New #ornithology paper 🚨 Migration patterns and hybridization within the Asian stonechat complex in response to a major geographical barrier doi.org/10.1093/evle... Led by PhD candidate Tianhao Zhao, we studied #birdmigration routes & #genetics of individuals migrating E, W & across Qinghai-Tibet

Very happy to work together with PhD candidate Pattraporn Simla from Thailand for the coming months! Watch this video to learn about their work on studying & protecting the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting on its wintering grounds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4j0... #EastAsianFlyway

We currently are looking for a postdoctoral research associate (3 years with possibility to extend) with experience in community ecology, and ideally a good match with our group profile; biodiversity, land use change and urban ecology. Please share for max reach www.lss.ls.tum.de/fileadmin/w0...

Very much looking forward to work with Bouquet on one of my favourite species, the Yellow-breasted Bunting, based on her amazing data on this threatened bird from Thailand

📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us: 🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦 Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social 📆29th May deadline More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y #cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds 🙏Please Share

📢 APPLY NOW For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants Funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference Low-carbon travel encouraged ⏰ Deadline: 29 May 2026 🪶 bou.org.uk/funding/m...

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social! If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

Save the date! iocongress2026.com www.internationalornithology.org cipamex.org

3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama! Three positions, each including salary & a research budget. Applications due April, 15th. DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us! stri.si.edu/academic-pro...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

One week left to apply for a faculty position at the University of Groningen and director of Birdeyes. A great opportunity for studying bird migration and movement with strong links to conservation management and society! #ornithology werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten...

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

Many thanks to @dornitholges.bsky.social for funding & very proud of the two MSc students Jil & Ronja who did an amazing job in finding skylarks nests for our project

Meet Alice! + joined us as PhD candidate on pre-migratory flights & impacts of #pesticides on #birdmigration + has volunteered for multiple bird associations & participated in mig counts, passerine ringing & breeding bird surveys + has worked on climate change impact on bird phenology & behaviour

12 more Jack Snipes tagged with data loggers to uncover their #birdmigration together with bird ringers D. Kronbach & J. Hering 5 recaptured from last year reveal a wide range of breeding sites! Project funded by @dornitholges.bsky.social and now also supported by @vogelwarte.bsky.social

New Paper alert 📄 Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks" -> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A warm welcome to Alice who joined our research group as a new PhD-Student today. We are happy having you with us for the next 3 years as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Navisense".

Oral Presentation and Poster submission is now open! Our upcoming annual meeting will take place from 16–20 September at the University of Mainz. The main topics are #LifeHistory, #BehaviouralEcology, #MovementEcology, and environmental endocrinology. www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty. Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!

Fully funded 4-year PhD in Avian Evolutionary Physiology in Czechia! 🇨🇿🇪🇺 Join IVB CAS to study the evolutionary ecology of avian energetics (glucose/fatty acids). 🐦 Fieldwork (Barn swallows, passerines) 🧪 Metabolomics 💻 Adv. stats in R Apply by March 16! 👇 forms.gle/AFkpt4foeV5i... #EcoEvo #PhD

Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61... #software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience

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-...

We are hiring! 🙂 We are looking for a research assistant to help analysing movement and demographic data of little owls! 🦉 @vogelwarte.bsky.social #ornithology tinyurl.com/9k6rj6rx

You can find all information regarding the DOG travel grant here: www.do-g.de/foerdern/rei...

🚀 60% capacity reached! EOU Fledglings 2026 is filling up FAST! Registration stays open until we reach full capacity 👀 💸 Last chance TODAY for DO-G travel funding! 📅 Programme is now live! More info: eounion.org/fledglings @biologists.bsky.social #EOU26 #Ornithology

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

New role! 📢 We're looking for a dynamic and experienced Science Manager to join us at BTO. Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £46,344 per annum. 📍 Hybrid working. Deadline for applications: Monday 9 March.

We're so happy to finally anounce that registration for #EOU26 is now OPEN! Thank you all for your patience — we can’t wait to meet you in Gdańsk 🐦 👉 Registration & info: eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/registr... #Ornithology

The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems. Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk

Meet Matteo! Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed

We have a new group logo - honouring one of our key study species, the northern wheatear 😍 And of cause, this bird is also tagged with a transmitter - but the tracking devices we use for our studies are so tiny, that you can´t see them on the bird 😉

🚨We're seeking information on Globally Threatened Birds!🚨 We collate up-to-date information used to evaluate the classification of each bird species on the IUCN Red List.🦜 Our team have opened discussions for 90 species until 25 January.🗺️ Contribute here👉 forums.birdlife.org/red-list-cha...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Abstract submission for the EOU Fledglings Conference is still open until the 16th of January! 🐣 The DOG supports young ornithologists with travel grants that you can apply for on our website: www.do-g.de/foerdern/rei...

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

Are you a PhD-level #wildlife ecologist committed to research and education for #biodiversity and nature restoration? Our group at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social has a #vacancy for an assistant professor! Deadline for applications is February 19. Please spread the word. www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

📢📢PhD opportunity! We are looking for enthusiastic researchers to develop a project looking at the ontogeny of migratory behaviour! Deadline for expression of interest: 8 February 2026 👉Check details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wow2... #migration #ornithology #GPStracking

🚨 Postdoctoral Opportunity for Female Scientists🚨 The University of Vienna is awarding at least 20 fully funded 4 year postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists Interested? Get in touch via direct message careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e... #MicroSky 🧪 #PostDoc @univie.ac.at

✈️ Great news! Travel grants for the 5th EOU Fledglings Meeting are available thanks to the German Ornithologists’ Society (DO-G, @dornitholges.bsky.social), supporting early-career researchers attending #EOU26 in Gdańsk. ℹ️ Details & eligibility: eou-fledglings.github.io/2026/travel/ #Ornithology

Nice to see our recent article on #Bluethroat #migration along the Central Asian flyway featured in this newspiece: theornithologist.org/tracking-a-s... Note that one has to create a (free) account to be able to read it. For the original paper (open access), see here: doi.org/10.1007/s103...

Come work with us! #PhD position on #ecosystem and #biodiversity effects of large #herbivores on the Eurasian steppes now announced: www.euraxess.de/jobs/395512 Nice combination of fieldwork and meta-analysis, co-supervised by @jonastrepel.bsky.social and ejlundgren.github.io

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

Apply for this #ornithology PhD position on White-tailed Eagles! I can highly recommend @utu.fi as a nice working place, Finland 🇫🇮 is a beautiful and family-friendly country for living, and its great to work (and go birding) with @carinanebel.bsky.social! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪 The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition! We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys. Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84 #PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

The DOG is awarding travel grants of 400€ each to young scientists presenting a talk or a poster at the EOU Fledglings Meeting in Gdańsk in March 2026. Here you can find their website: eounion.org/fledglings/ Applications for the travel grant are open until 20.02.2026. Photo: H.-J. Fünfstück

Calling all early-career ornithologists! The abstract submission for EOU Fledglings 2026 is now open! #ornithology

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

New #ornithology paper + @ramonaheim.bsky.social negative effects of #fire on bird abundance & diversity during stopover🔥 past work focussed on breeding birds, while fire impacts during migration remained unknown 🐤 fire management needed to sustain stopover habitat 👩‍🚒 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

PhD scholarship alert! Are you interested in cognitive evolution? Do you want to know how development influences cognitive traits? Do you love hanging out with birds in the forest? If the answer to these questions is yes, please apply to work with us! 1/2 🧪 www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...