⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING Nominate now for a BOU #ornithology award 🪶 Deadline: Mon 15 Sept 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award bou.org.uk/about-the...

Delighted to welcome Mark Mainwaring to the Editorial Board of #BirdStudy as an Associate Editor. The 4th to join over the past year, the growing Editorial Board is helping us expand the journal's #ornithology expertise, geographical representation and diversity: www.bto.org/our-work/sci...

Chuffed to see our meta-analysis of UK nest predator studies published- fantastic collaboration across diverse organisations and individuals @gwct.org.uk @rspbengland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 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

Wonderful to see a few more BOU Conference Attendance Grant recipients in action at #EOU2025 yesterday Joshua Wilson, Soladoye Iwajomo & Susan Ellen McKinlay Look out for Malin Klumpp on Friday! #ornithology

Really excited about this conference, coming Sept 2026. But now is your chance to shape our programme. Who would you like to see as a keynote? Get your nominations in by 30th Sept 2025.

New distribution models for Icelandic waders show how temperate to arctic species overlap across climatic and environmental gradients. Led by Dr. Verónica Méndez nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @wildlifebiology.bsky.social #ornithology #waders #shorebirds #ConservationScience🌍

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

🔊 VACANCY Could you be our next Conference Support Officer? Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... ⏰ Deadline: 29 August #ornithology 🪶

🔊 VACANCY Could you be our next Conference Support Officer? Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... ⏰ Deadline: 29 August #ornithology 🪶

🏅 BOU AWARD NOMINATIONS OPEN Early Professional Award Awarded by BOU Council for an outstanding initial contribution to the field of ornithology Nominate a deserving recipient now! bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

New issue of #BirdStudy published today: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7... UK Hen Harrier census Capercaillie vocal ID Barn Owls and agri-environment schemes Bird trends in Faroes, and Iceland Dunlin morphometrics Sparrowhawk breeding habitat Rock Partridge nest predation #ornithology

🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN... ...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025 Full details via links ⬇️ Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c... #ornithology 🪶

📆Deadline extended📆 If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️ Deadline: 14th July #FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

New paper in @waderstudy.bsky.social led by @btobirds.bsky.social reviewing headstarting across Europe as a tool for #Curlew #conservation Read the blog post: www.curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk/european-hea... Read the open access paper: www.waderstudygroup.org/article/18880/ #waders #shorebirds

New article on annual survival of Great Tits in Hungary. Urban sites had highest and lowest survival but two forest sites were intermediate. Led by Boglárka Bukor with collaborators from Univ. Pannonia, Sheffield and Eötvös Loránd. #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

New in #BirdStudy Lesser Flamingos may be nomadic between feeding sites in India. Potential nomadism in sub-adult Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor: insights from satellite telemetry on movement, home ranges and habitat use in India (Ram et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

⏰ 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

Our new OA paper is out: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology Using @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site data spanning 12 countries across Europe we explore geographic and temporal variation in synchrony in counts, productivity and survival rates.

New in #BirdStudy Trait-based vulnerability assessment to #birdflu predicted mortality at the avian family, but not the species, level. Assessing the vulnerability of wild bird populations to high pathogenicity avian influenza (Pearce-Higgins et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology

⏰ 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

How Do Synchrony in Survival and Productivity Influence Abundance Synchrony in European Landbirds? | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶

Very happy to see this new paper led by @catmorrison.bsky.social out, using the amazing data collected by @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site ringers to reveal how demographic synchrony influences fluctuations in abundance of landbirds across Europe @simon-butler.bsky.social #ornithology

📢 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

⏰ ABSTRACT DEADLINE APPROACHING Submit now! #BOUasm25 | A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London Oral abstract deadline: 15 April bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 #ornithology

Please please please fill this out 🙏 we are trying to understand people’s perspectives of hosting scientific conferences on Bluesky 🦋 and everyone’s viewpoint is super helpful #BOU2025 #ornithology 🪶 Please share with your networks / feeds

The Anthropocene is characterised by: ⚠️ biodiversity declines ⚠️ extinction of experience ⚠️ declining wellbeing At #BOU2025, I'm talking about how it may be possible to address all 3 challenges 🔗 besjournals.onlineli...#BOU2025, 1/6 🧵 #ornithology #conservationscience #bioacoustics 🔊🧪🪶🌍

The second day of #BOU2025 is starting and I'm looking forward to a series of threads that will be posted here on Bluesky #ornithology 🪶🧪

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🧪🌐

🧵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 🪶🧪

1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵 #ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪

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

The BOU are recruiting two Support Officers to help us with social media (bou.org.uk/about-the-bo...) and equality & diversity (bou.org.uk/about-the-bo...). These are particularly excellent opportunities for ECRs to develop their skills and find out more about the workings of a society #ornithology

Turnstones are well known omnivores (everything from dog 💩 to human flesh). How can we work out whether a change in diet is borne of necessity? Blog from 17 Feb 2016 9️⃣🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/w... #ornithology

Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New in #BirdStudy H5N1 bird flu killed a THIRD(!) of the Solway Barnacle Goose population (11,400 birds) in 2021/2. Impacts of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) on a Barnacle Goose Branta leucopsis population wintering on the Solway Firth, UK doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology #ukbirding

While you're waiting for the first Whimbrel of spring, here's a new WaderTales blog - "the call of the Whimbrel". wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... At its heart is a new paper by Maite Cerezo Araujo: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ornithology

🔈 ANNOUNCING #BOU2026 Birds and people: challenges and opportunities of coexistence | University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky | 31 March - 2 April 2026 Nominate your picks for the Alfred Newton Lecture and for keynote talks bou.org.uk/event/bir...#BOU2026 #ornithology 🪶

📢 Are you coming to #BOU2025? We're seeking ideas for how we can promote diversity, inclusion and belonging at our conferences, including at #BOU2025 Submit your suggestions here: www.menti.com/al2anq... Not registered yet? Get on it! bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025?#BOU2025#ornithology 🪶

Nominations to join @ibisjournal.bsky.social committees are open! We're looking for new members to join the following committees: 👉 Engagement 👉 Grants 👉 IBIS Management 👉 Meetings Nominate yourself or somebody else here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... #ornithology 🪶 🧪 More info 👇 Please ask Qs!

👏 Great news from @ibisjournal.bsky.social. Bluesky will be their social platform for conferences. "The BOU aims to run inclusive and accessible events... by delivering our conferences in parallel on a freely accessible social media platform. From 2025 onwards, this will be Bluesky." #ornithology

Very excited for this!

2700 gulls counted in the Tayport gloaming for @btobirds.bsky.social survey Difficult not to get distracted by waders on a risiing tide! #Fifebirds

Did your Green Sandpipers survive the January cold snap? Northern UK sites may well be on the edge when it comes to winter survival. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/01/18/w... #ornithology

Young birders in UK/Ireland? Under 25? There are seven species of wader/shorebird that have been shown to live longer than you have! WaderTales blog about longevity and survival: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/w... Images show new BTO records set in 2023 (latest available) #ornithology

#BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Keynote - Simon Gillings @simongillings.bsky.social Advances, opportunities and challenges in acoustic monitoring of birds Book your place now! Early-bird closes 3 Feb bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025 #ornithology

New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show North American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age. We link this to social learning in novel migration route development. rdcu.be/d57Mw 1/10 #ornithology