Our radar is picking up birds 🐦roosting this morning denoted by light blue circles in eastern Ohio. This is common in the mid to late summer.

📖Published📖 Check out our latest review paper 📝 Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics 🌍 🧪 👇 buff.ly/ZKXk23E

u just had to be there

I made a collection of bird ornaments, each one representing a species we can spot from our home, at the public pond out front and the birds in our backyard. I created them to celebrate this place where I finally feel at home and to enjoy making something crafty just for me again. :D

If you’re at #AOS25, come see @brookedgoodman.bsky.social’s talk today at 11!

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

ITS MY PAPERRRRRRRRR

#avianaugust week 1 compilation

To any bioacoustics folks joining us at #AOS2025, we are hosting an informal bioacoustics meetup at Trust Cocktail Bar Thursday at 5:30pm! Join us!! 🐦 🔊

Forgot to make a post for International Cat Day yesterday... Happy International Cat Day to all!

HEY!!!! I’m going to be at AOS in St. Louis presenting my first first-author publication, comparing Merlin Sound ID to point counters in field surveys :) you should come see my talk in Methods & Models 3 on Thursday @ 10:30!

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 From field recordings to ecological insights 🎙️🌳 Our new review in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social explores integrating #AI into #bioacoustics workflows to improve biodiversity monitoring and ecological inference Check it out! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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.

You can’t understand bird declines without also understanding insect declines. Grateful our work on insect-bird interactions was highlighted by Smithsonian Mag. If you love birds, think about whether your actions are helping the insects they need to survive. www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

WOS member Andrew Dreelin's research on prairie dogs and curlews was recently featured on the NPR podcast Short Wave. #ornithology

@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

Here’s a red-winged blackbird nest I found last week 🪺

The only being more scared of the badgerinator than the Long-Billed Curlews… was me. Read this paper so Andrew’s endless hours driving this demon chimera through the hole-filled prairie are appreciated!

With the explosion of another SpaceX rocket, I want to remind you of the conservation implications and direct ties to FWS.

So excited to share this paper, lead-authored by newly-minted Dr. Andrew Dreelin from my lab and @andyjboyce.bsky.social's with you all! 🧪 There's this paradox about prairie dog towns - many birds seem to love them, but they attract a lot of predators. 1/n authors.elsevier.com/c/1lFifmjMA3tq

Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Interspecific eavesdropping by birds on a keystone mammal improves antipredator behaviour | www.sciencedirect.co... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology 🪶

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 Led by Erin Morrison and @ajshultz622.bsky.social, we compiled the AvianLexiconAtlas to categorize all 10,906 bird species’ English common names. Here are some general trends we uncovered… journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 1/4

Happy Saltmarsh Day to all who celebrate! (I do.)

Oh shit! The new hotness from @nepeteaa.bsky.social! 🔥 Owl banding at Rice Creek Bird Observatory back in full effect this fall. 🦉

Was visited by baby aliens at the banding station today 👽👽👽 (American Woodcock)

Yesterday I got Pennsylvanias state first White-tailed Kite. Unfortunately this means I have peaked, and my life will be downhill from here.

Dr. Andrew Dreelin talked about our research on grassland birds eavesdropping on Prairie-dogs on @npr.org Science Friday!! #ornithology www.sciencefriday.com/segments/din... study by Andrew, @dochpjones.bsky.social and I: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Audubon's Christmas Bird Count (CBC) has been happening for 125 years. That's a LOT of bird data. Our team has built a CBC Trends Viewer where you can select a bird and/or a state/province to see how specific bird populations are changing near you www.audubon.org/community-sc...

On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated birds in the world. Scientists say the crisis is getting worse. cnn.it/4dxUEpZ

We're happy to join @nationalwildlife.bsky.social @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social TWS @entsocamerica.bsky.social @xercessociety.bsky.social @society4conbio.bsky.social & many more for this event on Thursday & encourage all our members & supporters to join as well! www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79...

The racing stripes make him go extra fast 🏎️💨 (Gray Catbird)

These are the new Seven Commandments www.audubon.org/magazine/sev...

A great reminder that monitoring window collisions is both 1. The most heart wrenching task imaginable 2. So important to actually get building managers to take action

The ABC interviewed the @adriftlab.bsky.social team on Lord Howe Island last month. Even this article doesn't capture the feeling of heartbreak and grim reality of feeling plastic crunch inside a live seabird chick. #ornithology #PlasticPollution

New paper! We developed HawkEars, a CNN training framework and classifier for a regional community of acoustic animals - 328 bird species and 13 amphibian species in Canada. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #bioacoustics 1/n

anyways, here’s a how and a why explainer for alt text. the US government decided accessibility was “catering to the weak” as part of the MAHA eugenics agenda. don’t post like those fucking nazi pricks.

I like to spend my free time volunteering in my community. Recently, I’ve been teaching this young Mourning Dove to read. I’m no hero. Just trying to give back. 🙏

starting his work day

Happy World Migratory Bird Day! We celebrated by hosting a bird and nature walk at a local park. Many migratory bird species are imperiled - here are 10 ways you can help. www.birds.cornell.edu/home/get-inv...

12 Local Warblers, acrylic on panel, 30” x 30” The staff at Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory (PEPtBO) provided a list of the 12 warblers most commonly banded in 2024. I designed the list into this painting. #SciArt #birdwatching #ornithology #nature #contemporaryart #parrottgallery #peptbo

It was a privilege to help tell the stories of U.S. scientists whose lives have been upended during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration in this recent piece for @science.org

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g. This is not our record.

The Merlin Bird ID app wouldn’t exist #WithoutNSF. 🪶

bro I didn’t even get to be a grad student before the government tried to delete science

Check out this great story and video about the Oswego Bobolink Project #OBOBO! With the help of dedicated students like Nikki, we’re making a difference for this species that has suffered dramatic recent population declines. www.oswego.edu/news/story/p...

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —*Arrested* at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I hope everyone had a fruitful visit from the beloved easter hawk today as well. :)