RSPB seasonal positions @rspbscience.bsky.social are live & we are ready for applications! 🌱🪶🌊⛰️🐣 Huge variety of posts available for 2026: seabirds, veg surveys, visitor questionnaires, upland monitoring, wader chick tracking... all listed on the attachments via the link 👇 Deadline 11th Jan 2026 📆

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📣 New paper out now in @conbiology.bsky.social! #Headstarting - hatching eggs and/or rearing chicks in captivity & releasing them back to the wild - has been increasingly used for #wader #conservation. But it can be challenging and expensive. So why do it and when❓ 📷WWT/Bob Ellis #godwit (1/4)

1/ A new study from @lesserspotnet.bsky.social & BTO in @britishbirds.bsky.social looks at how passive acoustic monitoring is an effective way of surveying Lesser Spotted Woodpecker ➡️ www.bto.org/LSWBioacoust... #bioacoustics #ornithology @simongillings.bsky.social @hosbirding.bsky.social

Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...

Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one? RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #ornithology #conservationscience 🌍

Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉 We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟 Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation

Spotted Flycatchers declined by 88% between 1970-2018, could low reproductive productivity be the cause? Read on for a summary of new RSPB research Full paper: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... (1/5)

Very excited about this work now out in @molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Job vacancy 🧪 Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales? Deadline: 3rd Nov Location: Flexible within Wales Duration: Permanent Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Jake Stephen

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶

Closing date tomorrow, an exciting PhD linking insects with demography of aerial foraging birds such as House martin based @uniexecec.bsky.social in Cornwall.

Only a few days to go… please share!!!

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New job alert: An amazing opportunity - our International science team are hiring for a 2yr position (initially) for an experienced scientist to work on tropical forest conservation 🌍🧪 Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Nick Williams/RSPB

Back from Olomouc — such a well-organised conference in a brilliant location. This community through these HNB conferences has sparked so many collaborations for PiedFly.Net, putting UK data on the map, and led to @spibirds.bsky.social making working together even easier. Thanks you organisers!

Extending Long-Term Avian Studies Alters Temporal and Climate-Driven Trend Conclusions | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Get in touch if you want to know more

I last saw Arin in 2014 when he was a field assistant at APLORI helping us monitor whinchats in Nigeria (on his bike 🤣). Caught up with him today - 11 years later. He’s starting a zoology degree in Sep because he’s inspired to do a PhD in ornithology and help protect his home. All because of APLORI!

Standard Nestling Manipulation by Researchers Does Not Affect Fledging Age: A Field Experiment With Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca | doi.org/10.13157/arl... | Ardeola | #ornithology 🪶

Pleased to contribute a nest to this years @lesserspotnet.bsky.social monitoring. A brood of 4 revealed by the special camera thanks to @angusrobin.bsky.social

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#BOUatEOU #ornithology 🪶 SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#BOUatEOU #ornithology 🪶 SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

PhD opportunity #AfricanOrnithology PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Now is your last chance to find a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker nest. For the next week LSW young will be calling from the nest hole and you may hear them. So have a good search in your local woods. LesserSpotNet volunteers are already watching/monitoring twelve nests in the Midlands & South England.

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#BOUatEOU #ornithology 🪶 SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

First pied flycatcher nest hatching today, 11 May 2025. Most nests incubating eggs now.

First Pied flycatcher egg of the season at East Dartmoor, 22 April 2025

📢 BOU at #EOU2025 Join us for a woodland birds symposium on EOU registration day 18 August | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU Submit your abstract now! Deadline: 30 May bou.org.uk/event/woo...#EOU2025#BOUatEOUSPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social #ornithology

Only two more days left to apply…

Some pied flycatchers seem already paired up with some nest building already started @piedflynet.bsky.social At least 6 males and 4 females seen today

Lots of new females have shown up and spring is going bonkers in the woods. Lots of singing, males defending territories and showing females some holes. Lots of fun. @piedflynet.bsky.social

At least half the male pied flycatchers back at East Dartmoor now, with some pairs starting nest building.

First Blue tit egg at East Dartmoor was April 4 2025. There are 3 earlier lay dates since mid-1950s, all in 2019. Probably about 1 in 8 pairs have started laying - much the same pattern as in 2019. Suggests we can expect first Pied Flycatcher eggs 2 weeks from now. #phenology

Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology [Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

First male Pied Flycatcher singing this morning at East Dartmoor. Second earliest arrival recorded on the reserve. #phenology

An early male Pied Flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca at Prawle Point, Devon today @piedflynet.bsky.social #birds

PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.

We’re now entering the peak period for finding Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. Here’s a couple of clips of Ken Smith from @lesserspotnet.bsky.social with some top tips youtu.be/YcKQWWezFos?...

We're hiring a fieldworker to help with some of our projects in Wytham Woods this spring. Wonderful place to work (and live), especially in the spring. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

📣 New PhD position on flycatchers with @qvarnstromlab.bsky.social — spread the word! Combine bioinformatics, long-term datasets and field work to explore climate adaptation and speciation in the lovely flycatchers. Join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Apply by Mar 18: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... #ecoevojob

New paper from @joewoodman.bsky.social DPhil thesis now published. Here, Joe (& 30 friends) use @spibirds.bsky.social to collate data on age structure for 32 Great Tit populations spanning 67 years & involving 130 000 individual birds. Why did we do this? 1/n onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper out! Read Ben’s great post on how/why we used a combined 702 yrs of data from >130k great tits spanning 3200km to assess spatial synchrony in age structure⬇️ Thanks to all the amazing co-authors and @spibirds.bsky.social for promoting broad-scale analyses like this! doi.org/10.1111/ele....

Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing