Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... PHd on the understanding of population change in insectivorous birds 🐤

The last storm petrel action of the season 🥲 #birdringing #birdbanding #stormpetrel #Petrel #ireland #Kerry

Belgium time to see some family. Perfect excuse to spend time in the woods here. @patrickgleeson.bsky.social

First Swallow Roost of the year with the South West Ringing Group 🪽 @sambayley.bsky.social + a surprise Bullfinch. We managed to catch just over 110 including 2 Sand Martins! #ireland #bird #birdringing #birdbanding #clonakilty

First Swallow roost catch of the year at Clogheen Marsh last night. About 300 birds came into roost and we caught 114 inc a retrap adult from last year plus 2 Sand Martin. Surprised to get so many this early, but migration seems early @npwsireland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Great Storm Petrel sessions in Cape Clear @ccbowarden.bsky.social and in the Maharees, Kerry + one rock dove session. Got a random new species on my list while doing the stormies: a rock pipit! delighted with that happy accident and excited to continue on with the end of the breeding season 🪶

Great weekend at @ccbowarden.bsky.social for the Lavender Festival. Ringing Demo with a good mix of passerines, 163 Stormies caught at night inc 3 controls (1 we caught at Galley Head on Wednesday night) and 20 Rock Doves for RAS project inc 9 new! @btobirds.bsky.social @willjsmith.bsky.social

New CES session in Clogheen Marsh, Clonakilty under sunny conditions 🐦

*all bird ringing under license

Antikythira Bird Observatory first few days

A nice week of ringing last week to kick start the breeding season 😁 with some grey heron chicks in Midleton forest than some more birdies in Killarney Park with my one if my favourites: the treecreeper 🪲 #birdringing #birdbanding #killarneypark #birdwatching

A first ringing demo for the newly founded SouthWest Ireland Ringing Group at Killarney National Park yesterday. A good selection of birds for the 20 participants, but a pair of Treecreeper and Long-tailed Tit were the show stoppers @npwsireland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

Les résultats du premier Baromètre de la biodiversité sont sortis ! Presque 2000 belges ont été interrogés et près de 4 sur 5 se disent préoccupés par l'état de la biodiversité. 👉 Pour lire le rapport dans son entièreté : bebiodiversity.be/.../Rapport-.... www.rtbf.be/article/plus...

💥 🌳 New PhD project @bangoruniversity.bsky.social "Biodiversity for woodland resilience: the long-term functional ecology of tree diversity" 🌳 www.envision-dtp.org/2025/biodive...

Volunteer Opportunity!! The Landmark Trust are recruiting residential volunteers for the Bird Observatory Assistant Warden role on Lundy Island! 📆 Deadline: 9th Feb www.landmarktrust.org.uk/lundyisland/... 🦤🌍 #ExeterCEC #Seabirds #LundyIsland #BirdResearch #BirdConservation #Volunteer

Sunny bank holiday bird sesh! We had a brambling in the nets which was the highlight for me with a few coal tits 🐤 #birdringing #ornithology

The influence of the forest corridors to the north of the Andes on the diversification of the bright-rumped Attila, Attila spadiceus, during the climatic oscillations of the middle Pleistocene | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

📣 Call for Volunteers: Spring Season 2025 Are you passionate about birds and bird ringing? We welcome applications from all experience levels from 28 March - 30 May. ℹ️ More info & applications: ornithologiki.gr/abo #AntikytheraBirdObservatory @ornithologiki.bsky.social

In Wallonia (BE), only 1,3% of the territory is under strict nature protection regime. The new regional government is committed to reaching 5% by 2030, but at the same time is cutting in half the budgets for acquisition of land to set up nature reserves. Find the error. #Conservation #biodiversity

BiOME Consulting Ltd, a specialist ecological consultancy with an outstanding team of in-house ecologists and ornithologists, are recruiting at all levels. Owned and run by birders who happen to also be really nice people! #ShropshireBirding biomeconsulting.com/blog/14/1/20...

📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN... ...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Application deadline: 31 March Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...#ornithology 🪶 #ukbirds

Cold day out but worth it for this wonderful Kingfisher 😍 #birdringing #Kingfisher #ornithology

Interested in seal diet, population size and haul out behaviour in Ireland? Funded PhD position at University College Cork. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc... Application deadline 31st Jan.

