Latest articles from the WJO: Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

thank you bills tiktok

🪶 If you are able, you donate here: birdpop.org/pages/do...
We lost roughly $1 million in funding without warning. Projects cancelled included all of our bird monitoring work for the National Park Service & projects w/ the Bureau of Land Management on Gunnison's Sage-Grouse, Pinyon Jays & more. 1/4

The SPAM protocol is an efficient workflow for reviewing species detections produced by acoustic classifiers. We have used it to generate encounter histories for a 3 studies on birds in the Blue Mountains that are currently in review. Stay tuned for more on woodpeckers and crossbills from the Blues!

Happy to share a new USFS General Technical Report on passive acoustic monitoring my collaborators and I put together. We discuss sampling design and introduce the Simple Passive Acoustic Monitoring (SPAM) protocol (R/python code/scripts included!)!

link here: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/6...

Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

The first Aguillon Lab paper is officially out in early view at Evolution!! Led by postdoc @devonderaad.bsky.social, we’ve explored the hybrid zone between black-headed and rose-breasted grosbeaks in the Great Plains. #ornithology #hybridization #speciation #evolution doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Genetic and environmental sources of behavioral individuality: a test of the standard model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.27.672710v1

Anyone here who can tell me more about the wildlife program at Oregon State?

Amid all the continuing good news from the world, another preprint!
Inbreeding depression and tuberculosis susceptibility in the critically endangered white-winged wood duck Asarcornis scutulata (photo by Katie Lubbock, Sylvan Heights Bird Park)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Pick an idiom: "more than meets the eye", "beauty more than skin [feather] deep" etc.

In work led by Rosalyn Price-Waldman, we describe a hidden (and ignored!) black or white layer found below the visible surface of bird feathers which helps make bird colours so striking!

🧪 🪶 #colsci

Invertebrates are declining even in pristine tropical forests and climate change is the culprit.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Best guess, potentially end of August/early September

Paying attention to the USDA reorganization plan? Comment window is open. www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

After SCOTUS decision a few days ago, potential staff cuts for essential conservation programs is very real. If you are a US citizen and care about nature, fishing, hunting, bird watching, the environment, etc, time to let your elected officials know this matters to you! www.hcn.org/articles/mas...

🪶🌎🧪 Bird Banding Lab threatened by budget cuts: The lab falls under the U. S. Geological Survey’s Ecosystem Mission Area, the agency’s major ecology program, which under President Trump’s 2026 proposed budget would see funding cut to $29 million, from $293 million. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/s...

New paper published! How does a mid-size river impact gene flow and population structure, including when there is an adaptive sexual trait present on one bank but not the other? With Peri Bolton, Robb Brumfield (@limpkin.bsky.social), Jerry Wilkinson, and Mike Braun.
doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Millions of acres of public lands are eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package (as of 6-14). This would be the largest public lands sell-off in US history, and would bypass traditional safeguards such as public hearings & environmental reviews. 1/x
map: tinyurl.com/Lands4SaleMap

Thank you, @rheisman.bsky.social for writing this piece about the BBL and BBS at USGS!

therevelator.org/trump-vs-bir...

Our paper about the flow of nocturnal bird migration through Colombia is finally out today in #ProcB! Using weather radars operated by the #IDEAM, we found that low variability in wind underlies a pace of migration that is far more gradual than at temperate latitudes. #Ornithology 📡🪶🇨🇴

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Migratory connectivity and potential nonbreeding sexual segregation in Gray Vireos (Vireo vicinior) | http://tandfonline.c... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Pls share: I'm seeking ornithologists willing to comment about how the Bird Banding Lab &/or Breeding Bird Survey are crucial to their research & conservation efforts, for a piece for @therevelator.org defending these programs. Reply, DM, or email me at rebecca dot heisman at gmail. #ornithology