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RT @NewsfromScience: The beaks of Anna’s hummingbirds have grown longer and larger, and their ranges have expanded to follow the feeders. h….

Take a look at @ScienceMagazine's article describing our work in @GlobalChangeBio showing that beak morphology of hummingbirds has changed in association with feeders!.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab @cj_battey @MVZUCB TL;DR:.Feeders are associated with population growth, and morphological change in hummingbird beaks.Read it here 👉 #ornithology #evolution #climatechange.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab @cj_battey Finally I wanted to thank the @MVZUCB (Shoutout to curator Carla Cicero), the U.S. Census, Christmas Bird Count, PRISM Climate Group, and for the resources that have been made available.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab @cj_battey I also want to thank our fearless mentor, Prof. Alejo Rico-Guevara @ecophysicslab who has kept the passion alive throughout. And thank you to the best co-leads authors ever, PhD students Simon English and Faye Romero @fayegromero who made this process fun!.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab We are so grateful to Prof. Laura Stein for her advice on modeling, and to @cj_battey for his help with data acquisition and analysis. We are indebted to Grieg et al. & @cj_battey et al. for their foundational work that inspired this project.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab Huge thanks to undergrads who made this work possible: Timothy Barnes, Audrey E. Smith, Saron Akalu, Haarini Sridhar, Gillian Montross & Ezra Collins.👏👏.

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab To test this, Prof. Don Powers showed hummingbirds actively heat their beaks after flight. Turns out, the bill helps dissipate heatduring perching! 🔥➡️💨

@fayegromero @zoemig @ecophysicslab But climate matters too. Using PRISM data, we found that in cooler areas in the north, beaks are shorter, smaller, and deeper, consistent with thermoregulation theory. ❄️☀️.

@fayegromero Collaborating with Prof. @zoemig , Prof. @ecophysicslab , Felipe Garzón-Agudelo & Kevin Epperly, we used 2D & 3D shape data to show:.Beaks are getting more slender, tapered, and in males, pointier! 🐦

Co-first author @fayegromero and I modelled billchanges of Anna’s hummingbirds in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology’s collection (dating to 1860). 📏.We found bill length and maxillary surface area increased with feeder density.

Co-first author Simon English then showed that feeder abundance was the best predictor of Anna’s hummingbird population growth, especially in the north, where Grieg et al. showed that birds rely more on feeders.

It started with newspaper archives 📜:.Prof. Eliza Grames tracked hummingbird feeder mentions by county in California from 1860 on. She found feeder use rose rapidly, especially from southern to northern CA.

🚨New paper alert!🚨.We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵.📄 Paper: #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology.

We are pleased to announce the availability of a chromosome-scale genome assembly for the Nicobar Pigeon (Caloenas nicobarica)!!