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Ashley Olah

@ashleyolah.bsky.social
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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.

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New paper: how do waterfowl balance time and energy during spring migration? GPS tracking reveals contrasting strategies in sympatric-wintering American black ducks, Atlantic brant and greater scaup. ➡️ vist.ly/5heby #ornithology #birds #migration
Greater scaup. Photo: Wikimedia commons.Fig. 1 from the article: Hypothesized patterns in interspecific (panel a) and intraspecific (panel b) variation in spring migration strategy relative to breeding season characteristics among three waterfowl species (American black duck, Atlantic brant, and greater scaup) that share a common wintering area in Rhode Island, USA.Fig. 3 from the article: Migration distance (a) and breeding latitude (b), which were expected to influence the spring migration strategy of three species of waterfowl tagged in Rhode Island: American black ducks, Atlantic brant, and greater scaup.
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
NOW OPEN: Proposals submissions for workshops, symposiums, and special events for #WOS2027! This is your chance to help shape the program of next spring's annual meeting. The deadline is September 17! wos2027.org/call-for-wor...
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Call for Workshops, Symposiums, & Special Events
We are currently seeking proposals for workshops, symposiums, and special events for the 2027 WOS meeting. The deadline for all three is September 17, 2026; see details and proposal submission form…
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The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation @xercessociety.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🦋 Looking for an outdoor activity this weekend? The #MonarchBlitz starts TODAY! 🌿 Help track milkweed plants and monarchs by recording your observations on a community science platform like iNaturalist! Get started today 👉 www.cec.org/internationa...
“Join the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz! 31 July to 9 August 2026. monarchblitz.org”
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Here it is: the logo for our *2027* meeting, planned for March 17-19 in Kearney, Nebraska (to coincide with Sandhill Crane migration)! The logo was designed by Gracie Boe, an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Will you be joining us? wos2027.org
illustration of a sandhill crane's head and neck, with text "Wilson Ornithological Society, March 17-19, 2027, Kearney, NE"
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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
My PhD research on evaluating REDD+ using #bioacoustics and #eDNA under a #quasi-experimental study design was covered by @mongabay.com. All thanks to @rspbscience.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social #Gola #WestAfrica #Tropicalforest #Conservation #Carbonfinance news.mongabay.com/2026/05/a-sy...
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A ‘symphony’ of wildlife suggests carbon financing is working in Sierra Leone
One of the first things H.S. Sathya Chandra Sagar noticed in Gola Rainforest National Park was its profusion of sound. Standing amid the tallest trees he’d ever seen, Sagar could hear the calls of cou...
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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
#NewPublication: We evaluated #biodiversity #co-benefits of #Gola #REDD+ initiative using a #quasi-experimental study. #Bioacoustics and DNA metabarcoding revealed that REDD+-financed #PAs were associated with additional biodiversity benefits compared to control areas. tinyurl.com/45pcasnv
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📖 Published - A short guide for effective field data collection These guidelines can be useful as a starter for researchers to support open, reproducible, efficient and effective field data collection 👇️🌳🐞
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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
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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.
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Baraboo Hills Ecology Research Collective @bhrc.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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 · 04/02/2026
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).
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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…
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Wildlife Conservation Society @wcs.org · 27/01/2026
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 · 23/01/2026
📣 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 · 07/01/2026
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
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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.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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
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How Woodpeckers Turn Their Entire Bodies into Pecking Machines
These birds’ drilling approach is more like extreme tennis playing than weight lifting
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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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. tinyurl.com/5byfab8f
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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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H S Sathya Chandra Sagar @sagara-sailways.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Here is a #webinar on this newish paper of ours by Maia #Persche @bhrc.bsky.social & Ann Calhoun @nature.org, at the Fire Consortium @uwmadison.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yuacrtrd
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Integrating science and land stewardship: Using soundscapes to monitor biodiversity in midwestern oak woodlands under managed and unmanaged scenarios - Oak Fire Science
<p>By Maia Persche (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Ann Calhoun (The Nature Conservancy-Wisconsin)</p> <p>Presented on December 3, 2024</p> <p><a href="https://vimeo.com/1037529011?share=copy#t=0...
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Baraboo Hills Ecology Research Collective @bhrc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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 @instbirdpop.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social www.nature.org/en-us/magazi...
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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.
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Gray-headed Chickadee aka Siberian Tit may now be extinct in North America #Ornithology 🌎🪶 @richardkbroughton.bsky.social www.aba.org/lost-on-the-...
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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.
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Journal of Applied Ecology @jappliedecology.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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 · 26/08/2025
🪶 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. www.bonfire.com/stor...
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 · 01/08/2025
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 · 11/06/2025
A monumental taxonomy unification effort has just been published - thanks to all those who've collaborated for years to make this happen! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/avi...
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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...
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/06/2025
Scalogram habitat measures as predictors of bird abundance | doi.org/10.1002/ecog... | Ecography | #ornithology 🪶
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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A hummingbird chick mimicking a stinging caterpillar? 😳 #ornithology
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Ashley Olah @ashleyolah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
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. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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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