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Miranda Zammarelli

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Postdoc at the Cornell Lab studying birds at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest | Life is full of trade-offs (she/her)

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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Black throated green warbler illustration by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany "Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic?" @mirandazamm.bsky.social, et. al. 2024. Read the paper in Ecology Letters: bit.ly/4gCwdbD 🧪
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
PhD candidate @mirandazamm.bsky.social and Richard Holmes, a professor emeritus of biology, are featured on @npr.org’s “All Things Considered” discussing a 50-plus-year project that mapped the territories of songbirds.
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By listening to these birds for decades, scientists track signs of a changing forest
Scientists tracking the birds in an experimental forest in New Hampshire have also tracked changes in the forest ecosystem over decades.
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Thank you @nhpr.org for sharing this great story from Ari Daniel featuring work by @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social researchers including @mirandazamm.bsky.social. 🧪
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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This recent story from NPR features a research project begun in the 1960s by WOS member Richard Holmes. #ornithology
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By listening to these birds for decades, scientists track signs of a changing forest
Scientists tracking the birds in an experimental forest in New Hampshire have also tracked changes in the forest ecosystem over decades.
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Listen and read the story about our research examining 50 years of bird territory maps to answer core ecological questions!
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Whimsical Wavelengths @whimsicallambda.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
3/3 🧪 For those that want to get involved in #Citizen #Science (PLEASE DO!) check out these apps for smartphones Merlin: merlin.allaboutbirds.org ebird: ebird.org/home Also don't forget about the future when it's time www.audubon.org/community-sc... Or Great Backyard #Bird Count www.birdcount.org
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Merlin Bird ID - Home
Identify Bird Songs and Calls Sound ID listens to the birds around you and shows real-time suggestions for who’s singing. Compare your recording to the songs and calls in Merlin to confirm what you...
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Whimsical Wavelengths @whimsicallambda.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
2/3 This Ep's guest, PhD candidate Miranda Zammarelli, research is the closest to 🧪 conditions in natural 🌎 - Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest How #birds adapt to changes in #s & #environment? How well do they share habitat, equally or do the dominant take more 🥧? Ideal #Free or #Ideal #Despotic.
Image of an Oven Bird sinning while sitting in the branches of a green leafed deciduous tree. Image taken in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Great coverage of research happening in Hubbard Brook by @mirandazamm.bsky.social, et. al. in this episode of @whimsicallambda.bsky.social! 🧪
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"In 1969, researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, revealing insights about the forest and its birds with evermore modern techniques." Reporting by Ari Daniel. 🧪
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Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home
In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, reveali...
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Out in the Forest studying our avian visitors during the 2025 summer season. Here's some bird research from Hubbard Brook: 🗺️: bit.ly/4gCwdbD 🐛: bit.ly/3ZVZOaH 🎶: bit.ly/45GU8En
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Had a wonderful time speaking with Ari Daniel alongside Dick Holmes to share how we map bird territories to answer unique scientific questions at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Take a listen! www.npr.org/transcripts/...
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Decades of songbird mapping in New Hampshire yields insights about their changing home
In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds inhabiting it. For more than half a century, that work has continued, reveali...
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The study, led by Zammarelli and Holmes, focused on the seven most abundant species in the Hubbard Brook tract from 1969 to 2021: black-throated green warbler, red-eyed vireo, American redstart, ovenbird, black-throated blue warbler, hermit thrush, and least flycatcher. home.dartmouth.edu/n...
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Summer work in the lab and the field as researchers return to Hubbard Brook to study salamanders and birds that call the Forest home. 🧪 Related publications: 🦎: bit.ly/3G7EEPs 🪶: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A ~6 day old Black-throated blue warbler during a baby bird banding session in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Bird crews in the Forest follow all ethical handling and banding guidelines while working at Hubbard Brook. Photo courtesy @mirandazamm.bsky.social. 🌐🧪
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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“One of the things we've talked about is seeing this project go on for another 50 years.” Graduate student @mirandazamm.bsky.social‬ talks with @aba.org‬ about working with professor emeritus Richard Holmes and professor Matthew Ayres to examine how songbirds regulate territory size.
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09-23: 50 Years of Songbird Maps with Miranda Zammarelli - American Birding Association
An interesting study discussed on the monthly This Month in Birding segment led us to Miranda Zemmerelli, a PhD student at Dartmouth University who has taken 50 years of hand drawn paper maps of bird ...
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American Birding Association @aba.org · 05/06/2025
On this week's American Birding Podcast: An interesting study discussed on the monthly This Month in Birding segment led us to Miranda Zemmerelli, a PhD student at Dartmouth University.
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I began my fourth field season leading the OVEN Project two weeks ago. I found the first Ovenbird nest of the season today!
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Ovenbird illustration to accompany Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic? by @mirandazamm.bsky.social, et. al. Read the paper here: bit.ly/4gCwdbD 🧪
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
"I dig the bird episode!" We do too. Thanks @whimsicallambda.bsky.social for including @mirandazamm.bsky.social as a guest on your podcast. 🧪 🎧: bit.ly/3ReH2Wp Read some of the research mentioned in the episode: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Whimsical Wavelengths @whimsicallambda.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
🧪Although a new episode comes out this #Monday, I am still thinking about the last episode and the #birds of the Hubbard Brook Experimental forest. Why they #sing, what is "fitness", and territory. It seems those who #listened to it #love it! Don't miss it! open.spotify.com/episode/5WhV...
