We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Is that a bird? Two people - one goal - two motivations!! #Birds #Cats #COMPASS #SriLanka #FieldTales

More like longing for #simplicity and #privacy

Cannot decide what we like more: Mountains or Oceans. I guess we will always be #migrating between them. #SriLanka has easy access to both! #ornithology #FieldTales #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS

True Inner Peace!! #COMPASS #FieldTales #SriLanka

Hunting birds is rampant throughout Cambodia. w/ Vutha Srey, we joined hunters catching birds at night and dug into the reasons behind the trade for @dialogueearth.bsky.social With support from @anticorruption.bsky.social Cambodia dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #birds 🌏

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds have increased tremendously over the past decades - and that #UAV monitoring can reveal the full extent of these colonies: buff.ly/ocefm59

Woah!!! This is so cool!

Exactly my situation right now 😭 and my mum is South Asian so I am also getting fat!

The field biologist who helped redefine conservation. A new biography of WCS’s George Schaller “raises questions about how knowledge is made, what is worth protecting, and what it means to belong to a world shared with others,” writes @mongabay.com. 🌏 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/geor...

After a long time in the Mountains, we are longing to sail into the blue! #sail_for_flyway #sail_for_wildlife #sail_for_conservation #NeeruNaayi

Lion and Mango: Sri Lanka in two drinks! #FieldTales #COMPASS #SriLanka

#FieldTales Gamage Family - Entire research team in search of #MigratoryBirds: Kashmir Flycatcher, Forest Wagtail, Pied Thrush and Indian Blue Robins #COMPASS #SriLanka #DaleMountain #CentralAsianFlyway #Mitsubishi #KashmirFlycatchers

#FieldTales Home-cooked Sri Lankan friedrice is the best! #CentralAsianFlyway #BirdMigration #COMPASS #SriLanka

How to feed your garden birds without spreading disease theconversation.com/how-to-feed-... @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🐦

#FieldworkTales Searching for migratory birds at Lahiru's farm! It was just amazing to discuss about #bird & #wildlifeconservation, while walking in an heavenly valley! #BirdLifeAsia @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social #MigratoryBirds #WinteringHabitats #COMPASS #SriLanka

Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere and the world of insects will explode!!! Part of our initiative at @bhrc.bsky.social with #CaterpillarsCount. A fantastic global initiative that is now in South Asia due to our work through COMPASS #birdfood #birdmigration #winter #summer #spring

Remembering Dr. Ajith Kumar (By Divya Karnad for Mongabay India) india.mongabay.com/2025/03/an-o...

Deadline approaching for this exciting opportunity to join our @bou.org.uk team and help to deliver IBIS journal, conferences and much more

As Thailand joins the global AI race, a #Mongabay investigation reveals roughly 20 new data centers under construction. Local communities warn they are being kept in the dark about threats to water, land, and livelihoods. A report by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social and Andy Ball. 👉️ mongabay.cc/4IKbuH

#FieldworkTales Not a migratory bird, but just a male Sri Lanka #WhistlingThrush 😍🥰 carrying nesting material, next to a #TreeFern #RareBird #EndemicBird #CoolBirds #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS #CentralHighlands #SholaForest @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

#FieldworkTales Call them #ThreeWheelers #TukTuks or #AutoRickshaw, they were ideal field vehicles ;) #DunsinaneEstate #birdmigration #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here: www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

Playback surveys at #wintering habitats for migratory #landbirds and #passerines! #SouthAsia #CentralAsianFlyway #BirdMigration #COMPASS #birds #Highlands #Sholas #TeaPlantations Photo: Maia E Persche

I might be wrong, but I think this is the first publication documenting bird-window collisions in Malaysia, and the first documented record of a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo colliding with a window! www.pertanika.upm.edu.my/pjst/browse/...

Mary Colwell and Prof Jenny Gill explore gender bias in fieldwork in our latest blog. Read it now: www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-tha...

Job Alert 📢 Join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist! Apply now➡️ www.bto.org/jobs This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of BTO’s climate change work! 📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April. 📝 £44,637 per annum. 📍 Hybrid, HQ in Norfolk or one of our country offices. #Ornithology

This is just amazing!! Is there something like this for EU and UK, if not would be awesome 😎 @eounion.bsky.social @bou.org.uk @jengill.bsky.social

#FieldworkTales Searching for Kashmir Flycatchers (IUCN - VU) a priority species on #CentralAsianFlyway - to understand their migration ecology, non-breeding habitat association and territory density. #COMPASS #BirdMigration #CAF #BirdLife @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @anandchau.bsky.social

24 Hrs of Layover in #HongKong gave us 23 #lifers! Thank you JohnAllcock. We had fantastic views of Asian Stubtails and Japanese Thrush!

Are you looking for a Post-doc related to biodiversity? We might have just the role for you! @anthropocenebio.bsky.social are curently advertising 10 (yes!) post-docs covering natural & social science of biodivesity. Come work with us & share with anyone appropriate! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/l...

Big news for nature! Prime Minister Carney just announced $3.8 billion in new funding and renewed programs to protect nature. Media Release: tinyurl.com/5n9a3kzh

West African nations are proposing one of the first high seas marine protected areas. Spanning from Senegal to Nigeria, this MPA aims to protect a global biodiversity hotspot from industrial fishing and deep-sea mining. Learn more in this report by Victoria Schneider for #Mongabay.

🗻 we're accepting proposals for a new Special Feature, "Mountain Biodiversity in the Anthropocene", which will also be included in @funecology.bsky.social and @journalofecology.bsky.social 📩 submit your proposal before 17 May here: buff.ly/vBbRmgH

An important paper: Grasslands and wetlands are being cleared at a much higher rate than forests: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Summary of our recent paper!

After >century w/out fire, how do insectivorous #birds respond to #oak #woodland management w/ #prescribed #fire? We compared abundance of #Wisconsin #insectivores in managed vs unmanaged #woodlands. Read about it in Forest Ecology and Management & our website (bhrcollective.org/avian-insect...).

Major breakthroughs for migratory birds at CMS COP15! ✨ In a landmark decision, governments formally recognised marine flyways for the first time. 🌊 Discover several other conservation wins from a productive week in our latest article. 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2026/03...

A fundamentally misplaced 'hope'. Why do we keep promulgating this utter nonsense that we can 'save' reefs by coral gardening? Restoration cannot be scaled up globally to save reefs from loss and degradation doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Remember to tag the Bird-Window Collisions project.

This is just crazy!!! Oh Gosh!

New postdoc position on bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS in arctic-breeding seabirds. Field sites in coastal Norway and Svalbard. Advisors will be Veerle Jaspers and Bjørn Monroe at NTNU in collaboration with ecologists at NINA. Application deadline 26 April 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

An unprecedented look at the birth of a sperm whale found that mother and calf were supported by other whales throughout the process. n.pr/40THi23

Fantastic article by the amazingly talented and witty @jeremyhance.bsky.social. thank you for this! I wished someone could "quantify" the suffering and "standardize" it based on the person's background and sacrifices made to become a conserve what they loved. Sometimes I wished I didn't love!

The emotional price of conservation work news.mongabay.com/2026/03/the-...

NEW PAPER in #ornithology and #conservation flags the biggest land-based threats to #seabirds in the #Atlantic, and highlights that invasive mice need to be removed from @GoughIsland: buff.ly/GOivTKZ

Party delegates at #CMSCOP15 are coming together with one shared purpose: ensure migratory species can recover & thrive. Meet the delegates representing countries from around the world, and hear the voices seeking to safeguard migratory species and their habitats through international cooperation.