

AOS Plenary 2025
I had the honor to be a plenary speaker at the American Ornithological Society meeting in St. Louis, Missouri.


UCSC Press release for our birdwatching tourism paper
Checkout this digested text about our recent paper in People and Nature on birdwatching tourism. Read it here!


New paper uncovers drivers of birdwatching tourism activity around the world
We used eBird data to understand the drivers of birdwatching tourism activity in 155 countries around the world, finding that bird...


New paper on bird functional diversity and conservation in Colombia
In this new paper, we show that to conserve functional diversity in Colombian birds, conservation must go beyond range-restricted...


ABA podcast on upcoming birdwatching tourism paper
Check out this cool podcast featuring a conversation about our upcoming paper in People and Nature about birdwatching tourism. Listen here!


Undergrad-led paper about Atlapetes blancae habitat connectivity
This paper was led by two Colombian undergraduates and looks at the habitat connectivity for the endemic and highly threatened Antioquia...


New paper on birdwatcher travel choices using a survey of US birders
We surveyed >400 US birders about their preferences for traveling locally, nationally, and globally. Read more about their preferences on...


First paper on bird morphological change out of the Colombia Resurvey Project
On this paper, led by PhD student Natalia Perez-Amaya, we show morphological changes in birds after more than a century, despite no...


Data paper on bird-window collisions in the Neotropics
Check out this new data paper compiling bird-window collision data throughout the Neotropics. We contributed data from Colombia! Read it...


New paper on biocultural diversity indicators from a (mostly) Colombian team
In this new paper, by a mostly Colombian team, we propose indicators and measures of cultural diversity using Colombia as an example....