Big effort, exciting results - our paper on the constraints of thermal limits in tropical insects is now out in @nature.com! 🦋🐝🪰🪲🦗
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Graphic with two parts, a map and a chart. Top section: A map showing intact tropical forests in northern South America, most of them in the Amazon River basin. Three locations are called out: 1 is in Panama; 2 is on the eastern border of Ecuador, near the borders with Colombia and Peru; and 3 is in Brazil, on the Amazon River. Undisturbed tropical forest areas are defined as areas where no disturbances were detected in a comparison of satellite imagery from 1990 to 2024. Bottom section: Dot plot with confidence intervals. For each of the three map locations, the chart shows the average annual change in mist net captures for insectivores and for the total bird community. For all three locations, the average annual change for insectivores is in the negative and is lower than for the total bird community.
Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing?
Learn more: https://scim.ag/4aCs0Er
Nice paper out from the lab! With genomics in breeding programs of Red Siskins, they were able to ground-truth genomic estimates of kinship and determine that there were no introgressed canary genes from cross-breeding of pets. So the captive populations are "clean" link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Just a reminder that this is happening tomorrow! Register if interested!
Great paper by @marcuschua.bsky.social out this month! In recent years, African Swine Fever has devastated wild pig populations in Southeast Asia. He found that the loss of pigs in Singapore appears to have resulted in a fivefold increase in greater mouse-deer populations. doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Excited to give an online seminar with @amornith.bsky.social on Feb 2! I’ll be sharing new results from my dissertation work in Borneo.
Interested in forest fragmentation, passive acoustics, landscape genetics, or just cool bird pics? Register: americanornithology-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
A bride and groom hold hands
A view of Machu Picchu
Field researcher holds a Red-bearded Bee-eater
Presenter stands at a podium next to a projected slide titled: “Avian responses to forest fragmentation in Borneo”
Goodbye 2025! Absolutely the most eventful year of my life, so far. I got married, honeymooned in Peru, finished my final field season in Borneo, and advanced to PhD candidacy. Looking forward to a more ordinary 2026
📖Published📖
Plewnia et al. designed a comprehensive workflow allowing rapid community metabarcoding with minimum, self-manufacturable equipment in the field 🧬 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Picture of a dwarf kingfisher eating a lizard, showing how images uploaded to eBird can provide important dietary information.
A call to arms for eBirders and iNaturalists. 🚨
We want your bird photos! If you photograph feeding birds with flowers, fruit, seeds or prey, upload the image with locality details. We are data-harvesting species, size and type of food/prey to study foodwebs and species interactions. Thanks! 🧪🌐🪶
Screenshot of the Bluesky @AnimalesEnEspanol.bsky.social page, with a blue-green circle drawn around the text in the bio that reads "Happy to proof-read English manuscripts" and a smiley face emoji next to it
As I'm going through journal guidelines for a paper, I keep seeing suggestions that non-native English speakers pay $$$ for editing services, and thought it was a good time to remind anyone that needs it that @AnimalesEnEspanol.bsky.social will do this for free, just send us a message!
Harsher Amazonian dry seasons caused by climate change are linked to declining bird survival in 'pristine' Amazonia. Happy that NBC Conservation Awards Programme modestly financed some of the very early stages of this work. doi.org/10.1126/scia... #ornithology
I love this. Thank you to the ebird folks @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social
I can do better
Of course my real life bestie/fiancé is also my birding bestie
Gotta work on uploading recordings
Yard birding beating patch birding was a surprise here. Also damn I basically birded from DC to Massachusetts
Solid amount of hours too
Always good to get more checklists than days
EBIRD WRAPPED IS OUT #Ornithology #birding
A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology
Hooded merganser, first bird of the year!
We read your paper in a Conservation biology class at GMU. So it is getting around!
Great paper by HC Lim, @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social et al. on color evolution in a manakin hybrid zone. Among many results, two hybridization events among three species allowed yellow collars to be moved from species to species (to species)! Evolution is messy
science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn8339
As a current Oakton resident I can confirm.
When you see that mega-rarity
In the early stages of planning another field season in Borneo and it really had me missing the birds.
This is a Blue-headed Pitta from my last time there. It’s my absolute favorite bird. How could a bird possibly be so round and colorful??
FANTASTIC PERMANENT RESEARCH POSITION for Ecologist/Statistician (Interdisciplinary) focused on conservation at Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute (Front Royal, VA)! www.usajobs.gov/job/819535900.
Come be my colleague!
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