The story of two strange-looking Warblers: Documenting new hybrids using modern technologies

Meet senior collections manager of zoology Courtney Brennan from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History as she describes her latest research on documenting a new hybrid warbler combination from two independent encounters with a strange-looking bird.

Courtney Brennan is the senior collections manager of zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History where she oversees the maintenance and development of the ornithology, vertebrate zoology, and invertebrate zoology research collections. Her current research interests include Passerine hybridization and migration studies in the Great Lakes region. She is heavily involved with the Lights Out Cleveland project, studying bird-building collisions in the city and coordinating volunteer specimen preparation groups to process bird casualties associated with the program. Courtney is a Cleveland native and graduated from Cleveland State University with a Master's degree in Environmental Science.