The “other Dr. Sattler” in the department is the younger brother of Dr. Paul Sattler by eight years and has been at LU since 1996. He grew up in Toledo, Ohio, his first love is birds, and he listens to classical music. He has worked as a summer naturalist and as a zookeeper at the Toledo and Cincinnati Zoos. His doctoral research at the Smithsonian Institution used molecular markers to examine the genetics, behavior, morphology, and ecology of hybridizing Black-capped and Carolina chickadees. In the fall he spends time on the “Bald Spot” documenting local hawk migration, and also bands migrating Northern Saw-whet Owls in the area. His wife, Christy, formerly worked as a children’s nurse, and now home schools their twin daughters Katherine and Hannah.
Articles
An Assessment of Song Admixture as an Indicator of Hybridization in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina Chickadees (Poecile carolinensis) (with Patricia Sawaya and Michael J. Braun), The Auk (2007)
Vocal admixture often occurs where differentiated populations or species of birds meet. This may entail...
Reproductive Success Across the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina Chickadee (P. carolinensis) Hybrid Zone in Ohio (with C. L. Bronson; Thomas C. Grubb, Jr.; and Michael J. Braun), The Auk (2005)
Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina Chickadees (P. carolinensis) hybridize in an east-west band from...
Mate Preference: a Possible Causal Mechanism for a Moving Hybrid Zone (with C. L. Bronson; Thoams C. Grubb, Jr.; and Michael J. Braun), Animal Behavior (2003)
The study of patterns and underlying mechanisms within hybrid zones may provide insight into speciation....
Morphometric Variation as an Indicator of Genetic Interactions between Black-capped and Carolina Chickadees at a Contact Zone in the Appalachian Mountains (with Michael J. Braun), The Auk (2000)
We studied hybridization and introgression between Black-capped (Poecile atricapillus) and Carolina (P. carolinensis) chickadees along...
The Dynamics of Vocal, Morphological and Molecular Interaction between Hybridizing Black-Capped and Carolina Chickadees, Faculty Dissertations (1996)
Previous investigation of genetic interactions between black-capped and Carolina chickadees (Parus atricapillus and P. carolinensis)...
Contributions to Books
Preliminary Survey of Autumn Hawk Migration in the Inner Piedmont of Virginia (with Jamie Perdue, Daryl Rich, and Matthew Zagorski), Hawkwatching in the Americas (2001)
A hawkwatch was conducted in September 1997-1999 in the Inner Piedmont of Virginia near Lynchburg,...
A Technique for Evaluating Observer Efficiency in Raptor Migration Counts (with Jonathan Bart), Proceedings of Hawk Migration Conference IV (1985)
A technique is described for sampling sections of the sky individually during a raptor migration...