We are happy to introduce you to another member of our society, Kristin Piening! Photo: Uwe Franzen

Un-brie-lievable: A cheese-eating Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus NEW SHORT COMMUNICATION by Trevor MacLaurin www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20174/ #waders #shorebirds #research #ornithology

‼️🚨New Paper Alert! 🚨‼️ Using a decades-long dataset on puffins in the Faroe Islands, we show a change in population age structure and relate the increase in older birds/decrease in cohort sizes to (pre-)hatch year food availability. doi.org/10.1002/wlb3... @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social

Session 8 at #EOU26 focused on biologging Thiemo Karwinkel, Susan Ellen McKinlay, Giovanna Sandretti da Silva, Ryan Boswarthick and Trevor MacLaurin on tracking movements, flight behaviour, survival, and tag effects. A lot of insight from these approaches—what stood out to you?

A huge thank you to all organisers, volunteers, presenters, poster contributors, and participants for making #EOU26 such a great conference! 🐦 Enjoy the rest of your time in Gdańsk, and have a safe journey home—no matter how far you’re travelling!

Are you responsible for American Oystercatcher habitat management? If so, this is for you! Our latest paper explores how vegetation and elevation shape nest-site selection and reproductive success in Virginia’s American Oystercatchers. Link: doi.org/10.1675/063....

🚨 #HotOffThePress in @cdnsciencepub.com "Black-legged #kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) readily consume #ArcticCod (Boreogadus saida) in the Canadian #Arctic: insights from #StomachContent and #StableIsotopeAnalyses" This is the last chapter of my #PhD to be published! A thread🧵of the main results:

New paper out in ecology letters! with @andylee.bsky.social @allydefduf.bsky.social We synthesized the active debate on how scientists define sex, including limitations and assumptions. We believe this discussion will lead to more accurate science. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#ornithology arcticeider.com

📖 Published! A range-wide full-annual-cycle model informs conservation of a declining migratory shorebird🐥🌊 Using population growth rates to link local, season-specific data to model full-annual-cycle dynamics could guide the conservation of migratory species Read more: buff.ly/ezoou8z

Shortest day. For an Oystercatcher that winters in Iceland it was only 4 hours between sunrise and sunset today. A bird that migrates to Dublin will have experienced 7.5 hours. Thoughts about the two strategies: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/06/12/m... #ornithology

New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

Where to now?! A number of seabirds covered by the SMP are migratory, spending the winter away from the UK. Storm Petrels are a great example, wintering off the coast of southern Africa in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students. I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

This new paper was a team effort among students in my lab, led by @mitchellshorgan.bsky.social. Please share with your fish tracking colleagues! @oceantracking.bsky.social @glatos-fish.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The perfect Christmas gift for the seabird-nerd in your life. www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781472...

🎤 We’re thrilled to announce our first plenary speaker for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk (27–29 March 2026)! 🌊 Jérôme Fort (@umrlienss.bsky.social) will discuss how seabirds respond to challenges shaping marine ecosystems — and what they reveal about ocean health. #EOU26 #Ornithology

#biologging #research is booming - but do #loggers actually impact the birds? Yes, they do - depending on the mass and attachment location. If you work with biologging, you should read our latest publication seapop.no/en/2025/11/l... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds

Our latest introductory and advanced courses on Data Analysis with R Statistical Software are now live -all welcome, whatever your current level of skills or experience :) www.ecoexplore.co.uk

The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆

Please check out this interesting presentation on #stormpetrels and #lightpollution in the Faroes by collaborator and PhD student @bardseyben.bsky.social #seabirds 🧪🌍 kvf.fo/sjon/sending...

Spot of fieldwork with @bardseyben.bsky.social and @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

What are the effects of tagging on fishes? 🐟 Our review + meta-analysis explores intracoelomic tagging effects in fishes. We summarize the existing literature and examine the 2% rule using evidence from a broad representation of all published studies. Preprint link below! 🧵

The fluffiest European Storm Petrel Chick being weighed a few months ago in September on Nolsoy, Faroe Islands. 😍 #Seabirdsunday #StormPetrel #Seabirds

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The ABA is thrilled to be able to announce a full slate of recipients for the ABA's awards this year. Thanks to all who have contributed so much to birding. It means so much to celebrate your accomplishments and to share this community with you. www.aba.org/2024-aba-awa...

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

To me, this is such an important message, as so many ecologists seem (paradoxically) to lose their connection with nature as they get promoted up the career ladder. Time spent in nature, especially if together with the next generation of ecologists, is time very well spent.

Banner day birding #ChincoteagueNWR including a very late Piping Plover, a Ross’s Goose, a Greater White-fronted Goose (first for the county since 2017!), and a Glaucous Gull.

Excited to be back in Virginia for the upcoming American Oystercatcher Working Group meeting!

Have you ever wondered how a #shearwater fledgling flies from its nest to the places where they are grounded by #LightPollution? We've used GPSs with remote download to track their flights & published this paper doi.org/10.3389/fevo... #seabirds #seabirdersaturday

Amazing to receive updates from Jens-kjeld on our Storm-petrels in their nestboxes on Nólsoy (Faroe Islands). Amidst the snow and blizzards, the parents keep visiting to feed these fluff balls, and we now only have two chicks left to fledge! I really hope they make it... #seabirds #stormpetrels

Check out our latest issue go.nature.com/3Warkij #genetics #genomics #quantgen #arabidopsis #transcriptomics #microbiome 📸 Joëlle Taillon, Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte aux Changements Climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (Québec)]

In case you missed it: Abstract submissions for #AFOSCOWOS24 are now open! Get yours in by March 15 to be part of this summer's meeting in Peoria, Illinois. afoscowos2024.org/call-for-abs...

🦉🪶 Beautiful in red, white and black. And quite noisy when they're nesting just overhead on your office roof. But I love the sound. Reminds me of the beach, even 120km inland. (scholekster, Haematopus ostralegus)

Backpack satellite transmitters reduce survival but not nesting propensity or success of greater sage-grouse | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

Go read my lab mates recent publication on Black Oystercatchers in BC!

In case you missed it, I wrote a story for @hakaimagazine.bsky.social about why seabird couples break up. Sometimes it's incompatible personalities; sometimes it's climate change. 🪶🧪🌎 hakaimagazine.com/news/these-b...

In the latest issue of IBIS Reduced breeding success in Great Black-backed Gulls (Larus marinus) due to harness-mounted GPS device | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Samuel Langlois Lopez, Gary D. Clewley, Daniel T. Johnston, Francis Daunt, Jared M. Wilson, Nina J. O'Hanlon, Elizabeth Masden | #ornithology

📢 WOS Research Grant applications are now open! These small grants, in amounts ranging up to $5,000, primarily support #ornithology research by students, early-career researchers, & those without access to major funding. The deadline is February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/resea...

"In recent decades, oystercatchers nesting in the center of their breeding range, from North Carolina to Virginia, have experienced significant declines in their reproductive success." wilsonsociety.org/2023/12/05/g...