Ian MacGregor-Fors
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Ian MacGregor-Fors
@macgregorfors.bsky.social
Mexican 🇲🇽 urban ecologist @ University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 • Fascinated by modern dinos🪶 • Adding my two cents toward eco-friendly & livable cities • EIC @ Animal Biodiversity and Conservation • Views own
📢 NEW SPECIAL ISSUE OUT!

Excited to share a special issue I co-edited on bird–window collisions, a major yet overlooked source of bird mortality

Bringing together 8 papers, this issue advances methods, evidence, and solutions to inform bird-friendly(er) built environments

OA: tinyurl.com/yss5mvf2
December 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
📢 NEW PAPER OUT!

Excited to share our work on NDVI & urban bird diversity, underlining need for caution when interpreting diversity patterns based solely on remotely sensing.

Congrats to all contributors for their perseverance in bringing this work to completion!

Open access: tiny.cc/inlw001
December 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
December 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
📢 NEW PAPER OUT!

Excited to share our review on Iberian House Sparrows, bringing together decades of research and setting the stage for a more integrated understanding of the species in the region.

Big thanks to all contributors for their dedication & teamwork!

doi.org/10.32800/abc...
December 11, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Ian MacGregor-Fors
📌 We highlight key knowledge gaps and call for coordinated, large-scale monitoring to better understand the future of this iconic species.

Read the full open-access article:
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 48(1)

@alvaroluna87.bsky.social @macgregorfors.bsky.social
Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona: Scientific journals
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:59 PM
📢 NEW PAPER OUT!

Thrilled to share the latest work from the dissertation of Jonathan Morales-Contreras 🌿🦜 Birds & urban ecology in Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico)!

doi.org/10.1007/s112...
October 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Happy to be at CREAF, meeting amazing people and discovering new spaces. Looking forward to a fruitful academic stay, already boosted yesterday by my participation in the CREAFTalks seminar series and the thoughtful discussions that followed.

Enhorabona i gràcies @oriollapiedra.bsky.social !
October 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
October 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Un placer volver al Museu de Ciències Naturals de Barcelona, esta vez hablando sobre colisiones de aves con ventanas en el ciclo SEMBIO. Más de una década colaborando y siempre rodeado de gente brillante y querida. Gràcies per tot!
October 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
📢 NEW PAPER OUT!

Thrilled to share the latest work from the dissertation of recently graduated Dr. Jaime A. Garizábal-Carmona 🌿🦜 Birds & urban ecology in Medellín!
September 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
¡Gracias Bibiana! Que gusto conocerte en Sevilla :)
September 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📢 The JCR Impact Factor of Animal Biodiversity and Conservation (ABC) keeps rising! 2024: 1.4

Though it’s a criticized metric, we use IF to track how much ABC is cited, and are happy to see it rising!

Proud to co-edit ABC with @senarjc.bsky.social via the Diamond OA model! 💎

shorturl.at/XW6x9
June 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
📢 NEW PAPER OUT!

Huge team effort on bird-window collisions in the Neotropics 🦜🪟

Download the Open Access paper & explore the data with our R script!

Congrats to the 100+ collaborators!

Paper here 📄 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Data here 📊 zenodo.org/records/1527...
June 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM