Our paper on niche expansion of passerines in SE China

It was online in my birthday

Fairy-wrens change breeding habits to cope with climate change phys.org/news/2019-10-f… via Phys.org

Mercury exposure in sedentary and migratory Charadrius plovers distributed widely across China link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Regionally divergent drivers of historical diversification in the late Quaternary in a widely distributed… disq.us/t/3kng81w

Thank you, everyone! We are all very proud and excited to have the Wonderchicken paper out, though admittedly distracted by the state of the world! In case anyone would like to know more about the find, here's a blog post I've written about it: natureecoevocommunity.nature.com/users/363813-d…

Is Oculudentavis a bird or even archosaur? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Disentangling the evolutionary history and biogeography of hill partridges (Phasianidae, Arborophila) from low coverage shotgun sequences | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ow.ly/iCvL30qRqRm #ornithology

"The evolutionary history of the common pheasant is best reflected by its being split into three species." - one of the main conclusions of our paper on diversification of the common pheasant that appeared today in "Journal of Biogeography" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb… Yang Liu

Spatiotemporal phylogeography of the common pheasant provides insights into divergent drivers of regional diversification. Work led by Yang Liu (Yang Liu) and Manuel Schweizer(Manuel Schweizer). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jb…

Genomic Consequences of Long-term Population Decline in Brown Eared Pheasant academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Counterintuitively, we found successful breeding predicts divorce in plovers nature.com/articles/s4159…

The allocation between egg size and clutch size depends on local nest survival rate in a mean of bet-hedging in a shorebird bit.ly/2Hu5N0n Open Access Avian Research BioMed Cenral #ornithology

I've been an ornithologist for over ten years and NO ONE EVER TOLD ME there's a bird with jazz hands??? We need to revise our curriculum.

Holy shit. A lot of wild stuff in this new bird phylogeny. Most notably, their radiation of modern birds is completely unrelated to the KPg mass extinction. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My first paper in almost two years is out, and open access! Work i did with Field Palaeobiology Research Group on the timing of modern bird origins, comparing how wellnode age priors taken from molecular studies fit morphological evolutionary models. Infographic summary here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Congrats to Neil Brocklehurst on his new paper exploring avian phylogenetic divergence times across the K–Pg mass extinction in Proc B. The timing is interesting in light of last week's controversial avian time tree published in PNAS. Take a look, open access! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Read the latest blog post on Wing Beat from @Rob_vanBemmelen: Sandwich Terns avoid entering offshore wind farms americanornithology.org/sandwich-terns… Paper: academic.oup.com/condor/article… #windfarm #seabirdmortality #offshorewind #ornithologicalapplications

Been waiting on this one for a while, congratulations to the authors -- very nice work, and nicely complimentary to our related work here (still in review purgatory for >1.5 years ) bit.ly/avian_eb

Human–wildlife coexistence needs more evidence-based interventions to reduce the losses of crops, livestock and fishery catches 📑 Collective effort is needed to 👉Further evaluate interventions using various sensory stimuli 👉Launch incentive programs 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…