As Global Flyway Network we contributed to an Australia-wide assessment of non-breeding site fidelity of 12 shorebirds. Using 636,167 records of 84k individuals overall site fidelity was >95% but lower in Red Knot & Sanderling. Juveniles were less site faithful than adults. doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

1/Excited to share two new papers! The first is by Rozy Bathrick in @amornith.bsky.social on intra-specific variation in stopover site use. Rozy shows that Lesser Yellowlegs from different breeding sites use the Prairie Pothole Region in dramatically different ways. academic.oup.com/condor/artic...

Our comparative analyses with @bksandercock.bsky.social and colleagues is now included in July issue of Oikos, and is making the cover, with a stunning picture of one of my great friend Verca. Read the paper here: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tundra waders at Kautokeino, Norway

Happy summer solstice from the taiga breeding waders of northern Norway ☀️

Ny statusrapport: En svak bedring løfter ikke villaksen ut av bakevja. Les mer: vitenskapsradet.no/Nyheter/en-s...

Day trip to Forollhogna to recover a dropped satellite tag from a Great Snipe

Separately, whilst on St Kilda last month working on these endemic Wrens, a Redpoll which flew into our nets already had an ID ring. Turns out it was ringed in September 2025 as a first-year bird, on Sula in Norway. That's 1135km away from St Kilda! @jezierskimt.bsky.social @stkildawhs.bsky.social

How can Norway provide new renewable energy sources to meet future needs while still protecting its natural environment, and the plants and animals that live there?

Newt survey in Norway this morning. Mainly great crested, but a smooth newt for size comparison too! 300 cresties have been found in this tiny pond. #amphibians @arc-trust.bsky.social

My friend Dr. Yanjie Xu (U of Helsinki) just published her recent study in Conservation Biology on how to save Europe’s birds. It’s a literal roadmap for the global 30x30 conservation target. #Conservation #Ornithology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Kittiwakes settling on nest platforms in Tromsø

Spring migration is building in Trøndelag! Water Rail, Garganey and Whinchat at Hamervatnet, Greenshank at Eidesøra, and Little Ringed Plover, Whimbrel and Ruff at Gaulosen. Recorded 78 species on 9 checklists for Norway. #GlobalBigDay #WorldMigratoryBirdDay #eBird ebird.org/tripreport/5...

Urban wildlife around Burnaby Lake. ebird.org/checklist/S3...

"Moose in Sweden have migrated the same way for thousands of years... Whether it is wildebeest in the Serengeti or moose in Sweden, we need to raise awareness so that natural migratory behavior is preserved," - Göran Ericsson, lead moose researcher, SLU. tinyurl.com/btythsay

Fiskelus i ferskvann - vanlige arter på norske ferskvannsfisk?

Helgetur til Frøya og Hitra

New article on nest survival of Northern Lapwings in two regions of France. Regional differences in productivity affected by nest microclimate with most losses to predators or agricultural equipment. Field study led by Reinier Van den Berg at Univ. Strasbourg. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our new study, led by Sergi Herrando (EBCC chair, @ICOcells) published in Conservation Biology, shows that it is possible to create frequent and regular maps showing where farmland birds are disappearing across Europe by using the data from the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS).

Reporting from the Guardian on an interspecies assembly recently held in Oppdal kommune.

First sighting of a White Wagtail is a sign of spring in Norway. ebird.org/tripreport/4...

Field trip to Ørlandet with the terrestrial ecology group at NINA-Trondheim. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

Påsketur med isfiske ved Lierne

God påske

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here: www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

Signs of spring on the outer coast of Norway. Yellow-billed Loon still hanging around but Smew, Lapwings and Bar-tailed Godwits are starting to arrive. Grey seals, otters and roe deer along the shoreline. ebird.org/tripreport/4...

Snøugla er no sett på Bonnkonvensjonens bevaringsliste. Større internasjonal merksemd kan gi nytt håp for den kritisk trua arten. www.miljodirektoratet.no/aktuelt/nyhe...

Hva skjer med genetisk mangfold når livet i innsjøer re-startes etter rotenonbehandling? www.nina.no/Om-NINA/Aktu...

New article in Oikos with a global review of annual survival for waders comparing estimation methods and phylogeny. Survival increases with body mass but decreases with migration distance and during past 40 years. Team led by @dillensegerg.bsky.social. #ornithology #waders doi.org/10.1002/oik....

