🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The National Labor Relations Board has *officially* charged Audubon Society with breaking labor law and discriminating against union members cwa-union.org/news/releases/…

New bird🐦‍⬛research🚨! So excited to share our new study in NatureEcoEvo! In it, we examine shifts in the breeding latitude, elevation, and phenology of North American #birds in relation to #climatechange! The last paper of my UCLA EEB postdoc with Morgan Tingley *find me on BlueSky*🥲 A🧵...

Please RT‼️ I'm recruiting an #ecology PhD student for a fully funded 4 year NSF assistantship to study species-environment relationships in North American birds using eBird #CitizenScience data. #BirdTwitter. DL 30 Sept. see: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…

New in @sciencemagazine, we show that spatial cognitive ability is associated with longevity in food-caching Mountain Chickadees. And Vladimir Pravosudov’s photo was selected for the cover! #ScienceResearch. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 1/n

A new study co-authored by Stu Mackenzie, Birds Canada’s Director of Strategic Assets, reveals the social aspect of bird migration. Discover how different species interact during their migrations, influencing routes, timing, and success: tinyurl.com/3kvepsmh

Let's kick off #BlackMammalogists Week with a #BlackMammalogistsRoleCall! 🐾✊🏽 Show everyone we out here: Introduce yourself if you're a Black mammalogist and/or wildlife enthusiast! Use our hashtags to be ENTERED TO WIN stickers or a t-shirt at the end of the day!

Migratory lifestyle carries no added overall energy cost in a partial migratory songbird | Nature Ecology and Evolution nature.com/articles/s4155… #ornithology

New paper out in PNAS. We show how trait differences between native and introduced plants shift the functional composition of plant communities across the United States pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

CALLING ALL BIRD NERDS we are hiring Asst Prof Avian Ecology at UW Seattle! Please apply, or spread the word: ap.washington.edu/ahr/position-d…

The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ornithology

I’m thrilled to share some exciting highlights of our collaborative work in Mexico 🇲🇽, all thanks to our amazing partners! CHICATA ECCC SciTech Environment Canada Birds Canada The story was beautifully captured by Ugo Mellone 📸 & nature #Motuswts nature.com/articles/d4158…

Incredible work here. Great evidence that feather mites are actually good for birds.

Bug fashion 💚 I’m initially inspired by the caterpillar that wear its own molted head, but there’re so many other interesting bug costumes!

My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.

I don't use this platform much anymore, but I'm happy to share our work on sexual selection and the genomics of speciation in barn swallows. Thanks for reading and sharing, if of interest! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

What a cool paper! 🤩 Using iNaturalist observations, Martin Mayer & Co. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15…

for now I am not deleting this account but I am slowly transitioning to another place that is a nice place for birds to fly if you know what I mean. 💙🌅 over there I finally can spell the word "early" correctly in my screen name. wild.