Will studies the evolution and ecology of birds. He primarily uses field, genetic, and community science techniques to study how metapopulation dynamics affect speciation and extinction, and how behavior interfaces with genetics. Will received a BS in 2020 from the University of Puget Sound, where he studied song recognition and speciation in a White-Crowned Sparrow hybrid zone in Washington State. Will’s Doctoral thesis studies how understory, insectivorous birds respond to forest fragmentation in Borneo.