Monthly Archives: March 2024

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New publication on long-term research examining bird populations in Amazon forests

By | March 18th, 2024|Amazon, birds, Ecuador|

Just this week, we published our results from 22 years of studies on bird populations in 2 100-ha plots in the Amazon forests of Ecuador in Global Ecology and Conservation.  Starting in 2010, we began to see widespread declines in observations and captures of birds, and reported on these patterns in 2015.  This latest [...]

Palmchat team hard at work in the DR

By | March 7th, 2024|birds, graduate students|

Rick Stanley, PhD candidate in SNRE, has recruited Marlyn Zuluaga (PhD student, WEC), Liz Hurtado and Wenyi Zhou (PhD students, Biology) to join him in the Dominican Republic for 2 weeks to help capture palmchats, an endemic bird of Hispaniola.  Rick's PhD will investigate the social behavior and ecology of palmchats, which are primarily [...]