Andrés Cuervo
@amcuervo.bsky.social
Director & Curator National Bird Collection of Colombia | Associate Professor, Natural Sciences Institute, National University of Colombia (ICN-UNAL) | #evolution #ecology #ornithology #museums #aves 🪶🐦⬛🧬🇨🇴
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Andrés Cuervo
@amcuervo.bsky.social
· Nov 17
continuous lower montane, tropical pluvial forests, 1600-1800 meter above sea level
a series of bird expeditions to one of the few really unexplored regions of the Nothern Andes #ornithology #icn #unal 🇨🇴🧬🐦⛰️
a series of bird expeditions to one of the few really unexplored regions of the Nothern Andes #ornithology #icn #unal 🇨🇴🧬🐦⛰️
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A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy
January 11, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A riddle wrapped in an enigma: parasitic lice as clues to the evolutionary puzzle of Sapayoa (Aves) royalsocietypublishing.org/rsbl/article... | #BiologyLetters #Evolution #MolecularBiology #Taxonomy
Really looking forward to #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge and catch up with folks at LSU @systbiol.bsky.social
Very excited for this incredible lineup of talks at #SSB2026!
ssb2026.github.io/talks.html
For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly.
@systbiol.bsky.social
ssb2026.github.io/talks.html
For those giving talks, more instructions will be sent shortly.
@systbiol.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Really looking forward to #SSB2026 in Baton Rouge and catch up with folks at LSU @systbiol.bsky.social
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High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100
Harmonized land-use and land-cover datasets that include past and future periods are
key to solving sustainability issues, such as climate change and biodiversity loss.
However, existing harmonized pr...
www.cell.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...
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This is news that makes me happy. It really feels most of the time that taxonomy is in a bad place. But in reality, it seems that in the last decades, the rate of species description has been the highest it ever was! 🧪
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
This is news that makes me happy. It really feels most of the time that taxonomy is in a bad place. But in reality, it seems that in the last decades, the rate of species description has been the highest it ever was! 🧪
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
December 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
New post by me on #MITPressReader @mitpress.bsky.social
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
On the 100th anniversary of the #ScopesMonkeyTrial
the ways we depict #evolution can still give an erroneous progressive view (that evolution leads to humans or ‘increased complexity’).
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/is-our-pictu...
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We have successfully used immersion fixation for heads of Cathartes and Coragyps with the rest of the body used for skins, skeletons, and spirit specimens. I will add that for most comparative neuroanatomy an n of 3-6 is fine. Big series are only needed for sex or seasonal variation within species
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We have successfully used immersion fixation for heads of Cathartes and Coragyps with the rest of the body used for skins, skeletons, and spirit specimens. I will add that for most comparative neuroanatomy an n of 3-6 is fine. Big series are only needed for sex or seasonal variation within species
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1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community.
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community.
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology
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Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
John McCormack: insights from the Mexican Bird Resurvey Project #BOUasm #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
John McCormack: insights from the Mexican Bird Resurvey Project #BOUasm #ornithology
heads up! #BOUasm
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Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦
At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits.
Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge...
#IslandBirds #Ornithology
Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦
At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits.
Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge...
#IslandBirds #Ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
heads up! #BOUasm
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1/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
1/🧵 Today at #BOUasm25, I’m presenting on the ‘ō‘ū 🦜 a parrot billed-like #Hawaiian #honeycreeper, last seen in 1989. We dive into its population ecology and investigate – did it interbreed with other parrot-billed Hawaiian honeycreepers prior its extinction? doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0265 #ornithology
century long shifts in neotropical birds's morphology comparing collections from the 1910' and 2020's @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social #BOUasm #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
💥BREAKING: Birds in a tropical pluvial rainforest of the Chocó have been quietly changing in morphology for 109 years. Some have shrunk, others grown. Tails grew longer, bills grew deeper. Even in forests with continuous cover, climate change may be rewriting evolution in real time.