New postdoc position on bioaccumulation and effects of PFAS in arctic-breeding seabirds. Field sites in coastal Norway and Svalbard. Advisors will be Veerle Jaspers and Bjørn Monroe at NTNU in collaboration with ecologists at NINA. Application deadline 26 April 2026. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

New paper in Ecology and Evolution on monitoring brown bears with camera traps in the Altai mountains. Led by Sanzhar Kantarbayev from the Institute of Zoology in Almaty, Kazakhstan with research collaborators at NINA. @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

Norway has proposed including the snowy owl on CMS Appendix II. ❄️🦉 Icons of Arctic tundra ecosystems, snowy owls are remarkable migrants. Globally listed as Vulnerable, 1/3 of its population has been lost in the past 30 years. The proposal in English, Spanish or French: www.cms.int/document/302...

En ny artikkel i Forskersonen om vår VKM-rapport om kumulative effekter av fremmede arter i Norge. @vkm.no @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social www.forskersonen.no/artsdatabank...

New paper on stopover duration of Western Sandpipers on spring migration along the Pacific coast. Shorter stopovers as birds move north, females stay longer than males, short-term effects of marking, and no major changes over 30 years. Led by @dunlin.bsky.social. #ornithology doi.org/10.1002/jav....

An Azure Tit has been continuing to visit feeders in gardens around Opphaug since early January. The first record for Norway. ebird.org/checklist/S3...

New paper in @britornitholclub.bsky.social - Paige Langle and I highlight (and confirm the identity!) of the only North American record of the now-extinct Slender-billed Curlew (1/4) bioone.org/journals/bul... #ornithology

New VKM report reviewing theory and global case studies for 'Cumulative impacts from co-occurring non-native species'. Project led by Gaute Velle (NORCE) and Martin Malmstrøm (VKM), with Anders Bryn (NIBIO), Kyrre Kausrud (Vet Inst), Larry Kirkendall (UiB) and myself (NINA). @vkm.no cstu.io/af02a4

NRK reporting on a walrus napping in the garden of a cabin near Bergen. www.nrk.no/mr/johan-mal...

For migratory birds, the lowland wetlands of Iceland are critical habitats for breeding, resting and refuelling. ✨ Despite heavy drainage, our Partner Fuglavernd, BirdLife Iceland, is working tirelessly to protect and restore these sites.🦆 Learn more here: www.birdlife.org/news/2026/02...

New Natural History Note in Austral Ecology: Exceptional Longevity in a Neotropical Shorebird A male Two-banded Plover (A. falklandicus) was resighted over nearly two decades at the same Patagonian beach. 🐦🪶🧪🌍 doi.org/10.1111/aec.... @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

New paper in Ornis Norvegica comparing the trophic ecology of Common and Yellow-billed Loons on the coast of Norway. #seabirdscience @birdlifenorge.bsky.social boap.uib.no/index.php/or...

New opening for a 3-year PhD project in 'Seabird Ecology in a Changing Arctic' at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Tromsø) and the Arctic University of Norway (UiT). Apply before 25 Mar 2026. #seabirdscience @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/84-phd-...

I eagerly await her return each year & this morning, there she was! 🥰 #Curlew CJ6 ringed as a chick in central #Finland in 2012, this is her 13th spring staging on the #AlstonWetland patch. 3-4 weeks fattening up on #Lancashire's finest earthworms then she'll be off once again. #waders #shorebirds

Veldig flott av en av mine mentorer @christiansteel.bsky.social Flott du fortsetter formidlingen, Christian! www.agderposten.no/meninger/n/6...

Søndagsturer etter hvitting på fjordisen ved Fosen

I've been trying to get this old Knot with faded flag read all season- finally brought it to book in the last of the light this eve as it pottered about in the godwit roost behind the Co-op. Turns out it is my old mucker LUP ringed as a 3CY+ in 2009. So now in at least its 20th year. #ornithology

What looks like a dark morph Lapwing seen at #RSPBGreylake #Somerset this morning. It was very aggressive to any other Lapwing that came to close.

Dette er lovende. Ingen grunn til å spre et problem, selv om det kan se vakkert ut. Men den virkelig store trusselen mot naturmangfoldet vårt er den store nedbyggingen av naturens vår, og andre arealendringer. www.nrk.no/norge/miljod...

Hudsonian Whimbrel split from Eurasian Whimbrel on ABA checklist