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Long-distance seasonal migration to the tropics promotes genetic diversity but not gene flow in boreal birds | www.nature.com/artic... | Nature Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Surveillance of avian influenza through bird guano in remote regions of the global south to uncover transmission dynamics | www.nature.com/artic... | Nature Communications | #ornithology 🪶

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Feeding flamingos rapidly pull their heads from the water, producing strong tornado-like vortices that trap and carry live brine shrimps and sediments toward the surface. Flamingos rapidly open and close the beaks and stomp their feet to assist. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

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PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE TO OPPOSE THIS CHANGE TO WEAKEN THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT. #conservationscience🌍 #birds🪶 #ornithology🐦

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If you read this blog about what happens to shorebirds when the mud disappears: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w... ... you may be interested in this paper about how sea level rise can change sediment area available for feeding waders: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ConservationScience🌍

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#consgen

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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

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In these chaotic times, I’ve been grounding myself in my mentees’ successes: here’s a beautiful story by PhD candidate Owen Martin (@lepurplemartin.bsky.social) on Colorado’s fireflies 🌟✨ theconversation.com/fleeting-fir...

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Among the thousands of firefly species in the world, only a handful blink in sync. While both male and female fireflies flash, only the males synchronize. 🧪

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🚨 New preprint! We analyzed 39 bird genomes—including 3 Mauritian species that bounced back from the brink of extinction—to explore genomic erosion in a comparative framework. 🧬🦜🧩 📄 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #consgen #popgen @claudiafontsere.bsky.social

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Just a ride! #Streetphotography #NY #NYC #Iphonephotography #Commercial

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Birds’ co-occurrence is mediated by diet, habitat type, and anthropogenic disturbances in Ghana’s Central Region | www.sciencedirect.co... | Avian Research | #ornithology 🪶

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Ecologist Dr. Farina Othman, who has dedicated herself to saving the last 1,000 Bornean #elephants left in the wild, was awarded the 2025 Whitley Award, which celebrates grassroots conservation leaders. #Heros Read more about her work here: www.cnn.com/world/asia/w...

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Culture is surprisingly widespread across the animal kingdom. Major conservation agencies are now starting to recognize its big implications for conservation agendas. Check out this fascinating, open-access issue at: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... 🧪🌿🌎 #wildlife

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Role of citizen science and ornithologists in the study of neotropical parrots: foraging ecology of the yellow-faced parrot (Alipiopsitta xanthops) in the Brazilian Cerrado | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶

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Last year the EU challenged the UK's closure of industrial sandeel fishing in its waters. These closures are a lifeline for the millions of seabirds which rely on sandeels for food. Reversing them would be a blow for hungry Puffins, Kittiwakes, and other birds.

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Reduced breeding success consistent with effects of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) on raptors in Scotland in 2022 | www.tandfonline.com/... | Bird Study | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

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We tried deep-sea mining in U.S. waters already -- back in 1970 -- off the South Carolina coast. Scientists returned to the undersea site in 2023 to see what it looked liked now. One told me: "It's like they were there yesterday." My story: pulitzercenter.org/stories/pull... #deepseamining

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State Department eliminates Office of Global Change, which has led US involvement in UNFCCC, IPCC, etc

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First U.S. Atlantic record of Nazca Booby Sula granti, with implications for vagrancy by Pacific seabirds into the Gulf of Mexico | http://www.marineorn... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 🧪

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New on Wing Beat: "Finding the artist in the artwork: repeatable individual differences in the nests of a North American songbird" by Chandler Eli Getty Carr, a study of nest-building variability in Northern House Wren Blog Post: americanornithology.org/finding-the-... Paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

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The cover of this week’s Economist.

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Humpback whale killed in krill supertrawler net. ‘Krill are the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem and targeting them must be banned. Antarctica should be a permanent refuge for wildlife, not a plunder zone for industrial supertrawlers,’ www.echo.net.au/2025/04/hump...

