Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US vist.ly/32j8j #BetaDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity

New paper out led by the awesome @peterw-ecol.bsky.social ! Check out how winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US are becoming phylogenetically and functionally more similar to each other over time (and in such an interesting way!)

My last trip to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology as a postdoc 😭 I will truly miss this place! I have the best boss and colleagues and grateful for my 2+ years of growing professionally and personally. Not sure what happens next but forever grateful for this experience ❤️

Movement and migration ecology starter pack! Help me fill it out as more folks join Bluesky 🌎🌍🌏 go.bsky.app/SSiWN2u

Last year I had the opportunity to try a Zeiss DTI 4/50 thermal imaging camera to study nocturnal bird migration. It was awesome! I have hours of footage - can anyone recommend ways I can enhance the videos or darken the background? Also, note the ✈️ taking off from JFK 🤣

If you are interested in #rstats, hierarchical modeling in ecology, and in particular occupancy models, then check out my blog! The one post that gets the most traffic is this one here on how to combine presence-only and detection/non-detection data. 🧪 masonfidino.com/bayesian_int...

As director of CESAB, I'm incredibly proud to share the latest article of our postdocs today in Ecology Letters. 👏 They call for a more ethical academic publishing landscape but also ask to not let only the Early Career Researchers pay the price of this paradigm shift ! doi.org/10.1111/ele.... 🧪🌍

Excited to share this paper that has been in the works for some time! We demonstrate the homogenization between winter and breeding bird communities across the northeastern United States and highlight individual species/groups contributing to this change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This pretty much sums up my adventures in machine learning 🤣

I mean, yeah, I guess…

You can put googly eyes on anything. No one can stop you.

BirdCast is officially back for the spring migration season, yay!!!!!

This is the best day of my life 💚

Couch potato 🦜

Ughhh why are SLF such freakin jerks 🤬?! Good thing it is a slow migration night because I have no idea how long it has been on the lens…

Some super scientific stuff happening here :)

So happy to see North Park open to the public! For 8 years I’ve had the opportunity to study the wildlife returning to Freshkills Park. The decades of planning, engineering and construction of this beautiful green space is beyond impressive.

He hates my guts 🤣

FINALLY got back to Freshkills Park yesterday, and the birding was incredible! Here’s a very photogenic Yellow-billed Cuckoo and a less photogenic Red-headed Woodpecker (only my 3rd for Staten Island)

Teaching intro data science or stats in environmental sciences / ecology this fall? The lterdatasampler package is now on CRAN, with curated real world datasets from the US Long Term Ecological Research program! Check it out: lter.github.io/lterdatasamp...

“Pending Decision” is the most stressful status update in the manuscript submission process… I know better but decided to go against my better judgement to check the status anyways 😭

After yesterdays mass avian collision/mortality event in Chicago, I have gotten a lot of questions from friends and colleagues about how the public can help. I have a list of suggestions specific to NYC/NYS but if anyone has broader resources to share please let me know!

Any #news media folks on here want to get the ball rolling? Much of the public remains unaware of events like these without reporters shining a spotlight on the issue. And public awareness is necessary to get building owners to make changes. #birds

More information from BirdCast on the mass collision/mortality event in Chicago. Light Out initiatives are important, as is bird safe design as many collisions occur during the day!

This is just horrific

A flock of budgies is not what I had on my backyard bird migration bingo card… currently have FOUR parakeets visiting my bird feeder… been trying to catch all day…

Me waiting for the birds to discover that the bird feeder is back out for the season…