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 🪶🐦⬛🧬🇨🇴
Deconstructing the morphological basis of ecogeographic variation in the hand-wing index, a widely used proxy for avian mobility, in the Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)
@asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/739176
#birds #collectionsareessential #museums #ornithology #evosky
@asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/739176
#birds #collectionsareessential #museums #ornithology #evosky
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Deconstructing the morphological basis of ecogeographic variation in the hand-wing index, a widely used proxy for avian mobility, in the Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)
@asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/739176
#birds #collectionsareessential #museums #ornithology #evosky
@asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/739176
#birds #collectionsareessential #museums #ornithology #evosky
University-based, field-forged, constantly growing scientific collection for the bird country: Colección Nacional de Aves ICN-UNAL, Colombia.
October 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
University-based, field-forged, constantly growing scientific collection for the bird country: Colección Nacional de Aves ICN-UNAL, Colombia.
Our holdings and subcollections: spread wings, skeletons, eggs, nests, ectosymbionts and parasites, spirit and anatomical specimens, blood smears, frozen tissues, feathers, round-skins, archives, illustrations, and other historical documents...
October 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Our holdings and subcollections: spread wings, skeletons, eggs, nests, ectosymbionts and parasites, spirit and anatomical specimens, blood smears, frozen tissues, feathers, round-skins, archives, illustrations, and other historical documents...
📸 María Fernanda Londoño De La Hoz
October 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
📸 María Fernanda Londoño De La Hoz
October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Every semester, five professors and museum curators take 35 students to a 12-day long field trip to survey all kinds of animals.
My group today enjoyed a stunning cave with the one and only Steatornis caripensis, the oilbird!
Antioquia, Colombia #ornithology #evolution #taxonomy #museums #UNAL
My group today enjoyed a stunning cave with the one and only Steatornis caripensis, the oilbird!
Antioquia, Colombia #ornithology #evolution #taxonomy #museums #UNAL
June 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Every semester, five professors and museum curators take 35 students to a 12-day long field trip to survey all kinds of animals.
My group today enjoyed a stunning cave with the one and only Steatornis caripensis, the oilbird!
Antioquia, Colombia #ornithology #evolution #taxonomy #museums #UNAL
My group today enjoyed a stunning cave with the one and only Steatornis caripensis, the oilbird!
Antioquia, Colombia #ornithology #evolution #taxonomy #museums #UNAL
My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes
May 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My student Vanessa Perez is analyzing hundreds of photos of the Barred Fruiteater. If you have some, you can help her fill some geographic gaps. A cool story is unwrapping ⛰️🪶 Please share! #birds #ornithology #speciation #andes
The real pioneer field sound recordist of Colombian birds, Tomas Cuadros, produced a 45 rpm vinyl in the early 80s. Newcomers now know
Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...
Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...
May 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The real pioneer field sound recordist of Colombian birds, Tomas Cuadros, produced a 45 rpm vinyl in the early 80s. Newcomers now know
Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...
Read: ebird.org/region/CO/po...
Thanks to the extension, my master’s student Camilo Váquiro was able to polish one of his chapters to submit a ms on phenotypic shifts in Andean birds over 60 years of climate and landscape change—using historical and modern specimens from our National Bird Collection 🇨🇴 @irorotanshi.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Thanks to the extension, my master’s student Camilo Váquiro was able to polish one of his chapters to submit a ms on phenotypic shifts in Andean birds over 60 years of climate and landscape change—using historical and modern specimens from our National Bird Collection 🇨🇴 @irorotanshi.bsky.social
ACCEPTED!! "Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds"
congrats to my PhD student Natalia Pérez Amaya and team #ColombiaResurveyProject #evolution #ecology #ornithology
congrats to my PhD student Natalia Pérez Amaya and team #ColombiaResurveyProject #evolution #ecology #ornithology
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
ACCEPTED!! "Century-long shifts in body size and proportions of lowland rainforest birds"
congrats to my PhD student Natalia Pérez Amaya and team #ColombiaResurveyProject #evolution #ecology #ornithology
congrats to my PhD student Natalia Pérez Amaya and team #ColombiaResurveyProject #evolution #ecology #ornithology
Figure B, Figure F. How many of these #birds have you seen?
#ColombiaResurveyProject #ornithology #AcademicWriting
#ColombiaResurveyProject #ornithology #AcademicWriting
April 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Figure B, Figure F. How many of these #birds have you seen?
#ColombiaResurveyProject #ornithology #AcademicWriting
#ColombiaResurveyProject #ornithology #AcademicWriting
Occurrence data-quality and taxonomic bias obscure conservation status of Neotropical birds, and of Colombian antpittas in particular #Grallaria
Proud of Dennys Plazas, who successfully defended her MSc thesis, a collaboration with Esteban Botero (SELVA).
#ornithology #conservation #Andes
Proud of Dennys Plazas, who successfully defended her MSc thesis, a collaboration with Esteban Botero (SELVA).
#ornithology #conservation #Andes
March 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Occurrence data-quality and taxonomic bias obscure conservation status of Neotropical birds, and of Colombian antpittas in particular #Grallaria
Proud of Dennys Plazas, who successfully defended her MSc thesis, a collaboration with Esteban Botero (SELVA).
#ornithology #conservation #Andes
Proud of Dennys Plazas, who successfully defended her MSc thesis, a collaboration with Esteban Botero (SELVA).
