Doreen Chaussadas | The Urban Ibis Project
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Doreen Chaussadas | The Urban Ibis Project
@doreenbirds.bsky.social
PhD candidate in ecology, mixing community science, genetics, conservation and animal behavior to understand adaptation in urban White Ibises.
Did you see my tagged ibises? Report them here: https://forms.gle/aNMyRCexTdWsrgc19
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Hi! I am Doreen, a PhD student working on urban adaptation in White Ibises. My studies incorporate genetics, conservation, behavior, and a community science project that involves many passionate birders! Have you seen my tagged ibises? Use the link in bio to report your sighting!
pic:Neelya Eiram
Very excited to announce that I will be presenting my work for the Urban Ibis Project at the #BOU2026 @bou.org.uk along with great researchers who have directly inspired my research. See you there !
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fascinating!! Also a topic that has been on my mind for a while. In fact, I will be deploying puzzle boxes to test problem-solving in urban and non-urban flocks of ibises this winter. It took a couple years to develop my boxes, I am excited to see if we can find similar patterns in our birds!
Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Spooky Month-ed so hard I became a candidate, Yay!
October 31, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Preliminary results on our ibis community structure based off citizen science data is here!
What we see is that communities are quite distinct from one another, although there seem to be some individuals that bridge them together! Given how many ibises there are, it was lucky for us to detect that!
October 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🪶 New map, new questions: I am making an attempt at using community scientists' photos to link movement with breeding status. Here is what I am learning so far:
September 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Sharing an article I wrote about vertebrate scavengers, the topic of my Master's thesis. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in Central India, studying vertebrate scavenger communities in two different protected areas - one with an abundance of vulture, one without.
roundglasssustain.com/wild-vault/s...
How Scavengers Keep the Ecosystem Clean | Roundglass | Sustain
Vultures and other scavengers not only clear decaying animal corpses, protecting us from disease, but their absence could also destabilise entire ecosystems
roundglasssustain.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Reposted by Doreen Chaussadas | The Urban Ibis Project
Hey #ecology bluesky! I'm Bhavya, a PhD student interested in spatial ecology + people's values towards nature. I'm a wildlife biologist, birder, and nature writer! I mostly like to write about my travels+research.
#science #nature
July 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
To your left, what a White Ibis wing typically looks like: white feathers with black tip only for the last primaries. To your right, a special individual captured last winter. We captured over 500 birds for this project over almost 2 decades and had never seen that! #ornithology #birds #biodiversity
August 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Starting a VERY low-budget community science project on White Ibises was a bold move considering the scale of their movement, but it paid off! All of our sightings outside of capture sites came from community scientists, who found our birds as far as Orlando and Tampa!
July 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Reposted by Doreen Chaussadas | The Urban Ibis Project
Hi all! I'm Aoife, a plant lover+ PhD candidate in the Anthropology and Integrative Conservation Program at UGA. I work with farmers in the Colombian Amazon to explore synergies between shifting agriculture, livelihoods, and biodiversity conservation.

What's your favorite plant? 🌲
June 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Hi! I am Doreen, a PhD student working on urban adaptation in White Ibises. My studies incorporate genetics, conservation, behavior, and a community science project that involves many passionate birders! Have you seen my tagged ibises? Use the link in bio to report your sighting!
pic:Neelya Eiram
June 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM