Alex R. Colucci

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨

Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4

Really honored to attend the opening of Bird Safe on View, an art / science / solutions exhibit at @maineaudubon focused on the BirdSafe Maine project I’ve worked on for five years. I wish I took more pictures, but was too busy having fun!

In Research, Ignoring Female Birds Harms Scientific Understanding A new study shows that ecological research often ignores or excludes data on female birds and behavior, resulting in erroneous assumptions on conservation.

The first paper of your PhD is always so exciting! 🤩 An all-#Galbatross effort, "A focus on females can improve science and conservation!" See press release (www.audubon.org/news/researc...) and the study here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...! #FemaleBirds #FemaleBirdDay

A photo of a single Chimney Swift by Brandon Holden, TextL Chimney Swift Fund.

The Chimney Swift Fund!
This fund supports the restoration of nesting & roosting sites for this Species at Risk, providing financial help for projects restoring structures like chimneys and barns that are known to be used by Chimney Swifts. https://buff.ly/4fGjqUQ

enjoyed watching a Downy Woodpecker excavating a tree cavity over the weekend. note the bits of dust and debris it’s just tossed out with its beak.

Abundant diversity, variation and interconnection are central to the teaching I’ve been fortunate to do in recent years. I’m happy to see the influx of folks here and hopeful for its potential as a space to share ideas.

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They grow to 100-130ft tall, are an exclusive host to the near threatened Araucaria Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura setaria), and act as a facilitator species for diverse understory ecological communities when allowed to reach full height.

They’ve lost ~97% of their habitat to sprawl and agricultural.

Wow, there are lots of people here all of sudden.

I don’t often know really what to do with my social media accounts—but I enjoy following discourse and sharing work occasionally.

Here are some pictures of a small Araucaria augustifolia tree. Critically endangered, native to SE Brazil.

Kevin Kaesviharn

“I can’t stop imitating myself.”

Random note: my junior high school was named after R.C. Murphy, this very same ornithologist. A fine name for a school; Tuamotu Petrel is a much better name for this bird.

The American Ornithological Society Will Change the English Names of Bird Species Named After People AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs & engage more people in the enjoyment, protection ...

BREAKING: AOS will change all English bird names currently named after people within its geographic jurisdiction—one step in an effort to address past wrongs and engage more people in the enjoyment, protection and study of birds. americanornithology.org/about/englis... #BirdNames

Having more bird names like Boblink, Dickcissel, and Bananaquit seems good and cool to me--Pipixcan Gull sounds perfect in this context

(2/2) I'm biased: my first real birding experience was watching BOGU's flying out from conifers, diving into a bright blue lake in northern Ontario, and carrying the fish back into the trees. It made me really want to learn about IDing birds and their distribution

As fun as saying 'Philly Gull' would be, I hope this one gets changed to Boreal Gull to note their breeding range and (unique for gull sp.) habit of nesting in trees. There's already the well-named Boreal Chickadee and Owl. Plus, a minor note: wouldn't need to change their banding code! (1/2)

This cannot be said enough. An armed society is an unfree society!