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Kyle Horton

@kyle-horton.bsky.social
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radar, birds, and Betty (🐶) and Blanche (🐶). Associate Professor at Purdue University in Forestry and Natural Resources studying bird migration.

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Peak bird migration is nearly upon us. May your mornings be full of warblers, orioles, grosbeaks and tanagers!
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities
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Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities
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David Toews @davetoews.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
BIG day for warbler genomes, with work led by @kevinfpbennett.bsky.social! Whole genomes nearly *every species* of warbler. Warblers the most "Pokémon" of the bird world? Well, they're also trading their coloration genes like valuable collectors cards ... www.psu.edu/news/eberly-... 🦉🧪
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Warblers borrow color-related genes from evolutionary neighbors, study finds | Penn State University
A new study has uncovered several instances of wood warblers — some of the most colorful birds in North America — passing color-related genes to other wood warbler species, including those that are no...
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ESA Journals @esajournals.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Check out the video below ⬇️ and then read the #OpenAccess study in our journal "Ecology"! doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Take three minutes to look at pretty birds, explore radar data, and see how we connect the structure of skies to MacArthur's ideas of niche partitioning. 📡🐦☁️🎧
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Structuring the skies: Diel dynamics of migratory animalmovement in the lower atmosphere
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 20/11/2025
Pairing weather radars with eBird data for large-scale monitoring of swallow and martin communal roosts | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶
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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Using automated acoustic monitoring, citizen science, and centuries of ornithological research and understanding to quantify ecological integrity at scale. The BirdsPlus Index, a novel method for assessing site-level conservation values. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌 I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters. Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id... #Aeroecology #AvianEcology
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Another massive movement of migratory birds underway tonight — nearly 1 Billion Birds! With the full moon, you might be able to see some silhouettes zipping by. You can make your own flow maps here (just hit record): aeroecolab.com/uslights
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Truly impressive number of birds migrating tonight. More than 800 MILLION birds up in the air right now❗ #BirdMigration
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
7-Day Bird Migration Forecast We’re entering the peak of fall migration across most of the U.S. Hundreds of millions of birds are on the move, with Thursday and Friday forecast to be the biggest nights of the season so far — over 400 million birds predicted to be taking flight.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Lots and lots and lots of birds taking off tonight. Here's what things look like detected by the Milwaukee radar (KMKX): Night of September 3, 2025.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Migration is roaring across the Midwest tonight! Check out the real-time flow visualization to watch it unfold: aeroecolab.com/uslights
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Tonight’s forecast: 304 million birds expected to migrate across the U.S. 🕊️📡 The Upper Midwest is especially active – keep an eye on the skies and consider going “Lights Out” to help reduce risks for nocturnal migrants. #BirdMigration #LightsOut #Midwest
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lights out for migrating birds @lightsoutforbirds.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
aeroecolab.com/illinois turn off non-essential outdoor lighting from 11 pm–6 am & close shades to reduce skyglow for migrating birds
Night of August 25, 2025
Chicago
Rockford
Aurora
10.1 M birds flying over Illinois
Birds forecast over city area
29.8 K Chicago
10.5 K Rockford
6.3 K Aurora
Lights out alert level
None Low Med
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Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Combining weather radar data with environmental data, @birgenhaest.bsky.social and co-authors found that peak roosting phenology of migrating martins and swallows in the Great Lakes region is paced by both local and distant conditions. Read more on doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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Birgen Haest @birgenhaest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
📡 Why do Martins and Swallows pass by the Great Lakes when they do - Great collaboration with Yuting Deng and @kyle-horton.bsky.social. @biodiversa.eu 📡
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Judy Shamoun-Baranes @judyshamounb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Just over two weeks left to apply
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Fengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
1. Did you know that the Corn Belt in the Midwest USA is so vast you can see it from space? 🌽 How would this affect billions of migrating songbirds passing through each year? 🐦 Check out our new study in @conbiology.bsky.social to find out! 🧵1/8 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Fengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
What to learn more? #BirdMigration #Conservation Check out our full study in @conbiology.bsky.social conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/RCKH33... Or read this great article by Kathi Borgmann summarizing these findings: news.cornell.edu/stories/2025.... @cornellbirds.bsky.social
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Assessing the Corn Belt as an anthropogenic barrier to migrating landbirds in the United States
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Fengyi Guo (Freda) @fyguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Grateful to collaborate with an amazing team on this work. @jbuler.bsky.social, Adriaan Dokter, @kyle-horton.bsky.social, @emlbcohen.bsky.social, Dan Sheldon, Jaclyn Smolinsky, and David Wilcove.
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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Lots of Lights Out alerts tonight as we come into the mad rush that is Maygration. #birds #spring #migration #LightsOutForBirds
Lights Out alert map for the U.S. showing almost all the states in some level of needing lights out for birds.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Spring is for the grouse and chickens! Colorado leks have been 🔥🔥🔥 (w/@carburt.bsky.social). Greater Sage-Grouse and Greater Prairie-Chickens 📷
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Birds will be arriving soon! This map shows peak migration dates across the US modeled using radar data. Keep in mind, the dates represent peaks, but migration usually plays out across a couple of weeks, so estimate ± 1 week on either side of the dates on the map for max migration activity.
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 28/03/2025
Ornithology: Night flight communication across species boundaries | www.cell.com/current... | @currentbiology.bsky.social | #ornithology 🪶
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Robert Fletcher @fletcherecology.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New article out today in @nature.com by Gonçalves-Souza, @nickhaddad.bsky.social, @jon-chase03.bsky.social et al. on forest fragmentation and biodiversity: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A must read for anyone interested in this topic. See my summary here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Biodiversity declines across fragmented forests
Assessing the effect of forest fragmentation on biodiversity.
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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · 05/03/2025
Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can. Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost: go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
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European data on animals aloft now publicly available
Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...
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Baptiste Schmid @baptischmi.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Happy to co-organise a symposium on migratory birds and artificial light at night: from research to policy. #ornithology #aeroecology submit 👆🏽your abstract before March 15 😀 #eou2025
Summary text of the planned EOU symposium (Bangor, Wales UK, 18-22 August 2025):

