Alejandro Rico-Guevara

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Morphological diversity in the honeyeater hyolingual apparatus and its relationship with nectarivory journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

PicoCam: High-resolution 3D imaging of live animals and preserved specimens biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Manuscrito en inglés & español para poder seguir pensando en todo lo que aún no sabemos.

#SICB2024 is over and we would like to say a big congrats to our 2024 Best Student Presentation Winners for DCB, David Cuban won the Mimi A. R. Koehl and Stephen A. Wainwright Award for their talk on feeding in sunbirds

Abrimos el numero 24 de la revista #OrnitologiaColombiana 👉asociacioncolombianadeornitologia.org/ojs/index.php/…

Check out this science #dissemination article on our honeybee nectar-feeding research! Especially its connections to the importance of deepening our understanding of the details of the mechanisms for our broader understanding of ecological success: science.org/content/articl…

Reaching deep: honeybees adapt their nectar extraction mechanisms to maintain feeding efficiency! Check out our data- and methods- rich paper on #mechanoethology and the importance of considering the actual behavior rather than accepting preconceptions! pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…

Hummingbirds are famous for hovering but they'd take any opportunity to avoid doing so, and this reflects in their evolution! A new highlight of our research, in a nutshell: "Clinging hummingbirds have smaller beaks and bigger feet than do honest hoverers" twitter.com/NewsfromScienc…

Most hummingbird-pollinated flowers droop upside down, so the animals must nimbly hover to access them, frantically beating their wings up to 80 times a second. Yet some sneaky hummingbirds can cheat the system—with the help of their toes. scim.ag/3gH

Special Friday blog: rounding out #Pride2023 with Guidelines for Making #Fieldwork Accessible and Safer for #LGBTQ+ #Scientists with @merreyum & @NaturalistKels By @SICB_ Mangum participant Juliette Rault-Wang …veandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/gui…

Extremely enjoyable and fruitful work with @rkcolwell, @tf_rangel, @Euastrum, @Salty_Sparrow, and Diego Sustaita! Stayed tuned for the typeset version which will be fully open access! In the meantime feel free to access this unformatted version here: robertkcolwell.org/media_files/48…

Hummingbirds may seem noble hovering fairies that trade pollination services for nectar, but more than 20 times, short-billed species evolved long toenails to cling to feed or pierce flowers to steal nectar, while long-billed species must hover to feed. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Tongues are the treasures that you rarely see because they are concealed inside the chest (mouth... confusing words with multiple meanings!), and there is so much to discover about these hidden gems!! Research from folks at our lab is featured here: science.org/content/articl…

Since first evolving 350 million years ago, the tongue has taken myriad forms, unlocking new niches and boosting the diversity of life. #LongReads scim.ag/2NX

Awesome video featuring Nora Lee's work with us at the @burkemuseum instagram.com/p/CsKJtpgok8b/…

@burkemuseum More details about this here: instagram.com/p/Cq52FvAJLgS/…

Cutting edge science doesn't have to involve the fanciest, most expensive technology. In a new paper, Burke Ornithology Curator Alejandro Rico-Guevara (@ecophysicslab) shows just how much can be illuminated using a flashlight, a camera, and a tube full of sugar water.

Check out Alyssa Sargent's (a PhD student at our Behavioral Ecophysics Lab) work on a STEM curriculum and a "Hummingbird game"! facebook.com/burkemuseum/po…

New research on adaptations to frugivory in the pale spear-nosed bat, #Phyllostomus discolor, by Laura Quinche, @SESantanaM & @ecophysicslab: doi.org/10.1002/ar.251… The paper is part of our upcoming Special Issue on ecological morphology and sensory biology of #bats

Cover of the current issue! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/2022/…