New ornithological method just dropped: capture only the birds needed for your study with the click of a button. Pub from me & @verntasco.bsky.social Bye-bye bycatch: a remotely closing trap for targeted songbird capture. Journal of Field Ornithology. journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss4/a...

Do you trap songbirds at a bird feeder, with a focus on particular species or individuals? Consider trying out our new design which uses a key FOB to remotely close the trap! journal.afonet.org/vol96/iss4/a...

New paper out. If you like colorful birds, hybridization, and phylogenetics, read on! 🧵https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3003501

New research in @sicbjournals.bsky.social on individual variation in glucocorticoid physiology. We examine intrinsic and extrinsic sources using a captive population of Red Crossbills. One cool result - we find adult telomere length predicts glucocorticoid concentrations doi.org/10.1093/iob/...

I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉 gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

Also DNA PEOPLE!! We need your help!! Our cool friends collected the white witch caterpillar's poop but need to process it to find what kinds of plants it eats! Does your lab do some kind of poop plant analysis? Please let us know!! We have special poop!

New OA paper today! This one is very important to me as is the culmination of over a decade of incredibly intensive field work in KS prairies. I will walk you through the take-homes... 1/n #Tallgrass #GRSP #LTER #Konza #PopulationEcology #Rain dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

@fieldornith.bsky.social new position search!

We're hiring! Florida State University’s Department of Biological Science is seeking a tenure-track Evolutionary Geneticist. Our E&E group is outstanding - join us! Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Evolution #Genetics #EvoDevo #FacultyJob jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675930/a...

Anyone looking for an undergrad research assistant this coming summer? I have a truly phenomenal undergrad with expertise in genetic mapping, long read sequencing & bioinformatics who wants experience in another lab before grad school. She has been in our lab for 3 years & writing her first paper!

Looking for an adjunct to teach Indigenous Psychology in the spring. Could be asynchronous or via Zoom in the evening (Pacific). Very open to whatever approach/content you'd like to cover. Pay is $3,300 for the semester. We're a Native American Serving Non-Tribal Institution, as well as an HSI!

The perfect paper, the perfect grant proposal, the perfect fellowship application…

New from CWRU alumn Troy Neptune, with Diana Koester (CLE Metroparks Zoo) in @animalecology.bsky.social. Gray treefrogs use daylength as a seasonal cue to prepare for winter. Autumn daylength triggers frogs to accumulate 14-fold more liver glycogen than summer photoperiod. doi.org/10.1111/1365...

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

This is a nice IU short on our eclipse project. #NSF youtube.com/shorts/PrQGn...

Latest articles from the WJO: Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

thank you bills tiktok

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do... We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

Happy to share a new USFS General Technical Report on passive acoustic monitoring my collaborators and I put together. We discuss sampling design and introduce the Simple Passive Acoustic Monitoring (SPAM) protocol (R/python code/scripts included!)! link here: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/6...

Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Genetic and environmental sources of behavioral individuality: a test of the standard model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672710v1

Anyone here who can tell me more about the wildlife program at Oregon State?

Amid all the continuing good news from the world, another preprint! Inbreeding depression and tuberculosis susceptibility in the critically endangered white-winged wood duck Asarcornis scutulata (photo by Katie Lubbock, Sylvan Heights Bird Park) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc. In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking! 🧪 🪶 #colsci

Invertebrates are declining even in pristine tropical forests and climate change is the culprit. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paying attention to the USDA reorganization plan? Comment window is open. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

After SCOTUS decision a few days ago, potential staff cuts for essential conservation programs is very real. If you are a US citizen and care about nature, fishing, hunting, bird watching, the environment, etc, time to let your elected officials know this matters to you! www.hcn.org/articles/mas...

🪶🌎🧪 Bird Banding Lab threatened by budget cuts: The lab falls under the U. S. Geological Survey’s Ecosystem Mission Area, the agency’s major ecology program, which under President Trump’s 2026 proposed budget would see funding cut to $29 million, from $293 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

New paper published! How does a mid-size river impact gene flow and population structure, including when there is an adaptive sexual trait present on one bank but not the other? With Peri Bolton, Robb Brumfield (@limpkin.bsky.social), Jerry Wilkinson, and Mike Braun. doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Millions of acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package (as of 6-14). This would be the largest public lands sell-off in US history, and would bypass traditional safeguards such as public hearings & environmental reviews. 1/x map: tinyurl.com/Lands4SaleMap

Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS! therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴 🧵1/10

Migratory connectivity and potential nonbreeding sexual segregation in Gray Vireos (Vireo vicinior) | http://tandfonline.c... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Pls share: I'm seeking ornithologists willing to comment about how the Bird Banding Lab &/or Breeding Bird Survey are crucial to their research & conservation efforts, for a piece for @therevelator.org defending these programs. Reply, DM, or email me at rebecca dot heisman at gmail. #ornithology

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am looking for a MS student to take on a project. We have samples already collected, and there is opportunity for more field work. California resident is preferred (fees for non-resident and international students are too high IMO). Repost please. #ecology #physiology #ornithology #grad

Do you have a favourite paper on developing hypotheses and predictions (suitable for first year uni bio students)?

McDonald et al. find that courtship displays of the Golden-winged Manakin are dynamic interactions between audience and performer. Displays are simpler when a female is present, and simplest when her position on the display log indicates readiness to mate. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Looking for a resource to expand your knowledge of a widely diverse and popular family of birds? Check out Owen Robertson's review of The Stokes Guide to Finches of the United States and Canada, by Lillian Stokes and Matthew A. Young: www.aba.org/fantastic-fi...

🪶🌎🧪 Bird Point Counter sought immediately! This is a 3-month position (tentatively May 6- August 3) in beautiful Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington. Work will involve both frontcountry and backcountry travel, and will include long days in the field, often off trail in rugged terrain. (1/3)

Question for #ornithology Bluesky: what sort of actual hard data (not just anecdotes) is out there on how house sparrows impact native birds in North America? Like, a lot of people clearly hate them because they think they're bad for native birds... but what does the data say?

🪶🌎🧪Bird Point Counter sought immediately! This is a short (7 week) assignment in beautiful North Carolina. Days are relatively short and easy, with ample time in the afternoons to relax or recreate. Onsite housing in an Airbnb, and a rental vehicle will be paid by IBP. (1/2)

In less dire news - we are hiring seasonal technicians for this summer/fall through the ACE EPIC program! We have 4 different positions available and are hoping to hire a total of 16 people. See thread below for details (1/6)

The Peregrine Fund is looking to hire a Forest Management Specialist

❗️I’m looking for recommendations❗️for a very introductory text book (or online resources) to use in a bio statistics / quantitative ecology course. And ideally one that doesn’t cost a lot. Most of the ones I’ve found are either too advanced or too expensive for this course. For more context, (1/3)