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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
Latest News
  • July 2008: We welcome Adam Baker, who will be working with us for a year to develop a vocal dataset for the suboscine birds.
  • June 2008: Claire Salisbury and Will Minehart start fieldwork at Los Amigos investigating the effects of habitat heterogeneity and rivers on patterns of gene flow and local adaptation in antbirds.
  • May 2008: Thor Veen (University of Gronigen) visited the antbird team and took this photograph of a jaguar.
  • Apr 2008: We welcome Erick Hoyos, who will be working as part of the antbird team until July.
  • Mar 2008: Our paper on patterns of species richness in antbirds was published online in American Naturalist. ...read more.
  • Feb 2008: Our contribution to the debate on the latitunal diversity gradient was published in Science...read more.
  • Feb 2008: A photoguide of the hummingbirds of SE Peru was published by JAT and colleagues. Click here to see a pdf of the guide.
  • Jan 2008: Claire Salisbury joined our lab as a DPhil student. She is studying barriers to gene flow and mechanisms of species coexistence in antbirds at Los Amigos Research Station, Peru.
  • Dec 2007: Diego Garcia takes over as Project Manager of the Warbling Antbird Project at Los Amigos.
  • Nov 2007: We were awarded a start-up grant from the John Fell Fund to develop a song dataset for suboscine passerines. This will be analysed in conjunction with ecological information and molecular phylogenies to test a range of hypotheses about signal evolution and speciation.
Opportunities
  • Field assistants (3-6 months from September 2008, Peru)

    • Ornithologists with mistnetting experience sought for ecological and behavioural study of antbirds in the Peruvian Amazon....read more

    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 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.
     
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