I’ve attended many ornithological congress but I’ve never seen a poster like this, made by the Japanese designer Ryohei Kojima in 1986 for the International Council of Bird Preservation

These nice pieces of art were made in 2017 by Kazumasa Nagai when he was 88 years old

The (awesome) Graphic Japan exhibition in Bologna starts with birds 🐦‍⬛🦉🦆🦜

Some more beauties from today

Some jewels from our bird-ringing training course in Italy

Postdoctoral Researcher in Marine Mammal Ecology 🧪🌍 #science

In line with the niche partitioning hypothesis, we showed that the three falcon species slightly partitioned their foraging and trophic niches, probably playing a key role in making syntopic coexistence in the Po Plain (Italy) possible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

To celebrate 30 years of AEWA, we created a video showing the migration tracks of waterbirds GPS-tagged in Italy. Caring for waterbirds. Connecting countries. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... video by @fdepa1.bsky.social, Silvia Giardina and me

Tracking data and teamwork once again show their value for wildlife conservation. Our study led by Timothée Poupartand and Thibaut Bettignies reveals mismatches between the Natura2000 marine network and seabird distributions, urging for better protected areas off France l1nq.com/kwIzl

Excited to share this paper on shearwater diets in the Mediterranean! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Thanks to a great team, Lucie Michel and co-authors including @fdepa1.bsky.social @jgcecere.bsky.social , part-funding by @dornitholges.bsky.social, @hannahpepe.bsky.social for the post graphics!

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 🪶 Evolutionarily distinct lineages of a migratory bird of prey show divergent responses to climate change 🪶 👉 rdcu.be/ehvAA #LesserKestrel #ornithology #ClimateChange #Conservation 🧵👇 1/6

Galápagos giant tortoises take their time when it comes to love— mating lasts around 2 hours! 🐢💞 But in the world of tortoises, everything moves at a slow. 📢Volume ON

Despite soaring over the ocean for days in search of food, 60% of the Galapagos petrel (CR) population nests here, in the forests of Cerro Pajas, Floreana. An incredible experience from a great collaborative effort led by #FundacionJocotoco and #OrnisItalica.

✨ New study ✨ 📍 La Maddalena Archipelago, Italy 👷 Jacopo G. Cecere (@jgcecere.bsky.social), Federico De Pascalis 🏦 ISPRA 🐦 Scopoli's shearwater 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Matera, Italy 👷 Diego Rubolini, Jacopo Cecere, Michelangelo Morganti, Andrea Pilastro 🏦 Università degli Studi di Milano, ISPR Ambiente, CNR-IRSA, Università degli Studi di Padova 🐦 Lesser kestrel (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

Ready to welcome 2025 data 😊

One week left to apply for EUFLYNET's #Funding opportunities! Advance your career in #BirdConservation and join our mission! 🦜 📅 Deadline: Jan 15, 2025 Details: euflynet.eu/activities

Local abundance of the declining skylark responds to different habitat and management variables at specific spatial scales, as revealed by our new work led by D.Andreatta & G.Assandri, based on a novel remote sensing method to assess crop mowing besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And to think that these wonders, under natural conditions, are completely enveloped in the deepest darkness. Grotte Frasassi, Italy - August, family holidays. One simple thought for each of the journeys I did in 2024. 5/5

Working with shearwaters is amazing, but albatrosses? They're on a whole other level The hardest part was staying professional while bursting with the joy of a kid seeing their dream toy for the first time Simple thoughts from the journeys I did in 2024. Galapagos, fieldwork with Fund Jocotoco 4/5

Walking out of the tent, with the sea on one side and cacti on the other, after fieldwork on storm petrels, is priceless! Mexico Baja California- May, fieldwork and IAPC7 Conference. One simple thought for each of the journeys I did in 2024. 3/5

Snow monkeys are real! They’re not a National Geographic invention 😁 Japan - March, BLS8 Conference. One simple thought for each of the journeys I did in 2024. 2/5

One simple thought for each of the big journeys I did in 2024. 1/5 A stunning and unexpectedly surprising country. Stepping into another world entirely. Uzbekistan - February, COP14 of CMS

Interested in cognition, conservation and choughs? This PhD is for you! Fully funded by NERC GW4+. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social; co-supervised by @drrmiller.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/58s9kb4k

Interested in a PhD in Ornithology? Four full scholarships available here in Oxford from Oct 2025 in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social - more details available at the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2zymo...

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!

Come work with us! The RSPB’s Marine team are looking for 3 Conservation Scientists to work on a range of exciting #seabird research projects 🤩 Get in touch if you’d like to know more! Deadline: 3rd January app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 🔗 #seabirds #ornithology

#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø. Apply by 1st September. nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post... #jobs

An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔗 #ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels

At the 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #DavideScridel shared first results of his work on the migration of adult Purple herons. Here migrating tracks of Purple herons from 6 breeding sites across 4 distinct populations 👇

At the 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #DevonCevenini shared her in-progress work on Pintail migration. Here is the incredible journey of 29 Pintails wintering in Venice and nesting in remote areas of northeastern Asia. 👇

We're launching our new #UZH funded citizen science project using exciting #AI powered smart bird feeders to learn more about common European garden birds and how they survive the winter. This is the start of something *BIG* Sign up if you are interested! www.citizenscience.uzh.ch/en/projects/...

At the 2024 Movecolab.it meeting #DonJean-LéandriBreton presented his in-progress work on migratory beahaviour of kittiwakes breeding on Middleton, in the Alaska gulf. In winter, individuals that migrate less fed on poorer-quality food but arrived earlier at the breeding site in spring

At the 2024 Movecolab.it meeting @ecotos.bsky.social presented his PhD project on #plastic ingestion in Mediterranean shearwaters. Plastic has been found in 16 out of the 18 Scopoli's shearwaters (dead for bycatch) checked last week. Great collaboration with Susanne Kuehn and Jan van Franeker

At the 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #MariaPaulaClavijoJaramillo shared her work on nest site selection of Kentish Plovers breeding along the Adriatic coast. Nesting success is lower near bathing establishments

At our 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #GiacomoAssandri talked about movements of drangoflies. How can we study the movements of a species so small that it cannot be ringed, tagged, or counted at bottle neks? ... thanks to citizen science, obviusly! see Project Anax ephippiger in Italy on odonata.it

At our 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #MichelangeloMorganti showed the updated trend of lesser kestrel population in the Po Plain (Northern Italy). After peaking in 2021, the population now shows only small fluctuations.

At our 2024 Movecolab.it meeting, #JenniferMorinay shared first results of her in-progress experimental study on tradition in breeding site selection in Lesser Kestrel Unlike tits, the lesser kestrel does not seem to rely on social learning for nest site selection 😒

Are you an Early Career Research in Conservation science? 🌍🌱🦅 Come to L'Aquilla for the next SCB Italy ERC Conference. Act fast, because abstract submission is Dec 1st! scbitaly.org/ecr-2025/

📢 Exciting postdoctoral opportunity to explore relationships between #shearwater #demography & #Atlantic #fisheries, based on #CMR, #seabird tracking & #fishing effort. Start March 2025 Apply 👉 seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic... Interested? Email me by Nov 26 👉 gonzalez-solis.com

📢📢 The website of the Movecolab.it (movement ecology of colonial birds - Italy) is updated! Discover our activities, know our study species and our papers on colonial birds, meet lab members and see how to collaborate with us