Our new paper just out in Ecology & Evolution journal Applied Solutions to Balance Conservation Need With Practical Applications: A Case Study With Eagles Movement Models and Wind Energy Development Led by Megan Murgatroyd doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #RaptorResearch #ornithology

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G10j... #Thinkpaws project. #Coexistence

Black kites-free ranging dogs associate in Delhi. While there are situations of conflict over human food subsidies, stay tuned for more information on cross-species social cognition in Urban Information Landscapes being focus of www.thinkpaws.org. @lucymaplin.bsky.social is doing it in Sydney.

🧵2/6 A big thank you to our #BOU2025 plenary speakers for their insightful and engaging presentations @judyshamounb.bsky.social @bvdbirds.bsky.social @simongillings.bsky.social @nishantkumar.bsky.social, Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez, Becki Lawson, Andreanna Welch + @lucymaplin.bsky.social

Global warming is leading to more frequent periods of extremely high temperatures. Understanding individual behavioural responses across temperature gradients can help identify and design measures that enable species to cope with extremes temperatures, aiding their conservation. 1/5 #BOU2025

1/🧵 Today at #BOU2025, I'm sharing my work using a #lidar time series to examine temporal Chiffchaff niche dynamic. tl;dr as the population has grown, Chiffchaff niche has expanded. #remotesensing #ecology 🧪🌎🌳🐦🛰 🙏 @bou.org.uk for the travel award to be here 🙏

Kestrel activity levels decrease with temperature (in Portugal & Spain). With increasing global temperatures there may be less foraging time available. #bou2025 #Ornithology

Everyone loves a good shag! Thanks @scottishseabird.bsky.social 😁

Session 6 of the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference is all about genetics (my favourite!). Andreanna Welch @durhamuniversity.bsky.social uses DNA metabarcoding data to investigate diet & reproductive success in urban blue tits. Are urban habitats an "ecological trap"? #BOU2025

The plastics ingested by gulls and storks at landfills ending up in wetlands 😨 #BOU2025

Day 2 of the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference opening with a session on approaches in disease & pollution. Fantastic plenary from Becki Lawson @wildlife-health.bsky.social on advances in wild bird disease surveillance within the One Health paradigm #BOU2025 ➡️ gardenwildlifehealth.org

1/🧵 #BOU2025 #CitizenScience #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #Ornithology 🌏🧪 Hi, I’m Becki Lawson, a wildlife vet at @zslofficial.bsky.social, and today I will be exploring disease surveillance in wild birds in light of the overall health of people, animals, and the ecosystem – in short: One Health.

Last session today for the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference: avian conservation across scales. Great talk from Viviana Ruiz Gutierrez @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social evidencing how #eBird data can be effectively used to inform #conservation & management, with meaningful impact. #BOU2025

Latest episode just dropped! Humans and dogs, domestication or a mutualism? How did this special relationship start? Hear from the experts! Hosted by @timcoulson.bsky.social & @sykhalid.bsky.social

1/6 Monitoring some #seabird species using observer-based methods is difficult, this can lead to infrequent data collection, or none at all Little data on populations= limited ability to understand how threats may impact these species #BOU2025

Session 3 of the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference and we are exploring avian socio-ecology. @nishantkumar.bsky.social gives insights into the intricate relationship between black kites, #migration & local people in India. #BOU2025

Always special to meet and interact with @arjundevamar.bsky.social at #BOU2025. What he was developing in BOU 2016 has blossomed into a strong methodology. Super cool; indirect citizen science :)

Loved the talk by @nishantkumar.bsky.social on black kite use of landfills in India! Really interesting to see the migration paths. #BOU2025 🪶 #ornithology

Thanks @bou.org.uk for this opportunity to share some old and a few cool new stories about kites, especially the #BOU2025 organisers (@claire @mariusom13.bsky.social @ et al.).

1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology

Session 2 @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference focuses on passive acoustic monitoring 🔊 @simongillings.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social gives a great overview on how PAM can complement traditional methods, but there are challenges & more to do when it comes to data analysis. #BOU2025

A great start to #BOU2025 today with a talk by Ben from @migrationbio.bsky.social presenting this super paper 🔗 www.cell.com/current-biol... #ornithology 🪶 #migrationresearch #movementecology🧪🌐

Day 1 of the @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference is underway. Benjamin Van Doren @illinoispress.bsky.social presents a recent paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on migration sociality & its potential role in migratory decision making + mediating collision risk in urban areas. #BOU2025

Outstanding start to #BOU2025 with a fascinating Alfred Newton lecture from @judyshamounb.bsky.social, on the amazing knowledge of bird movement and behaviour we have gained from tracking technologies.

