Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊

🚨Trade-offs across life history stages and social association types shape winter communal roosting in a long-lived raptor "Our study demonstrates how life-history trade-offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites" 📖Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/0JazKaB

Winter means.. communal roosts! 🦅🐦🦜 But why do birds form such roosts? In red kites, young single males are the most frequent visitors. Once paired, birds roost more solitarily, often together as a pair. 📢 Now online: tinyurl.tools/98e9279e @animalecology.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Have you read our recent paper looking at how #COVID19 #lockdown changed foraging behavior of #redkites in Switzerland? 🦅 (🧵⬇️) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @vogelwarte.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org

TWO papers just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org #biologyletters : 1) Red kites switched from scavenging along roads to foraging away from roads during the COVID-19 lockdowns. 2) Fishers synchronise heart rates when cooperating with dolphins, but only when in close proximity. 1/

Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico. www.istitutoveneto.it/premio-matte... Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026 Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.

NEW ISSUE: read the full second issue of 2025 here: vist.ly/3n3t9ne The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe' by @steffopp.bsky.social et al. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.