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A photo from a Swedish bird news feed - an ID puzzle. Is this a partially leucistic Siberian Tit? Or a Willow Tit with some form of erythrism? Any thoughts @richardkbroughton.bsky.social?

House Martins are declining in Switzerland. To help them, our team conducted a study and recommend installing artificial nests withing 500m of occupied sites and using playback of conspecific vocalizations. doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8

There are still a few more days left to apply for our #AnimalEcology and #MovementEcology #PhDposition! 🧪 #PhDOpening @utu.fi

A SOLSTICE ANALEMMA: Italian photographer Paolo Bardelli stitched together 48 pictures spanning 12 months to reveal the analemma over Lake Varese. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

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

interested in a collaborative project at #unifreiburg linking tick ecology and vector-pathogen interactions check out a PhD position in my lab here uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

TEDx talk https://alexandra-m-klein.com/tedx-talk

This is so outrageous that there are hardly any words to describe the disgrace. The EU marks a low moment for citizens' health, for science, for democracy, for biodiversity, and for farmers. Congratulations for those who've just shown us who's the real boss in this puppet theatre.

Very, very cool study looking at the effect of local population density on vocal individuality in Little Owls from my colleagues that is finally out! #Ornithology #RaptorResearch

Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊

See you in Torino! 😊👍

Very happy and thankful for this unexpected outcome!! 🥳 Only possible thanks to a fantastic coauthor, @alice-risely.bsky.social

Imagine if Christ had been hanged. Little bejeweled nooses

🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/job...

Renew your SCB Europe @scbeurope.bsky.social membership NOW to secure a reduced registration fee for the upcoming ECCB26 @eccb26leiden.bsky.social! Join us here: www.scbeurope.org/membership ECCB26 abstract submission will open soon - stay tuned 📆📝 eccb26leiden.eu

🍒🪶Excited for our new article to come out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social We show that falcons attracted to orchards using nestboxes reduce food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Seed dispersal by 🦜🦇 underpins rainforest recovery. We want to understand more about its timing + traits driving recovery through obs, exp + genomic data. Ready to join the @reassemblynet.bsky.social team working in Ecuadorian Chocó? Pls apply to our 4-yr PhD position @sgn.one: tinyurl.com/2pkryc99

Today's woodpecker performing a metaphor

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

We have a beautiful new website!🎊 Visit scbeurope.org Join us & share🤩✨️

Happy and proud of the next fledgling of the Flack flock. Dr Hester Brønnvik @hbronnv.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis today. She has done a wonderful job. I could not be happier! @imprs-qbee.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫 ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉 This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time. Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

The latest result on dispersal in vulturine guineafowl: dispersing females selectively use roads to reduce the cost of transport when making large displacements. Out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proc B: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds

They grow bacteria on those hairy arms and then lick the bacteria off for a delightful snack, isn't that gross and cool?

Not too late to state interest and contribute! Of particular interest at this point: studies related to immunosenescence, senescence of flight performance and studies looking at links between metabolome/proteome and senescence. All details in link below. Questions? Just get in touch!

Can high biodiversity and agricultural productivity be reconciled? A community model of the bird–arthropod food web in African cocoa agroforestry indicates that low-intensity farming practices favour certain bird species and enhance the abundance of potential pollinators. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

On the train back home, still buzzing from some great days at @vogelwarte.bsky.social where Hans Schmid wrote "Getrennte Wege" - a classic synthesis of Honey Buzzard migration. A quarter century later the species has revealed a few more, but still not all of its migratory "Geheimnisse". #ornithology

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Our last paper describes the spring-accelerated loop-migration of the Woodchat Shrike, tracked with light- and multi-sensor geolocators link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology

For the first time, scientists have documented an unusual defense: Some species of arachnids build giant doppelgängers on their webs, creating a frightening deception that scares off would-be killers. https://scim.ag/487Myn0

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

🦫 #Beavers help bats: Where these industrious builders fell trees and dam streams, there are more #bats. New study by WSL and @eawag.bsky.social: www.wsl.ch/en/news/beav... #NatureConservation #DeadWood #Ponds #EnvironmentalProtection #RedList @vmoser.bsky.social @animalecology.bsky.social

Women in ornithology? Absolutely essential! Unfortunately, they remain underrepresented. Our president @dorit-vlh.bsky.social and second chair Sylke Frahnert went on a mission to uncover and highlight forgotten female contributors to ornithology.

New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

Which bird disperses which plant? What does bird dispersed fruit look like? Why do fruit sizes differ between regions? Why does ivy fruit in winter? How can we identify the disperser and distance carried from droppings? How did this collaboration arise? youtu.be/4vZ0w97ffRM?...

A study by the WSL and @vogelwarte.bsky.social using long-term data has shown that bark beetles are good for woodpeckers🪲🐦: woodpeckers use the dead wood produced by bark beetle infestations as shelter and nesting sites🪵. WSL-News: www.wsl.ch/en/news/why-... #Biodiversity #Woodpecker #DeadWood

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

2-years #postdoc #position: #eDNA 🧬🔬for integrated #ecosystem and #biodiversity assessment apply.refline.ch/673277/1297/... In the new Eawag/WSL Biodiversity Monitoring Initiative we will strengthen & advance effective and scalable #biodiversity #monitoring methods & implement into practice. 🌐🌳🐟📈

This! 😳

Our team analysed the correlation of N deposition with numbers of territories of 112 Swiss breeding birds species. Insectivous and herbivorous species were more negatively associated with N deposistion, as well as ground-nesting species. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

💨 🦅 Every so often #RedKites die in collisions with #WindTurbines. A study funded by the SNSF shows when and where this happens and what might help. For more info 👉 https://sohub.io/n7yf

💨 🦅 Il arrive que des collisions avec les #éoliennes provoquent la mort de #milans royaux. Une étude encouragée par le FNS révèle quand et où ces accidents se produisent et comment ils pourraient éventuellement être évités. Vers l’article complet👉 https://sohub.io/yqey

💨 🦅 Manchmal sterben #Rotmilane bei Kollisionen mit #Windkraftanlagen. Wann und wo das passiert und was vielleicht Abhilfe schaffen kann, zeigt eine vom SNF unterstützte Studie. Mehr dazu 👉 https://sohub.io/v07x

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #raptors switched foraging strategy when #COVID19 lockdowns reduced the availability of #roadkill: buff.ly/jUug7Yj

Very happy to finally have this out! 🎉 A review of the diets of European insectivorous birds. Huge thanks to Klaus Birkhofer, @johanekroos.bsky.social, @henrikgsmith.bsky.social and all co-authors! 🙏 #ornithology @biologylu.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @helsinki.fi doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...