Please share! 🚨We are looking for a postdoc to study the role of protected areas and climate-induced bird range shifts across the Upper Midwest Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Pic by Jeremy Cohen, PhD Description at: zuckerberg.russell.wisc.edu/opportunities/

Super happy to see this one finally published. In this study we evaluated the phylogenetic position of the best and oldest fossil passerines ever found using state of the art phylogenetic methods and a novel character matrix. #Passeriformes #fossil #phylogenetics

Congratulations to the AOS 2024 early professional award winners! We are pleased to announce Drs. Sheela P. Turbek & Jessie L. Williamson (Jessie Williamson) as winners of the James G. Cooper Award, which will be presented in person at #AOS24. americanornithology.org/aos-announces-… #AOSAwards

Es un gusto compartir la publicación que trabajamos en conjunto con maravillosas e increíbles estudiantes de la Escuela de Biología, USAC. El artículo es parte de un número especial enfocado en la biodiversidad de América Central Neotropical Biology and Conservation neotropical.pensoft.net/article/117386/

Wondering if maybe I could get a sponsorship. #botabox

Our open access data article "Breeding records of 325 bird species from Peru over 21 years based on #citizenscience data" is now published doi.org/10.1111/1440-1… It represents one of the still few efforts to provide national-scale data on breeding birds in the Neotropical region

We have a new paper out this week that further advances our method of using web-sourced photos to examine #raptor #diet. Led by Connor Panter this time we use this approach to assess the diet of Crested Caracaras at a continental scale: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #ornithology

That time of year when you wonder whether this will be the last Wood Thrush, etc you hear until next May.

Why do some raptors have more than one plumage morph? In a new publication in Ornithology, we outline what is currently known, and the rich research potential provided by plumage polymorphism in this group. doi.org/10.1093/ornith…. American Ornithological Society

New research proposes that groups of birds with early origins associated with the end-Cretaceous mass extinction experienced rapid evolutionary changes across their genomes and physiology. Learn more in this week’s issue of Science Advances: scim.ag/7RP

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Chapter 2 in an awesome collaboration led by Ben Freeman out today, check it out.

Speaking of great collaborations, check this one out, led by Dr. Berv!

Back from a fantastic #Evol2024 meeting in Montreal, and I’m very pleased to officially talk about this project again, now published in Science Advances

Small birds, long names! If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by murrelets on your first West Coast pelagic, maybe this can help you out! Now I want someone to send me to all the islands so I can spend my life trying to understanding the pop. structure of these lil dudes…

phyddle: software for phylogenetic model exploration with deep learning new work with Ammon Thompson software: phyddle.org preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Toot toot, train's leaving the station. Received some good news on the future of this paper! [No promises yet] The time is now to get trees added into OpenTree and into this new global bird phylogeny. See details below. It's easy! Check out github.com/eliotmiller/cl… too

Very happy to share a new preprint on Tinkerbirds! We used phylogenomics and hybrid zone analyses to investigate patterns of introgression and plumage evolution. Let me knwo what you think! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… (1/3)

Congratulations to Dr MariaCTelloRamos Dr. Lauren Guillette (she/her) cognition wild/lab and team for a BEAUTIFUL paper on weaver bird nest building and cultural traditions. This is one for the textbooks! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Porcupines. Awesome animals but I’d unfortunately say I’ve seen 50 roadkill ones for every live one.