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📢 NEW PAPER OUT! Huge team effort on bird-window collisions in the Neotropics 🦜🪟 Download the Open Access paper & explore the data with our R script! Congrats to the 100+ collaborators! Paper here 📄 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Data here 📊 zenodo.org/records/1527...

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New data paper out today on bird-window collisions in the Neotropics esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #WindowStrike #WindowCollisions #ornithology

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maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis out today early access in @asn-amnat.bsky.social today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range? doi.org/10.1086/737130

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NEW PAPER: Understanding the interactions between #hybridization, #territoriality and resource availability in tropical birds - territorial aggression in two hybridizing Neotropical wrens varies with genetics and precipitation ➡️ vist.ly/3n6idnw #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

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Every semester, five professors and museum curators take 35 students to a 12-day long field trip to survey all kinds of animals. My group today enjoyed a stunning cave with the one and only Steatornis caripensis, the oilbird! Antioquia, Colombia #ornithology #evolution #taxonomy #museums #UNAL

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My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes

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The real pioneer field sound recordist of Colombian birds, Tomas Cuadros, produced a 45 rpm vinyl in the early 80s. Newcomers now know Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...

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🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

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⚠️Highly recommended🐤 Laura Céspedes on her research about the crazy speciation history of Andean Myioborus 🧬 @theaga.bsky.social blog.theaga.org/eecg-embarka... #birds #andes #genomes #hybridzones

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Have you checked out our Guide to Graduate Studies recently? This free resource, compiled by volunteers from our Student & Early Professional Committee, is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in grad school for #ornithology.

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It's that dreaded time of the year when one has to sort thru Willow and Alder Flycatchers. Primary tip spacing can make one's life much easier as outlined in Andrew Birch's and my article in Western Birds. Photo below from @evornithology.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/54b9b...

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Avian cranial evolution is influenced by trade-offs in shape between hard and soft tissue traits. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.21.644529v1

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Découvrez le Bruant à couronne blanche, un oiseau chanteur remarquable connu pour ses rayures noires et blanches audacieuses sur la tête. La fin d'avril à mai est une excellente période pour observer ces oiseaux. Écoutez ses sifflements clairs et doux ce printemps. tinyurl.com/esw7w2s9

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Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Revealing hidden diversity: molecular insights into a monotypic Amazonian hummingbird species link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology #evolution

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academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... #speciation #hybridzones #evolution #ornithology

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ACCEPTED!! "Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds" congrats to my PhD student Natalia Pérez Amaya and team #ColombiaResurveyProject #evolution #ecology #ornithology

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New from #JRSocInterface: The #feather’s multi-functional structure across nano to macro scales inspires hierarchical design. Read the paper: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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🚨 New study by #SPEmembers 🚨 #animalbehaviour #ethology #evolution "Evidence for the independent evolution of sex-related signals in manakins" Porzio and Mota with SPE members Paulo Mota @jevbio.bsky.social @ucoimbra.bsky.social

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Figure B, Figure F. How many of these #birds have you seen? #ColombiaResurveyProject #ornithology #AcademicWriting

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A lot of blood sweat and tears put into this one: we revisit Robert MacArthur's classic warbler study—with @eliotmiller.bsky.social and colleagues—using, among other techniques, fecal metabarcoding. 🧪🦉 📸 Ronnie d'Entremont royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @psubiodept.bsky.social

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hibridization and speciation in an island, the iconic case of the "original" hummingbirds: Trochilus 🇯🇲 #speciation #ornithology #evolution academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Planning a sabbatical or between postdocs? Join us at the National Bird Collection (ICN-UNAL) for 3-6 months through Fulbright 🇨🇴 We'd host researchers studying avian speciation / HZ, biogeography, phylogenomics, mountain diversification, Choco-Amazon, resurveys fulbrightscholars.org/award/all-di...

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In our latest preprint, we showcase how to use a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance to test evolutionary hypotheses across species. We collected data for 172 birds (314 populations) to test patterns of stabilising selection and canalisation for wing length. 🔗 doi.org/10.32942/X2P...

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Why are New Guinea's Cyclops Mountains poor in upland bird species? - Jared Diamond, K. David Bishop. 2025. BBOC doi.org/10.25226/bbo... #ornithology #biogeography #mountains

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That’s why we are the bird paradise 🫶🏽🇨🇴🦜

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Not great photos from my old phone, but here is @julisoto.bsky.social at #TheNat last night inspiring us all with her story of mystery, research, and intrepid women #nattalk #SanDiegoBirdAlliance

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Occurrence data-quality and taxonomic bias obscure conservation status of Neotropical birds, and of Colombian antpittas in particular #Grallaria Proud of Dennys Plazas, who successfully defended her MSc thesis, a collaboration with Esteban Botero (SELVA). #ornithology #conservation #Andes

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A glimpse of bird diversity from northwestern South America's complex corner, where the Andes bisect the Amazon-Orinoco basins from the Chocó, across a mosaic of sierras, valleys, deserts, and wetlands - a biodiversity hotspot. #ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop

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Experimental evolution of evolvability | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Genome architecture and speciation in plants and animals. I learned a lot writing this with @dortizba.bsky.social, Silu Wang and Loren Rieseberg! doi.org/10.22541/au....

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Planning a sabbatical or between postdocs? Join us at the National Bird Collection (ICN-UNAL) for 3-6 months through Fulbright 🇨🇴 We'd host researchers studying avian speciation / HZ, biogeography, phylogenomics, mountain diversification, Choco-Amazon, resurveys fulbrightscholars.org/award/all-di...

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Helping dad organize the 🐟 collection 🥰

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Help for a non-native English speaker: which phrase is more appropriate in a manuscript when referring to birds that primarily inhabit trees, bushes or the ground (as opposed to aquatic birds, shorebirds...): A) terrestrial bird species B) landbird species #ornithology #academicwriting #aves

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