Of course, Pterodroma neglecta had to be among the understudied seabird species. 😜 On the other hand, everybody got surprised to see P. inexpectata there! (Hope I do not get banned from NHMUK for this 😂)

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

museum job alert 🇨🇦 royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/XBR2Yc...

Out now in Biology Letters, my latest paper tackles an apparently simple question: how many characters are needed to reconstruct a phylogeny? TL;DR: in most cases between 100 and 500, more than a substantial portion of morphological datasets, but the story is more complex... doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

Ectoparasite and blood parasite prevalence in birds: a comparative study between urbanized airport environments and natural habitats | link.springer.com/ar... | Oecologia | #ornithology 🪶

💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.

Pre-print em português (sorry @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social ) do nosso artigo publicado recentemente na PECON disponível no @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

I had missed this well written rebuttal on the purported Ivory-billed Woodpecker rediscoveries; these passages in particular are gold:🪶 academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... #Ornithology

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Konshau Duman writes about his discovery that White-throated Sparrows regularly mimic the chip calls of Golden-crowned Sparrows, opening up new questions about whether calls are learned. #ornithology wilsonsociety.org/2025/09/26/g...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Variable social organization and breeding system of a social parrot revealed by genetic analysis | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Francesca S. E. Dawson Pell, Juan Carlos Senar, Alba Ortega-Segalerva, Terry Burke, Ben J. Hatchwell | #ornithology 🪶

Eu moro no país que passou por 20 anos e assassinatos e torturas da ditadura militar. O país onde mais se mata ativistas ambientais. O país do Chico Mendes, do Bruno Pereira, da Dorothy Stang e da Marielle. Eu me recuso a discutir violência política em termos de “a culpa é da polarização”.

Assessing honeydew consumption and bird–bird interactions in bird communities in Southern Brazil | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

How should we frame and name the diversity of information linked to specimens in natural history collections? Researchers provide an overview of the most commonly used key terms, examine their conceptual interrelations, and present a literature-based survey of their usage. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/nhcm...

This should be a lot of fun! Help us find out if BES journal data and code sharing policies are actually working, with a little side bonus quest about data equity 🤓

Happy to share our latest paper in which we use a new big phylogeny of birds to analyze the relationships between dispersal, geographic range size and diversification rates across all birds. See also post by ‪@sheardcat.bsky.social‬ and @josephtobias.bsky.social www.cell.com/current-biol...

Breeding biology of the Critically Endangered Cherry-throated Tanager Nemosia rourei | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶

Por que as pessoas não conjugam o verbo “haver” pro passado? “Na ocasião, o jogador não entrava em campo HAVIA mais de um mês”. (e não “há um mês”). Jornalista de empresa grande errando o básico 🤦‍♂️😐 @tvglobo.com

#BiologyLetters Even in well-studied groups such as birds, cryptic diversity can be a prevalent reality. In this study, museomics unravels cryptic diversity in an endemic group of New Guinean songbirds royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #evolution #taxonomy and systematics

Interesting question arose during an email conversation about museum labels: Can we assume QR codes will still be a thing in the near future (≈ next 50 years for museums)? I've got QR codes on all my labels. Be interesting if they needed replacing some day.. 🧪

Contemplating an idea for a Review, Perspective, or Methods paper in #ornithology? We can offer a limited number of Open Access fee waivers for these types of papers and welcome presubmission inquiries!

Ecological Niche Modelling of Microendemic Species: Understanding the Distribution of Montane Frogs in the Southern Brazilian Atlantic Forest onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Phylogenetic position of the recently extinct Nesotrochis "cave rails" of the Caribbean: www.avespress.com/uploads/down... New analysis suggests they were the closest known relatives of the (also recently extinct) New Zealand adzebills! 🪶🧪 (📷 @stervander.com et al.)

Parlamentares decidem aumentar os próprios salários, acabar com direitos trabalhistas, anistiar golpistas e roubar o orçamento pra inviabilizar o governo. O povo reage e rapidinho os analistas começam a se preocupara. MODERAÇÃO É O NOSSO PAU NA SUA MÃO PORRA

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Phylogenetic analysis of the Blue-eyed Ground Dove (Columbina cyanopis) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences: revalidating the genus Oxypelia link.springer.com/article/10.1...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Modelling migration dynamics of Common Cranes and Eurasian Spoonbills as hydrological flow | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Mark C. Drever, Luis M. Bautista-Sopelana, Juan C. Alonso, Juan G. Navedo, Markus Hrachowitz | #ornithology 🪶

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition! Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026 Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate More info: vist.ly/3n7fbc8 @NordicOikos.bsky.social

Tem alguns pontos que obviamente estão num contexto estadunidense, mas a ideia geral é universal. Já vimos o mesmo por aqui em governos passados. Ciência básica não é ciência inútil! www.americanscientist.org/article/%E2%...