Artificial light at night (ALAN) can drastically alter the environment of migratory birds, both on their breeding grounds, non-breeding grounds and during their migratory journeys. ALAN can therefore disrupt the birds' evolved response to natural changes in environmental light. For example, light is an important cue for determining the circa-annual cycle of birds, and birds use it to orientate during their migratory flights. The scale of the problem has been recognised by the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), which aims to identify knowledge gaps and develop guidelines to reduce the impact of light pollution on migratory species. This symposium aims to present the latest research on the effects of ALAN on migratory birds, identify research gaps, and to improve our understanding of how to adapt research projects in order to translate research results into policy and legislation.
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Abstracts for #AOS25 Oral Presentations & Posters are due by 3/16/25. Share your research. The submission form includes a set of questions for those who want to be considered for the Student Presentation Award competition! meeting.americanornithology.org/call-for-abs...
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! WOS Research Award recipient @mikkojimenez.bsky.social writes about his efforts to ground-truth radar #ornithology data in Colorado.
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Guest Post – Radar vs. Reality: Ground-Truthing NEXRAD Estimates of Migrating Birds
Every birder I know has been influenced by the integration of radar into ornithology.
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Matt Carling @mdcarling.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Hey #ornithologists or really anyone. Help Flocks Take Flight by donating today: www.gofundme.com/f/flocks-for...
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Donate to Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!, organized by Ashley Dayer
We all need a space to feel we belong and where we are supported. This is wh… Ashley Dayer needs your support for Help Flocks take flights for ornithologists!
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Maria Belotti @mariabelotti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
For a video abstract, go here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdkD...
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Radar revelations: insect availability influences parental provisioning in breeding Tree Swallows
YouTube video by Kyle Horton
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Maria Belotti @mariabelotti.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
My rockstar of a friend just got her first master's paper published! Check it out here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @kyle-horton.bsky.social @mikkojimenez.bsky.social
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American Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Read the latest blog post on Wing Beat, "Using weather radar and automated flight call monitoring to sample migration in the American West" by Dylan M. Osterhaus. Blog post: americanornithology.org/using-weathe... Related paper: academic.oup.com/condor/advan... #ornithology #nocturnalmigration
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Using weather radar and automated flight call monitoring to sample migration in the American West - American Ornithological Society
How to describe something we cannot see? This challenge defines nocturnal bird migration research. Every spring and fall, millions of birds fly through the night, journeying between wintering and bree...
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Corey Callaghan @coreytcallaghan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Brett Scheffers and I are seeking a postdoctoral research scholar to join the 2025-2027 Future of Species Range Shifts cohort as part of the Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows Program. The postdoc would be hosted here at UF. More here: jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
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Post-Doc - Future of Species Range Shifts | Natural Resources Job Board
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Joely DeSimone @joely-desimone.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NSF PRFB fellows: talk to your POs and transfer the remaining year’s balance of salary and research funds by 5pm today!! Dm me if you want to join the prfb slack where fellows are sharing info with each other #nsf #nsfprfb
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Kristen M. Covino, PhD @kristencovino.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please share with your birdy and ornithology connections. My summer Field Ornithology course is open for enrollment. We live and study birds on an island in Maine for two weeks!!! DM me with any questions. #ornithology
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 14/01/2025
Integrating multi-scale terrestrial and atmospheric predictors enhance nocturnal bird migration forecasts | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology
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Integrating multi-scale terrestrial and atmospheric predictors enhance nocturnal bird migration forecasts
Abstract. Our ability to forecast the spatial and temporal patterns of ecological processes at continental scales has drastically improved over the past de
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Carolyn Burt @carburt.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Excited this paper is out as part of our NSF project to create technological advances to move toward sustainable lighting policies with @kyle-horton.bsky.social and Jeff Kelly! New improved bird migration forecasts led by @mikkojimenez.bsky.social and Ali Khalighifar.
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
New 2025 NSF PRFB theme: The new area will support Fellows that leverage large data, such as those from NEON, and innovative approaches, including AI, and modeling to advance biological research and solutions for a Resilient Planet. Reach out if we'd be a good fit. 📡🐦 new.nsf.gov/funding/info...
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Announcing a New Track in the Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Program: Biological Research, Understanding and Solutions for a Resilient Planet
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 14/01/2025
A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology
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A call in the dark: Nocturnal flight calls and their potential to advance the study of avian migration
Abstract. Migratory birds have experienced widespread declines in abundance and face numerous threats. The conservation of migratory species relies in part
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Easily my new favorite Christmas sweater!
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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
New paper led by Mikko Jimenez examining biases in radar data for biological applications. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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