David King

David King is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Research Wildlife Biologist at the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. His work bridges academic research and applied conservation through the study of wildlife ecology, particularly focusing on Neotropical migrant birds and scrub-shrub birds.

• Contact: Email: dking@fs.fed.us | Phone: 413-545-0357 | Location: 201 Holdsworth

Research Interests: David specializes in understanding how habitat management practices, including silviculture, rights-of-way maintenance, and fire management, influence bird populations. His studies integrate fitness metrics such as nesting success, fecundity, and survival, alongside tropical wintering ecology and post-fledging dynamics using mist-netting and radio-telemetry.