Proud to have my photo essay out in the publication Current Conservation. I got really into photography during my PhD including using a film camera. I hope it conveys some of the visual experience of being in a bird market and the sense of place. Enjoy 🐦 www.currentconservation.org/visual-stori...

Oh gosh!!! 😂😂😂 Wow! The "Indian Bison" I see in our coffee farm are much more majestic and big.... But, I thought I saw they had white socks😉

Great to see this statement from WOAH, recognizing the broader ecological impacts of HPAI and the need to integrate conservation initiatives beyond just wildlife health. www.woah.org/en/statement...

Read the paper here: tinyurl.com/5byfab8f Findings: restored #OakWoodlands have higher #SoundscapeSaturation #AcousticComplexity, #arthropod biomass, & #bird abundance Maia Persche, Zuzana Burivalova, Anna Pidgeon @sagara-sailways.bsky.social @uwmadisoncals.bsky.social @nature.org

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU

✈️ Great news! Travel grants for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting are available thanks to the German Ornithologists’ Society (DO-G, @dornitholges.bsky.social), supporting early-career researchers attending #EOU26 in Gdańsk. ℹ️ Details & eligibility: eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/travel/ #Ornithology

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

This is Sad news, and what an inspirational study! After 13 yrs of birding with my mentor #DVGirish (who taught me #birding & gave my first bins) in #Chikkamagaluru. My first day birding with him after being back earning a PhD in #WildlifeEcology, we saw a Broad-billed Sandpiper. It was his lifer!

4/4 Finally - a reminder. If birds are being 'asked' to carry tracking devices then we should make the most out of the data they collect: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ConservationScience🌍

😡In a final vote, the European Parliament stripped away remaining environmental safeguards in EU farm policy. Two rushed “simplifications” gutted years of progress, giving Big Agri what it wanted: public money to pollute, no strings attached. Here’s what we lost ⬇️

This week, the CMS Scientific Council is meeting to evaluate proposals to add new species to the CMS Appendices and review issues related to illegal and unsustainable taking, ecological connectivity, infrastructure, renewable energy development, climate change, and more: www.cms.int/meeting/eigh...

***New** Latest wild bird trends in Europe: Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) indicators 1980–2024. Data = 168 bird species, 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ebcc.info 🐦@rspbscience.bsky.social pecbms.info/european-wil... pecbms.info/trends-and-i...

Hmmm! Interesting... I call this BS! What if #English, unfortunately the "dominant" language is NOT your first language, or Native tongue? What if your thoughts are not formed in English? What if your thoughts are not in language at all? What if English is your barrier to your scientific progress?

Norway has proposed Snowy Owl be added to Convention on Migratory Species Appendix II, at #CMSCOP15 (Brazil, March 2026), as a species of unfavourable conservation status requiring international agreement for its conservation. @cms.int Scientific Council will evaluate the proposal this week in Bonn.

High-resolution land-use maps from 1960 to 2100 🌎🧪 🌐 www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

Two steps forward, one step back...Researcher 'shocked' Winnipeg considering scrapping bird-friendly window bylaw after less than a year | CBC News www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

📣 NOW OPEN: Applications for WOS Research Grants! These annual grants support research projects in all areas of #ornithology. The deadline is February 1! wilsonsociety.org/awards/resea...

The book that hasn't left my desk for the entirety of my PhD and beyond! #StatisticalRethinking by @rmcelreath.bsky.social is a must for any scientist, especially for a FIELD ecologist, yes, a #field #ecologist if you want to try to many any sense imout of your observations!

Oh gosh!! This is just scary! With the current political and social system, I think this is the situation we will head towards! However, the use of #Dragon icon is just amazing! I guess we have to find joy in #littlethings

Fishing shapes cetacean population density patterns in the Mediterranean basin vist.ly/4hxtx #Fisheries #MarineMammals #Overexploitation

The U.S. and Canada have failed in their bid to loosen restrictions on the international trade in peregrine falcons, with delegates to CITES, the global wildlife trade convention, voting against it at an summit underway in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

Saw foot prints of a #Bobcat that we have been hearing in the evenings, 150m from the cabin, where we have been restoring an old field into #OakWoodlands! Collected a lot of measurements and found a #hair sample. Just couldn't help being an #ecologist even on a casual ski day!

