatches for DNA analysis. The Peninsula Club has allowed them to put up over 40 birdhouses across the golf course for this research. The data they have collected has been integral in a variety of studies that have been published in multiple scientific journals.
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| Over 40 stands like this can be seen across the golf course. Another stand can be seen in the background. |
