Sustained investment in specimen-based taxonomic research is key to moving towards effective conservation. iucn.org/news/202607/...

Tá cada vez mais difícil agradar os alunos da universidade. Ao menos to tentando direcioná-los para uma vida mais saudável 🤷‍♂️ 😁

Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10

Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI

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Madonna was RIGHT THERE IN THE STADIUM!!!! What a missed opportunity

Madonna - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Official Video)

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📣 We are hiring a new Communications Specialist! This is a remote, flexible independent contractor role. We're seeking candidates with experience in science communication and familiarity with WordPress, social media tools, etc. Please share widely!

Job Opening: Communications Specialist (Contract)

Are you a science communicator interested in a flexible, remote, part-time role with an ornithological society? Read on!

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Help shape the future of BHL 🌱 As we begin to modernise the BHL platform, we’re inviting BHL users to share their experiences through a 3–5 minute survey. Your responses will directly inform our priorities, identify problems, guide improvements, and shape a better BHL experience: bit.ly/4fpc75D 🧪

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My perfectionism does not align totally with dr. Maddison’s (as predicted in the text itself). But this piece is a very good one. Fully recommended. 😁

Wayne Maddison@waynemaddison.bsky.social · 3w ago

Scientific fashions, perfectionisms, and the value of traditional morphological taxonomy. #evolbio #philsci 🧪 waynemaddison.wordpress.com/2026/07/16/s...

🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!

Excited to share the (modest) results of our monitoring of bird-building collisions at Rice University, along with the hot and probably ill-informed takes of an evolutionary biologist dabbling into conservation for the first time!!! With huge thanks to... ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Nice work. And the authors included Wikiaves — great! ❤️

Wilson Ornithological Society@wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

From the current WJO issue: Leucism in a family group and a review of color aberrations in Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

An Ecuadorian biologist is accused of scientific misconduct, inflating species counts, mishandling animals, entering reserves without permission and potentially complicating the development of lifesaving snake antivenoms. For more than a year, I investigated him for @science.org:

Did this scientist go too far trying to save Ecuador’s wildlife?

Alejandro Arteaga’s efforts to identify and protect tropical reptiles and amphibians have entangled him in controversy

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Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee....

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)

🧵 1/3 @adriftlab.bsky.social has never had government funding. What we have had - for nearly two decades - is a small group of deeply committed people, long-term datasets, and a community who makes it possible. Our website now celebrates that out loud. 🔗 adriftlab.org

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A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by Stanley Somogyi, we suggest that ancestrally variable characters stabilized independently in different bird lineages, causing distantly related groups to retain similar traits and creating headaches for bird systematists. www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪

As our university is undergoing restructuring, its partnership with the natural history museum where I work, the Academy of Natural Sciences, is in jeopardy. If you value the involvement of science museums in the community, please consider checking out this petition. c.org/Db5WKdZSQ8

Have you seen this petition yet?

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!

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The Academy of Natural Sciences was founded in 1812 — over 200 years ago — and it's been underfunded ever since. At a time like this when NSF budgets are being slashed and the museum is receiving little institutional support from Drexel, we deeply appreciate you spreading the word: c.org/Rkpyfx9HRN

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University needs your support!

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Funny fact: most people ignore that every photo/video of an ET with 4 members, 2 eyes etc. is a proof in itself that it is fake. We have four 3-part limbs etc. because we are tetrapods. Believing in such ETs means Tiktaalik & allies could travel to other planets ~400 mya!

We need to correct (and further improve) the maps for two sister South American thrushes: Hauxwell’s and Cocoa. Dear bird recordists: please pay attention to calls, too - they allow species recognition way better than songs in this case (and in thrushes and maybe Oscines in general?) #ornithology

Vitor Piacentini@piacentini.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨New paper alert🚨 Proud to share the first paper by my student Nathália Victória. We show that plumage pattern of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus converge in central Amazonia, but that is not intergradation. Voice allows clear segregation between the 2 spp. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨New paper alert🚨 Proud to share the first paper by my student Nathália Victória. We show that plumage pattern of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus converge in central Amazonia, but that is not intergradation. Voice allows clear segregation between the 2 spp. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Taxonomic signal in the calls of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus (Passeriformes: Turdidae) challenges the intergradation hypothesis and refines their distribution - Ornithology Research

Ornithology Research - Diagnosing cryptic species has long posed a challenge in ornithology. However, advances in vocal and molecular analyses have significantly enhanced species recognition. In...

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Bolsonaro jamais mandaria Bolsonaro cumprir pena em casa. Bolsonaro chamaria os atendimentos médicos recebidos por Bolsonaro de regalia e desperdício de dinheiro público. Bolsonaro debocharia com gosto de Bolsonaro.

Check out the amazing lineup of workshops for #AFOWOS2026! Join us in Newport this summer to learn about bird tracking technologies for beginners, visualizing and analyzing bird movement data in R, and training sound into discovery with bioacoustics. #ornithology

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Workshops The goal of a workshop is to provide participants the opportunity to gain experience with a specific skill, field or analytical technique. Workshops will take place the day before the sta…

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Want a reliable way to tell the two cryptic giant hummingbird species apart while birding in the Andes? Use your ear! 🎶 In a new @fieldornith.bsky.social J. Field Ornithology paper, we show how their vocalizations differ clearly—making sound a slam dunk for identifying them in the field.

Presenting my newest #ornithology game: Ratite Runner! 😀 jenteottie.github.io/RatiteRunner/ Pick your favorite flightless bird, use the power-ups wisely and avoid the obstacles. Enjoy!

Maybe our dear friends from UK can help? @alexanderlees.bsky.social @thelabandfield.bsky.social I believe good UK libraries should have both journals. Thanks in advance!

Vitor Piacentini@piacentini.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Dear fellows from the outer worlds… Anyone with access to the following works that could provide a copy/scan/pics? Boles W. 1990 Glowing parrots—need for a study of hidden colours. Birds Int., 3, 76–79. Boles W. 1991 Black light signature for birds. Aust. Nat. Hist., 23, 752. Deeply grateful!

Very interesting use of BirdNET. I believe such tools will be increasingly useful for taxonomy from now on. Nonetheless, to be fair, I must say Bret Whitney was the first to point out the distinct song of the new C. raucisona, almost 20 years ago! 🙂

Xeno-canto@xeno-canto.bsky.social · 5mo ago

.... possibly first instance where xeno-cantified machine learning (BirdNET) has been used to find previously unrecognised sounds in ... Xeno-canto. Very cool.

Dear fellows from the outer worlds… Anyone with access to the following works that could provide a copy/scan/pics? Boles W. 1990 Glowing parrots—need for a study of hidden colours. Birds Int., 3, 76–79. Boles W. 1991 Black light signature for birds. Aust. Nat. Hist., 23, 752. Deeply grateful!

This is your periodic reminder that The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology can waive Open Access fees on a limited number of Review, Perspective, and/or Methods papers each year! Contact the journal editors with a presubmission inquiry if you're interested.

Call for Review, Perspective, or Methods Papers—Open Access Fees Waived

The Editors-in-Chief of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology invite prospective authors to submit presubmission inquiries for Review, Perspective, or Methods papers that we can publish Free Open Acces…

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Our new paper led by Madson Freitas shows that global demand for Açaí, a dietary staple for Amazonian people, now marketed as a superfood, is driving widespread estuarine forest degradation leading to impoverishment of their bird communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology 🌎🍴🪶🌴