🎉We have announced a new professorship at the University of Gothenburg 🇸🇪 to celebrate our Crown Princess’s 50th birthday! 🌿Broad focus on biodiversity — from microbes to modelling 📢A fantastic opportunity for researchers working across scales and disciplines! 🔗 web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

One of the benefits of studying wader migration is that you learn how interconnected places are. The world seems smaller and country borders seem trivial. Black-tailed Godwit blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology

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⏰ DEADLINE TODAY! Nominate now for a BOU #ornithology award 🪶 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award bou.org.uk/about-the...

Finally, do you know someone who deserves recognition in #ornithology 🪶? Nominations are OPEN ⤵️ bou.org.uk/about-the...#ornithology 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award ⏰ Deadline SOON! 15 September 2025 🧵10/10

EARLY VIEW in IBIS British Ornithologists' Union – Early Professional Award 2025 - Oliver Padget | doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 #BOUasm25 KEYNOTE Claire Spottiswoode University of Cape Town, South Africa A Zambian ornithological collection as a window into brood parasite-host coevolution Keynote abstracts: bou.org.uk/conferenc...#BOUasm25 #ornithology 🪶

⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London ➡️ BOU member discounts ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ Visit Tring collections bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 Keynote 🧵 ⬇️ #ornithology 🪶

🌱 Early Professional Award Awarded by BOU Council for an outstanding initial contribution to the field of #ornithology (<10 years of last degree) bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... 5/5

🎖️ Janet Kear Union Medal Awarded by BOU Council to members of the BOU in recognition of distinguished service to the Union bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... 4/5

📣 Nominations for this year's round of @bou.org.uk awards are currently OPEN! Your chance to recognise those key people in #ornithology 👏 Find out more and make your nominations here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... 📆 Deadline 15th Sept 2025 1/5

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089 #ornithology 🪶

🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award Deadline: 15 September 2025 Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...

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If there is an optimal behavior, why is there so much variation in the world? We found that, for white storks, context is everything. @anflack.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social New paper! @cellpress.bsky.social doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.044 🧵1/5

A paper describing the history of AviList and how the new unified global bird checklist was created has now been published - free to download until 1 September: rdcu.be/euZjH

New paper out! 🌊🐢 OA 🙌🏻 We reviewed studies tracking male sea turtles, revealing key behaviors—some unique to males! We highlight knowledge gaps and set priorities to guide future research on this overlooked half of the population. #spatial ecology #biologging #seaturtles doi.org/10.3354/esr0...

A fun review we did on the spatial ecology of male sea turtles. Male sea turtles don't come ashore to lay eggs, making them harder to track and therefore more 'elusive'. Check it out!

Something to send to your uncle who insists there's just no space for #renewables: Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy doi.org/10.1088/2515... Lovely bit of land-use perspective by @jannweinand.bsky.social et al

The first paper of my PhD (and my first first-author paper!) is out now in Marine Biology 🌊 🎆 We tracked snow petrels in a season of extreme weather and little sea ice in east Antarctica❄️ read more on our #ANTSIE webpage here: www.antsie.webspace.durham.ac.uk/2025/06/06/snow-petrel-tracking/

NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

Don't break the chain! Ground-breaking analysis demonstrating the complex needs of migrating Black-tailed Godwits. Damaging one site can have far-reaching consequences. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... #ornithology Paper @amigodeaves.bsky.social

Would you like to decipher how animals perceive the world from their movement and activity data collected by tracking devices? I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to develop approaches for extraction of animal condition from the tracks of wild birds.

Out now: A new predictive method: Towards biologically realistic estimates of home range and spatial exposure for colonial animals. With @jasonmatth.bsky.social, @jwejeglinski.bsky.social and others. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are live! Introducing the "Journal of Robustness Reports" – a Diamond Open-Access journal dedicated to publishing short reanalyses of empirical findings. Check out our website and blog post about the journal: 🌐 scipost.org/JRobustRep 📄 www.bayesianspectacles.org/introducing-...

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

POSTDOC VACANCY: We have a 3 year position available studying variation in population size and habitat use of red knots in the #WaddenSea. We the aim to understand bottom-up and top-down processies. More info here: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po... #WATLAS #SIBES #ornithology #movementecology

Every year, fewer #WhiteStorks cross the Straits of Gibraltar on their annual migratory journey. In this paper, we unveil the mechanisms driving the recent and rapid loss of their migratory behaviour. 👉https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.70035

Uncovering Alpine swift foraging behaviour using GPS tracking & DNA metabarcoding! For the first time we describe Alpine swift foraging movements and what factors impact foraging trips, short-term range area size, & the prey diversity fed to nestlings #BOU2025 #ornithology 1/7

Thank you all who made the Toolkit possible! Built on the work of many, we want to continue the collaborative journey with all working to conserve marine megafauna. Explore, tell us what works, suggest improvements, contribute. We can only achieve biodiversity conservation targets working together.

🌊 Excited to share the Marine Megafauna Conservation Toolkit! 🐧 It contains step-by-step methods with R code (including for tracking data) for identifying critical sites (e.g. Key Biodiversity Areas) & guidance for conservation practice, policy & advocacy. ➡️tinyurl.com/MMFCToolkit

📢 VACANCY Could you be our next Social Media Support Officer? We're looking for a social media whizz to support our output across multiple platforms Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

Are you an ornithologist based in Northern Ireland? Come and join our team @bto-ni.bsky.social! Find out more and apply: www.bto.org/jobs

So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

So cool to see this out! Also cool use of the Spilhaus projection here :)

The Seabird Tracking Database seabirdtracking.org provided an opportunity to identify the marine flyways A MASSIVE THANK YOU 👏to all data contributors, collaborators & GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social who supported this work More info, including a beautiful animation ➡️ tinyurl.com/yek8dwt4 🧵5/5

The marine #flyways concept can help coordinate collaborative #conservation efforts for migratory #seabirds, building on the successes of the existing flyways for land and waterbirds ➡️ birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/our-work/flyways/ @migratoryspecies.bsky.social 🧵4/5

The six marine #flyways cover extensive areas of the world’s oceans and illustrate the broad-scale movements and connectivity of multiple #seabird populations and species during their annual cycle 🧵3/5

Tracking data from 48 long-distance pelagic #seabird species, shared by >100 collaborators, were analysed to reveal the consistent & repeatable #migratory routes, including a circumpolar navigation of the Southern Ocean & transhemispheric ‘figures of 8’ in the Pacific & Atlantic oceans 🧵2/5

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5

As a reminder, our most recent work on green turtle ecology and conservation within the PNBA has recently been published in Marine Biology and is freely accessible: rdcu.be/d1AXJ @amigodeaves.bsky.social @ritapatricio.bsky.social

Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds? Blog from last month may be of interest. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... @amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites. #ConservationScience🌏

GNSS spoofing in conflict zones disrupts wildlife tracking and hampers research and conservation efforts | www.nature.com/artic... | @naturecomms.bsky.social | #ornithology 🪶

Last week, 56,000 #btgodwits were counted in the rice fields of the #Tagus estuary, the highest concentration of the species in the EAF. In this rice field alone, 36K godwits were recorded by drone! #LifeGodwitflyway

Network analysis can be used to improve flyway conservation for shorebirds: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h... Can the same techniques be used better to understand the East Asian-Australasian Flyway? wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/h... Blog from 10 Feb 2022 🎂3️⃣ #ornithology