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🚨Manakin Alert🚨 🧶1/6
Our study has just been published @EMUJournal!
We found that:
1. Males defend territories that can have nests
3. Males display! But solitarily.
Individual territoriality in lekking species: the case of the Helmeted Manakin tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
ALT Photo of a Helmeted Manakin male singing, with the beak wide open (side view of the whole body)
LOOK! 🦜 Our latest paper on the elusive Night Parrot "Cranial adaptations of the Night Parrot (Psittaculidae: Pezoporus occidentalis), a cryptic nocturnal bird" is out today in @EMUJournal. Happy to have contributed to this study led by @LoneRangifer 🦜 tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.…