Our article on drivers of plumage evolution in woodpeckers came out on Monday. In it, we discuss habitat, climate, and social drivers of plumage coloration and patterning in woodpeckers. This article was intended to be one of the first empirical tests that interspecific plumage mimicry truly does happen in birds (see my previous post on the subject). We found strong support that it does. Of course, we weren't able to squeeze all the fun figures, results, and discussion into the paper that we wanted to. I'll be slowly releasing some of that here in the coming days. Here's a fun NMDS plot Rusty Ligon just made. It does a great job of graphically presenting the global diversity of woodpecker colors and patterns in an intuitive manner.
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