New(ish) paper; huge collaboration led by Aaron Skinner!

Using GPS tracking we show breeding grounds drive body size variation more than wintering grounds! First evidence that nightjars follow Bergmann’s rule👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#nightjars #birds #migration #ornithology

HawkEars will be of interest to practitioners studying acoustic wildlife in Canada and the northern United States, but the open-source code can also be used for developing classifiers for other regions.

#bioacoustics 3/n

We used an embedding-based search to generate strong labels from weakly-labelled open-access training datasets. Our regional model outperformed existing global models, BirdNET, and Perch, by substantial margins, setting benchmarks for state-of-the-art classification performance.

#bioacoustics 2/n

Like birds and models? Dr. Erin Bayne and I are currently recruiting a 2 year postdoc to come work with us at the Boreal Avian Modelling project on boreal bird models and applications of those models. Full details are here tinyurl.com/4yxju63k. Feel free to get in touch with qs!

Hey bird people! Join us in Saskatoon for SCO-SOC 2025 Conference in Aug 13-16. Symposia and workshop submissions are open now until Jan 31!

conferences.usask.ca/sco-2025/ind...

Are you interested in how species distribution models are used in land use planning? Come work us! This is going to be a super cool position understanding how model reliability affects model applications. Creative! Collaborative! Quantitative!

Apply by Jan 10: ow.ly/gzPn50UsUQG