In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

A skylark I tagged last autumn in northernmost Germany with a #Motus transmitter (to study #pesticide effects) was now detected near our University in Oldenburg - we @migecol.bsky.social col.bsky.social now have data from 3 migration seasons for this bird! motus.org/dashboard/#e... #birdmigration

We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

See the thread of our group member about one of our papers:

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩 On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks! #Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦 a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

Meet Lasse, He‘ll support the working group as a volunteer for the next year, hoping to learn and observe scientific work in the process. While his interests lay elsewhere beforehand, he‘s become curios about the groups work and likes to try to think along :)

This week we were at #BESMove2025, where @giovannasandretti.bsky.social presented our results on the overlooked pre-migratory flights. The conference title of this year was "Understanding Migration", and she came back home full of fresh insights and great new connections!

Our group is now also involved in the education of future biology teachers here at the University of Oldenburg #birdringing #birdbanding #birdmigration

Join us in the migration ecology group at the University of Oldenburg! 📡🐦🐥

A very nice #EOU2025 @eounion.bsky.social conference in Bangor, Wales, with @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social (hosting a symposium on #MOTUS bird tracking) and @wielandheim.bsky.social (summarizing recent advances in landbird migration studies along the Asian flyways) representing our group 🕊️🐦📡

Great fun canoeing along the Wümme river near Bremen with the @migecol.bsky.social team! Excellent food and some nice birds as well, incl. White-tailed Eagle, Black Kite, Kingfisher, Reed Buntings ...and a Cockatiel 😄 #birding

New paper on Siberian Barn Swallow migration by our group´s @wielandheim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Meet (F)Annika! She is helping the working group as a volunteer (oeko-freiwillig.de) and gets to do all the “fun” things (as Heiko would say :)) - such as supporting field work. She has always been interested in birds, but over the past few months she has learned to truly admire them.

Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available. www.sfb1372.de/young-resear... @sfb1372.bsky.social

Meet Melanie: she´s the good soul of the working group and our secret star. Nothing works without her & everything works with her. Our technician can do everything & saves the rest of us from putting our foot in our mouths. She is also into plant conservation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W...#isoetes

New paper led by our group´s @wielandheim.bsky.social: more skylarks are migrating during moonlit nights! 🌔

We are happy to announce to have won this year´s volleyball tournament of the institute of biology and environmental sciences. Great team, great fun. And the trophy is a bird (Avocet) - fitting very well to our group 😊

Are you a young ornithologist? Consider registering for the DOG Fledglings Meeting - deadline for registration will be prolonged 🐣 #ornithology

NEW PAPER on tracking Narcissus Flycatcher (Ficedula narcissina) and Amur Stonechat (Saxicola stejnegeri) from Japan with contributions of our working group: doi.org/10.1007/s103... [Bird pic credit: changed after Ranieljosecastaneda, Wikimedia Commons CC 4.0]

Great teamwork on #Norderney: we colour-ringed & sampled ~130 and tagged 40 Wheatears in just two days to study pre-migratory flights and survival - thanks to excellent preparation by @giovannasandretti.bsky.social #ringing #radiotracking

We are happy to announce that the excellence cluster navisense just got funded - one of the biggest achievements possible in German research funding! We will contribute to the interdisciplinary understanding of bird orientation and navigation from social perspectives, to ecology and physics.

Big congrats to the Navisense excellence cluster www.navisense.org that will be funded by the DFG for the next 7 years! Congrats to all of our SFB members that are involved! @genmig.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @migecol.bsky.social @cataglyphilosophy.bsky.social @olindecke.bsky.social

No bird stuff, but important work for the #conservation of an endangered plant species by our technician Melanie Willen [video in German language only]: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W... #isoetes

Spread the word: we're #hiring! We have an open #research fellowship position for #postdocs with their own research idea: It includes an own budget, a #PhD student position and the possibility to conduct independent research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception 🧭🦤🦇🐟⚛️🧪👩‍🔬! sfb1372.de/jobs

Today it is already 2 years ago, that I recieved the honor to call myself "Dr. rer. nat." thanks to @migecol.bsky.social and @ifv-whv.bsky.social for making this possible!

Today is the 1-year-anniversary of our extensive Review-Paper: "A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology" doi.org/10.1111/brv.... - it is a must-read, when you work with magnetoreception and birds!

Introducing Georg: Ornithologist and movement ecologist in our group, specialising in passerine migration, with a passion for warblers and chats. His work combines hands-on field methods—bird ringing and tagging—with statistical modeling using Bayesian inference frameworks in Julia, R, and Stan.

Meet @giovannasandretti.bsky.social She moved from Brazil to start her PhD on the autumn migration of Northern Wheatears using #Motus tracking. Her passions include ecology and conservation, especially with birds. She is excited to her first field season on Norderney in the coming weeks!

New #ornithology paper: Lead by Yuichi Yamaura we investigated the drivers of willingness to pay (WTP) for #conservation Notably, WTP was related to individual's connection to nature and not to showing respondents more information about the species’ #ecology in question doi.org/10.1111/acv....

New paper from our group led by @wielandheim.bsky.social - #microplastic pollution in resident and migratory waterbirds:

new publication by our team member @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social about the multi-year and multi site tracking of long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis) from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea. @ifv-whv.bsky.social read here open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

These are 5 autumn migration routes travelled by the same common tern. He’s not the only one showing such flexibility, and it pays, because in our new paper, published by @royalsocietypublishing.org, we show that route flexibility is associated with minimized headwind exposure: tinyurl.com/4dawhwzj

A great collaboration with Nathalie Kürten, @joewynnbirds.bsky.social, @birgenhaest.bsky.social, @migecol.bsky.social, @oscarvedder.bsky.social & @seabirdecology.bsky.social, funded by @ifv-whv.bsky.social, @dornitholges.bsky.social, @umweltstiftung.bsky.social & @dfg.de via @sfb1372.bsky.social.

In a new article, we summarise the opportunities of the #Motus Wildlife Tracking System from a European perspective. This #tracking method offers a wide range of opportunities for research of small migratory birds, bats and insects: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You wonder what is our research about? See this word cloud, we collected, about our perspective of scientific fields and topics.

New #animalmigration study led by our group:

Meet @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social! After PhD on ecological role of #magnetoreception in #songbirds, he continued researching offshore songbird migration using #Motus tracking His research theme: From Patterns & Pathways to Protection: Understanding mechanisms of #birdmigration for #conservation

Meet Heiko, our group leader! Since kindergarten, he has been fascinated by #birds and has developed a deep passion for their spectacular journeys across continents. This amazing phenomenon motivates him to study their #ecology. He believes such research is essential for protecting #MigratoryBirds

NEW PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE In a team combining bird and bat migration scientist with ecological economics, we draw attention on the threat of artifical light at night to migrating songbirds and bats to inform science-driven politics. See our article here: doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

We are happy to introduce our lab members - today: Annika @annikapeter.bsky.social! She studies songbird navigation skills for her PhD & is fascinated by all kinds of birds & enjoys observing their behaviour, both at work & in her free time. Wheatears have a special place in her heart ♥️

A warm welcome to @giovannasandretti.bsky.social who joined our group last week! Very happy to have you on board

MigEcol´s @wielandheim.bsky.social conducting fieldwork in Saxony to study the unknown migration routes and the pesticide exposure of Jack Snipes 👇