State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1967–1971, B.S. Biology, 1971

State University of New York at Binghamton, 1971–1972, Computer Science

Indiana University, Bloomington, 1972–1977, M.A. Zoology, 1975; Ph.D. Zoology, 1977

Human Biology, Zoology, Biometrics, Evolution, Animal Behavior, Population Biology

Mating systems and sexual selection, parental care, host-parasite co-evolution, territoriality, evolution of behavior

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA SPECIES ACCOUNT

Yasukawa, K. and W. A. Searcy. 1995. Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus). In The Birds of North America, No. 184 (A. Poole and F. Gill, eds.). The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and The American Ornithologists’ Union, Washington, D.C.

Yasukawa, K. and W. A. Searcy. 2019. Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), version 2.0. In The Birds of North America (P. G. Rodewald, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bna.rewbla.02

BOOKS

Searcy, W. A. and K. Yasukawa. 1995. Polygyny and Sexual Selection in the Red-winged Blackbird. Monograph in Behavior and Ecology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Ploger, B. J. and K. Yasukawa. 2003. Exploring Animal Behavior in Laboratory and Field. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Yasukawa, K. (Editor). 2014. Animal Behavior: How and Why Animals Do the Things They Do, 3 Volumes. New York: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.

PUBLICATIONS WITH STUDENT CO-AUTHORS (in bold)

Yasukawa, K., E. I. Bick, D. W. Wagman and P. Marler. 1982. Playback and speaker-occupation experiments on song-based neighbor, stranger, and self discrimination in male Red-winged blackbirds. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 10, 211–215.

Yasukawa, K. and E. I. Bick. 1983. Dominance hierarchies in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis): a test of a game-theory model. Animal Behaviour 31, 439–448.

Yasukawa, K., R. A. Boley and S. E. Simon. 1987. Seasonal change in the vocal behaviour of the female red-winged blackbird. Animal Behaviour 35, 1416–1423.

Yasukawa, K., J. L. McClure, R. A. Boley and J. Zanocco. 1990. Provisioning of nestlings by male and female red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). Animal Behaviour 40, 153–166.

Yasukawa, K., R. A. Boley, J. L. McClure and J. Zanocco. 1992. Nest dispersion in the red-winged blackbird. Condor 94, 775–777.

Yasukawa, K, L. K. Whittenberger and T. A. Nielsen. 1992. Anti-predator vigilance in the red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus): do males act as sentinels? Animal Behaviour 43, 961–969.

Yasukawa, K., F. Leanza and C. D. King. 1993. An observational and brood exchange study of paternal provisioning in the red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. Behavioral Ecology 4, 78–82.

Burford, J., T. J. Friedrich and K. Yasukawa. 1998. Response to playback of nestling begging in the red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. Animal Behaviour 56, 555–561.

Edwards, S., E. Messenger and K. Yasukawa. 1999. Do red-winged blackbird parents and their nestlings recognize each other? Journal of Field Ornithology 70, 297–309.

Brooks, R. and K. Yasukawa. Laboratory exercises in animal behavior. Animal Behavior Society web page http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Education/Labs/index.phtml

Burton, N. and K. Yasukawa. 2001. The “predator early warning system” of the red-winged blackbird. Journal of Field Ornithology 72, 106–112.

Yasukawa, K. and W. Werner. 2007. Nest abandonment as a potential anti-parasite adaptation in the red-winged blackbird. Passenger Pigeon 69, 481–489.

Yasukawa, K., J. Urish, A. Her and E. Light. 2008. Similarity in the begging calls of nestling red-winged blackbirds. Journal of Field Ornithology 79, 254–262.

Yasukawa, K., L. K. Butler and D. A. Enstrom. 2009. Intersexual and intrasexual consequences of epaulet brightness in male red-winged blackbirds: an experimental approach. Animal Behaviour 77, 531–540.

Bernath-Plaisted, J. and K. Yasukawa. 2011. The effects of male alarm calling on nestling begging and female provisioning in red-winged blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus). Journal of Field Ornithology 82, 394–404.

Krauss, N. and K. Yasukawa. 2013. How do female red-winged blackbirds allocate food within broods? Condor 115, 198–208.

Zou, A., D. L Lambert, H. Yeh, K. Yasukawa, F. Behbod, F. Fan and N. Cheng. 2014. Elevated CXCL1 expression in breast cancer stroma predicts poor prognosis and is inversely associated with expression of TGF-beta signaling proteins. BMC Cancer 14, 781. doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-781

Yasukawa, K., H. K. Berrios and A. W. Johannes. 2016. A test of the nestling discrimination hypothesis for brown-headed cowbird parasitism of red-winged blackbirds. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128, 437–441.

Yasukawa, K., J. Lindsey-Robbins, C. S. Henger and M. E. Hauber. (2016). Antiparasitic behaviors of red-winged blackbirds in response to simulated brown-headed cowbirds: further tests of the frontloaded parasite-defense hypothesis. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 128, 475–486.

Yasukawa, K., E. J. Dorjath and S. K. Morgan. (2017). Antipredator behavior of adult and nestling red-winged blackbirds, Agelaius phoeniceus. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 129, 639–642.

Yasukawa, K., J. Sollenberger, J. Lindsey-Robbins, and E. DeBruyn. 2020. Calling in the face of danger: Do nestling red-winged blackbird suppress begging in response to predator playbacks? The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 137, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1093/auk/ukz071

Louder, M. I. M., M. Lafayette, A. N. A. Louder, C. Balakrishnan, K. Yasukawa, and M. E. Hauber. 2020. Parallel behavioral responses and neurocognitive biomarker gene expression patterns to acoustic stimuli of varying salience in a wild songbird. Scientific Reports, 10. DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-60231-y