NEW PAPER: Using almost 400,000 km of road transects, conducted over 16 years, we reveal declines in 13 species of raptor and other large terrestrial bird species across central South Africa #ornithology #AfricanOrnithology #RaptorResearch www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pigeon milk.

[Day 5] GOD: What do you think? ANGEL: You’re tired. Why don’t we try making the birds tomorrow.

For decades biologists assumed ravens follow wolves to their kills. Our paper @science.org shows something different: ravens rarely follow wolves far. Instead they remember areas where wolf kills are common and return to them—sometimes from >150 km away. doi.org/10.1126/science.adz9467 📷Dan Stahler

Don’t miss the deadline and take advantage of the early bird registration! @behavecol.bsky.social

✨ Editorial: a summary and synopsis of the studies included in the special issue on migration physiology written by the editorial team @pablosalmon.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social #TiiaKärkkäinen ➡️ vist.ly/4ucex #ornithology #birds #migration #physiology

Really excited to be heading to Oxford for this! 🪶

Well damn, this is cool. Birds That Don't Exist: Niche Pre-Emption as a Constraint on Morphological Evolution in the Passeroidea | Chia et al., 2026 | Ecology Letters onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61... #software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

🔔Just a quick reminder! The open postdoctoral researcher position is still waiting for the right candidate. 🧪 🕒 Apply by: 01.03.2026 Feel free to share with your network or reach out if you have questions! see www.uni-goettingen.de/en/vacancy+f... @uni-goettingen.de @agrarunigoe.bsky.social

NEW JOB in #ornithology helping with data management and analysis to understand the dispersal patterns of juvenile little owls: buff.ly/bzwui1c

In a new paper, we found that provisioning rate and biomass in Little Owls increased with the area of high-quality habitats, and that such habitats also acted as a buffer against adverse weather. doi.org/10.1002/ece3... @ecol-evol.bsky.social @matthiastschumi.bsky.social

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

An illustration for "Ornis" of BirdLife Switzerland. It shows the identification criteria of males of the three different species of "subalpine warblers" #birdart #birding #scientificillustration #birds

In this recent paper in Journal of Ornithology, I used citizen-science data (Macaulay library) to resolves disputed subspecies limits in the lesser spotted woodpecker across the Balkans and Minor Asia. link.springer.com/article/10.1... @lesserspotnet.bsky.social

We are hiring! 🙂 We are looking for a research assistant to help analysing movement and demographic data of little owls! 🦉 @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology tinyurl.com/9k6rj6rx

Put! It! Back!

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

Golden eagles in Nevada are dying at an alarming rate, and no one can pinpoint the cause. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/golden-eagles-desert-death

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The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland. We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this female peregrine falcon shake The way she slowly grows in to a falcorb is mesmerizing 🫨 This video is NOT in slow motion! Peregrine Falcon 📷🌿🪶

Finally got to witness a big gathering of Bramblings! Here around 15000! Before the video i saw them as a flow of 50 per second, for 5 minutes. Turn on sound!

To evaluate the impact of the influenza virus (HPAIV) in the Peregrine Falcon, Integrated Population Modelling was used. The analyses revealed drastic declines in adult survival, suggesting a shift in HPAIV dynamics compared to the previous epizootics. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Highly independent 2-Year #Postdoctoral #Fellowship in the field of #aquatic #science and #technology 🌍 🔬 🧬 🐟 🚰 🚹 🌊 🛰️ 🥼 at Eawag @eawag.bsky.social Apply now: apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...

Tracking the #phenology ⏰ of #riverine #insect 🦟 🐜 communities using #eDNA 🧬🌐🌍. Out now by Eva Cereghetti et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... a🧵/1/4

Dear colleagues, we are searching for candidates to fill a Full W3 Professorship for Plant #Ecology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For details, see www.nature.com/naturecareer... 🌐 🌎 #AcademicJobs

Excited to announce our courses for #MovementEcology.🤗 This year we will be in #Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social at Mpala Research Centre. Starting with a basic R course designed for #AfricanResearchers, followed by a two-week international Animove workshop. animove.org/basic-r-cour... Please share 👍

Our latest paper on Golden Eagle research in Scotland, using DNA from moulted feathers to assess apparent survival in territorial adults. As ever, data collection from Scottish Raptor Study Group @scottishraptorsg.bsky.social was vital. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #RaptorResearch

NEW PAPER in #ornithology compares the responses of 200 vertebrate populations to climate change, and finds that increasing temperatures affect population growth via changes in phenology, but not morphology: buff.ly/IT66GOK

Female scientists have to wait longer for their articles to be reviewed than their male colleagues. An analysis of 36.5 million papers in the life sciences shows that for females it took 115 days to reach a decision, compared to 101 days for men journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... @plosbiology.org

Using passive acoustic monitoring, our team and our parners in Africa found that species richness and occurence probability is hihgher in grazing exclusion - a measure to restore degraded habitats - compared to control sites. Read more here doi.org/10.1002/eap....

A PhD chapter that I'm very proud of is finally out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!🦉 Using nestbox cameras from 4 countries, we explored interactive effects of habitat quality &weather on provisioning &prey composition 🪱🪲🐀in Little Owls -a rapidly declining farmland raptor. #RaptorResearch #Ornithology

Our new paper (with @biotay.bsky.social) is out and on the cover story of @currentbiology.bsky.social !!!! Veronika, a Carinthian mountain cow flexibly uses a “multi-purpose tool” to scratch herself. A video and more information will follow in the comments. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Imagine your house falls down one day and it's because a load of parakeets have been systematically eating your mortar

2025 was an exceptional year for the Earth's climate ⬆️ Warmest ocean heat content ⬆️ Tied as second warmest surface temps ⬆️ Second warmest troposphere ⬆️ Record high sea level and GHGs ⬇️ Record low winter Arctic ice New State of the Climate over at Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/...

🌱 #Biodiversität in der #Schweiz: Der Zustand bleibt ungenügend. Trotz verlangsamtem Rückgang besteht grosser Handlungsbedarf. Unser neuer datenbasierter #Report zeigt #Fakten, Entwicklungen und Lösungsansätze 👉 biodiversitaet2026.ch #Wissenschaft #Forschung

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

See our last paper in Fuctional Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JB8CFI...

Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds

I believe we can all learn a lot from this. It‘s not just size or strength that matters… ✊

Hier zur Einordnung dieser Nachricht die globalen Daten der letzten 2024 Jahre.

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🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.

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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