Just planted in JEB 🌳
Sharper, straighter, stiffer, stronger: sexually dimorphic bill shape enhances male stabbing performance in the green hermit hummingbird (<i>Phaethornis guy</i>)
https://t.co/REVHey8pmb
Most #hummingbirds use their elegant beaks to sip nectar, but male green hermits stab each other in the neck with their sharply tipped, straight weaponised bills when duelling during the mating season
https://t.co/EuRaQXAp6d
Read the full article at https://t.co/Yt9ADLdVPJ
Andrés Díaz-Salazar et al. show that hummingbirds from the Colombian Andes sustain hovering flight during molt by adjusting wing angles to maintain weight support despite reduced wing area.
Read the full article: https://t.co/QpRBFvD8UE
Convergent mechanisms, divergent strategies: a comparison of nectar intake between a generalist and a specialized bat species https://t.co/hIFdy3AsfB #biorxiv_biophys
Thanks to the other amazing collaborators -
Kevin Epperly, David Cuban, Rosalee Elting, Lucas Mansfield, Nora Lee, Ana Melisa Fernandes and Felipe Garzón-Agudelo!
With #picocam, Josh, Alejo and Collaborators were able to create beautiful 3D scans of 19 species of South American hummingbird species, as seen below. As these beaks will change when the animal dies, getting data on live birds is critical
This image showcases the method and the gear. Importantly, Josh was able to work with Alejo and collaborators to scan the bills of live hummingbirds with this method, which is not easy.
This 3D #picocam system creates extremely high-resolution 3D scans, is field portable, and flexible. It's a big upgrade over the original Beastcam system. Also, it is lighter, and uses fewer cameras
Excited to announce paper on #3D photogrammetry method in @MethodsEcolEvol
by my PhD student Josh Medina, working w/@ecophysicslab & other collaborators!
We used this method to create 3D scans of hummingbird bills 🐦
Congrats Josh, Alejo & everyone!
https://t.co/D00baU1vCJ
Excited to finally have this paper out after multiple years in the making with @bellwoodlab, @ReefFunctionHub, and @pete_cowman
"Analysing biological colour patterns from digital images: An introduction to the current toolbox"
https://t.co/IpDwDrpNQI
Out now in @Ecol_Evol is our paper on the importance of natural history research to topics as varied as education, policy management, and conservation, with a wide array of experts #MuseumMonday https://t.co/14QIbMU3IK 🧵👇