Lance-tailed Manakins Watch the Lance-tailed Manakin cam

The 2026 Lance-tailed Manakin webcam is live! Pro tip: click 'watch on you-tube' and scroll back in time to find the action, (today, see 8:23am). Or just enjoy the sounds of the tropical forest and see what's going on NOW in the world of the manakins. www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/lance-t...

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Solid and accurate reporting on our current situation.

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡🦆🦅 . 🗓️ Deadline within next 7 weeks (~25th of May).
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JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY - VOLUMEN 97, NUMERO 1 - Marzo 2026 ¡Nuestra revista es de acceso abierto! ¡Visita journal.afonet.org para leer de manera gratuita este númer y muchos más!

¡Descubre las últimas novedades en materia de ornitología! Ya salió el Volumen 97, Número 1 del #JournalofFieldOrnithology, con nuevas publicaciones de investigadores de todo el mundo.

La revista es de acceso abierto. ¡Accede gratis al volumen completo journal.afonet.org/vol97/iss1/!

This would fund entire US Forest Service for 20 years and USFS Research and Devlopment branch for 666 years 😈

This issue includes my first paper wherein my thesis student is the first author, stoked to see the study species (WHWO) featured!

A “thinned” forest stand, with ferns and other plants growing in the understory

An “unthinned” forest stand, that is very dense with trees

thinned stand on the left, with its unthinned neighbor on the right 🤌

My department at OWU is hiring a full-time Visiting Assistant Professor for next year! The job would be perfect for anyone interested in working at a small liberal arts college. Please share broadly (repost!). More details to follow...
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A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny Featured image: Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) © Cephas | Wikimedia Commons

New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!

A colorful mess: Widespread exchange of pigmentation genes across the Parulidae phylogeny
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Based on the PLoS Biology paper by Kevin Bennett and his colleagues | #ornithology

Guest Post: Sequencing the “Uncommon Mourningthroat” A fun challenge for birders, once we’ve become familiar with common bird species, is recognizing hybrids.

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! WJO author Kevin Bennett describes the work that went into definitively identifying an "Uncommon Mourningthroat," a Mourning Warbler x Common Yellowthroat hybrid. #ornithology

Oh it is 100% worth it. Zotero has so many features Mendeley does not. I am most looking forward to the spilt screen reader that allows for looking at the references while reading. My highlights from Mendeley are still in Zotero. It is very easy to do make the move: www.zotero.org/support/kb/m...

I am happy to announce a major milestone in my career. I have successfully transferred all my references and their corresponding PDFs from Mendeley to Zotero. Thank you to Mendeley for its consistent support through the years.

Cover credit and caption: Migratory birds face the complex challenges of migration with an array of physiological adaptations, exemplified clockwise: thermoregulatory, endocrine, microbial, energy metabolism (fuel use), immune and mitochondrial. Water colour painting of a bar-tailed godwit by Abby McBride.

✨ New Special Issue Out!

"New frontiers in avian physiology: what’s migration got to do with it?"

This special issue highlights emerging frontiers across scales, from molecules to whole organisms, in relation to the physiological mechanisms behind birds’ migratory feats

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Join the lab of Peter Dijkstra at Central Michigan University.
🧬 NSF-funded research on behavior, aggression, and stress resilience in East African cichlid fish, combining genomics, cognition & neurobiology.

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Bird nests support a diverse, dynamic and distinctive macroarthropod community on the forest floor Nests built by vertebrates, such as birds and mammals, constitute diverse microhabitats that are inhabited by many arthropod taxa and represent important hubs of local biodiversity. Compared to leaf...

New paper! Bird nests (Wood Warblers) are hubs of invertebrate biodiversity on forest floor, hosting more species/individuals than leaf litter. Probably due to heat & food detritus. Losing Wood Warblers = ecological networks lost. #ornithology
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HEY‼️ Come work with my team this summer! We're hiring 2 crew leads and at least 4 crew members to work on ecological research projects across OR, WA, and CA. Postings below 👇

"Understanding how organisms respond to environmental challenges is a fundamental #biological question that is dependent on integrative studies bridging different levels of biological organization..."
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#birds #avian #ecology

USAJobs Guide for Biologists and Ecologists Authors: Shawn Taylor, Jessica Burnett This guide accompanies this post highlighting careers in the US Government. The US federal jobs site, USAJobs, is notoriously difficult to use. This guide aim…

I have previously shared the following link to people applying through USAjobs. It sounds like the system has changed quite a bit, does anyone know of an updated resource?

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IOB, Now in issue!

State-Dependent and Social Modulation of Circulating #Glucocorticoids in a Nomadic #Songbird, the Red #Crossbill (Loxia Curvirostra)

(cover photo) Neil Paprocki
Vernasco et al

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#birds #biology #hormones #ecology #endocrine

Birds are vanishing from tropical forests. Is another ‘silent spring’ coming? As mysterious bird declines crop up in the Amazon and beyond, scientists suspect climate change may be to blame

"Intact tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines. Is another “silent spring” brewing?"

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Congratulations Josef, very well deserved!

Field job in the beautiful mountains of NE Oregon doing passive acoustic monitoring and woodpecker demography just went live. Please share!

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Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

A climate-mediated ecological cascade leads to salmonellosis outbreaks in the United States. Temperature differences in successive summers are associated with differences in tree cone production in high-elevation and high-latitude forests (Top row), such that a warm summer followed by a cold summer is associated with a drop in cone production the following year (Top Right panel). Cone production is negatively associated with facultative bird migrations (irruptions) of eight seed-eating species (Middle row), such that when cone numbers are low, birds are more likely to irrupt in large numbers (Middle row, Right panel). When irruptions of pine siskins (S. pinus) occur, more songbirds are often found infected with, or dead from, salmonellosis (Bottom Right panel).

New paper links Salmonellosis disease dynamics to avian irruptions mediated by transmission at bird feeders - with subsequent spillover to humans causing severe illness and death 🪶🌎 #ornithology #UKBirding
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #BirdFeeding #Rethink @mwtingley.bsky.social

Got Beef With Cowbirds? This Researcher Wants to Change Your Mind The nest parasites get a bad rap for making other birds raise their young, but study by study, Mark Hauber and his “Cowbird Lab” have revealed a species worthy of respect.

Update on some of our decades long cowbird research in @audubon.org magazine: www.audubon.org/magazine/got...

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The Wyoming Game & Fish Dept. is hiring two Black Rosy-Finch technicians to conduct alpine surveys in Wyoming's high elevation mountains during June 1st to Aug 31st 2026: www.governmentjobs.com/careers/wyom.... Spread the word!

Fed agency looking for wildlife refuges that 'no longer align with the mission' The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it's looking for ways to make hundreds of wildlife refuges and dozens of fish hatcheries more efficient.

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Update: the mini bus package that includes USDA passed the House.

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧

We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.

Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.