Two images. Left: a text exchange with a geophysics colleague of the podcast who uses machine learning. Right: image of a Red winged black bird taken at Burnaby Lake, Canada
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Thank you @ababirds.bsky.social for including some work at Hubbard Brook in This Month in Birding! Read the “new eyes on old maps” research by @mirandazamm.bsky.social, et. al.: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic?
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American Birding Association @aba.org · 27/03/2025
March 2025 brings another This Month in Birding. This time around we welcome Jennie Duberstein, Bird Joy Pod‘s Jason Hall, and Nicole Jackson to talk plastics in seabirds, new eyes on old maps, and the best bird to party with: tinyurl.com/yc4ar8c3
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Listen to @whimsicallambda.bsky.social on YouTube. Their latest episode includes and interview with @mirandazamm.bsky.social about her bird research in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest.
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The whimsical sounds of the Birds, Ornithology and why birds sing, territory and more with...
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I had so much fun recording with Jeff! I am a fan of Whimsical Wavelengths. Definitely give this episode and others a listen!
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Whimsical Wavelengths @whimsicallambda.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
2/3 This Ep's guest, PhD candidate Miranda Zammarelli, research is the closest to 🧪 conditions in natural 🌎 - Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest How #birds adapt to changes in #s & #environment? How well do they share habitat, equally or do the dominant take more 🥧? Ideal #Free or #Ideal #Despotic.
Oven Bird on a branch of a deciduous tree mid song in the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Photo by Miranda Zammarelli
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Dartmouth-based Hubbard Brooker @mirandazamm.bsky.social is the guest on the latest episode of the whimsicallambda.bsky.social‬ podcast. After listening to the episode read some of the research discussed here: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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The whimsical sounds of the Birds, Ornithology and why birds sing, territory and more with Miranda Zammarelli
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Elegant and beautiful storytelling by the #Dartmouth team about work by @mirandazamm.bsky.social at Hubbard Brook. The perfect way to start your day. 🧪
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Fifty Years of Songbird Maps Take Flight in New Hands | Dartmouth
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
🚨 COOL BIRD JOB ALERT! 🚨 @cornellbirds.bsky.social is looking for a Research Associate to run their research and student training program at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, focusing on Black-throated Blue Warblers and Ovenbirds. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29599
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Cornell University, Lab of Ornithology
Job #AJO29599, WDR-00050928 Research Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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Ross Barnett @ecologybarnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📰 NEW PAPER! Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Mitigating bias in long‐term terrestrial ecoacoustic studies
The sources of bias and suggested mitigations described here will be of relevance to hardware manufacturers, ecological researchers and conservation practitioners. Researchers and conservation practi...
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
American redstart illustration by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany "Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic?" by Dartmouth-based @mirandazamm.bsky.social et. al. 📖🔗: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Black-throated green warbler illustration by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic? by Dartmouth-based @mirandazamm.bsky.social, et. al, 📖🔗: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Study these! Apply for a summer field season 2025 REU at Hubbard Brook: bit.ly/3QtvPBb
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Looking for an REU student to join our research team at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest through the @hubbardbrook.bsky.social Please share the opportunity or apply: hubbardbrook.org/undergraduat...
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Undergraduate & Graduate Training - Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
Summer 2025 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Opportunities at Hubbard Brook Students will collaborate with research teams that include both undergraduate and graduate students while also d...
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
You may be looking for a scientific "comfort read". May we suggest this paper.
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Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic?
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Miranda Zammarelli @mirandazamm.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The first chapter of my dissertation is published! We digitized 50 years of bird territory maps from Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest to test two theories about to how birds distribute themselves in a habitat. Read the paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic?
The relations among territoriality, abundance and habitat suitability are fundamental to the ecology of many animal populations. We analysed these relationships for seven migratory songbird species o....
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Process #video of Black-throated green warbler #illustration by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany "Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic" by mirandazamm.bsky.social et. al. Feb 2025 #Ecology Letters. 🔗: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Completed #illustration of American Redstart by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany "Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest #Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic" by mirandazamm.bsky.social et. al. for Feb 2025 publication in #Ecology Letters. 🔗: bit.ly/4gCwdbD #🧪
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Process #video of American Redstart #illustration by Raisa Kochmaruk. Created to accompany "Territory Sizes and Patterns of Habitat Use by Forest Birds Over Five Decades: Ideal Free or Ideal Despotic" by @mirandazamm.bsky.social et. al. for Feb 2025 publication in #Ecology Letters. 🔗: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Anthropomorphizing bird behavior works for science communications. But it's not accurate to attribute human #emotions to why 50 years of data indicate #birds soften territorial boundaries during times of abundant resources. #Dartmouth Ph D student Miranda Zammarelli is lead author: bit.ly/4gCwdbD
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