Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7

Songbird tracking goes offshore! Our working group now has its first #Motus receiver INSIDE an offshore wind farm, thanks to @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social and the project´s team Will be super interesting to see whether the skylarks I tagged north of it will cross it

How many #birds are killed by #cats in Canada? Between 19-197 million! This is the main result from my first chapter of my PhD thesis just published in Avian Conservation and Ecology. ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a... @gowelizabeth.bsky.social @ryannorrissci.bsky.social 1/6

A skylark I tagged last autumn in northernmost Germany with a #Motus transmitter (to study #pesticide effects) was now detected near our University in Oldenburg - we @migecol.bsky.social col.bsky.social now have data from 3 migration seasons for this bird! motus.org/dashboard/#e... #birdmigration

Did I mention this is fully funded for 3 years starting in 2026? The deadline to apply is 31st October 5pm. Excellent multidisciplinary supervisory team, great balance of fieldwork, lab work & conservation technology - and opportunity to build up bird ringing/monitoring experience #ornithology.

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Looking for a PhD position? Come and work with us on migratory songbirds at the University of Oldenburg! uol.de/job788en

New #ornithology paper: #Bioaccumulation of metal(loid)s in feathers of the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting 🪶 High #zinc levels linked to lower body condition! 📉 doi.org/10.1093/etoj... Led by Wangworn Sankamethawee and colleagues from Thailand

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

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...

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩 On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks! #Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦 a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

Please share!🙏 🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

New bird species for our project investigating animal diversity in stands of #invasive #fallopia #knotweed: Eurasian Jay!

Meet Lasse, He‘ll support the working group as a volunteer for the next year, hoping to learn and observe scientific work in the process. While his interests lay elsewhere beforehand, he‘s become curios about the groups work and likes to try to think along :)

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬 I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma. Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation 👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org Please share!

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

This week we were at #BESMove2025, where @giovannasandretti.bsky.social presented our results on the overlooked pre-migratory flights. The conference title of this year was "Understanding Migration", and she came back home full of fresh insights and great new connections!

Great fun to teach students how to catch and handle #birds for scientific studies and how to collect and analyse fecal samples together with @giovannasandretti.bsky.social - but shocking to see how many songbirds´ droppings contain #microplastics

Only 10 days left to apply: We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

New #ornithology paper out in Journal of Biogeography: Phylogenomics Supports Island Contribution to Metapopulation Dynamics in a Predominantly Continental Bird Species doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... Using the world´s smallest rail as study species 😍 Many thanks to Daisuke Aoki and all collaborators!

Great fun to present at #EOU2025 in Bangor last week, and so nice to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over the world! 🐦

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553! 🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089 #ornithology 🪶

New postdoc position available 🚨 We are looking for a new post doc to work on adaptive management in geese. Are you experienced in working with animal movement patterns? And are you used to working with large files of transmitter date? Then apply before the 1st op september!

#ornithology dialogue.earth/en/nature/ma...

New #ornithology paper on the #animalmigration of barn swallows breeding in Siberia 🪶 They migrate southward to mainland SE-Asia, unlike other Asian swallow populations Many thanks to my collaborators! Study unfortunately discontinued for unscientific reasons (first #covid, then war) Link 👇

Meet (F)Annika! She is helping the working group as a volunteer (oeko-freiwillig.de) and gets to do all the “fun” things (as Heiko would say :)) - such as supporting field work. She has always been interested in birds, but over the past few months she has learned to truly admire them.

NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology studying foraging distribution of coastal #seabirds in #France: buff.ly/qBWQMVZ

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation managing two major restoration projects for #islands important for #seabirds: buff.ly/yfl1Vo2

We are hiring a new PhD candidate 🎉as part of the No-REGRETS (NOrth Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the TranSition) consortium. If you are excited too, have what we are looking for and interested in joining us please apply. #ornithology #animalmovement

Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available. www.sfb1372.de/young-resear... @sfb1372.bsky.social

New set of measures in China restricting releases of non-native wildlife and sick animals. This is especially targeted at the release of captive animals to accrue merit in Buddhism, a practice that harms wildlife and ecosystems. www.sixthtone.com/news/1017220

Fully funded PhD available with me and @npwsireland.bsky.social looking at islands off Ireland as monitoring stations for migratory birds. You'll be based at SBES in University College Dublin. Deadline is 30th June. More details here tinyurl.com/2p9pe97j

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Are skylarks preferring bright nights around full moon for migration? Ringing data suggests: yes! Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... #birdmigration

Great fun indeed to win our institute´s volleyball tournament with the migration ecology team including @ramonaheim.bsky.social 🤩

There is a new open position at our Lab!! haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... #newposition #phd

High microplastic pollution in birds of urban waterbodies revealed by non-invasively collected faecal samples | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of The Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶

Poaching, and in general 'defaunation' in Southeast Asia, is often considered through a standard wildlife trade/law enforcement lens but for birds in Cambodia, this would be neither effective nor even actually relevant. Read on (English) dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #wildlifetrade

13 days left to apply for our #CRC #fellowship #job position for experienced #postdocs with your own project proposal for research on animal #navigation and/or #magnetoreception. Apply until 15 June! sfb1372.de/jobs

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!