Radiating despite a lack of character

Sarah Wagner and I used years' worth of field data on the foraging ecology of Australian honeyeaters (Meliphagidae) to examine the degree to which these fascinating birds partition resource use across the continent. A copy of our first study is available as a pre-print here. There's still much more work to be done on the system, and we will be diving back into these valuable datasets in the near future.

Foraging ecology of Ecuadorian birds

In collaboration with Rob Dobbs and an undergraduate at Cornell University, we are slowly entering our old foraging observations and preparing to examine the foraging ecology and niche partitioning of a large sample of Ecuadorian birds. Most of our data comes from the eastern flank of the Andes, but we have observations from across the country. We should be able to examine a range of questions with the dataset, from niche partitioning to ecomorphology!