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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
  • Mar 2009: In a study of duetting antbirds published in Current Biology, we show that females "jam" their partner's songs, and that duet complexity reflects sexual conflict. PDF | Press Release | National Geographic | Washington Post | New York Times

  • Feb 2009: Our paper on sexual selection and ecological generalism in antbirds is published online in Journal of Evolutionary Biology. | Read paper
  • Jan 2009: Joe takes up a position as Departmental Lecturer in Zoology, Oxford; Nat starts as Tutorial Fellow in Biology at Wadham College, Oxford
  • Dec 2008: PhD available to conduct a global analysis of birdsong to investigate the role of signal evolution in speciation. For more details, click here
  • Nov 2008: We join the Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests
  • Oct 2008: Welcome to Juan Carlos Gonzalez, who starts a DPhil on Philippine hornbills
  • 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-2009. 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.
     
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