Pranav Gokhale

Some imp points for studies on nests focusing on reproductive success

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Applications for the Tatter Family Entomology Graduate Fellowship are currently open! This program is intended to support outstanding graduate students pursuing graduate training in Entomology at Michigan State University.

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#Entomology #Ecology 🌎🧪🍁

Examples of some recent papers from graduate students in my group - a full list of recent papers and preprints can be found here (https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=pTdxVdIAAAAJ) and profile of the group here: https://egioxford.web.ox.ac.uk/members

The annual Wytham Field Team Photo!

Celebrating a successful field season with great food & good company - May 2025

Front view of the Life & Mind Building, which opened in Oct 2025: The new home of Biology at Oxford

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Birds’ intruder alert hints at how sounds took on new meanings Diverse bird species recognize the same vocalization to rally neighbours against invading cuckoos. The finding plays into a broader debate about the emergence of language.

Diverse bird species recognize the same vocalization to rally neighbours against invading cuckoos

go.nature.com/3KKM8tH

Visual abstract: “we test hypotheses about floral diversity with community science data and an advanced computer vision model. Red/orange flowers have delayed flowering that matches hummingbird migratory patterns”

Hot off the presses and so so thrilled. Thanks to @inaturalist.bsky.social + computer vision we found something beautifully simple: Red and orange flowers bloom later than all the other colors in the eastern United States. Paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kwzh3QW8S...

Another historical plane-assisted 'vagrancy' event that we missed from our book - involving a Wallcreeper!
lintulehti.birdlife.fi:8443/pdf/artikkel... #Ornithology 🪶

Life in the wild is harsh. This gentoo penguin either got caught up on rocks or survived a sea lion attack. I'm told they sometimes recover from wounds like this. Taken at Surf Bay in the Falkland Islands #birds #predatorprey #seabirds #gentoopenguin #penguins #FalklandIslands #SouthAtlantic

Our recent paper made the cover of Ornithological Applications! We used Bayesian hierarchical mark-recapture modelling to understand demographic rates across an elevational gradient in Honduras. @amornith.bsky.social @seijones.bsky.social. Check out the paper: doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Schematic figure illustrating methods to measure phenology of trees and insects

Example of phenological measures for a single Oak tree at Wytham Woods

There are many studies of phenology of components of the tri-trophic tree-insect-bird system, a useful model for understanding effects of climate change. But how do different measures relate to each other? We compared 5 methods, deriving 9 metrics, across 6 tree spp
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Basically every ecology paper: "We found a strong link between X and Y at this site, so this is how the world works." The plot.

It was a huge honour to be awarded the 2024 Founder's Prize at #BES2024, most especially to stand alongside such an incredible group of fellow award winners! Thank you @britishecolsoc.bsky.social - a society truly close to my heart! (if not my home, any more)

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This is a nice study - simple in many ways, but also insightful.

Drinking and bathing behaviour of raptors in an arid, warm environment: Insights from a long-term camera trapping study in Namibia

#RaptorResearch 🪶

nje.org.na/index.php/nj...

How Americans View Climate Change and Policies to Address the Issue Among Republicans, 56% think climate policies usually hurt the U.S. economy. By contrast, 52% of Democrats say they usually help.

NEW REPORT: How Americans View Climate Change and Policies to Address the Issue

Among Republicans, 56% think climate policies usually hurt the U.S. economy. By contrast, 52% of Democrats say they usually help. 🧪

Illustration of the different foraging areas in bats in a rainforest. In the left the forest with the resource partition of the different bats with a color code that matches the bat silhouettes in the right. The silhouettes indicate the dicersity in wing shape and size.

Foraging partition of rainforest in bats and correspondent wings shapes. Illustration for the book "Bat Island" by Page, Dechmann O'Mara and Tschapka. Details in ALT text. @teagueo.bsky.social #SciArt #mammals 🦇

⚠️New paper⚠️

My latest digest for Evolution is now available online.

Digest: Stabilizing selection drives sperm length divergence in promiscuous passerines
doi.org/10.1093/evol...

#ornithology

How climate change is impacting this iconic Florida bird species Global warming in impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a study found.

A paper recently published in the @amornith.bsky.social journal, Ornithology, was the focus of an article from
ABC News, on how climate change is impacting the success of Aphelocoma coerulescens (Florida Scrub-Jay).
Paper: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
Article: abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...

some interesting facts to remember!

Join us online or in-person on Friday 6th 1-2pm for a BONUS
#Nature seminar, when Joe Roman will be exploring the role of animals in the nitrogen, phosphorous, & carbon cycles. In the School of Geography. Register here:
oxfordbiodiversitynetwork.bookwhen.com
@ecioxford.bsky.social 🧪

a thread of some of my dumbest bird comics to date

The Sandhill Crane highway passes right over Atlanta

amazing to have this linear migration route; no doubt bc migration is learned & Appalachians pose a barrier to the east

hoping to hear their primordial, powerful calls overhead as they make their way towards their Florida wintering grounds

Pranav Gokhale ‪PhD student, Georgia Institute of Technology‬ - ‪‪Cited by 15‬‬ - ‪elevational ranges‬ - ‪phenology‬ - ‪fitness‬ - ‪climate change‬

Hi! I would love to be part of the group. scholar.google.com/citations?us... thanks!

A male White-browed Rosefinch right outside our tent early in the morning!

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Global extinction of Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Graeme M. Buchanan, Ben Chapple, Alex J. Berryman, Nicola Crockford, Justin J. F. J. Jansen, Alexander L. Bond | #ornithology 🪶

Observing character displacement from process to pattern in a novel vertebrate community - Nature Communications When similar species coexist, they often evolve differences to reduce competition, a process called character displacement. This study provides rare evidence of character displacement in action, showi...

Read this cool paper by @jameststroud.bsky.social if you want to know how character displacement happens: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Orange Bullfinch

This is one of the mega species from the Western Himalaya and arguably the most beautiful of all bullfinches in India.

Himalayan Rubythroat singing its heart out!

They are beautiful high elevation birds, nesting above the treeline in the Himalaya.

At #BOUsci24, @rspb.bsky.social's John Mallord is talking about fall and rise of White-rumped vultures

Vultures were driven to near-extinction with India's population declining by 99.9% over a decade, as they were dying from kidney-failure caused by diclofenac

#ornithology