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A Zebra Finch investigates a novel foraging task. Photo by Morgan Slevin.

07 May 2020

Cognition⁠, the Gut Microbiome, and Forty-Two Hungry Zebra Finches

The gut microbiome has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, and Morgan Slevin is studying how its diversity affects cognition in birds.

24 April 2020

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AOS Celebrates National Volunteer Week

AOS has been celebrating National Volunteer Week by introducing you to a new AOS volunteer each day via our social media platforms.

photo showing many small fossil toe bones organized into compartments in a tray — The fossil toe bones of Golden and Bald eagles provide hints about how they adapted to Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. Photo by Oona Takano.

06 April 2020

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900 Tiny Toe Bones Tell a Story About Prehistoric Eagles

Oona Takano’s research focuses on how something big — Pleistocene megafauna extinctions — affected something very small: the toe bones of eagles.

a small white fungus with bites missing, in front of a background of dirt and leaves — A truffle partially eaten by birds. Photo by Matthew Smith.

19 February 2020

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Birds & Truffles in Chile’s Temperate Rainforests

How does a fungal ecologist end up getting a grant from an ornithological society?

dr. miyaki holding a snake — Birds aren’t the only wildlife Dr. Miyaki enjoys!

28 August 2019

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#GlobalAOS: Cristina Miyaki

This July and August, we’re running a special series of blog posts profiling AOS members around the world, in honor of the recent change to AOS’s bylaws eliminating any reference specifying the …