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To Reverse Common Bird Declines, Conservationists Will Need to Think Bigger The most abundant birds are disappearing the fastest. Saving them requires bold, landscape-scale action.

"We need to meet the scale at which humanity is disrupting or disturbing the environment."

Princeton's @gates.bsky.social led a new study showing that common birds are on the decline, adding that a wide range of action is necessary to address the problem.

A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today!

Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you!

🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Large reductions in tropical bird abundance attributable to heat extreme intensification - Nature Ecology & Evolution Climate change poses a growing threat to biodiversity, but disentangling its overall impact from other anthropogenic stressors is challenging. Here the authors use a data-driven climate attribution fr...

"Across observed tropical bird populations, impacts of climate change have typically been larger than direct human pressure"

📊 Very much looking forward to #ESA2025!!

I'll be presenting my work on North American bird declines 📉

Session: COS 153 - Biodiversity 4
Time: Thursday, August 14, 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EDT
Room: BCC 322

See you there!! 🦉🦉

See you there!!

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thank you!

Thanks, Rob!!

North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species Declines in North American birds are driven not by rare species vanishing but by sharp losses among formerly common species.

🚨 First PhD chapter is out! My work thus far, with @andy2dobson.bsky.social

We found that formerly common species have declined the fastest, on average.

📄 North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Photo of a northern saw-whet owl perched on a human hand, poised to launch into flight, feathers back, against backdrop of night sky.

Photo of a northern saw-whet owl perched on a human hand, face front, dark black nighttime sky.

Photo of items for a giveaway: a copy of children's mystery "The Owl Prowl Mystery" by Diana Renn (cover in purple tones features boy on a tree with binoculars, pine trees, and owl in flight against a crescent moon); also shown are a large sticker with an artist's drawing of a saw-whet owl and the slogan "Pay Attention and Protect", and a small brown field journal with the same sticker. Behind items is a large owl decoy, and all are displayed against a window with snowy trees in the background.

Happy #SuperbOwlSunday! This Superb Owl is a northern saw-whet I met while shadowing owl banders in NH, part of my research for my new #mg novel THE OWL PROWL MYSTERY. Comment w your fave owl for a chance to win the book, sticker, & field journal! (owl decoy not included!) #owls #ecofiction

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in biodiversity - Nature Global-scale analyses of marine, terrestrial and freshwater assemblages found that temporal rates of species replacement were faster in locations with faster temperature change, including warming and ...

Warming and cooling catalyse widespread temporal turnover in #biodiversity

Ecological communities change constantly as some species come while others go - this turnover is accelerated by rapid temperature change, communities becoming more dissimilar over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests Climate change threatens Amazon rainforest birds, with harsher dry seasons significantly affecting their survival over 27 years.

Harsher dry seasons due to climate change is linked to declining bird survival in the Amazon

"...challenging the notion that pristine rainforests can fully protect their #biodiversity under increasingly severe climate conditions."

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We, the authors, are organizing to continue this effort in other ways. More coming hopefully soon.

The first ever US national nature assessment has been terminated and its USGCRP and DOI webpages have been removed.

A PDF of the zeroth order draft is still available here: review.globalchange.gov/system/files...

Maybe it's better not to mess around with certain federal functions. It's not a game.

Trump's NIH Freeze Puts Scientific Research at Risk America’s best scientific minds are scrambling to determine the impact of the disruption.

Excellent perspective by @lisamjarvis.bsky.social @bloomberg.com on the deep freeze at NIH

A photo of a Barred Owl. The owl is facing the camera. The owl is sitting on a dead branch that extends at about a 35 degree angle. There are various twigs in the frame, mostly in the background. The distant background is blurry with white clouds and blue sky. The owl has a slight golden-hour glow.

A peaceful owl amid a chaotic week. Have a good weekend, everyone.

Just had a similar experience; deactivated my instagram accounts.

"Currently, there is nowhere in Britain that to my knowledge has successfully reversed, or even stopped, Willow Tit decline." #ukbirding #ornithology

Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems Imagine a world where the variety of food sources we rely on is reduced to a mere handful of species. This is not a dystopian future. It’s the path we are on right now, and it’s happening silently in ...

"Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems"
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Reported this banded Ring-billed Gull in Massachusetts. Just heard back from USGS—he hatched in 2019 and was banded in the summer of 2021 on a small island outside Montreal!

Bands can be reported to: www.reportband.gov

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

Three letters up on my last essay for @ScienceMagazine ...two are really interesting, one is not. Check them out yourself: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨 My first Substack post!

🦅 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann

Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.

The incoming Trump administration plans to target the National Climate Assessment so that it can't be used to defend regulations in court. Russ Vought, Trump's OMB pick, wants to personally approve a team of climate denialists to rewrite it. www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

Snowy Owl today at Buffalo NY’s outer harbor!

15x digi zoom on a 60x scope for an owl 550 feet away (safe viewing recs: 150-300 ft min.).

Luckily this one is on a private doc that’s fenced off — making for one happy owl! Can’t get closer than 500 ft.

Best part of the winter season to me.

Classics: Declining and small population paradigms ‘Classics’ is a category of posts highlighting research that has made a real difference to biodiversity conservation. All posts in this category will be permanently displayed on the Cla…

#ConservationClassics: declining and small population paradigms conservationbytes.com/2008/08/23/d...

Super cool!

Super cool! How do you access these data? iNat API?