Will Brooks

Speciation and species persistence in birds — PhD student at George Mason University — “You can’t change nature” “Nature is change...” -Ratatouille

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

Thanks again to Purbita Saha, Jason Hall, @TheBirdist, and Nate Swick for highlighting my research!

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

Thanks to the @ABA podcast for featuring my research! It is a great show, and I highly recommend everyone listen to it.

I figured now was a good time to highlight my passion project on the unstudied mystery of why land birds get lost over the ocean 1/x

https://t.co/dCqbbCYVKI

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

Overall, it appears that wind causes short distance vagrancy by driving birds offshore. Birds with longer migrations may have more opportunities to encounter vagrancy causing events, but that relationship is not visible in birds with higher flight efficiency.

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

More pics. Species are Griffon Vuluture, Bearded Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, and Egyptian Vulture.

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

On a recent trip to Spain I had the opportunity to go to my first vulture restaurant (a restaurant for vultures, not people). Buseu has a great setup with four vulture species including one of the coolest, the Bearded Vulture. I highly recommend! https://t.co/uqcUdxgqrb

[Jianguo (Jingle) Wu at ASU @jwulandscape]

multilandr: an R package for multi-scale landscape analysis | Landscape Ecology https://t.co/MCHI8mioDi

[Juan Antonio Hernández-Agüero @HernandezAguer]

Riva et al., 2024 - Ecology Letters - Principles for area-based biodiversity conservation
https://t.co/KT9xoEgG6S

[Jonathan Chase @Jon_Chase03]

Is fragmentation bad or good for biodiversity? Yes!

We use a classical competition-colonization metacommunity model to show that fragmentation can increase or decrease diversity depending on the total amount of habitat in the landscape. @idiv @UniHalle

https://t.co/6xIB1IFZKz

[Jeremy Hance @jeremy_hance]

I think this is the longest article ever written on the bay cat for a news outlet!

Behold, 2,000 words on a species we know nearly nothing about! It was such a joy to write this. I'm obsessed with this cat. #borneo @MongabayOrg @PantheraCats @rewild

https://t.co/J5YrkVR2sY

[Chris Sharpe @sharpebirder.bsky.social @sharpebirder]

More disturbing evidence of rapid bird population collapse in apparently pristine Neotropical environments, this time from Tiputini Biodiversity Station in Yasuní Biosphere Reserve. This should be headline news. https://t.co/M2XHnEjTbA

[HC Lim @hawchuan]

Hey @GeorgeMasonU peeps - check out spring bird walks with @WillBrooks16 from Feb to April.

[Matt Betts @MattBetts11]

One of those “I wish I’d thought of doing that!” moments; the configuration of climates (patch size, isolation) matters when it comes to predicting global biodiversity patterns: https://t.co/LMAPHlIAt1

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

Shown: Rufous-backed Dwarf-kingfisher, Chestnut-capped Thrush, and Blue-headed Pitta. All birds are handled purely for research purposes with extensive training and permitting.

[Will Brooks @WillBrooks16]

Some of the birds from my first several days of fieldwork in Borneo. Feeling incredibly privileged to work with such remarkable species.

[Matt Brooks @MattBrooksNBA]

Can’t say I had this one in the cards this year

[Tom Weeks @tomlweeks]

Excited to share our paper published today in @NatureEcoEvoshowing that dispersal ability is a key factor explaining sensitivity of bird species to forest fragmentation. https://t.co/F5440Xi8dF

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