New paper with Abbi Turner and @thecowbirdlab.bsky.social! We examine repeated parasitism of individual female dark-eyed juncos by brown-headed cowbirds using the Ketterson lab @iubiology.bsky.social's publicly available dataset. So much nest searching, but what a pay off! doi.org/10.5751/JFO-...

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Had a great time talking about the origin and control of behavioral novelties at “The Role of Organismal Agency in Biological Practice” workshop this week. Also, I got to see the nice ornithology collection and messel pit fossils at the Senckenberg Naturmuseum.

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New story on the Avian Hybrids blog! Did ancient introgression events shape the evolutionary history of flamingos? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/10/14/d... Based on the Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution paper by Alexis Díaz and his colleagues | #ornithology

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Lower Manhattan with Verrazano and Staue of Liberty on the horizon

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📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN... ...for the 2027 BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Application deadline: 29 January 2027 Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s... 🪶

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