• Oct 2007:
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    An archive of research news, publications and fieldwork.
     

    May 2008: Our paper on patterns of species richness in antbirds was published in American Naturalist.

    Feb 2008: Our contribution to the debate on the latitunal diversity gradient was published in Science.

    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.

    Mar 2008: Our paper on patterns of species richness in antbirds is published in American Naturalist

    Feb 2008: Our contribution to the debate on the latitunal diversity gradient was published in Science

    Feb 2008: A photoguide of the hummingbirds of SE Peru is published by JAT./p>

    Jan 2008: Claire Salisbury starts as DPhil student

    Nov 2007: John Fell Fund start-up grant

    Sep 2007: A paper on the distribution, ecology and conservation status of the Blue-headed Macaw was published by JAT in Biological Conservation. ...read more

    Jul 2007: A feature article about the discovery of new bird species was published by JAT in this month's edition of Birding. ...read more

    May-Aug 2007: We presented talks at the VIII Neotropical Ornithology Congress in Maturin, Venezuela and at the 125th meeting of the American Ornithologists Union in Wyoming, USA

    Apr 2007: We were awarded grants to study the Amazonian dawn chorus (British Ecological Society), and to establish an ornithological research programme at Los Amigos, Peru (Amazon Conservation Association)...read more

    Oct 2007: JAT published two book reviews, one on the Ivory-billed Woodpecker (1), and another on Robin Restall's Birds of Northern South America (2)

    Sep 2007: Blue-headed Macaw paper

    Jul 2007: Species discovery article

    Mar 2007: New species for Bolivia

    Mar 2007:Amazon Conservation Association awards Seed Grant

    Mar 2007:ProAves Colombia tour

    Jan 2007: Study of peripatric speciation

    Neotropical Birding - August 2006

    State of the Wild - 28 June 2006

    The function of duets in the Warbling Antbird - 26 October 2005

    Photographing the Blue-throated Macaw - 23 September 2005

    Curassow Quest - 1-13 September 2005

    BBC Wildlife publish Trumpeter article - 17 June 2005

    Fieldwork in Pando finds new birds for Bolivia - 20 May 2005

     
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