New data paper out today on bird-window collisions in the Neotropics esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #WindowStrike #WindowCollisions #ornithology

O curioso caso do ornitólogo que “perdeu a memória”, mas não perdeu o estilo de escrita!

The real pioneer field sound recordist of Colombian birds, Tomas Cuadros, produced a 45 rpm vinyl in the early 80s. Newcomers now know Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...

This is only possible if you keep collecting things. #CollectionsAreEssential Not only that, you gotta collect large enough sample sizes of common things, not just a few individuals of uncommon things.

Lançado edital de vagas remanescentes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia da UFMT (mestrado)!

Our new paper led by Rachel Carmenta explodes the myth that poverty drives biodiversity loss - we show that it is wealth that has a disproportionate role 🌍 authors.elsevier.com/c/1l3Im6gsyP...

Proof that I have become an old grumpy ornithologist: I’m gonna complain about my own ornithological society (SBO, not BOU!) for letting such a poor title of a paper appear in our journal. I don’t know the authors personally. Maybe they are great guys. They did succeed in getting attention, thought.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! What drives plumage evolution in woodpeckers? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/w... #ornithology

Acho que esta ainda é a única gravação que existe dessa espécie. Que mais pessoas possam gravar e documentar esse bicho tão legal, aumentando nosso conhecimento sobre seu repertório. 🙂 (Tenho também o canto de um bicho cedinho, no mesmo território, mas não vi a ave. Um dia saberei se é)

Lançado edital de vagas remanescentes do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia da UFMT (mestrado)!

From the current WJO issue - Eltonian shortfall of Neotropical brood parasitism: untapped records from museums and recent field studies. #ornithology www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apologies for being repetitive: Maíra is undoubtedly among the best bird artists in South America. 👏👏👏

Novo artigo na área! 🐸 Descobrimos que girinos de Leptodactylus macrosternum reconhecem a mãe através de sinais químicos, aumentando o comportamento de agregação — uma estratégia importante contra predadores! 🔗 Leia o artigo completo (open access): doi.org/10.1111/aec....

If you're still looking for inspiration on how to dye your #Easter Eggs, I would love to draw your attention to our updated chart of #dinosaur egg colors! 🦕🦖🐣🥚🟠🔵

Na hierarquia clerical, o papa está acima dos cardeais, que por sua vez estão acima dos bispos. Ilustrado ornitologicamente pelo Lama, pra quem não sabe reconhecer as diferenças. Notas: 1) tem outros cardeais além dos Paroaria 2) Papa-capim, papa-formiga e papa-lagarta entram como papas?

Que lleva a que un buitre decida bajar a una carroña y no a otra??? Esa es la pregunta que nos hicimos en el último articulo que hemos publicado 👇🧵https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.250085

The spring issue of The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology is online now! Members, remember you can access it for free via our online member portal at wilson.wildapricot.org. Thank you for your patience as we've completed our transition to Taylor & Francis! www.tandfonline.com/toc/uwjo20/c...

And a nice press release 🧪🦉 www.psu.edu/news/eberly-...

hibridization and speciation in an island, the iconic case of the "original" hummingbirds: Trochilus 🇯🇲 #speciation #ornithology #evolution academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Don't like the discussion around changing common names for birds? Start your own organization that is deliberately conflated with another! Yes folks, the American Ornithologists Union* is, uh, back? americanornithologistsunion.org *Not the same AOU that is now the American Ornithological Society

⚠️ Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse? Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology. 🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...#ornithology ⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025 🪶🧪 Please repost!

Já passou de 10 mil assinaturas. Mas ainda cabem mais! 🙂

Boa noite, pessoal! Agora temos um abaixo-assinado pra jogar na cara de vários atores envolvidos. Precisamos tornar ele GIGANTE. Conto com vocês! Compartilhem com amigos, família, papagaio, cachorro, vizinho e quem mais puder ajudar!! #IrritatorBelongstoBR chng.it/Jm99Rsrw44