Thank you @bou.org.uk for nominating me for the award lecture and to a great audience, who had my heart racing for the whole talk! Now time to relax and enjoy talks to come on Frontiers in #ornithology @ #BOU2025. Special shout out to @natbzielonka.bsky.social for the thread below

🧵1/8 Welcome to #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology, our annual conference. Over the next 3 days, we’ll be in-person in Nottingham, and here on Bluesky Follow the #BOU2025 for conference threads and to join in! #ornithology 🪶🧪

Second, only to a Black Kite, @ivojacobs.bsky.social ;)

If you like dogs, you’ll love this podcast on domestication and why they are so good for us in so many ways. Released mid-week. Subscribe to hear announcements.

This cool visualisation by @nilomr.bsky.social of great tit song (or is it the clangers? - 🔊 on) reminded me of how enjoyable it was to talk at length to @sykhalid.bsky.social @timcoulson.bsky.social on @scienceofthetimes.bsky.social about our great tit song paper: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Even black kites dn't like food served on plastic! Well, that was more of a pun for kites' aversion to picking meat chunks from plastic sheet spread on the ground; this meat is ritually offered in Delhi, usually tossed to kites to be picked mid-air. We have been doing cognitive ecology exp! #BOU2025

‼️ REGISTRATION CLOSES TODAY #BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Book your place now! Programme & registration: bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025 #ornithology 🪶

m.youtube.com/@ScienceOfTh.... It’s cold and wet. The weather that is, not this hot new podcast. @sykhalid.bsky.social @streamingspires.bsky.social

zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/oidcS... Paper born out of frustration trying to identify sex of Andean species by their plumage in fieldwork has finally been published, showing it isn’t the birds that aren’t dichromatic, but my eyesight that is poor

I set out to examine whether the assumptions held in @anuragkashyap72's Eeb Allay Ooo! (movie trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HDLJMtwww) , depicting "langur call imitators" who perform the job of thwarting rhesus macaques, hold ground. The team used playback devices that brayed (1/n)...

Our lab's first paper out in 2025! Led by the brilliant Ella Ackroyd in collaboration with Rob Heathcote Dynamic colour change in zebrafish (Danio rerio) across multiple contexts royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #openaccess #fishsci #zebrafish

Artificial light at nyt ALAN that has fuelled "civilizational growth" & affected biodiversity across the globe needs more focus. Here, macaque troops in AUD campus are grooming beyond daylyt. These troops get food subsidies, prompting How are we affecting social processes? @ncbsbangalore.bsky.social

This tigress has reclaimed the ancient fort within Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and made it her home. Protection, prey, peace, and prosperity have been key factors in the tiger recovery within India, according to a new Science study. Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/42yn5Ra

#ornithology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Update: Abstract submission for #Behaviour2025 is now extended to Feb 15!

#BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Keynote - @nishantkumar.bsky.social Are cities “The Room of Requirement” for birds that link co-culturally with humans? Book your place now! Early-bird closes 3 Feb bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025 #ornithology 🪶

new life form just dropped. turns out its inside you right now, and nobody has any clue wtf it is, where it came from, or what it does. rad! www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-ent...

Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.

We’re sad the #ASABWinter2024 conference is over, but you can easily follow all of the brilliant speakers, chairs and organizers at go.bsky.app/QbM8rWb If you spoke at the conference and you just joined bluesky or we missed adding you, let us know so we can add you!

The #ASABWinter2024 conference on Addressing Biases in the Field of Animal Behaviour has been extraordinary. A huge THANK YOU to the volunteers & the organizers: @nicolakoyama.bsky.social @viveknityananda.bsky.social @wascherclaudia.bsky.social @cedricaumont.bsky.social & @cbenvenuto.bsky.social 😀

Something a little different (and hopefully recurring!) for ASAB – a panel session on the conference theme of addressing biases by @nishantkumar.bsky.social Ari Drummond, @bula-niki.bsky.social, Tim Prezelj & @lenagrinsted.bsky.social. Chaired by conference organizer @wascherclaudia.bsky.social

The ever fantastic Dr. Antica Culina shared staggering logjams on how poor research reproducibility/data utilisation cause "criminal" waste of limited research funds. But are there 🤔 more aspects to mind for Opening the turf of doing and enjoying science? Join #ASAB24 Panel Discussion!

#ASABwinter2024 welcome note. Left: organising committee Cédric Aumont, @cbenvenuto.bsky.social, @nicolakoyama.bsky.social, @viveknityananda.bsky.social, @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Right: social media secretary @raccoonologist.bsky.social providing useful info on how to interact via BlueSky

Darwin stirred some ideas that challenged victorian orthodox notions about females. But like the concept of god, the masculine supremacy was also equally hard to unlearn. Fantastic plenary by Malih Ah-King. #ASAB24

🌐 PAWS-Web Origins: Bringing Academia to Action - in association with stakeholders - within Tropical Cities 🌿 We are exploring #UrbanPlanet’s human-animal dynamics & capturing the collective conscience to shape diverse #sustainability visions. 🤝🔬 #PAWS #Onehealth #conflict @oxfordbiology.bsky.social