Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴
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How are Pacific NW mountain birds responding to climate change?
I got up at 4:00 am for a month to find out.
but first the backstory, or "how I spent seven years telling everyone this project wasn't possible"
new paper here:
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🐣 Excited to share our new paper in @globalchangebio.bsky.social !
Using @euring.bsky.social ringing data, we investigated “Phenological plasticity and its temperature-related drivers in common songbirds across Europe.” #Ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Come join us in Italy in January for the Predator-Prey Interactions GRC— full program is now up! And we have some funding to support ECRs! www.grc.org/predator-pre...
I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
I do want to take a minute to share the backstory of our paper on the total solar eclipse that triggered dawn behavior in birds. This was SUCH a fun paper to work on, a major light in a lot of different tunnels over the past 18 months. doi.org/10.1126/scie... < ☀️ Let the light puns begin ☀️ > (1/x)
Taylor stands with her back to a pebble beach with calm waves. She is holding a young puffin in front of her, toward the camera, with both hands. She is smiling and looking down at the puffin.
I know there's a lot going on in the world and in people's lives right now - including mine - but I'm pretty excited and honoured to have gotten an award for one of my papers 🥹🎉
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/anim...
Read it here! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations, that's awesome! 🎉
On the eve of World Migratory Bird Day #WMBD2025, it's another record night of autumn bird migration with over a billion birds aloft over the US! 🤯 Looking at the moon thru my scope, I saw (and heard) dozens of migrants zipping by. birdcast.info/migration-to... Lights out, cats in to keep them safe!
Not even peak part of night yet, but we’ve hit over ONE BILLION BIRDS in flight!!!
#birds #fall #migration
#LightsOutForBirds
#ESEB25 2 for 1!
Come to see my posters, spot 260, today if you'd like to chat about :
how gender identities play a role in the type of species interactions people study (⚔️or 🤝?)
or if you want to learn more about the weapon evolution of the great rhinoceros beetles ⚔️🦏
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Excited to share the first publication from my PhD research about wolves using diverse movement tactics, including migrating and moving young pups, to track the partially migratory Cody elk herd in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem! news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/01/p...
Super cool! Stoked to read the pub!
🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social
We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.
📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:
🌲 New R package: forestdata makes it easy to download forestry and land cover data from multiple sources (Copernicus, ESRI, EU-Trees4F, and more). Supports sf, SpatRaster, and tidy outputs.
Explore it here: cidree.github.io/forestdata/
#rstats #rspatial #forestry #landcover
I found a non-exhausted list of Indigenous radio stations that you can donate to in order to keep them afloat after the defunding
If anyone has a better list, please let me know, and I will happily repost it (I couldn't find anything on here)
Hey, KOTZ in my hometown could use some support. This one radio station serves an area the size of Indiana, as in, it's the only radio station in the entire area. The area is also primarily Inupiaq.
kotz.org/index.html
Fox Mulder from X-Files saying “Hey, you got to stay alive if you want to stick it to the government”
“If you die, you let them off the hook.”
Needed this reminder today.
The bill republicans passed will raise your electricity bill. It will raise how much you pay at the pump. It will make our grid less reliable. Every time you fill up your tank or pay your utility bill for the next 10 years, when you notice how much more it is, think back to this bill, today.
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The bill has passed.
Republicans are going to push insane lies. Talk to people about what this legislation does. Post. Be a nuisance. Don't let the lies dominate. We will make sure this vote sticks to their foreheads, is all anyone sees of them, the cruelty and evil they're drenched in.
US Veterans peacefully protesting Trump’s military birthday parade arrested at Capitol Hill. This is the moment a 80+ year old US veteran is taken away in handcuffs for practicing his 1st Amendment right. #3E #NoKings #NoKingsProtests (🎥 @gregjstoker.bsky.social )
Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
New on European conservation science:
Free-ranging domestic cats occur deep in the forests, with >10% occupancy even 1 km from homes. Their presence near edges suggests persistent risks to biodiversity well beyond suburbs.
Nyheim et al. in Conservation Science and Practice doi.org/10.1111/csp2...
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.
This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social
to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Turns out birds are facilitating a tick superhighway between north and south america??
Thanks to @cenemes.bsky.social and @emlbcohen.bsky.social for this one
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26431964/
