Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing 🦜🦚🦉 #defaunation #birds

Indigenous knowledge confirms what scientists observe: Large birds are disappearing

Indigenous knowledge confirms a trend scientists have observed- large bird populations are declining faster than small birds.

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🚨Out today in @society4conbio.bsky.social, in my new paper with @birdmapper.bsky.social, we show a positive relationship between exinction risk and colourfulness across the world's passerine birds! conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The link between colorfulness and extinction risk across the world's passerine birds

Many of the functional traits that mediate extinction risk across the range of biodiversity relate indirectly to a species’ ability to persist in a changing world, yet certain traits such as colorati...

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📖 Published📖 Convergent digestive adaptation to resource limitation in an insular lizard across a microgeographic archipelago🌍 🦎 🌊 🔎 buff.ly/VWorYzt

New preprint on the avian vampire flies in Galapagos Islands: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New preprint from our Galápagos Yellow Warbler project! Functions of duet answering seem to be sex specific in this species. doi.org/10.64898/202... @caglarakcay.bsky.social @klf-univienna.bsky.social

On a hike through the mossy montane forests of Kolombanagara, Solomon Islands, I found this incredible little grasshopper. This is a species from the genus Opiptacris, locals called them the 'rasta grasshopper'. It seems this taxon is endemic to this small island. #inverts #insects

We are so happy to share that we made the cover and the editor's choice in the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social with our paper: "Predation and the evolution of island bird plumage colouration: experimental insights from island and mainland environments" More: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Predation and the Evolution of Island Bird Plumage Colouration: Experimental Insights from Island and Mainland Environments https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.31.703000v1

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

1/8 Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦 At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits. Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge... #IslandBirds #Ornithology

We’re back! 😄 We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺 Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair. #BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 9mo ago

We’re kicking off session 1 with a keynote from Alex Bond, “From specimens to solutions: the evolving role and current challenges of natural history collections” 💭 Andreanna Welch joins us as Chair for this session. @thelabandfield.bsky.social  #BOUasm25 #ornithology #naturalhistory

Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors - 2025, Global Ecology and Biogeography onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @raquelponti.bsky.social @anavleitao.bsky.social

Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors

Aim Island biotas experience unique ecological conditions, such as isolation, small areas, or simplified communities that promote repeated patterns of evolution like changes in body size, that have ...

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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 9mo ago

Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A birdy & traity thread... What can morphological form tell us, if anything, about ecological function? Our paper out today in @NatureEcoEvo asks this question from the perspective of ecological niches and convergent adaptation of bird...

New funding for our team!

SIBECOL@sibecol.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Ana Leitão & Raquel Ponti, from CIBIO-BIOPOLIS, will investigate bird evolution in insular environments. Their SIBECOL-funded project explores how reduced predation & stable climates shape sexual dimorphism in endemic species. @anavleitao.bsky.social @raquelponti.bsky.social #evolution #birdresearch

Happy #WomenInScience Day ! What better day to introduce our incredible core team—powered by four women! 💪✨ #WomenInSTEM See here 1/5 👇🧵

Global bioacoustics dataset ! 🎶🦜 WABAD, the World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset 5,044 min of annotated bird vocalizations, 1,147 species, 70 sites 🌍 across 27 countries & 13 biomes Open-access for AI training & conservation research 👉 by C. Pérez-Granados et al. doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🪶

Our first Funk lecture of the new year is tomorrow! For more information and to register please visit our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/gh...

[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds

The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

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We study evolution of birds on islands, particularly focusing on investigating the mechanisms underlying life history traits, colour, song, behaviour and morphology. We examine questions from both ultimate and proximate perspectives and combine field and comparative work.