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Ashley Olah
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Madison, WI native. Postdoctoral fellow at University of Rhode Island, species modelling for conservation. Former UW-Madison graduate student - Kirtland's Warbler habitat use and Argentine bird distributions. Cat parent, D & D player, k-drama watcher. .. more

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Baraboo Hills Ecology Research Collective @bhrc.bsky.social · 22h
Woodlands covered most of Eastern N. America, but #fire exclusion degraded them. Prescribed fire & tree thinning maintain open understory & allow #oaks & #flowers to thrive.

We work in @nature.org managed #BarabooHills oak woodlands studying how management affects #bird, #insect, and #plants.
A white trillium flower blooms under an oak woodland. A hazy oak woodland in the Baraboo Hills. An oak woodland on a slope with lush green understory vegetation. A low intensity ground fire moves through the understory in a managed oak woodland.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 23h
Did you ever hear the myth that birds can't smell? Well... here's a fascinating roundup of different ways that birds use their sense of smell! #ornithology
The brilliant and bizarre ways birds use their sense of smell – from natural cologne to pest control
Humans and birds both have an underappreciated sense of smell.
theconversation.com

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 6d
Now open: Applications for Field Inclusive's WOS-sponsored fellowship at Cape Fear Bird Observatory! Open to students & early-career professionals from marginalized / historically excluded identities (race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, etc).
Field Inclusive - Cape Fear Bird Observatory Joint Fellowship - Field Inclusive, Inc.
Field Inclusive – Cape Fear Bird Observatory Joint Fellowship Accepting Applications. Organization: The Cape Fear Bird ObservatoryLocation: Greater Wilmington (New Hanover and Brunswick Counties)Job…
www.fieldinclusive.org

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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 14d
A new way to map species habitat, thanks to WCS-led research funded by NASA.

This information is essential for governments, NGOs, and funders deciding where to invest in conservation and restoration.

🌎 Read more: bit.ly/3LWW2JA

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 18d
📣 OPEN NOW! We are now accepting abstracts, Travel Award applications, & Caregiver Grant applications for #AFOWOS2026. The deadline is March 1 — we hope to see you in Rhode Island this summer! afowos2026.org
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · Jan 7
Funding opportunity! The Road to Recovery (R2R) organization is providing funding to support conservation-oriented work on birds on their Tipping Point Species list (i.e., rapidly declining species not yet threatened or endangered). Applications due 1/30! #ornithology
Funding Opportunities - Road to Recovery
R2R invites responses from existing or emerging multi-institutional Working Groups interested in a grant to accelerate recovery of a Tipping Point Species.
r2rbirds.org

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · Jan 2
Instead of using a single muscle to control the action, woodpeckers activate every muscle in their bodies and let out short, explosive grunts with each strike
How Woodpeckers Turn Their Entire Bodies into Pecking Machines
These birds’ drilling approach is more like extreme tennis playing than weight lifting
www.scientificamerican.com

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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · Dec 25
What’s on your “to see” list?

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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · Dec 6
Here is a #webinar on this newish paper of ours by Maia #Persche @bhrc.bsky.social & Ann Calhoun @nature.org, at the Fire Consortium

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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · Dec 6
New to @bsky.app, so will be sharing few newish publications!

Here, we assessed whether #soundscapes reflect the #BiodiversityChanges – in #vegetation, #arthropod biomass, and #bird #community measured during #restoration of #oak #woodland.

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Complex and highly saturated soundscapes in restored oak woodlands reflect avian richness and abundance - Oecologia
Temperate woodlands are biodiverse natural communities threatened by land use change and fire suppression. Excluding historic disturbance regimes of periodic groundfires from woodlands causes degradat...
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Baraboo Hills Ecology Research Collective @bhrc.bsky.social · Dec 1
Our very own Maia Persche was interviewed about her & BHERC work, and some of the methods we use to understand #oak #woodland management and #biodiversity in the #BarabooHills! #bioacoustics #soundscapes @nature.org
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Call of the Wild
Field biologist and bioacoustic researcher Maia Persche listens to the woods, recording soundscapes that can reveal insights about biodiversity and habitat management.
www.nature.org

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · Oct 7
Gray-headed Chickadee aka Siberian Tit may now be extinct in North America #Ornithology 🌎🪶 @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
www.aba.org/lost-on-the-...
Lost on the Frontier - American Birding Association
Conjectures—and some evidence—regarding why the Gray-headed Chickadee may have been extirpated from the ABA Area.
www.aba.org

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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · Sep 23
Satellite images & GPS tracking reveal critically important but unprotected agricultural habitats for Arctic migratory waterfowl in Eurasian drylands 🛰️🐦

Suggests that targeted management is needed to preserve these habitats, & may benefit agriculture too 🌏🧪

🔗
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · Aug 26
🪶 Need a long sleeve t-shirt for fall? Get a comfy shirt featuring an illustration by @tinylongwing.bsky.social & help support IBP & the MAPS program at the same time. It's like catching 2 birds in one mist net😉. Use link below to check out this shirt at our Bonfire store.
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Graphic showing two long sleeve t-shirts with a labeled diagram of a wing by Lauren Helton on them. Text on the graphic says: Get a new tee and help support IBP! Featuring an illustration of a wing in active molt by IBP biologist and scientific illustrator Lauren Helton.

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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · Aug 1
Our local botanical gardens has a Titan Arum, or corpse flower that is blooming right now named Taylor Snift.

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Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · Jun 11
A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen!
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Birds of the World - AviList: A Unified Global Checklist of the World’s Birds is Now Available
AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, that provides the most current and authoritative taxonomy of birds around the world was released today by experts in taxonomy, nomenclature, and bioinform...
birdsoftheworld.org

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jun 4
Scalogram habitat measures as predictors of bird abundance | doi.org/10.1002/ecog... | Ecography | #ornithology 🪶

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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · May 28
Happy to have helped with this new paper looking at priority areas for the #conservation of three dominant tree species in the piedmont forest in northwest #Argentina.
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urldefense.com

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · Mar 31
A hummingbird chick mimicking a stinging caterpillar? 😳 #ornithology
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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · Mar 19
New paper! We looked at the landscape scale effects of primary productivity on bird occurrences and abundances, finding that bird occurrences respond to high primary productivity at broad scales, but little effect of primary productivity on abundances.

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Landscape scale effects of primary productivity on forest bird species occurrence and abundance in Argentina - Landscape Ecology
Context Approaches estimating landscape effects on biodiversity frequently focus on a single extent, finding one ‘optimal’ extent, or use narrow extents. However, species perceive the environment in d...
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