Feipeng Huang

Incorporating the full annual cycle when studying reproductive isolation and speciation As individual tracking devices and year-round genetic sampling become more accessible, research on the historically understudied nonbreeding period has exploded in the past decade. These studies are ...

Incorporating the full annual cycle when studying reproductive isolation and speciation | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶

09.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Thirteen juvenile Cedar Waxwings died from window collisions at @umassamherst.bsky.social ’s Isenberg School of Management over the past three weeks, including eight that were found together on October 2. We are training undergraduate students to prepare them as study skins for the museum.

07.10.2025 03:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Same…Never saw a live one on campus

19.09.2025 00:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isenberg…

16.09.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the fourth Belted Kingfisher that has hit windows on the @umassamherst.bsky.social campus since July 2024… Two classes (Population Ecology and Global Change Ecology) are conducting daily surveys of 21 buildings to document these collisions this semester.

15.09.2025 22:52 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Direct mortality due to humans threatens migratory shorebirds - Nature Ecology & Evolution Direct human actions such as hunting and bird deterrence at aquaculture sites kill up to 10% of the populations of some shorebird species migrating along China’s coast each year, suggesting that this ...

Direct human actions such as hunting and bird deterrence at aquaculture sites kill up to 10% of the populations of some shorebird species migrating along China’s coast each year, suggesting that this direct mortality is an overlooked threat to migratory populations 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

12.09.2025 08:55 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Finally have an excuse to add the Saint Louis Zoo to the map! #AOS2025

12.08.2025 04:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

1/Lots going on from the Senner Lab and the @umassamherst.bsky.social community at #AOS2025! @feipenghuang.bsky.social gets the ball rolling with Poster #13 on Tuesday evening. He will be presenting on how Hudsonian Godwit chicks (try to) avoid predators in space and time.

11.08.2025 14:44 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Flexibility in the face of climate change? A rapid and dramatic shift towards later spring migration in Hudsonian godwits (Limosa haemastica) | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences With rapid environmental change, shifts in migration timing are vitally important for population stability in migratory species and have been widely documented. However, little remains known about how...

1/Spring bird migration is getting earlier, right? Not necessarily! In our latest paper, led by former lab MSc student Lauren Puleo, we found that a population of Hudsonian Godwits breeding in Alaska is now arriving 6 days later than they were a decade ago. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

17.07.2025 15:16 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0

Banding the last chicks of the season was bittersweet - in the rapidly progressing sub-Arctic summer, they will never be able to catch up with the chicks that hatched more “on time”. The earliest are already over two weeks old.

24.06.2025 01:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Banding Short-billed Dowitchers this season. Some of the chicks have pretty stylish legs!

17.06.2025 07:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hard to believe, but this Hudsonian Godwit was banded as an adult in 2012 and evaded detection for the past 12 years! We found her paired with a male who has had successful nests over the past three years!

30.05.2025 17:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Magical moment with these Pectoral Sandpipers. They use the bog as a stopover.

13.05.2025 05:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First day back in the field and could not wait to hit the flats to see who’s back! These birds are in great shape!

03.05.2025 17:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sex and Morph Variation in Activity From Early Ontogeny to Maturity in Ruffs (Calidris pugnax) We measured the activity (distance travelled in an open-field test) in young ruffs multiple times throughout their first two years of life. Besides the two sexes, ruffs feature three mating morphs (i...

At the end of last year, we had a flurry of accepted manuscripts that are going to be published over the next weeks. The first one is already out. Those tiny #Ruff 🐥 have personalities - wonderful work by Veronika Rohr published in Ethology doi.org/10.1111/eth.... 🧵 (1/7)

08.01.2025 09:59 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0