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: We welcome new DPhil students Ben Daly (diversity gradients in Andean birds), and Chris Trisos (community ecology in Neotropical birds). We also welcome Alison Jameson as RA on signal evolution studies.

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.

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

Sep 2008: Welcome to Jayden van Horik, who joins the antbird team in Peru for three months

July 2008: Welcome to Adam Baker, who will be developing technology to automate the analysis of suboscine songs

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 (Gronigen) visited the antbird team and photographed this jaguar

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