#ornithology #conservation #Andes
A glimpse of bird diversity from northwestern South America's complex corner, where the Andes bisect the Amazon-Orinoco basins from the Chocó, across a mosaic of sierras, valleys, deserts, and wetlands - a biodiversity hotspot.
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
February 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A glimpse of bird diversity from northwestern South America's complex corner, where the Andes bisect the Amazon-Orinoco basins from the Chocó, across a mosaic of sierras, valleys, deserts, and wetlands - a biodiversity hotspot.
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
#ornithology #birding #biodiversity #colombia pop
the streamed video is available for replays www.instagram.com/ornicn?igsh=...
January 28, 2025 at 11:43 AM
the streamed video is available for replays www.instagram.com/ornicn?igsh=...
South America's smallest passerine has black skin and fun reproductive biology: Inezia tenuirostris
Preprint of a beautiful study by my friend Esteban Lara and his students at our La Paz campus-Universidad Nacional de Colombia @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Preprint of a beautiful study by my friend Esteban Lara and his students at our La Paz campus-Universidad Nacional de Colombia @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
January 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
South America's smallest passerine has black skin and fun reproductive biology: Inezia tenuirostris
Preprint of a beautiful study by my friend Esteban Lara and his students at our La Paz campus-Universidad Nacional de Colombia @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
Preprint of a beautiful study by my friend Esteban Lara and his students at our La Paz campus-Universidad Nacional de Colombia @vriunal.bsky.social #ornithology
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5...
about today: Atalotriccus
A really special pigmy-tyrant of the seasonally-flooded forests and scrub of the Eastern llanos of Colombia, Orinoco basin.
Its 4 outer flight feathers are extremely reduced for mechanical sounds, maybe not so good for aerodynamic efficiency #ornithology #evolution #birds
A really special pigmy-tyrant of the seasonally-flooded forests and scrub of the Eastern llanos of Colombia, Orinoco basin.
Its 4 outer flight feathers are extremely reduced for mechanical sounds, maybe not so good for aerodynamic efficiency #ornithology #evolution #birds
December 7, 2024 at 11:58 PM
about today: Atalotriccus
A really special pigmy-tyrant of the seasonally-flooded forests and scrub of the Eastern llanos of Colombia, Orinoco basin.
Its 4 outer flight feathers are extremely reduced for mechanical sounds, maybe not so good for aerodynamic efficiency #ornithology #evolution #birds
A really special pigmy-tyrant of the seasonally-flooded forests and scrub of the Eastern llanos of Colombia, Orinoco basin.
Its 4 outer flight feathers are extremely reduced for mechanical sounds, maybe not so good for aerodynamic efficiency #ornithology #evolution #birds
Sapayoa, an enigmatic broadbill
The one and only South American species of the Eurylaimides in South America #ornithology #biogeography #birds #evolution
The one and only South American species of the Eurylaimides in South America #ornithology #biogeography #birds #evolution
November 24, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Sapayoa, an enigmatic broadbill
The one and only South American species of the Eurylaimides in South America #ornithology #biogeography #birds #evolution
The one and only South American species of the Eurylaimides in South America #ornithology #biogeography #birds #evolution
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 🇨🇴🧬🐦⛰️
November 17, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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 🇨🇴🧬🐦⛰️
Arremon assimilis, an extraordinary brushfinch 🇨🇴⛰️
#AndeanNotAlpine
#AndeanNotAlpine
November 14, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Arremon assimilis, an extraordinary brushfinch 🇨🇴⛰️
#AndeanNotAlpine
#AndeanNotAlpine
Fire-eye + Deep-blue
Diglossa glauca
Amazonian slope of the Andes, Colombia
Diglossa glauca
Amazonian slope of the Andes, Colombia
September 2, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Fire-eye + Deep-blue
Diglossa glauca
Amazonian slope of the Andes, Colombia
Diglossa glauca
Amazonian slope of the Andes, Colombia
Berlepschia rikeri (Point-tailed Palmcreeper) 🇨🇴
A passerine bird in the family Furnariidae, representing a spectacular specialization to palm trees growing in swamps in the Orinoco and Amazon basin
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A passerine bird in the family Furnariidae, representing a spectacular specialization to palm trees growing in swamps in the Orinoco and Amazon basin
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August 16, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Berlepschia rikeri (Point-tailed Palmcreeper) 🇨🇴
A passerine bird in the family Furnariidae, representing a spectacular specialization to palm trees growing in swamps in the Orinoco and Amazon basin
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A passerine bird in the family Furnariidae, representing a spectacular specialization to palm trees growing in swamps in the Orinoco and Amazon basin
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wings of Amazonia Black-throated Trogon (Trogon rufus).
From the spread-wing collection, National Bird Collection of Colombia. ICN-UNAL #ornithology #ornitologia 🇨🇴
From the spread-wing collection, National Bird Collection of Colombia. ICN-UNAL #ornithology #ornitologia 🇨🇴
August 10, 2024 at 11:04 PM
wings of Amazonia Black-throated Trogon (Trogon rufus).
From the spread-wing collection, National Bird Collection of Colombia. ICN-UNAL #ornithology #ornitologia 🇨🇴
From the spread-wing collection, National Bird Collection of Colombia. ICN-UNAL #ornithology #ornitologia 🇨🇴