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Eliot Miller
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Just watched a phoebe, robin, and junco simultaneously dive bomb a Blue Jay creeping around near their nests. It was actually gathering its own nest material, but not sure they gave a…
We’ve been pretty busy since 2014 or so…just getting around to unpacking some boxes from then. 😬 Found some gems. Some destined for the recycling at this point, but might have to save that cover! @esajournals.bsky.social
Right now I have a junco in the bank outside my house, a robin high up in a pine above it, and there are White-breasted Nuthatch and Brown Creeper nests in trees between those two nests.
Wherein we developed a new phylogenetic method to demonstrate well-supported linkages between diet, plumage, and breeding system, and further linked all of this to a bevy of research on taste receptors, fruit toxins, digestion, and genetics in manakins. Press release: www.mpg.de/26796412/evo...
Different bird species nest near each other more often than expected by chance. I've seen it frequently in Australia, but I think it's widespread. I know there are occasional documented cases (e.g. www.audubon.org/magazine/why...), but is there anything published on the phenomenon more generally?
What makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them?
Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news.
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📢New warbler research!📢 A phylogeny of Myioborus (the youngest genus of warblers) plus a hypothesis for how they diversified in South America and a gene causing a color difference between hybridizing species. It was great co-leading this with Laura Céspedes Arias. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Odd that the resprout American chestnuts, functionally extinct at this point from disease, currently stand out in forests here in NY because the similar looking American beech are doing so poorly these days
