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Neotropical ornithology: Reckoning with historical assumptions, removing systemic barriers, and reimagining the future

2023; Oxford University Press; Volume: 125; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/ornithapp/duac046

1938-5129

Letícia Soares, Kristina L. Cockle, Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza, José Tomás Ibarra, Carolina Isabel Miño, Santiago Zuluaga, Elisa Bonaccorso, Juan Camilo Ríos‐Orjuela, Flavia Montaño‐Centellas, Juan F. Freile, María Ángela Echeverry‐Galvis, Eugenia Bianca Bonaparte, Luisa Maria Diele‐Viegas, Karina L. Speziale, Sergio A. Cabrera‐Cruz, Orlando Acevedo‐Charry, Enriqueta Velarde, Cecilia Cuatianquiz Lima, Valeria Ojeda, Carla Suertegaray Fontana, Alejandra Echeverri, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Regina H. Macedo, Alberto Esquivel, Steven C. Latta, Irene Ruvalcaba-Ortega, Maria Alice S. Alves, Diego Santiago‐Alarcón, Alejandro Bodrati, Fernando González-García, Néstor Fariña, Juan E. Martínez‐Gómez, Rubén Ortega‐Álvarez, María Gabriela Núñez Montellano, Camila C. Ribas, Carlos Bosque, Adrián S. Di Giacomo, Juan Ignacio Areta, Carine Emer, Lourdes Mugica Valdés, Clementina González, María Emilia Rebollo, Giselle Mangini, Carlos Lara, J. Cristóbal Pizarro, Víctor R. Cueto, Pablo Bolaños-Sittler, Juan Francisco Ornelas, Martín Acosta, Marcos Cenizo, Miguel Ângelo Marini, Leopoldo D. Vázquez-Reyes, José Antonio González‐Oreja, Leandro Bugoni, Martín A. Quiroga, Valentina Ferretti, Lilian Tonelli Manica, Juan Manuel Grande, Flor Rodríguez‐Gómez, Soledad Díaz, Nicole Büttner, Lucía Mentesana, Marconi Campos‐Cerqueira, Fernando Gabriel López, André de Camargo Guaraldo, Ian MacGregor‐Fors, Francisca Helena Aguiar‐Silva, Cristina Yumi Miyaki, Silvina Ippi, Emilse Mérida, Cecilia Kopuchian, Cintia Cornélius, Paula L. Enríquez, Natalia Ocampo‐Peñuela, Katherine Renton, Jhan C Salazar, Luis Sandoval, Jorge Correa Sandoval, Pedro X. Astudillo, Ancilleno O Davis, Nicolás Ortega Cantero, David Ocampo, Oscar Humberto Marín Gómez, Sérgio Henrique Borges, Sergio Córdoba‐Córdoba, Alejandro G. Pietrek, Carlos Barros de Araújo, Guillermo Fernández, Horacio de la Cueva, João M. G. Capurucho, Nicole A Gutiérrez-Ramos, Ariane Ferreira Porto Rosa, Lílian Mariana Costa, Cecilia Soldatini, Hannah M Madden, Miguel Ángel Santillán, Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui, Emilio A. Jordan, Guilherme H. S. Freitas, Paulo C. Pulgarín‐R, R. Carlos Almazán-Núñez, Tomás A. Altamirano, Milka R. Gómez, Myriam Velázquez, Rebeca Irala, Facundo A. Gandoy, Andrea C Trigueros, Carlos Ferreyra, Yuri V. Albores‐Barajas, Markus P. Tellkamp, Carine Dantas Oliveira, Andrea Weiler, Ma. del Coro Arizmendi, Adrianne G. Tossas, Rebecca Zarza, Gabriel Serra, Rafael Villegas‐Patraca, Facundo G. Di Sallo, Cleiton Valentim, Jorge I. Noriega, Giraldo Alayón García, Martín R. De La Peña, Rosendo Fraga, Pedro Vitor Ribeiro Martins,

Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Abstract A major barrier to advancing ornithology is the systemic exclusion of professionals from the Global South. A recent special feature, Advances in Neotropical Ornithology, and a shortfalls analysis therein, unintentionally followed a long-standing pattern of highlighting individuals, knowledge, and views from the Global North, while largely omitting the perspectives of people based within the Neotropics. Here, we review current strengths and opportunities in the practice of Neotropical ornithology. Further, we discuss problems with assessing the state of Neotropical ornithology through a northern lens, including discovery narratives, incomplete (and biased) understanding of history and advances, and the promotion of agendas that, while currently popular in the north, may not fit the needs and realities of Neotropical research. We argue that future advances in Neotropical ornithology will critically depend on identifying and addressing the systemic barriers that hold back ornithologists who live and work in the Neotropics: unreliable and limited funding, exclusion from international research leadership, restricted dissemination of knowledge (e.g., through language hegemony and citation bias), and logistical barriers. Moving forward, we must examine and acknowledge the colonial roots of our discipline, and explicitly promote anti-colonial agendas for research, training, and conservation. We invite our colleagues within and beyond the Neotropics to join us in creating new models of governance that establish research priorities with vigorous participation of ornithologists and communities within the Neotropical region. To include a diversity of perspectives, we must systemically address discrimination and bias rooted in the socioeconomic class system, anti-Blackness, anti-Brownness, anti-Indigeneity, misogyny, homophobia, tokenism, and ableism. Instead of seeking individual excellence and rewarding top-down leadership, institutions in the North and South can promote collective leadership. In adopting these approaches, we, ornithologists, will join a community of researchers across academia building new paradigms that can reconcile our relationships and transform science. Spanish and Portuguese translations are available in the Supplementary Material.