Doreen Chaussadas | The Urban Ibis Project
PhD candidate in ecology, mixing community science, genetics, physiology, conservation and animal behavior to understand adaptation in urban White Ibises.
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- It's such a privilege to get to spend my days looking at what my tagged birds do when confronted to this strange box. I am getting to know them I catch myself look at ibis A and think "you remind me of ibis B". I am excited to quantify how their individual traits impact how they treat the puzzle!
- Directly from the field: watch this ibis figure out how to solve our automated puzzle box
- Please share share share! I launched a crowdfunding for my project, I need your help! Note: if you become a backer, you will be notified with bonus avian encounters at the parks! Wanna see spoonbills, cranes and bald eagles? Even a tiny donation will help me <3 experiment.com/projects/cit...
- A good start of the field season, deployment successful, ibises are interested in the puzzle! We still have some adjustments to make but hopefully we will get started on the actual data collection very shortly!
- Very excited to announce that I will be presenting my work for the Urban Ibis Project at the #BOU2026 @bou.org.uk along with great researchers who have directly inspired my research. See you there !
- Fascinating!! Also a topic that has been on my mind for a while. In fact, I will be deploying puzzle boxes to test problem-solving in urban and non-urban flocks of ibises this winter. It took a couple years to develop my boxes, I am excited to see if we can find similar patterns in our birds!
- Really proud of this one. Our first study on innovative problem-solving in free-ranging small mammals is fresh off the press of Animal Cognition rdcu.be/eOHl3. We looked at what happens with human disturbance in a protected area...without disturbing our most precious collaborators!
- Spooky Month-ed so hard I became a candidate, Yay!
- Preliminary results on our ibis community structure based off citizen science data is here! What we see is that communities are quite distinct from one another, although there seem to be some individuals that bridge them together! Given how many ibises there are, it was lucky for us to detect that!
- 🪶 New map, new questions: I am making an attempt at using community scientists' photos to link movement with breeding status. Here is what I am learning so far:
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- To your left, what a White Ibis wing typically looks like: white feathers with black tip only for the last primaries. To your right, a special individual captured last winter. We captured over 500 birds for this project over almost 2 decades and had never seen that! #ornithology #birds #biodiversity
- Starting a VERY low-budget community science project on White Ibises was a bold move considering the scale of their movement, but it paid off! All of our sightings outside of capture sites came from community scientists, who found our birds as far as Orlando and Tampa!
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