EMU Ornithology

Official Twitter account for the scientific journal Emu: Austral Ornithology. Dedicated to publishing high quality avian research in the Southern Hemisphere.

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New special issue! Threats to Australian Birds
This important edition discusses some of the threats Australasian birds are facing today and what lessons we can learn from the past:
https://t.co/o2UV2Yy4AA
#ornithology #endangeredspecies #climatechange

[Elon Musk profits from political instability 🇺🇦 @GrrlScientist]

Rare Night Parrot’s Unique Lopsided Ears Give It Keen Hearing, out of @Flinders, published by @EMUJournal

by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience / @Forbes @NHM_Tring

#parrots #ornithology #anatomy #osteology #bioacoustics #SensoryEcology #evolution https://t.co/AZfxG3MnCW

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Identifying factors affecting captive breeding success in a critically endangered species

https://t.co/q9tnpVp3po

#ornithology #endangeredspecies #conservation

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Where are you from? Isotopic tracing of juvenile Olrog’s Gulls from Mar Chiquita during the wintering season

https://t.co/spNTHzv1Ky

#ornithology #endemicspecies

[Dr. Lia N. Kajiki @LiaKajiki]

🚨Manakin Alert🚨 🧶1/6

Our study has just been published @EMUJournal!

We found that:
1. Males defend territories that can have nests
3. Males display! But solitarily.

Individual territoriality in lekking species: the case of the Helmeted Manakin https://t.co/xa7qdDQ6cO

[Dr Alice C loves lungfish (she/her) @DrAliceClement]

LOOK! 🦜 Our latest paper on the elusive Night Parrot "Cranial adaptations of the Night Parrot (Psittaculidae: Pezoporus occidentalis), a cryptic nocturnal bird" is out today in @EMUJournal. Happy to have contributed to this study led by @LoneRangifer 🦜 https://t.co/gArnKAlpQU

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Cranial adaptations of the Night Parrot, a cryptic nocturnal bird

https://t.co/B2ZyMjVAug

#ornithology #conservation

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Population genomics and phylogeography of four Australasian waterfowl

https://t.co/nCQCMEnNv2

#ornithology #Genomics

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New issue is out now!
Volume 123, Issue 1:
https://t.co/dQH8j1YqZK

#ornithology #animalbehaviour #conservation

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Rapid and recent range collapse of Australia’s Red Goshawk

https://t.co/Art1mCnvhc

#ornithology #raptors

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Book review:
The Compact Australian Bird Guide

https://t.co/Ep9FoogM4O

#ornithology #birdwatching #birdguide

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The impact of predation by South Island Pied Oystercatchers on a protected shellfish, the toheroa, in northern New Zealand

https://t.co/nR9h0E0m3c

#ornithology #conservation

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Non-breeding behaviour in the Brown Skua: insights from modelling moulting patterns and stable isotope analyses

https://t.co/9tOYcQMTk4

#ornithology #seabirds

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Nest predation in Patagonian wetlands: predator assemblage and microhabitat characteristics

https://t.co/dB9jExtxSD

#ornithology

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Corticosterone levels, leukocyte profiles, and foraging and diving behaviours of Humboldt penguins during chick rearing in Northern Chile

https://t.co/3Hy7SBOzVc

#ornithology #penguin

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Unsustainable exploitation of wild birds in Wallacea – An uncertain road for conservation emerging from the pandemic

https://t.co/pw8cPBp8sH

#ornithology #conservation #Parrot

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Population assessment of White-capped Albatrosses in New Zealand

https://t.co/IiSBrcaMuD

#ornithology #conservation

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High nest survival, but variable reproductive output in the Superb Parrot

https://t.co/BPbq852mPT

#ornithology #threatenedspecies

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Physiological validation of the use of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites as a measure of stress in a passerine and a columbid from southern Africa

https://t.co/Kv1ybG6fCO

#ornithology #glucocorticoids

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Book review:
Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art

https://t.co/rGExT3r1Iz

#ornithology