Hard to believe I’m watching snow fall now after a day like yesterday. Beautiful walk full of amazing nature encounters in the oldest migratory bird sanctuary in North America. Saw a few snow geese 😂. I’ll share more after I get through the photos! 🌿 #birds #prairie

Substantial losses of #Arctic sea ice concentration are found in October. The largest declining trends extend from parts of the East Siberian Sea to the Chukchi Sea. Sea ice concentration = fraction of ice-cover. More info on recent Arctic climate: doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...

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We have a new paper out, in which we use brute force to identify combinations of land use/management changes which navigate the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity conservation and food production: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ConservationScience 🌍 @rspbscience.bsky.social 1/

1️⃣/3️⃣ Are you interested in the calls that waders/shorebirds make? @waderstudy.bsky.social have kindly made a 'Perspectives' article available as 'open access'. www.waderstudygroup.org/article/19261/ See thread for two WaderTales blogs about wader calls 👇 #ornithology

You can see all of the articles in the latest Issue of Environmental Conservation (Volume 52 - Issue 3 - September 2025) at the link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #EnvironmentalConservation #Environment #Conservation #Research #ConservationScience🌍

Colleagues from CPSG will be at the #WorldConservationCongress this week: don't miss them 🐸🫶 Schedule here: www.instagram.com/p/DPjjwVkDM9... Or here: www.linkedin.com/posts/conser... #IUCNcongress #ConservationScience🌎 #Conservation🌎

#MusicChallenge folks! Please join me starting tomorrow for a new #BirdSongs challenge featuring our feathered friends, birds! 🪶🐦🦉 Below, I'll post photos of #birds along with vital info for you to use as inspiration in selecting your song (not theirs!) for the challenge. Have fun! #MusicSky #Music

Deep breath checkpoint! If you're doomscrolling, unclench your jaw and take a few deep breaths as you enjoy this Brown Creeper creepin' Shoddy camerawork and urban park audio, but the bird is too cute not to share #birds

Shifts in breeding phenology for Cassin’s Sparrow (Peucaea cassinii) over four decades. 2025. Schnase, J. L., M. L. Carroll, P. M. Montesano, and V. A. Seamster. Journal of Field Ornithology 96(3):3. doi.org/10.5751/JFO-... #ornithology🐦 #evosky #conservationscience🌍 #climatecrisis

Annual Moisture Levels Drive Population Dynamics Across the Breeding Range of a Declining Waterbird. A. E. Mckellar, S. A. Flemming, and A. C. Smith Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-14. (6 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063.... #ornithology🐦 #evosky #conservationscience🌍

#ornithology🐦 #evosky

Shorebird Use of the Lower Colorado River Delta During Migration by T. D. Meehan, et al. Waterbirds 48 (2), 1-12. (4 September 2025) doi.org/10.1675/063....

academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... on ecological realism and eco-evolutionary dynamics in contemporary timescales "...stochasticity can affect phenotypic evolution even in large populations via stochastic selection generated by environmental fluctuations." #evosky #ornithology #ecology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Misconceptions and regressions: The evolution of bird brains avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/m... #ornithology

#conservationscience🌍 I find this study fascinating.

#ornithology apnews.com/article/red-...

New short communication: First Common Murre seen off the Azores, by Luis Barcelos et al. #Auktober #seabirds #ornithology #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

Confused by gulls? 🤔 Join our online Gull ID training sessions in November ➡️ www.bto.org/training Our two-part, online Gull ID course run by our expert team helps you build knowledge and confidence to make gull ID easier! #UKBirding #Ornithology

NEW PAPER: Radar data from Alaska show birds shift to diurnal flights as nights shorten, but peak migration still clusters near solar midnight—highlighting strong stabilizing pressure on flight timing that overrides pressure to maintain nocturnality. ➡️ vist.ly/48ata #ornithology #birds 🪶

Foraging behavior of the Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) and the Middle Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocoptes medius) during breeding season in the Białowieża National Park, Poland | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Something cool to start your weekend: a Blue Jay x Green Jay hybrid from Texas! #ornithology

Two days before WaderTales celebrates its 🔟th anniversary. Two recent blogs - worrying news for Iceland's breeding waders & identifying conservation hotspots. wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/i... Research led by @tomasgunnarsson.bsky.social #ornithology

What an honour to open the 50th @waderstudy.bsky.social conference with a plenary on Spoonbill migration culture on the beautiful stage of DOT in Groningen. The Spoonbill-inspired concerto 'Solanum' by Tjibbe Stelwagen and Caspar Kootstra made for a perfect tandem wt the arts. #ornithology

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Inferring introgression: Genomic study on hybridizing Darwin’s Finches highlights the importance of field observations avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/10/13/i... #ornithology

Lots of new discoveries during 1️⃣0️⃣ years of WaderTales. 👇Amended map from Time to Fly (published by @btobirds.bsky.social We know that autumn migration of Whimbrel from Iceland is transoceanic. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/i... Paper by Camilo Carneiro et al #ornithology

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

#climatecrisis #clatechange

NO, Write to the FS. #coleg #copolitics #conservationscience🌍

Vagrancy into the North Atlantic must be pretty lethal for European woodland birds. @alexanderlees.bsky.social

This is an exceptionally good thread, on the situation with publishing in academic journals. Virtually all of it applies to #ornithology, #ecology & #conservation journals. 👇

The absolute collapse of Willow Warblers in southern Britain doesn't get talked about enough. One of the commonest migrants 30 years ago.

@gypsyj.bsky.social #science

#conservationscience🌍 #climatecrisis

New piece from me published in Nature Climate Change: Decarbonization can improve energy security, robust trade and a circular economy increases energy security, and critical minerals are not like oil. 🔌💡 Journal link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Open access link: rdcu.be/eg3lR

#ornithology abcbirds.org/news/inaugur...

Just published today! Our group used mosquitoes as flying syringes to conduct surveillance on pathogens of turkeys, white-tailed deer and invasive wild pigs. Not only could we detect DNA and RNA viruses, we could estimate prevalence! 🌎🧪👩‍🔬 doi.org/10.3390/path...

Have you heard? The AFO and the WOS are having another joint meeting! Save the date: July 7–9 on the Salve Regina University campus, Newport, Rhode Island. We hope to see you soon!

#climatecrisis #climatechange #conservationscience🌍

#climatecrisis #conservationscience🌍 So very sad and scary.

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Shake your tail feather! Courtship displays and genetic analyses uncover extensive hybridization between Allen’s and Rufous Hummingbird avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/s... #ornithology

This back-to-school season, be sure to bookmark our free Guide to Graduate Studies and share it with any #ornithology-loving undergrads in your life!

A dad/bird joke to annoy your friends with this weekend. 🪶

Swift trails - I love the patterns of flight, so elegant! @rspb.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social

🔊 ANNOUNCEMENT relating to the #BritishList The BOU (including BOURC) to adopt the new AviList global avian taxonomy Further details: bou.org.uk/british-l...#BritishList #ornithology 🪶