Daniel Marc Hooper

The long horizon in Carpentaria, Queensland (2023).

Our study on the molecular composition, genetic architecture, and evolutionary history of bill color variation in the long-tailed finch was featured on the cover of Current Biology. Photo credit - Col Roberts.

Kyle Kostrzewa sitting atop the field ute. Carpenteria, QLD (2023).

Carpentaria, QLD (2023)

A striking red-billed long-tailed finch (Poephila a. hecki) on Gregory Downs Station, QLD (2023).

Black-throated finch (Poephila cincta atropygialis). Carpentaria, Queensland (2023).

Cathedral termite mound in Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

The night sky putting on a show in Carpentaria, Queensland (2023).

Finch squad processing Poephila in Carpentaria, QLD (2023). From left: Kyle Kostrzewa, me, Callum McDiarmid, and Rhiannon Schembri. Photo credit - Geoffrey Giller.

A fieldwork first for me, the charming plum-headed finch (Aidemosyne modesta) in Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

Geoffrey Giller with an incredible cathedral termite mound in Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

The enigmatic pictorella munia (Heteromunia pectoralis), Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

Dawn casting in Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

An Australian icon: the zebra finch (Taeniopygia castanotis), Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

The elusive golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotus chrysopterygius). In Carpentaria captivity, QLD (2023).

Kyle Kostrzewa and I consulting a station map for potential places to find finches, Carpentaria, QLD (2023). Photo credit - Geoffrey Giller.

Kyle Kostrzewa helping take a blood sample and morphological measurements of a black-throated finch before sending it off on its way. Carpentaria, QLD (2023).

Red-billed long-tailed finch (Poephila a. hecki) on Gregory Downs Station, QLD (2023).

Yellow-billed long-tailed finch (Poephila a. acuticauda) on El Questro, WA (2018).

Cover of a special edition of Molecular Ecology on the role of genomic structural variants in adaptation and diversification - featuring our long-tailed finches! See Hooper et al. (2018).