Protected: The songs and genes of Marsh Wrens tell of two species in North America
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Wing Beat
Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys
It’s a morning many birders dream of: You wake up, make your morning coffee, and settle in to read the eBird rare bird alerts that rolled into your inbox as you slept. Suddenly, you see something that makes your heart race—a rare bird you’ve never seen before was sighted in your area!
Distinctive casque morphologies among cassowary species
The irony of writing a story about 45-kilogram cassowaries—with forelimbs as small as those of chickens—for a blog called Wing Beat is not lost upon me. My coauthors and I are particularly excited to publish a paper for Ornithology about these flightless birds, as it seems most of the researched avian species in this journal are no larger than a mango.
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31 December 2025
Nominations & Applications due for AOS-sponsored Student Memberships.
31 January 2026
Applications due for 2026 Kessel Fellowships for Ornithological Research
4 February 2026
Latin American/Caribbean Conservation Research Grant Preparation Workshop
1:00 p.m. ET on Zoom https://uwyo.zoom.us/j/8561711233
27 February 2026
Applications due for Latin American/Caribbean Conservation Research Grants
3–7 August 2026
AOS 2026 Annual Meeting: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers in Amherst, Massachusetts
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