Illustrating Bird10K by reusing my old collage of Elementaves bird species, arranged following the classical elements, from bottom to top, of water, earth, air, and fire. All images with CC0 license, unless otherwise stated. Water: Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti), Common Loon (Gavia immer). Earth: Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) [Hari K Patibanda, https://flic.kr/p/2oM6rs3, CC BY-NC 2.0], Tasmanian Nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii). Air: Common Swift (Apus apus), Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia). Fire: Sunbittern (Eurypygia helias) [Jean Ogden, https://flic.kr/p/2puQRv2, CC BY 2.0], White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).

I ran this side project for @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & @nhm-london.bsky.social w great collabs: Gerald Mayr (Dr Bones & Rapid-write) and Chen Guangji & Feng Shaohong (of #B10K #Bird10K, saving the day when supposedly public data was not so public).

Special thx to Piotr Gryz for cave rail pic!

(2/3) 🌍 🦅 In November 2020, the #B10K Consortium hit a major milestone: 363 bird genomes representing 92% of all bird families—published as a Nature cover story! 🐦🧬
See the link here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Genomics #Biodiversity #Evolution #B10K #conservationgenomics #genomes #nature

(1/3) 🌍 🦜 Can 10,000 Bird Genomes unlock the #evolution of #flight?
The 10K Bird Genomes Project is building the genomic foundation to decode how flight evolved—and why birds became such masters of the skies.

#Genomics #Biodiversity #Evolution #flight #B10K #birds #bluesky #nature #wildlife

Collage of Elementaves bird species, arranged following the classical elements, from bottom to top, of water, earth, air, and fire. All images with CC0 license, unless otherwise stated. Water: Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti), Common Loon (Gavia immer). Earth: Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) [Hari K Patibanda, https://flic.kr/p/2oM6rs3, CC BY-NC 2.0], Tasmanian Nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii). Air: Common Swift (Apus apus), Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia). Fire: Sunbittern (Eurypygia helias) [Jean Ogden, https://flic.kr/p/2puQRv2, CC BY 2.0], White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).

Fancy a nice digest of the bird family tree news from there #B10K project? Head over to NHM at www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new..., where @joshlukedavis.bsky.social has written up a story in the delightful way he usually does!

🪶 #birds #ornithology #SciComm

Collage of Elementaves bird species, arranged following the classical elements, from bottom to top, of water, earth, air, and fire. All images with CC0 license, unless otherwise stated. Water: Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti), Common Loon (Gavia immer). Earth: Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus) [Hari K Patibanda, https://flic.kr/p/2oM6rs3, CC BY-NC 2.0], Tasmanian Nativehen (Tribonyx mortierii). Air: Common Swift (Apus apus), Stripe-tailed Hummingbird (Eupherusa eximia). Fire: Sunbittern (Eurypygia helias) [Jean Ogden, https://flic.kr/p/2puQRv2, CC BY 2.0], White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).

BOOM, #BirdTwitter! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in @Nature: doi.org/10.1038/s415.... From the #B10K #Bird10K project, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves. 🧵
 
#ornithology #phylogenomics 🪶

Joel Cracraft speaking in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters about the challenges ahead for comparative phenomics in birds #b10k

Up on the 15th floor: Tandy Warnow talking through new solutions to computational challenges of ‘phylogenomic’ tree estimation. Also visible: Jon Fjeldsa, @SClaramuntUY and the Copenhagen skyline. #B10K