NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders ➡️ vist.ly/499u6 #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

NEW PAPER: Nest mass in forest tits increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success. ➡️ vist.ly/48zub #ornithology #birds #extendedphenotype #climate #adaptation

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS - SPECIAL ISSUE 📣 Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives More info: vist.ly/48ff2 Guest editors: Julia Schroeder, RoxanaTorres, Britt Heidinger, Jaime Muriel, Michi Tobler Please repost 🙏

NEW PAPER: Radar data from Alaska show birds shift to diurnal flights as nights shorten, but peak migration still clusters near solar midnight—highlighting strong stabilizing pressure on flight timing that overrides pressure to maintain nocturnality. ➡️ vist.ly/48ata #ornithology #birds 🪶

From dusk till dawn: ecoacoustic monitoring reveals wind energy impacts on roding Eurasian woodcock Scolopax rusticola vist.ly/47n6e #BirdNET #Monitoring #Soundscape

NEW PAPER: Wild rock pigeons more than double grooming during peak molt, showing that the intensity of grooming parallels the intensity of molt throughout the molt cycle. Molt may be costlier than thought, as birds invest extra energy in feather care. ➡️ vist.ly/47pgr #ornithology #birds 🪶

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition! Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026 Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate More info: vist.ly/47j57 @NordicOikos.bsky.social

Our cover for September! 🦅 Levey et al. (2025) found, in southeastern Mexico, that while resident bird diversity declines with distance from protected forests and vegetation loss, migratory birds thrive in secondary forests and pastures. vist.ly/46vhw

IN-DEPTH: Read the blogpost about how anti-predator behaviour in red kite parents changes in relation to food availability. ➡️ vist.ly/47a8p #ornithology #birds #RaptorResearch #behaviour #reproduction 🪶 @vogelwarte.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Tracking devices (2.7–4.3% body mass) on banded dotterels showed no adverse effects on survival, breeding, or behavior. Based on this study, the authors suggest refining device limits by the species’ ability to carry additional weight and primary locomotion mode ➡️ vist.ly/46ydn

Our previous cover for August! Morelli et al. (2025) show that traditional agricultural landscapes can sustain rich bird diversity. Nonetheless, shifts in land use strongly influence community composition and may drive biotic homogenization over time. vist.ly/46kzt

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/46pfg Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

NEW PAPER: investigating hormonal mechanisms and energy conditions of birds at stopover in relation to weather conditions encountered over the Mediterranean Sea route during pre-breeding migration. ➡️ vist.ly/46jvx #ornithology #birds 🪶 @ericacalabretta.bsky.social @fusanilab.bsky.social

📣 🚨 Issue 4 of 2025 is now complete! You can find all articles here: vist.ly/45yvz Cover depicting two ravens, featuring the article by Weissenborn et al: vist.ly/45yw5 📷 Daniel Koch #ornithology #OpenAccess #birds #research #ecology #evolution #behaviour #hypotheses

How do two closely related albatross species, Phoebetria fusca & P. palpebrata, respond to a changing world? We investigate their demographic responses to global change – check it out! 📷 © @cschatz.bsky.social‬ vist.ly/45nc4 #Seabirds #ClimateChange

NEW PAPER: Parental anti-predator investment in red kites shifts with food conditions, reflecting both offspring vulnerability and reproductive value, with their relative importance changing across nestling age. ➡️ vist.ly/45uxb #ornithology #birds #RaptorResearch @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Check out my newest Outside JEB @jexpbiol.bsky.social article highlighting work from Pacheco-Fuentes et al. @cecooper.bsky.social where they monitored the drinking behaviour of over 500 Australian zebra finches during a drought season! @avianbiology.bsky.social 🐦🧪🪶🌏 tinyurl.com/3r8ukvbe

Meet us in room 1.003 at #gfoe2025 to talk about publishing, our journals or the joint #NSO2026 meeting with @gfoesoc.bsky.social! @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @avianbiology.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

Cover September 2025: vist.ly/458hf

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨 "Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change" Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo Editorial: vist.ly/454dw Full issue: vist.ly/454dt #ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Human-driven changes can harm birds but may also elicit compensatory mechanisms. A call for lifelong, transgenerational, multidisciplinary research and suggestions for experimental designs to help advancement in the field ➡️ vist.ly/453m8 #ornithology #birds 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Proposing an adverse outcome pathway of triazole effects on the reproductive behaviour and physiology of avian populations, and stressing the need to re-evaluate the current risk assessment of these pesticides ➡️ vist.ly/44ze6 #ornithology #birds #reproduction

*Special issue contribution* Heavy metal pollution exposure affects egg coloration but not male provisioning effort in the pied flycatcher Ficedula hypoleuca. ➡️ vist.ly/44yw6 #ornithology #pollution #EggColor #birds 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Honey buzzards prefer common wasps and asian hornets in their diet. Predation pressure by honey buzzards could be of interest for the management of asian hornets, at least on small scale + in proximity of honey buzzard nests ➡️ vist.ly/44y5g #ornithology

*Special issue contribution* In urban areas of the USA where people commute longer (i.e. travel time to work in minutes), there is a higher diversity of breeding migrants overall, except for shorebirds. ➡️ vist.ly/44xf5 #ornithology #birds 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Nesting in buildings significantly increases parental fitness in pale-breasted thrushes, which may favor their settlement in cities and potentially drive the evolution of this breeding behavior in urban birds ➡️ vist.ly/44v86 #ornithology #urban #birds

