Tired of lumping all insectivores together? Now we can appreciate a quantitative breakdown of foraging ecology across all birds!

09-33: Why Birders Go Where They Go with Natalia Ocamp-Peñuela & Scott Winton

Following on from our avitourism paper in @peopleandnature.bsky.social, you can hear @birdmapper.bsky.social and @rswamper.bsky.social discuss the paper on the @amornith.bsky.social podcast. Have a listen! open.spotify.com/episode/2J1J...

🐦‍⬛New Research: Human development, societal stability and bird capital predict global tourist eBirding activity➡️ buff.ly/n7EUFbY

"Birdwatchers choose to visit countries that are safe, well-developed, and full of unique birds"
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It was fun analysing birding data instead of bird data! Read on to find out the predictors of where eBirders go birding around the world!

Range‐restricted species are poor proxies for functional diversity in the world's largest avifauna We assessed the relationship between avian taxonomic richness (four metrics) and functional diversity (three metrics) across Colombia, the country with the most bird species. We found total species r....

New paper 🚨 with @birdmapper.bsky.social! We mapped various diversity metrics for the colossal avifauna of Colombia! Species and functional richness are tightly linked but range-restricted endemics do not capture functional diversity well conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Looking forward to presenting at #AOS25 on EcoScape, a novel habitat connectivity algorithm for mapping birds across fragmented landscapes! Check it out at 4:15, bring any prospective PhD students you know…👀

Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds - Evolutionary Ecology Evolutionary Ecology - Climate change is having profound impacts on biodiversity, with notable effects on the distribution, and morphology of species. Many studies have documented changes in body...

🚨Great to be part of this paper led by Natalia Pérez-Amaya quantifying a century of morphological change in lowland rainforest birds! @birdmapper.bsky.social @cdanielcadena.bsky.social @julisoto.bsky.social @amcuervo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Check out the press release for our recent paper on Species on the Move!

As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day every year - @theU Study by U biologists taps data from 22,000 songbirds captured at Bonderman Field Station to reveal changes in how they replace their feathers

Check out the @uofubiology.bsky.social press release on our recent paper documenting advances in molt phenology! attheu.utah.edu/research/as-...

Fall Advances in the Timing of Molt in Birds in the Southwestern United States | The American Naturalist Abstract Molt is a critical event in the annual cycle of birds. Although we know an increasing amount about the impacts of climate change on the timing of other avian events, there has been relatively...

New paper from mentee Kyle Kittelberger publushed in @asn-amnat.bsky.social! We know climate change drives phenological shifts in birds, but Kyle shows that the phenology of post-breeding MOLT is also advancing over time for birds migrating through southeastern Utah! @uofubiology.bsky.social

Change is driving species on the move across time and space and we need to understand the entireity of that picture! Truly a pleasure to work with @afredston.bsky.social, @mwtingley.bsky.social, and many others over the past two years to bring this conceptual vision to fruition! tinyurl.com/5n96tz3a

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Our recent paper made the cover of Ornithological Applications! We used Bayesian hierarchical mark-recapture modelling to understand demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras. @amornith.bsky.social @seijones.bsky.social. Check out the paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Queer Black voices in conservation Click on the article title to read more.

Hey all! 🦋 A really lovely group of co-authors and I wrote this recent piece for the special issue @society4conbio.bsky.social. We talk about both the challenges and strengths that come with being Black and queer in conservation ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🌱 Always a re-energizing read for me! ❤️ doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Durham cathedral in crepuscular winter light

📣 I'm recruiting PhD students for several projects: jonathanpdrury.com/opportunitie... #PleaseRepost

🚨Looking for two PhD students to join our lab in Fall' 25🚨

If you know someone that loves/works with Neotropical birds and/or species interactions, and is looking for a PhD please share this with them! (application deadline is January 3rd).

More info here --> montanolab.com/join-us/

Unraveling demographic patterns in tropical birds across an elevational gradient Abstract. An increasing body of evidence has displayed upslope shifts in the high-diversity avian communities of tropical mountains. Such shifts have large

También ofrecemos una traducción completa al español! doi.org/10.1093/orni... (7/7)

We also provide baseline demographic estimates that account for transient birds, which could be incorporated into meta-analyses of life history (6/7)

And early evidence that the elevational gradient in population growth rates is associated with previously published elevational shift rates. Taken together, our results suggest that demographic parameters could be used to infer elevational shifts! (5/7)

We find that lower elevation species tend to be increasing relative to higher elevation species (4/7)

We report preliminary evidence of elevational gradients in demographic rates (3/7)

We promote a Bayesian hierarchical framework for analysing demographic parameters, which includes transient individuals and random effects, and encourage others to apply this to their hard-earned long-term banding datasets! (2/7)

🚨Kicking off my Bluesky life, I present our study in @amornith.bsky.social! We use Bayesian multi-species mark-recapture (CMR) models to assess avian demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras! @samuel-ei-jones.bsky.social, @jsaracco.bsky.social 🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1093/orni...