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SOOTHING BIRD FACT 🐦 Chickadees add additional "dees" to their "chick-a-dee-dee" alarm call depending on the severity of the threat they perceive. Captive chickadees presented with a predatory pygmy owl were so freaked out they strung together 23 "dees"! www.sciencenews.org/article/dee-...

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Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that. theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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🐅🙌🏽 Datos de cámaras trampa revelan la densidad de jaguares en 22 áreas protegidas y territorios indígenas en la Amazonía de Brasil, Perú, Ecuador y Colombia. Los resultados sorprendieron a los científicos. ¿Por qué? es.mongabay.com/2025/04/area...

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🌎 Stand up for the Endangered Species Act this Earth Day—submit public comments opposing the rule by May 19! Learn how you can help ⬇️ 🪶

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Hornbills continue to be illegally sold online in Indonesia, to supply demand for cage birds. Please support the Monitor Conservation Research Society in their efforts to end this trade! fight-for-the-future-of-our-rainforests.raiselysite.com

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The Trump administration proposed a rollback of federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) seeks to eliminate the current interpretation of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act.

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How to better count elusive birds? Comparing non-invasive monitoring methods to estimate population size of the threatened Pin-tailed sandgrouse (Pterocles alchata) | link.springer.com/ar... | Biodiversity and Conservation | #ornithology #conservationgenetics 🪶 🧪

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Opportunistic Gulls Infected by Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Show Contrasting Movement Behaviour | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

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The endless stupidity is exhausting So is the hatred and smarminess And the destructiveness

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Have you ever seen the Spot-billed Toucanet? This species inhabits parts of Central and South America. Females sport reddish-brown plumage on their heads,while males have black plumage instead. Photo: Jairmoreirafotografia, CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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🎥 The Museum’s Margaret Mead Film Festival kicks off Friday, May 2! The three-day celebration will present storytelling and documentary films from diverse voices near and far. To reserve tickets and see the full film schedule, visit: bit.ly/3EpydWT Some highlights, below.

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This is brilliant from Rich Grenyer on the Dire Wolf hype: "It’s like claiming to have brought Napoleon back from the dead by asking a short French man to wear his hat"

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The complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘Extinct in the Wild’ Spix’s Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornitholgy | #ornithology #conservationgenetics 🪶🧪

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European Breeding Bird Declines Associated With Narrower Climatic Niches | J of Biogeography | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | #ornithology 🪶🧪🌐 #conservationscience 🌎 #climatechange

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‘The bird conservation charity is urging Britain’s gardeners to keep their lawns wild by not cutting them too often’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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A new batch of scarlet macaw chicks has hatched in Guatemala. Our team there hand raises these third and fourth chicks. In the wild, they typically don’t survive. When ready, they’ll be released into the wild to boost the population. More on the project: bit.ly/3G3cYuI 🌎

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Lynsey Addario has won the 2025 ASME Award for Best News and Documentary Photography for her photos featured in Caitlin Dickerson’s “Seventy Miles in the Darién Gap.” See the winning images here:

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Our next shortlisted author for the Robert May Prize 2024 is @migrationbio.bsky.social ! 🏆 Find out more about their work on Nighthawk, a machine learning model for acoustic monitoring of nocturnal bird migration 🦅 🌎 🧪

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Fewer than 150 critically endangered Malayan tigers remain in the wild. According to a new study, Malayan tiger trafficking is driven by interconnected, nonhierarchical and small Malaysia-based groups that adaptively cooperate to maintain a seamless supply chain. Read:

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“With federal funding, especially research dollars, being on the chopping board for the current administration(...)means that at a time when we need innovation the most to deal with climate change, to make our food systems more resilient, that capacity is going to be lost.” —UCS's Omanjana Goswami.

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Are you a biological scientist working in the US, wondering what the heck happens next? This piece by the amazing Peter Hotez, just published in @plosbiology.org, might be helpful reading for you in these dark times... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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Two Senior Marine Ornithologist posts at the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government. Deadline for applications is 21/04/2025, 23:59 #seabirds #ornithology #renewables fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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