2nd European Bird Song Network Meeting Austria 2026, Nov 2-4 More info here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🥳 GOOD NEWS! Montenegro’s government has adopted its proposal for the Natura 2000 ecological network, placing more than half the country's land territory, and its most valuable marine areas, on a path toward formal protection under the EU's flagship conservation framework.

⏳ Just 120 days to go until #ABL2026! Join us on 12 November 2026 for a full day dedicated to "Studying Animal Behaviour in a Changing World" 🐾🌍 🆓 FREE & fully online 📢 Abstract submissions are open 📄 Register & submit your abstract: ablaoc.sciencesconf.org #AnimalBehaviour #ABL2026 #Ethology

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Communal Use of Dust-Bathing Sites by Galápagos Short-Eared Owls (Asio flammeus galapagoensis) in Fine Volcanic Soils.”🦉🌋 July 2026. Journal of Raptor Research. @pesumas.bsky.social, @johannes-ploderer.bsky.social, @josueatyoshi.bsky.social, S. Kleindorfer & S.C. Sumasgutner

Great news everyone! #Behaviour2027 will be at UniWien. How awesome we get to have such a big conference locally, I highly recommend that everyone attends.

We are excited to announce that #Behaviour2027 (XXXIX International Ethological Congress) will be taking place in Vienna, Austria! We are looking forward to having you all join us next year from August 23-27. Please follow and share!

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ “Do animals treat their minds? From wild stories to lab-built realities.” 🧠 May 2026. Journal of Comparative Psychology. @auersperga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1037/com0...

Very excited to hear this talk! Join us on July 17

Dream PhD opening! Innovation in wild falcons! Application deadline Aug 1🦅

I was interviewed by The Indian Express about recent interesting discoveries regarding communication in zebra finches, as well as our hopes of having a future conversation with another species. indianexpress.com/article/expl...

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Animal empathy reconsidered: A multidimensional profile account“ 🐀🦍🐕🐦‍⬛ June 2026. Biological Reviews. Albert Newen, Maja Griem, Ludwig Huber, Thomas Bugnyar, @aaronblaisdell.bsky.social, Simone Pika doi.org/10.1002/brv....

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Humans but not Budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) Consistently Prefer Sounds with Clear Harmonic Spectra“ 🎶🦜 June 2026. Music Perception. Oliver Tab Bellmann, Melina Witt, Bernhard Wagner, Marisa Hoeschele doi.org/10.1525/mp.2...

We have an exciting new position in our group for a PhD on parrot innovation !!! The position will be part of our new @fwf-at.bsky.social Emerging Fields project with @barbaraklump.bsky.social , @mohara.bsky.social , @christophvoelter.bsky.social and Justus Piater. Apply & share!!

Call for #ViCAS 2027-2028 Fellowships now open ✨ 🔍 Fellowships for two career stages: Advanced and mid-career fellowships 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 🏛️ Residencies starting: 1 October 2027 (4 or 9 months) or 1 March 2028 (4 months) 📅 Application deadline: Friday, 28 August 2026 ➡️ Apply now! For further information: ⤵️

Decades of the trade have pushed African grey parrots toward extinction. Now, seizures in Cameroon reveal a macabre shift: poachers are harvesting parrot blood for religious and medicinal practices, complicating enforcement as traffickers pivot to covert, highly fluid products.

New study: Ravens don’t follow a predictable “weekend effect”. Instead of reacting to weekly human routines, they flexibly adjust to real-time disturbance. @varalikajain.bsky.social @pesumas.bsky.social @univie.ac.at @matthiasloretto.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s404... 📸 Daniel Koch

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for Marine Sites Science Officer to support our Marine Programme by analysing seabird tracking data to identify important areas ⏱️Deadline: 03/07/2026 🐧Fixed term 2 years, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybrid Come join our fantastic team! Details ➡️ tinyurl.com/marinesitesj...

A feral population of 200 yellow-crested cockatoos in urban Hong Kong holds unexpectedly high genetic diversity. Representing 10% of the global population, these birds preserve rare lineages now extinct in their native Indonesia, offering a potential "genetic rescue." @npbrao.bsky.social reports.

More of a field person? We have a work contract available on walnut dropping in carrion crows within the @wwtf.at funded project on "The interplay between cognition and ecology in extractive foraging behaviours". More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a PhD student and a Postdoc to investigate innovation in corvids within the “Comparative ecological innovation styles” project funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. More info: barbaraklump.com Application deadline July 24th. Please share widely!

What drives the attractiveness of different timbres? Both similarity with conspecific vocalization and universal markers of arousal may play a role. In other words: biological aspects of the voice, its structure, and how emotional sounds get produced. online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/d...