Recognise how #communities are central to #island restoration? Keen to understand more about their socioeconomic and ecological motivations? PhD opportunity through the @netgain.bsky.social focal award with @DrFlurina and @environ_kat and myself tinyurl.com/3xzdxn7a

Went on Copeland island after Boxing Day, fabulous weather & so quiet! Can't wait to see it in the breeding season next year 🪿 saw a few grey seals, brent geese, OC, curlews, herring, lesser and 4 greater black backs, and a ringtail passing by! Also found this massive pellet full of hair, no bones..

The world's smallest transmitter has helped discover a previously unknown breeding ground of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper:

Ever dreamt about working at one of the UK's premier Bird Observatories? Now you can! We're looking for a seasonal Assistant Warden to join our team here at Spurn from 1st April 2025. More information about this exciting and rewarding opportunity here - https://buff.ly/4gjCclB

Seasonal field staff needed for @rspb.bsky.social projects in 2025 - advert live, closing date 12 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities across the UK! Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology

Una #subspecie endémica de #pardela pichoneta para las Islas #Canarias!! Según este estudio publicado en @avianbiology.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/jav.... ¿Pajarer@ adivinas cuál es la canaria? #seabirds #ornithology @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social 📸s de Zac Hinchcliffe & Beneharo Rodríguez

Exciting #seabird opportunity working with Manxies on Skomer, Rum, and Copeland! #seabirds #ornithology

[Reposted] We aren’t just another ecology consultancy! We are looking for competent birders to join our directory for paid, adhoc survey work in 2025/beyond - no need for commercial experience. Contact us by DM, via www.skopeo.co.uk, or by email to [email protected] #UKBirding

This year up to 26 funded PhD studentships in environmental sciences are available in our YES-DTN across the University of Leeds and the University of York UK yes-dtn.ac.uk. Find out more about projects and the application process via webinars on 13th and 17th December. Details via the link.

3-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Phd Opportunity for UK and EU! + possibility for overseas depending on scholarship terms. In parternship with BTO @btobirds.bsky.social , University of Exeter @uniofexeter.bsky.social and RSPB @rspb.bsky.social on population change in insectivorous birds 🐤🐛 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Wild-born European Wildcat kittens have been captured on camera trap in the Cairngorms:

🚨🚨Job Alert!🚨🚨 We are looking for a senior scientist to help my team at Global Fishing Watch drive impact. This is an opportunity to build relationships that apply our technology to help make change. Please share! job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishin...

#marine debris, mostly plastics, is increasing at #sea, affecting many species like the osprey. 'Use of marine debris as nest material by ospreys' doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... Press release (in Spanish) www.mncn.csic.es/es/Comunicac... Photos by P López-Suárez

An excellent example demonstrating that invasive/nonnative/native/conservation status is context dependent and defines *populations* not species. phys.org/news/2024-12...

📢 Exciting PhD opportunity - seabirds & machine learning 🐦💻 Revolutionise how seabird colonies are imaged & counts analysed Partnership @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social Deadline: 6th Jan - more info👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

This should be put in place as well in the ROI by now! 🇮🇪

Nearly 200 people gathered for the start of this year’s wildlife crime enforcement conference. #wildlifecrime

Another one 👀 Phd Opportunity at Oxford University on Space use in pelagic seabirds (model primarily for Manxies and then other seabirds) 🐧 Deadline: 8th January 2025 Type: Competition Funded Phd project www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Phd opportunity on pied flycatcher 🐦‍⬛ at Durham Uni! Deadline: 3rd January 2025 What a dream 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Job vacancy! 📢 Join BTO as Farmland Research Manager➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs This role sits in the Terrestrial #Ecology Team and manages farmland-focused field survey, review and analytical projects. 📝Closing date: 5 January 2025. #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

New PhD project, based at ZSL, on the migration strategies of Trindade petrels from Round Island, Mauritius! Fab opportunity to work on an amazing long-term ecological dataset, supervised by Malc Nicol, Emily Sheppard and Ken Norris 🔗⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #seabirds 🪶

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!