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Welcome to Neomorphus, a site devoted to research, conservation and exploration in the tropics. With a focus on South America and the natural world, it presents our scientific findings, articles and images, and provides us with a forum for advertising jobs, developing ideas, and generating funds for the conservation of tropical forest. For more information about our research programme, please visit our lab website at the Edward Grey Institute, University of Oxford.
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Latest Images
Here is a selection of recent photographs. These images and many more can be viewed in our image gallery.
Yellow-eared Parrot Paria Redstart Bogota Rail Marvellous Spatuletail Scarlet-backed Woodpecker Green-Tailed Trainbearer
Recent News
  • July 2010: Our paper in Evolution demonstrates that variation in the sound transmission properties of different microhabitats drives evolutionary divergence in the songs of Amazonian birds. Read paper

  • Jun 2010: DPhil students Ben Daly and Chris Trisos head off to Peru for their first field season in the Andes, based at Wayqechas Research Station.

  • May 2010: Leon Huxley Tobias is born!

  • Apr 2010: Joe and Nat visit California and join the Centre for Tropical Research at UCLA as Senior Research Fellows.

  • Apr 2010: Our study in Proceedings of the Royal Society shows experimentally that co-existence of species with convergent mating signals can be accommodated by fine-tuned perception in females. Read paper

  • For other news visit our complete news section
  • For team photos, click here
Opportunities for 2011
  • Research Assistants: assistants required to join a team conducting bird surveys in the Peruvian Andes; Aug-Sep 2011. Peruvian applicants preferred, & mist-netting experience required. Board & lodging covered. Salary available for Peruvians. For more details, email benjamin.daly@zoo.ox.ac.uk or christopher.trisos@zoo.ox.ac.uk
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    Special Feature: Royal Flycatcher video
    Royal Flycatcher

    The Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) is a reclusive inhabitant of the Amazonian understorey. At first glance it seems to be a dowdy creature, but it has an amazing multicolored ornament and a bizarre neck-twisting display. This behaviour—presumably something to do with courtship and defence against predation—is an extremely rare sight in the wild, but a mist-netted bird will unfurl its gorgeous crest when held by hand. Click here to view our unique footage of the Royal Flycatcher in full regalia.

    Rufous-vented Ground-cuckooNeomorphus, meaning "new form", is the generic name applied to the New-World ground-cuckoos, a lineage of large terrestrial birds found in the lowland forests of South and Central America. They are amongst the most surreptitious of birds, as any Amazonian ornithologist will attest, and watching one is a rare delight. Ancient and elusive, they embody the many mysteries of the rainforest. Many thanks to Christian Ziegler for this photograph.
     
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