What a privilege to get out of your backdoor to go #CrossCountry #skiing next to a #protectedarea #BarabooHills @nature.org #Wisconsin #Winterwonderland

New paper in Journal of Avian Biology by Aldís E. Pálsdóttir et al on the effects of roads on waders and other open-habitat species in Iceland: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Here is a #webinar on this newish paper of ours by Maia #Persche @bhrc.bsky.social & Ann Calhoun @nature.org, at the Fire Consortium @uwmadison.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yuacrtrd

New to @bsky.app, so will be sharing few newish publications! Here, we assessed whether #soundscapes reflect the #BiodiversityChanges – in #vegetation, #arthropod biomass, and #bird #community measured during #restoration of #oak #woodland. tinyurl.com/5byfab8f

Woohoo! Excited to attend, And I really hope it is in mid-to-late August, after the MAPS banding/ringing season is over! @instbirdpop.bsky.social @eounion.bsky.social

We are happy to announce that the next EOU Conference will be in Brno, Czech Republic in 2027! Check our website eounion.org and follow us on social media for regular updates! #ornithology #EOU2027

‘We miss having a dog but it’s the price you pay’: the village that banned pets to save wildlife

Young people's attitudes to lynx/wolf reintroductions Based on @ark-ni.bsky.social data from 5,000+ children & teenagers in #NorthernIreland, my new report discusses their attitudes to potential #lynx & #wolf reintroductions to the UK/ROI It's complicated! www.ark.ac.uk/ARK/sites/de... 🌳 🌿 🌍🦤🧪🦊

Fascinating study. Kids find Wolf much scarier than Lynx, but support for reintroducing Lynx only marginally higher than for Wolf; most are don’t know. Nature restoration a more familiar term than #Rewding 🌍

Our Polish Partner @otop-birdlife.bsky.social has launched a petition urging the government to stop this environmental destruction. Help us now. Sign the petition here: actionnetwork.org/forms/nie-dl...

“The highest levels were found in Irish breakfast cereal, followed by Belgian wholemeal bread, then German wholemeal bread, then French baguette. It was found across a huge range of products, from spaghetti, to cheese scones and ginger bread.” 🥖

Sadly, we have seen a big increase in avian flu cases in the UK - particularly in waterfowl Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away Read on for ways to help: 📷Ben Andrew

Super happy to see the second paper of my PhD out! Check it out, it is about birds' responses to climate change in European mountains! ⬇️

Latest wadertales blog on the very low numbers of breeding whimbrel, and other waders, around roads throughout lowland Iceland: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... From our new @avianbiology.bsky.social paper nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology

California wildlife officials killed four gray wolves in the Sierra Valley after repeated cattle losses, despite the species’ protected status. With at least 88 cattle killed and a new pack confirmed, the move highlights rising conflict as the state’s small wolf population slowly grows.

Our very own Maia Persche was interviewed about her & BHERC work, and some of the methods we use to understand #oak #woodland management and #biodiversity in the #BarabooHills! #bioacoustics #soundscapes @nature.org @instbirdpop.bsky.social @uwmadison.bsky.social www.nature.org/en-us/magazi...

What a fantastic initiative from Norfolk Wildlife Trust

There is something magical about living in a 150 yr old #cabin during winter with -15°C outside temp, collecting the wood you split all year to feed your #woodenstove - sole source of heat, while working on a #tropicalecology paper and planning #birding, #ringing, #migration & #sailing projects!

What impacts do roads have on Iceland's breeding waders? wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/r... Latest paper from Aldís Erna Pálsdóttir has become WaderTales blog #153. #ConservationEcology🌍

Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

#Rewilding gaat vaak over cultuurland weer wild maken, maar ook intensief beheerde natuurgebieden kunnen gezonder en diverser worden als natuurlijke processen niet worden gehinderd maar gestimuleerd. En dat is nu het plan!

Birdwatchers who are under 40 will not appreciate just how many breeding waders there were in Scottish farmland back in 1990. If your benchmark is 2015, look at what happened in the previous 25 years: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2... 🎂8️⃣ And things have not improved since: #BirdingScotland

As winter closes in across much of North America, migratory birds are heading south to warmer climes and more abundant food. But until recently, scientists didn’t have a good understanding of exactly where they went.

Woohooo!! Super excited for this! #ICARUS @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social If you need to try them on some #Asian #migratorybirds, our team would love to deploy them in #SriLanka, #Kazakhstan, and potentially in Nepal - focusing on the least known #CentralAsianFlyway

Our project on #Soundscapes in #Oak #Woodlands led by my incrdible wife, Maia with @uwmadison.bsky.social Zuzana Burivalova at #BarabooHills was featured in @nature.org (magazine) Check more: @bhrc.bsky.social that includes longterm #birdringing @instbirdpop.bsky.social tinyurl.com/nhk3kzxx

This is amazing news, but isn't bush meat trade and habitat loss the biggest challenge to these within the Congo basin?

Woohooo!! Super excited for this! #ICARUS @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social If you need to try them on some #Asian #migratorybirds, our team would love to deploy them in #SriLanka, #Kazakhstan, and potentially in Nepal - focusing on the least known #CentralAsianFlyway