*Special issue contribution* Eurasian curlews strongly avoid nesting near a major road passing through the study site, despite the habitat being suitable for breeding, underscoring how human-altered landscape features can override habitat suitability. ➡️ vist.ly/44urj #ornithology #birds 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Song sparrow nestlings from urban environments show shorter telomere length when they share the nest with a brood parasite, compared with nestlings from unparasitized nests. ➡️ vist.ly/44uri @NordicOikos #ornithology #telomeres #parasites

*Special issue contribution* Urbanization and extra pair paternity (EPP): EPP enhances the reproductive fitness of urban Chinese blackbirds, but a high level of urbanization appears to reduce the probability of EPP. ➡️ vist.ly/44u58 #ornithology #birds 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Human disturbance and birds: recreational activities do not predict nest box occupancy in great tits, but individuals nesting in disturbed areas are more exploratory and have lower fitness. ➡️ vist.ly/44s9a #ornithology #birds #anthropocene #urbanization 🪶

*Special issue contribution* Global warming and its potential consequences: zebra finch parents parents reduce their hourly rate of parental visits to the nest by 0.9% following each increase of 1°C in daytime temperature. ➡️ vist.ly/44rw9 #ornithology #birds 🪶

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE OUT! 🚨 "Avian reproductive behaviours in the context of human-induced environmental change" Editors: Judith Morales, Elisa P. Badás, Juan Diego Ibáñez-Álamo Editorial: vist.ly/44r7r Full issue: vist.ly/44r7n #ornithology #birds #reproduction #environmentalchange 🪶

Do ravens have personalities? We tested how free-flying ravens respond to predator calls & gunshots. No consistent boldness across individuals, but: 🖤 Juveniles fed sooner than adults 🦅 All reacted more cautiously to raptors than gunshots doi.org/10.1002/jav.... @avianbiology.bsky.social #univienna

Thanks for a great #EOU2025 . If you are already thinking about where to go next, why not consider the #NSO2026 to present your avian research? Keep an eye on the webpage for important dates and news about the event: nordicsocietyoikos.glueup.com/event/nordic... @nordicoikos.bsky.social

Congrats to @ericacalabretta.bsky.social for a nice presentation at #EOU2025 about the effects of weather variability on CORT levels of migratory birds. Read the full paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @avianbiology.bsky.social #ornithology #birds 🪶

NEW PAPER: Human-driven changes can harm birds but may also elicit compensatory mechanisms. A call for lifelong, transgenerational, multidisciplinary research and suggestions for experimental designs to help advancement in the field ➡️ vist.ly/445yv #ornithology #birds #adaptiveplasticity 🪶

Supernice editor dinner with 12 @avianbiology.bsky.social editors and 1 @oikosjournal.bsky.social editor at #EOU2025 ! Amazing food & great company, discussing research, publishing and conferencing. @nordicoikos.bsky.social is lucky to have you on the editorial boards!

Any questions about the upcoming special issue? Are you at #EOU2025 ? Come to the @nordicoikos.bsky.social stand 17-17:30 today during the poster session! Guest editor Jan Engler will be there to tell you more about it and to answer questions. #ornithology #birds 🪶

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/43vfp Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

If you are an early career researcher and at #EOU2025 come to the @nordicoikos.bsky.social booth and learn all about our @avianbiology.bsky.social review award. 🪶🏆 #birds #ornithology www.avianbiology.org/authors/jab-...

All set for the #EOU2025 ! Come and talk to us about our journals and our society (and of course pick up some free swag, because we don’t plan to take any back home!). @oikosjournal.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @nordicoikos.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: review of 45 studies shows that forest bird γ-diversity rises with landscape heterogeneity, habitat amount boosts their related communities, but forest composition effects are weak and scale of effect remains unclear. ➡️ vist.ly/43g6g #ornithology #birds #diversity #landscape 🪶🧪

NEW PAPER: Two co-occurring songbirds show similar migratory connectivity and > 50% overlap in nonbreeding core-use areas, yet they differ in migration timing such that populations exhibit temporal isolation during migration. ➡️ vist.ly/438s6 #ornithology #birds #migration #connectivity 🪶

Have you ever wondered why parents react stronger to danger with small than with older children? Because they are more vulnerable! This seems to be less the case when children are well fed - at least in red kites 😉 Check out our new paper in #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social tinyurl.com/322wpbp6

Functional and phylogenetic convergence of winter and breeding bird communities in the northeastern US vist.ly/32j8j #BetaDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity

Shape-shifting in relative wing length of juvenile shorebirds: no evidence of developmental temperatures driving morphological changes vist.ly/32exv #BodyMass #Morphology #ShoreBirds #WingLength

📅🪶Historical anthropogenic stressors affect bird ecology and feather development in neotropical forests vist.ly/32cud #FaultBars #IsotopicEcology #MuseumSpecimens #Ornithology #TrophicEcology

NEW PAPER: high haemosporidian diversity in American robins, with co-infection increasing at higher latitudes and Plasmodium-infected birds in better condition—the latter suggesting possible effects of migratory culling. ➡️ vist.ly/32b7n #ornithology #birds #avianmalaria

NEW PAPER: Zebra finches increase water visits with higher temperatures and day length, and decrease visits with more humidity, wind, and rain—highlighting the importance of water availability for arid-zone birds in a warming climate. ➡️ vist.ly/3zudh #ornithology

The time of acquisition of multispectral predictors matters: the role of seasonality in bird species distribution models vist.ly/3z58d #Birds #Distribution #SDM