NEW on #theBOUblog from Radhika Jha Reflections from the 13th Australasian Ornithological Conference bou.org.uk/blog-jha-...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

📢 DEADLINE APPROACHING For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference 🪶 Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

🔊 KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS Who would you like to see deliver a keynote at #BOU2027 ? #BOU2027 | Avian disease ecology | 6 - 8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Nominate via link ⬇️ bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOU2027#BOU2027#ornithology 🪶

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📢 APPLY NOW... ...for the 2026 BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements 🪶 Application deadline: 30 January 2026 Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

📢 APPLY NOW For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

🔈 CALL FOR PAPERS IBIS Special Issue Collections-Based Ornithological Research in a Changing World Submission deadline: 30 June 2026 onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology 🪶

BOU Weekly Spotlight! #BOUSpotlight Here’s some new #ornithology releases that might’ve slipped under your radar ⬇️

EARLY VIEW in IBIS An automated workflow that combines sound-based bird identification and localization | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Carsten M. Buchmann, Frank M. Schurr | #ornithology 🪶

🔊 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION #BOUasm26 | 29 September 2026 | York, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity Submit your talk or Bluesky abstract now! bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOUasm26 #ornithology 🪶

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN #BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky Check out the programme and book your place today! bou.org.uk/event/bir...#BOU2026 #ornithology 🪶

📢 APPLY NOW... ...for the 2026 BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements 🪶 Application deadline: 30 January 2026 Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

📢 APPLY NOW For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Fight song: variation in singing behaviour and song structure during natural agonistic interactions in a tropical songbird, Adelaide's Warbler (Setophaga adelaidae) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Peter C. Mower et al | #ornithology 🪶

NEW on #theBOUblog from Meijun Liu Do wing patches predict assortative mating? bou.org.uk/blog-liu-... Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

BOU Weekly Spotlight! 🎉💡 #BOUSpotlight Here’s some new #ornithology releases that might’ve slipped under your radar this week ⬇️

Twenty-Two Years of Shrub Encroachment and Its Effects on Bird Communities in an African Savanna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Climate, habitat availability and human activity shape the wintering distribution of an increasing migratory piscivorous raptor within the Mediterranean basin | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Jorge García-Macía et al | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

EARLY VIEW in IBIS How much sampling is enough? Four decades of understorey bird mist-netting across Amazonia define the minimum effort to uncover species assemblage structure | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Pilar L. Maia-Braga et al | #ornithology 🪶

NEW on #theBOUblog from Ioannis Kalaitzakis Following the Mediterranean Gulls to the 15TH EOU bou.org.uk/blog-kala...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

EARLY VIEW in IBIS A systematic review of interspecific breeding in woodpeckers | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Antonii Bakai, Jérôme Fuchs, Gerard Gorman, Dominika Sajdak, Łukasz Kajtoch | #ornithology 🪶

Falcons reduce pre‐harvest food safety risks and crop damage from wild birds | doi.org/10.1111/1365... | Journal of Applied Ecology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Nest Survival Models and Genomics Illuminate Hybridisation Attempts, Guiding Culturally Informed Management to Recover a Critically Endangered Seabird | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

When predators get more than they bargained for: Naïve attacks on snakes by hawks, falcons, and owls | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology

Acoustic detection of a nocturnal bird with deep learning: the challenge of low signal-to-noise ratio | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Population dynamics of Campylobacter jejuni in healthy dairy calves reared with and without exposure to wild birds | doi.org/10.1093/jamb... | Journal of Applied Microbiology | #ornithology

Hydrological Variability in Floodplain Wetlands Promotes Bird Diversity and Abundance | doi.org/10.1002/eco.... | Ecohydrology | #ornithology 🪶

Shifts in Nesting Distribution of the White-Eyed Gull (Ichthyaetus leucophthalmus) in the Al Wajh Bank Highlights the Need for Consistency in Conservation Evaluation | doi.org/10.1675/063.... | Waterbirds | #ornithology

Impact of Climate Change on the Multiple Facets of Forest Bird Diversity in a Biodiversity Hotspot Within the Atlantic Forest | doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... | Diversity and Distributions | #ornithology 🪶

Behavioral assessment of heavy metal pollution effects on birds unveils species-specific responses to different elements | link.springer.com/ar... | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment | #ornithology 🪶

Hunting impacts male wild turkey space use and resource selection: insights from a hunted and non-hunted population | doi.org/10.1002/wsb.... | Wildlife Society Bulletin | #ornithology 🪶

Forests and mangroves modulate the occupancy of the endemic and threatened White-collared Kite (Leptodon forbesi) in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Effect of low-traffic roads on abundance of ground-nesting birds in sub-Arctic habitats | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶

Role of kinship in sociality of female eastern wild turkeys | doi.org/10.1002/wsb.... | Wildlife Society Bulletin | #ornithology 🪶

Different Maternal Quality Aspects Covary With the Offspring Sex Ratio and Condition in Bearded Reedlings (Panurus biarmicus) | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Duration of nest-building in passerine birds: the roles of latitude, nest size, and nest type | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶

Spring survival of wild turkeys in Delaware | doi.org/10.1002/wsb.... | Wildlife Society Bulletin | #ornithology 🪶

Application of photographic ‘capture–recapture' modelling to estimate recruitment and apparent survival in a long‐lived territorial raptor | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Anthropogenic water depletion outweighs climate change as a cause of wet grassland bird decline in Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

Egg Characteristics of Female Common Terns Are Repeatable, and Vary With Maternal Age and Laying Order | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Not everyone is shrinking: increases in body mass and wing length in a Sand Martin (Riparia riparia) population in northwestern Italy over two decades | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Giulia Masoero, Alberto Tamietti | #ornithology 🪶

🔊 KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS Who would you like to see deliver a keynote at #BOU2027 ? #BOU2027 | Avian disease ecology | 6 - 8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Nominate via link ⬇️ bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOU2027#BOU2027#ornithology 🪶

Endocrine and skeletal muscle physiology optimizing avian migratory capabilities | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶

Loggers affect the foraging behaviour and fitness of European shags | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶

NEW on #theBOUblog from Frigg Speelman Partners Beyond Breeding: Pair-bonded Chirruping Wedgebills spend lots of time together; but they’re closer after breeding than during breeding bou.org.uk/blog-spee... Based on this paper doi.org/10.1093/behe...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

🔊 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN #BOUasm26 | 29 September 2026 | York, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Avian futures: predicting and preparing for the future of avian biodiversity Submit your talk or Bluesky abstract now! bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOUasm26 #ornithology

Long-term evaluation of the association between dominance, bib size, sex and age | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶

Aerial insectivores breeding in agricultural landscapes: Highlighting the value of wetlands and heterogeneous habitats | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

Single bin QPAD (SQPAD) approach for robust analysis of point-count data with detection error | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

Anthropogenic fire reduces migratory bird abundance and diversity at a stopover site | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