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
century long shifts in neotropical birds's morphology comparing collections from the 1910' and 2020's @nataliaperez-a.bsky.social #BOUasm #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
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1/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans
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November 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
1/6 Today I will be presenting my masters research on the #phylogeny of the waterfowl family Anatidae via the #BOUasm25 conference on BlueSky. What came first, the duck, the goose or the swan? #ornithology #systematics #waterfowl #ducks #geese #swans
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Natural history collections are a time stamp of now.
In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6
In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Natural history collections are a time stamp of now.
In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6
In Taiwan, there is an average of 1500-2000 roadkill cases reported per year. With the increasing public engagement, we can utilize these deaths to their full potential.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🧵1/6
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We move to finish session 2 with keynote speaker JC Buckner, discussing “Ducking & diving: the role of adaptation in waterfowl macroevolution” 🦆
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We move to finish session 2 with keynote speaker JC Buckner, discussing “Ducking & diving: the role of adaptation in waterfowl macroevolution” 🦆
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #waterfowl #ducks
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All aspects of bird behaviour are a product of the anatomy and physiology of their brains. Brain anatomy can therefore provide new insights into bird behaviour.
Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains.
#ornithology #neuroskyence
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Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains.
#ornithology #neuroskyence
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November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
All aspects of bird behaviour are a product of the anatomy and physiology of their brains. Brain anatomy can therefore provide new insights into bird behaviour.
Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains.
#ornithology #neuroskyence
1/6
Today at #BOU2025, I will discuss how museum specimens can potentially be used to study bird brains.
#ornithology #neuroskyence
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We join Shriya Uday in-person, for “The global palette: the role of colour in the wildlife trade” 🎨
@shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife
@shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife
November 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
We join Shriya Uday in-person, for “The global palette: the role of colour in the wildlife trade” 🎨
@shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife
@shriyaaaaa.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #wildlife
Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful:
"sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections"
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
"sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections"
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Cassie Stoddard'a talk was really insightful and colorful:
"sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections"
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
"sure, we're living exciting times to study the genome, but also to study the phenome, the birds' phenotypes using collections"
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #evolution @bou.org.uk
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We’re back! 😄
We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺
Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs
We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺
Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We’re back! 😄
We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺
Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs
We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺
Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs
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Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡
@aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology
@aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Lucia Snyderman finishes off our first session with her presentation “Museum collections reveal Dalmatian pelican (Pelecanus crispus) palaeoecology in England and offer reintroduction insights” 💡
@aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology
@aukwardlucia.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #palaeontology #palaeoecology
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We now move on to join Andrés M. Cuervo for his presentation “Century-spanning collections reveal ecological change and phenotypic shifts in Neotropical birds” 🐦
@amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology
@amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology
November 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We now move on to join Andrés M. Cuervo for his presentation “Century-spanning collections reveal ecological change and phenotypic shifts in Neotropical birds” 🐦
@amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology
@amcuervo.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ecology
“From specimens to solutions: the evolving role and current challenges of natural history collections” Great keynote talk from Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social - I was impressed hearing about the mummy birds 😮
@nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums
@nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
“From specimens to solutions: the evolving role and current challenges of natural history collections” Great keynote talk from Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social - I was impressed hearing about the mummy birds 😮
@nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums
@nhm-london.bsky.social @bou.org.uk #BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums
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Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
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Hybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birds
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->Nature | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Hybridization mitigates climate change risk in mountainous birds
Scheffers, B. R. et al. The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people. Science 354, aaf7671 (2016). Aitken, S. N. & Whitlock, M. C. Assisted gene flow to facilitate local adaptation to climate change. Annu. Rev...
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
Morphological Evolution in Island Birds Is Associated With More Terrestrial Lifestyles and a Lower Number of Raptors and Intra‐Family Competitors | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Global Ecology and Biogeography | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
November 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.
We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.