⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London ➡️ BOU member discounts ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ Visit Tring collections bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 Keynote 🧵 ⬇️ #ornithology 🪶

More intense human-caused heat extremes have reduced terrestrial bird abundance - in particular in the tropics - more than other human pressures #ornithology doi.org/10.1038/s415...

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! 📢 #BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham | Zoom & Bluesky Take a look at the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now! bou.org.uk/event/bir...#BOU2026 #ornithology

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Riley Lawson describes the backstory of his recent paper in The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology, which documents the underappreciated threat that collisions with anthropogenic structures pose to #seabirds. wilsonsociety.org/2025/07/28/g...

Some like it hot: Elevated heating capacity of carotenoid-containing contour feathers compared to melanized feathers and of rural over urban feathers | journals.sagepub.com... | Avian Biology Research | #ornithology 🪶

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Manx Shearwaters show flexible migration visiting lower latitudes during non-breeding in El Niño years and experience cascading carry over effects on subsequent breeding behaviour #ornithology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Had great fun to write this paper with Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Marin Ullrich & emilydoolittle.bsky.social on how animals respond to music & what needs to be reported in future to better understand their responses #AnimalWelfare @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

📢 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

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley.... T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Urban life of an elusive species: population trends, movement patterns, foraging habitats, and prospecting in Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) breeding in Hamburg, northern Germany | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

IBIS Special Issue | Citizen Science Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley.... @aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

New in #BirdStudy #Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu. Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Considering infrared radiation may be necessary for a better understanding of animals' colouration diversity and possible responses to thermal challenge. bsky.app/profile/bior...

"Gulls are intelligent, vital birds that deserve our protection, not scorn" www.salon.com/2024/10/20/g...

Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology #seabirds

Since 2016 we have been fortunate to host Tanzanian conservation leaders thru the Karimjee MSc Conservation scholarship at the Univ Glasgow, a full ride 2-year scholarship, generously supported by a local Tanzanian NGO the Karimjee Foundation. Please help us spread the word to potential applicants!

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

First record of a large breeding colony of the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in mainland Africa | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ostrich | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Out now!🔊 The SMP Report provides an overview of the status of the UK’s breeding #seabirds since 1986. It further highlights declines as shown by the recent Seabirds Count, a census of Britain & Ireland’s seabirds. Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology

Do you like #petrels, islands and data analysis? Well the RSPB’s Conservation Scientist role could be the one for you! Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️ Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...