Thanks for your support of Team Angels & Alumni at today's @marycariola.bsky.social Walking on Sunshine event 💙💛 #WOS2025
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Had a blast at #WOS2025 talking birds and catching up with great people. But my favorite part was seeing superstar Oswego undergrad Griffin Kutny mixing it up at his first conference! He had great things to say about the welcoming atmosphere at @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social and the Flocks project.
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Auriel Fournier, receives the Wilson Ornithological Society presidential mallet from Dan Klem, outgoing president of the Wilson Ornithological Society. They are standing outside, Auriel is dressed casually, Dan is wearing a suit coat and khaki pants. Both are smiling.
Had a wonderful time at #WOS2025 last week, huge thanks to @kristencovino.bsky.social for being such a wonderful host!
I'm really honored to have started my two years as @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social President last week! Its a huge privilege to get to lead the society that has given me so much!
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Oregon-type Dark-eyed Junco, a soft brown bird with a black head and a pink beak, peaking around the wood of a tree trunk.
Dark-eyed Juncos used to overwinter in Southern California and go north to breed, but a few decades ago some started living in SoCal full-time.
#WOS2025 had many great talks by members of UCLA Prof. Pamela Yeh's lab-- they study the urban juncos, I learned about them then walked outside to see them
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One of the many things we learned from Sara Morris's amazing plenary talk at #WOS2025 this week is that June 27 is Guillemot Appreciation Day. So make sure to take a few minutes today to appreciate these amazing birds!
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Congratulations to the winners of the WOS's Student Presentation Awards at #WOS2025! Keep checking back in the coming weeks as we post all of the awards and announcements from the meeting. wilsonsociety.org/2025/06/26/2...
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Safe travels to everyone headed home from #WOS2025 today! Check back in the coming weeks as we post the full details on the award and grant recipients announced at the meeting.
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Jess and their students- Lauren, Iqra, Noelle, Elle, and Isaiah (also honorary lab member Erebus the service pup). They are standing in front of a green roof space full of wildflowers, with everyone smiling.
It was so awesome to bring some of my students to the #WOS2025 meeting. My heart is so full getting to see so many old friends, and to see my students so excited to learn- seeing them experience their first meeting like I was not all that long ago! ❤️
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Outgoing WOS president Dan Klem officially passes the gavel to incoming president Auriel Fournier! #WOS2025
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Congratulations to this year's research grant winners and student presentation award winners — those here and those absent! #WOS2025
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@evornithology.bsky.social Talks about a (social media inspired) study on mating preferences in Black Terns. Males are subtly, but still significantly, darker than females - and the birds can tell the difference! More black/saturated birds also pair with more gray/unsaturated birds #WOS2025
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Ebird screenshot for me, SK Winnicki, in the ABA area, showing I’ve reported 501 bird species across 838 checklists
Birding trips at the #WOS2025 meeting have gotten me up over 500 species in the American Birding Association (ABA) region, which is basically North America above the Mexico-US border. Kid-me would be so proud haha
Lifers today: Nuttall’s Woodpecker and California Gnatcatcher
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Tania Romero shows how extreme climatic events can have a large impact on migratory bird species. Birds, however, still show extreme levels of resilience to these changes. Abundance of songbirds in SoCal is not always tied to green-ness - birds may prioritize stability over abundance #WOS2025
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Daniel Goldberg shows that female birds can sing, too! Or, well, hoot! Duetting in owls is common, even though it’s rare in raptors overall. Owls who duet can live anywhere in the world, may be territorial year-round, are more likely to be in dense habitats. #WOS2025
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@s-m-aguillon.bsky.social talks about the _iconic_ coloration of yellow and red shafted Northern flickers, museum specimens, and hybrids. We can use both historic museum specimens and modern sampling to see how clinal variation has shifted through time as the result of ecological change #WOS2025
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Devon DeRaad investigates the genomic differences between scrub-jay populations across the United States and Mexico. There may be a new species within Woodhouse’s scrub-jay, along with evidence of gene flow and hybridization between Woodhouse’s and California scrub jay. #WOS2025
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Dylan Titmuss uses GPS tags to track Great Black-backed Gulls to understand their home ranges and movement during the non-breeding season. Gulls can move very far, and can do so very quickly, especially during midwinter months. #WOS2025
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Riley Lawson looks at >11k data points of window collisions - there are 25 species that account for 68% of all records, with the Evening Grosbeak with >1k records. That species, and many others, are in sharp decline; but overall window collisions may actually be very underreported. #WOS2025
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@e-v-griffith.bsky.social is currently presenting about her work on sexual dichromatism in ducks at #WOS2025. (Emily has been posting to Bluesky about all of the talks she's been attending, so we thought it was only fair to post about hers!)
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Sarah Slayton studies Black-crowned Night Herons living in Urban Chicago using GPS trackers. Not all BCNH in breeding colonies actually breed, and non breeding birds have ranges almost 18 times bigger than their breeding counterparts in the same colony! #WOS2025
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Here's what's coming up the rest of today at #WOS2025...
11:40am: Lunch, Featherston courtyard
*Bring your lunch to Pereira Hall for a Q&A with the editors of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology!
1–5pm: Concurrent sessions in Pereira Hall
6pm: Banquet and awards ceremony, Featherston courtyard
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Romy Rice hi-lights an interdisciplinary research approach to integrate evolution and biodiversity research with education and engagement in local communities, focusing on the breeding ecology of the Cream-coloured courser #WOS2025
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Holly Todaro using #Wingspan to explain #LifeHistory traits in #birds affected by #AGW. #metanalysis #ornithology #OKState #NREM #WOS2025
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Aaron Skinner tests hypotheses relating to Bergmann’s rule in nightjars using ~190 tracked birds (!!) Nightjars do follow Bergmann’s rule in their relationship to size and latitude, longitude, and elevation. #WOS2025
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New slate of WOS officers and councilors just voted in at #WOS2025! Watch for a full announcement on our website after the meeting.
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