The mockingbird research of Associate Professor, Dave Gammon, was featured in an article published in the Spring 2016 issue of Living Bird, a popular magazine published quarterly by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
The article was written by Mary-Russell Roberson, a freelance science writer based in North Carolina. She describes the research efforts of Gammon and his students to discover whether mockingbirds truly have open-ended song-learning, as is assumed by most bird scientists (answer = probably not open-ended, at least for mockingbirds living at Elon University). Roberson’s article is titled “Trying to teach old birds new songs: the northern mockingbirds of Elon University.” The editor of Living Bird magazine describes its purpose as “bridging the divide between the scientist and the bird enthusiast.”