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

Dagens foredrag ble etterfulgt av en politisk debatt under den nye NINA visjonen zero.no/arrangement/...

Spasetur rundt Oslo sentrum etter dagens møter

Our latest paper on Golden Eagle research in Scotland, using DNA from moulted feathers to assess apparent survival in territorial adults. As ever, data collection from Scottish Raptor Study Group @scottishraptorsg.bsky.social was vital. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #RaptorResearch

Nordlys over Trondheim i går kveld.

A new article in Ecology and Evolution on apparent survival rates for two populations of Golden Eagles in Scotland. Shed feathers were collected at nest sites for genotyping and sexing. Mark-recapture models used to estimate demographic rates.🪶https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.72912

From modern tools for ecological monitoring to smart ways to make sense of messy real-world data - including occupancy & N-mixture models - this presentation showed how quantitative ecology can help tackle the biodiversity crisis. A stimulating talk by Brett Sandercock @bksandercock.bsky.social

Unusual long-billed Rook near the railway station at Debrecen, Hungary

Field excursion to Hortobágy after the PhD Conference on Evolution and Biodiversity at the University of Debrecen in Hungary.

Fuglefesten herjer! Asurmeis i Trøndelag skaper uforglemmelige øyeblikk. www.nrk.no/trondelag/na...

Quite the record! www.artsobservasjoner.no/Image/3281465

COP15 is coming, but what does it mean for waders? Here is a quick guide to the meeting 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

De har sitt Syden i Vinter-Norge ⛱️ Fjæreplyttene fra tundraen i Russland ankommer norskekysten senhøstes for å tilbringe vinteren her. Les om den morsomme fjæreplytten: www.aftenposteninnsikt.no/viten/de-har...

Year list totals for 2025: 228 bird species on 443 checklists in 9 countries, including 203 species for Norway. Five new species included Stejneger’s Scoter, Scottish Crossbills, Gray-headed Woodpecker, Little Bunting and Red-throated Pipit. Looking forward to a fresh start on January 1! #eBird

Happy Winter Solstice - and Happy #NationalRobinDay! What better bird to cheer up the shortest day? Reply with your favourite snaps of these beloved garden friends... Let's fill our feeds with Robins. 😍

En skandale at P13 ble lagt ned. NRK må snarest sørge for at kanalen gjenoppstår. Og det fort som f.

Norway has proposed Snowy Owl be added to Convention on Migratory Species Appendix II, at #CMSCOP15 (Brazil, March 2026), as a species of unfavourable conservation status requiring international agreement for its conservation. @cms.int Scientific Council will evaluate the proposal this week in Bonn.

After taking (too) many pictures of scales we finally have our new study out: Identifying escaped farmed salmon from scales using deep learning: academic.oup.com/biomethods/a... The model works well and covers the major Atlantic salmon rivers in Norway. Could be adpated to other fish and places!

When you deploy a tracking device, how long do you expect it to last? We all hope for the best, but that's often not reality. 😞 For more information, check out Emily Weiser's new paper with help from many (many) folks in the shorebird community. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

very interesting work on mosses in the arctic and their change in spore dispersal over time - also an important argument why we need long term monitoring programs #eDNA #consgen 🧪🌏🦤 jecologyblog.com/2025/11/18/s...

We're pleased to announce that our 2026 conference will be in... SPAIN 🇪🇸 🗓 Dates for your diary are 4-7th September 2026 Watch this space for more details to come! #IWSG2026 #waders #shorebirds #ornithology

The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) met last week to develop an ambitious 3-year work plan in support of key goals for the Convention on Wetlands. STRP National Focal Points included (L-R): Spain, Germany, UK, South Africa, New Zealand, Norway, Czech Republic and France @ramsar.org

This week marks the start of the 28th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (#STRP28), taking place at the Secretariat headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. Learn more: www.ramsar.org/about/bodies... #STRP #GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter #ProtectWetlands

Successful workshop on ‘Adaptive management for migratory waterbirds’ at the international meeting of the African-Eurasian Waterbird Agreement. New research results from the SPEAR project funded by @biodiversa.eu. Presentations from scientists at @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social @utu.fi @au.dk

Coming up in less than a week: 9th Edition of the AEWA Conservation Status REPORT (CSR9). For the first time, AEWA’s flagship report goes beyond tracking population trends to examine what drives changes, identifying key threats to migratory waterbirds and actions needed to address them. Stay tuned!