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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
Where are you from? Isotopic tracing of juvenile Olrog’s Gulls from Mar Chiquita during the wintering season
https://t.co/spNTHzv1Ky
#ornithology#endemicspecies
🚨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
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
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
Non-breeding behaviour in the Brown Skua: insights from modelling moulting patterns and stable isotope analyses
https://t.co/9tOYcQMTk4
#ornithology#seabirds
Corticosterone levels, leukocyte profiles, and foraging and diving behaviours of Humboldt penguins during chick rearing in Northern Chile
https://t.co/3Hy7SBOzVc
#ornithology#penguin
Unsustainable exploitation of wild birds in Wallacea – An uncertain road for conservation emerging from the pandemic
https://t.co/pw8cPBp8sH
#ornithology#conservation#Parrot
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