Pub social pt 1 & 2 at Salettl UniWien then the blessedly air-conditioned Bird Yard. Sweltering 36 degrees, happy so many came out regardless ☀️ 😎

We are looking for a motivated and collaborative MSc student to join us @humboldtuni.bsky.social for their thesis on body mass inequality in Arabian babblers. Preferably based in Berlin. Co-supervised with brilliant @benmocha.bsky.social Call: danaipapageorgiou.weebly.com/join-us.html

It's finally here. 🥳 We've released two episodes today with two incredible guests. I am so pleased I met them, and I am grateful to them for trusting me to interview them as a newbie podcast host. They have great stories to share, so give the episodes a listen, I promise you won't be disappointed!

ARAA’s very own @poppylambert.bsky.social is hosting a new podcast! 👏🏻😍 Make sure you have a listen, we’re all so proud 🤩

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Sensitivity to permanent non-functionality in Goffin’s cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana)“ June 2026. Scientific Reports. @biotay.bsky.social, Eleonora Rovegno, @susanamonso.com, Remco Folkertsma & @auersperga.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🎓📢 PhD Alert 🎓📢 Three weeks left to apply for the PhD position on maintaining the balance of power in animal societies! www.hu-berlin.de/en/universit... @animalopps.bsky.social

1/16 Do other species understand death? In this study with cockatoos, we approach this question from its foundation, by studying one of its central components: sensitivity to the permanent loss of a function. I will explain it in this thread (with videos) (paper) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new Paper with @susanamonso.com and @biotay.bsky.social is out. It tests one of the components of Susana Monso's minimal concept of death in a Touch Screen Setup: sensitivity to permanent non-functionality. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest episode of Transmissions is out! This one features Prof. Dr. Lucy Aplin, a leading cognitive ecologist from the University of Zurich and Australian National University. This marks our very first episode dedicated entirely to understanding animal culture! youtu.be/M7qCTKRNVuA?...

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Investigating the structure of the greylag goose vocal repertoire: what can unsupervised methods tell us?“ 🪿 June 2026. Scientific Reports. @lenagies.bsky.social, Jonas Lesigang, Sonia Kleindorfer & @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

First analysis of the #greylaggoose call repertoire using #machinelearning broadly matches early descriptions and shows how much different representations of audio data can influence clustering results. @univie.ac.at www.nature.com/articles/s41... Gies et al. 2026, Scientific Reports 📸 M. Klymenko

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Fluctuations in direct human presence, not predictable weekly cycles, influence avoidance behaviour in ravens"🐦‍⬛ June 2026. Movement Ecology. @varalikajain.bsky.social, @matthiasloretto.bsky.social, Thomas Bugnyar & @pesumas.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s404...

Nuthatch. An older comic.

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

🚨We're hiring again, this time for a research assistant position 🚨 The position is to help with a project looking at learning and social behaviour in birds along an urban gradient Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆28th June deadline More info: shorturl.at/vBxiW #ringing #fieldwork

Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

Happy World Parrot Day! Parrots have been part of my professional and personal life for many decades, especially those in 🇦🇺. Looking forward to more parrot research and photos in the coming years. #ornithology #parrots #birds 🪶 🦜

Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 May 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn

Please sign this petition. #UnisRetten Often we hear “education is a key investment in the future”. Yet the federal government is planning major cuts to universities. These cuts would put research and teaching at risk – and, ultimately, undermine our shared future. mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/un...

*Upcoming deadline for two advertised posts in the Miller Cognition and Conservation Group is 5 June 2026* - 4-year PhD advert: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - 4-year Postdoc advert: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78...

Researchers have identified superparamagnetic macrophages in the livers of rock pigeons to be crucial for magnetic sensing. The finding uncovers an unexpected role for immune cells in sensory perception and may fundamentally change our understanding of animal navigation. https://scim.ag/4nTQ3nq

May pub meet up at 7Stern Bräu ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "Interacting effects of human presence and landscape modification on birds and mammals" 🌏 May 2026. Science. Oliver R. Y. et al.* *92 authors (!) including Austria's own @matthiasloretto.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Thanks to all of our members who joined the 28,000 folks today to protest the massive proposed university budget cuts in Austria ✊🏻 It was hot as hell thanks to the heat dome, but it’s critically important that we protect higher education at all costs 📚

It’s hot as hell tomorrow, but nevertheless we march! 🌞 #UnisRetten

A Crimson Rosella for today's #BirdOfTheDay theme, #HeadShots #parrots #birds #wildoz 🪶

ARAA will be marching Wednesday in protest. So many countries have destroyed higher education, we must fight against Austria going the same way. Come join us! 👊🏻 #UnisRetten

#HotOffThePress 🔥🖊️ "The impact of urban-related sensory and risk factors on owls: a systematic review." 🦉 May 2026. Journal of Ornithology. Giuseppe Orlando, Freya Coursey, Petra Sumasgutner, Maria I. Bogdanova & Davide M. Dominoni doi.org/10.1007/s103...