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NWS Pittsburgh (Unofficial Mirror) @nwspittsburgh.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our radar is picking up birds 🐦roosting this morning denoted by light blue circles in eastern Ohio. This is common in the mid to late summer.

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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · Aug 17

📖Published📖

Check out our latest review paper 📝 Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics 🌍 🧪 👇

buff.ly/ZKXk23E

An overview of the six sequential stages of the sensors + AI pipeline. The first tier highlights data acquisition stages 1–3: Selecting sensor hardware, deploying sensors and aggregating and uploading data. The second tier highlights data analysis stages 4–5: Using AI and statistics to analyse the data. The top tier highlights stage 6: Insights about ecological phenomena. Each stage builds successively on the ones below it within the context of a single research project. Ecological questions inform the methodology for the bottom tiers of the pyramid, which ultimately determine the scientific insights the pipeline can produce, which themselves inform future ecological questions.

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Aug 15

u just had to be there

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💀🐺🌱ArtofMaquenda🍄🩸 @artofmaquenda.bsky.social · Aug 14

I made a collection of bird ornaments, each one representing a species we can spot from our home, at the public pond out front and the birds in our backyard. I created them to celebrate this place where I finally feel at home and to enjoy making something crafty just for me again. :D

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you’re at #AOS25, come see @brookedgoodman.bsky.social’s talk today at 11!

BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 13

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 13

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Aug 14

ITS MY PAPERRRRRRRRR

BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 13

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

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rubylith @rubylith-art.bsky.social · Aug 8

#avianaugust week 1 compilation

Collection of drawings of birds. Top row (left to right)—Masked Booby, ʻAlae keʻokeʻo (Hawaiian Coot), Hawaiʻi ʻakepa, Laysan Albatross. Bottom row—Pueo, ʻIʻiwi, ʻApapane.

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Aug 12

To any bioacoustics folks joining us at #AOS2025, we are hosting an informal bioacoustics meetup at Trust Cocktail Bar Thursday at 5:30pm! Join us!! 🐦 🔊

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American Birding Association @aba.org · Aug 9

Forgot to make a post for International Cat Day yesterday... Happy International Cat Day to all!

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Aug 8

Paper will be out soon in Ornithological Applications and then I’ll tell you guys if humans are gonna get replaced by iPhones operating Merlin on drones or not

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Aug 8

HEY!!!!

I’m going to be at AOS in St. Louis presenting my first first-author publication, comparing Merlin Sound ID to point counters in field surveys :) you should come see my talk in Methods & Models 3 on Thursday @ 10:30!

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Kitzes Lab @kitzeslab.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨

From field recordings to ecological insights 🎙️🌳 Our new review in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social explores integrating #AI into #bioacoustics workflows to improve biodiversity monitoring and ecological inference

Check it out!
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Integrating AI models into ecological research workflows: The case of terrestrial bioacoustics

Data collected by autonomous sensors, including camera traps and acoustic recorders, have enormous potential to generate new scientific insights in ecology and related fields. Modern machine learn...

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · Jul 1

Had a blast at #WOS2025 talking birds and catching up with great people. But my favorite part was seeing superstar Oswego undergrad Griffin Kutny mixing it up at his first conference! He had great things to say about the welcoming atmosphere at @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social and the Flocks project.

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Jul 5

Oh my god you’re in Pittsburgh!! I’m 100% breaking into anthrocon to get an awebo

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Desirée L. Narango @dlnarango.bsky.social · Jul 1

You can’t understand bird declines without also understanding insect declines.

Grateful our work on insect-bird interactions was highlighted by Smithsonian Mag. If you love birds, think about whether your actions are helping the insects they need to survive.

www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both

In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · Jul 1

WOS member Andrew Dreelin's research on prairie dogs and curlews was recently featured on the NPR podcast Short Wave. #ornithology

Why eavesdropping on prairie dogs pays off for this bird : Short Wave

Why did the ornithologist strap a taxidermy badger to a remote controlled car and drive it around the prairie? To interrogate the secret world of animal eavesdropping in the grasslands, of course!…

www.npr.org

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Emily V Griffith @e-v-griffith.bsky.social · Jun 25

@evornithology.bsky.social Talks about a (social media inspired) study on mating preferences in Black Terns. Males are subtly, but still significantly, darker than females - and the birds can tell the difference! More black/saturated birds also pair with more gray/unsaturated birds #WOS2025

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Jun 22

Brown creepers for sure

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Here’s a red-winged blackbird nest I found last week 🪺

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brooke goodman @brookedgoodman.bsky.social · Jun 19

The only being more scared of the badgerinator than the Long-Billed Curlews… was me.

Read this paper so Andrew’s endless hours driving this demon chimera through the hole-filled prairie are appreciated!

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ALT Fish and Wildlife Service @altfws.altgov.info · Jun 19

With the explosion of another SpaceX rocket, I want to remind you of the conservation implications and direct ties to FWS.

SpaceX Starship explodes again, this time on the ground

That’s four explosions in a row.

www.theverge.com

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Dr. Holly P Jones @dochpjones.bsky.social · Jun 12

So excited to share this paper, lead-authored by newly-minted Dr. Andrew Dreelin from my lab and @andyjboyce.bsky.social's with you all! 🧪

There's this paradox about prairie dog towns - many birds seem to love them, but they attract a lot of predators.

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jun 18

Migratory routing and departure decisions of Porzana carolina (Sora): New insights from the Motus Wildlife Tracking System | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jun 18

Interspecific eavesdropping by birds on a keystone mammal improves antipredator behaviour | www.sciencedirect.co... | Animal Behaviour | #ornithology 🪶

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