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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
  • Dec 2009: JAT's photoguide, the Antbirds of Peru & Bolivia, is now published. To see the guide, click here...

  • Oct 2009: Our paper on vision and perception of dichromatism in antbirds is published in Auk online. To read paper, click here...

  • Oct 2009: Many thanks to our Peruvian field team: Luis Enrique Cueto Aparicio (from Arequipa), Randi Villacorta Diaz (from Puerto Maldonado), and Fredy Flores Quispe (from Cusco) for all their hard work at CICRA this season. Thanks for helping with all the radio-telemetry and mist-netting!

  • Sep 2009: Joe joins Somerville College, Oxford, as an Ernest Cook Research Fellow

  • Sep 2009: Our study of Amazonian antbirds, published in Evolution, shows that interspecific competition causes convergence in territorial songs. Read paper | Press release | Science | BBC | Science Daily | ESA
  • Aug 2009: Joe received a Royal Society Research Grant to study song development in spotted antbirds at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama, in collaboration with Janeene Touchton from Princeton University.

  • Jul 2009: Nat was awarded a L'Oréal UK for Women in Science Fellowship. For video of L'Oréal event, click here.

  • For other news visit our complete news section
  • For team photos, click here
Opportunities for 2009/2010
  • Project manager: monitoring avian diversity along an Andes-Amazon transect. Peruvian applicants preferred. Funding for 18 months, starting late-2010. For more details, email joseph.tobias@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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