New information on Bar-tailed Godwits

 New information has changed what we thought we knew about Bar-tailed Godwit migration:

Rethinking Bar-tailed Godwits

https://wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/rethinking-bar-tailed-godwits/

CONSERVATION INVESTMENT STRATEGY FOR THE BIRDS OF THE CARIBBEAN SLOPE OF MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA AND COLOMBIA

 

 

Read this document: 

  https://www.birdlife.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Conservation-Investment-Strategy-for-the-Birds-of-the-Caribbean-Slope-of-Mexico-Central-America-and-Colombia-2025-English.pdf

Threat reduction must be coupled with targeted recovery programmes to conserve global bird diversity

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02746-z

 

Look for the enhanced network of ornithologists posting on Bluesky

 Many scientific colleagues have joined Bluesky (and left X and Facebook) over the past year. Look for posts with the #ornithology tag. It's an amazing - and growing - online community.

A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration

 https://academic.oup.com/auk/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ornithology/ukaf002/7951360 

 

My classes in winter/spring 2025

 I''ll be teaching 2 winter & spring UW-Milwaukee Field Station classes:

Winter Ecology - Feb 14-15-16

 https://uwm.edu/field-station/winter-ecology/

 

Intro to Bird Song - Tues eves 6-730pm,  Apr 15 , 22, 29 & May 6, 13, & 20

 https://uwm.edu/field-station/introduction-to-bird-song/

More on aerial insectivores

 Learn about what BIRDS CANADA is doing for aerial insectivores at: https://www.birdscanada.org/bird-science/aerial-insectivores-what-we-do