EMU Ornithology

New special issue! Threats to Australian Birds This important edition discusses some of the threats Australasian birds are facing today and what lessons we can learn from the past: tandfonline.com/toc/temu20/cur… #ornithology #endangeredspecies #climatechange

Rare Night Parrot’s Unique Lopsided Ears Give It Keen Hearing, out of @Flinders, published by @EMUJournal by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience / @Forbes @NHM_Tring #parrots #ornithology #anatomy #osteology #bioacoustics #SensoryEcology #evolution forbes.com/sites/grrlscie…

Identifying factors affecting captive breeding success in a critically endangered species tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #ornithology #endangeredspecies #conservation

Where are you from? Isotopic tracing of juvenile Olrog’s Gulls from Mar Chiquita during the wintering season tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #endemicspecies

🚨Manakin Alert🚨 🧶1/6 Our study has just been published @EMUJournal! We found that: 1. Males defend territories that can have nests 3. Males display! But solitarily. Individual territoriality in lekking species: the case of the Helmeted Manakin tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

LOOK! 🦜 Our latest paper on the elusive Night Parrot "Cranial adaptations of the Night Parrot (Psittaculidae: Pezoporus occidentalis), a cryptic nocturnal bird" is out today in @EMUJournal. Happy to have contributed to this study led by @LoneRangifer 🦜 tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Cranial adaptations of the Night Parrot, a cryptic nocturnal bird tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #ornithology #conservation

Population genomics and phylogeography of four Australasian waterfowl tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #Genomics

New issue is out now! Volume 123, Issue 1: tandfonline.com/toc/temu20/123… #ornithology #animalbehaviour #conservation

Rapid and recent range collapse of Australia’s Red Goshawk tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #ornithology #raptors

Book review: The Compact Australian Bird Guide tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #birdwatching #birdguide

The impact of predation by South Island Pied Oystercatchers on a protected shellfish, the toheroa, in northern New Zealand tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #ornithology #conservation

Non-breeding behaviour in the Brown Skua: insights from modelling moulting patterns and stable isotope analyses tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #seabirds

Nest predation in Patagonian wetlands: predator assemblage and microhabitat characteristics tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology

Corticosterone levels, leukocyte profiles, and foraging and diving behaviours of Humboldt penguins during chick rearing in Northern Chile tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #penguin

Unsustainable exploitation of wild birds in Wallacea – An uncertain road for conservation emerging from the pandemic tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #conservation #Parrot

Population assessment of White-capped Albatrosses in New Zealand tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #conservation

High nest survival, but variable reproductive output in the Superb Parrot tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #threatenedspecies

Physiological validation of the use of faecal glucocorticoid metabolites as a measure of stress in a passerine and a columbid from southern Africa tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology #glucocorticoids

Book review: Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… #ornithology