🔊 WE'RE RECRUITING
Would you like to play a central role in delivering our journal IBIS and engaging with the #ornithology community?
Join us as our Journal and Engagement Manager!
⏰ Apply by 14 April
bou.org.uk/vacancy-j...
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Recent surveys have confirmed that eastern quolls reintroduced to mainland Australia have successfully bred! 12 male and 7 female quolls captured during a recent survey were born in the wild.
#ConservationOptimism #EarthOptimism
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...
Time for Kentish plovers territorial fights. First round:
♂️1️⃣: 🤨I got here first. This is my patch of beach.
♂️2️⃣: ❤️There’s room for everyone.
♂️1️⃣: 😕I don’t think so.
♂️2️⃣: 😍We Kentish plovers are colonial birds.
♂️1️⃣: 💔Semi-colonial; we find it hard to be neighbors.
♂️2️⃣: 🤔What?
♂️1️⃣: 😡I got here first...
#Australia used to incinerate the large fruit bats, but research suggests they bring hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits to the country’s economy.
#fruitbats #bats #biodiversity #conservation 🌍
🐧❄️🧪🌏🦑🦉 New publication! Led by @rosetazetta.bsky.social, we used satellite imagery to study Ross Sea #emperorpenguin populations over 20+ years & found that spring colony attendance is closely linked to sea ice conditions. Learn more: shorturl.at/joLZA
A nice visual, and a worthwhile one to remember when considering gaps and biases in biodiversity data in Australia 🦘🌱
Nearly 70% of the population lives in a greater capital city, meaning that incidental observations of animals and plants outside of those areas are rare and valuable
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The Call for Proposals for #IMCC8 in Edinburgh, Scotland has been extended until 20 March!
With over 800 delegates, IMCC is the world’s largest gathering dedicated to ocean conservation.
Make Marine Science Matter!
Learn more: conbio.org/mini-sites/i...
@scbmarine.bsky.social
#marinescience 🦑🌍🐠
The Call for Abstracts for ACCB 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria is now open!
Deadline: 30 May, 2026
We hope to see you in Lagos!
conbio.org/mini-sites/a...
#conservation #ACCB2026 #Nigeria 🌍
Main foraging areas (75% AKDE) of male Goshawks foraging exclusively in forest (A), in forest and farmland (B), and in forest and town (C). Foraging areas of individual birds are indicated by different colours. The town of Hajnówka is shown in grey. White dots indicate known active Goshawk nests.
Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
✳️ #SpecialIssue call for papers ✳️
We are accepting submissions for a NEW special issue: Applications of mechanistic #modelling in biodiversity conservation 🖥️🌎
Edited by Sean Tomlinson & Brian Helmuth
Full info and submission instructions ➡️ academic.oup.com/conphys/page...
@sebiology.bsky.social
🚨A great PhD opportunity at University of Vienna working with caimans in French Guiana 🐊
🚨Deadline extension!🚨
💡 You now have until the 8th of March to apply to join us as an Associate Editor!
🔎Find out more and apply here
👉️https://buff.ly/cIwdUMx
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🗓️Complete schedule for this term, where we will have speakers covering higher-order interactions, metabolic scaling, niche dimensionalty, coexistence and more!
Look forward to seeing you there! All details and Zoom link: iite.info/seminar/
ID guide for these globetrotting rodents! 🌍🦫 (Coypu are invasive in Europe and North America)
I've seen so many coypu photos used in beaver articles recently. If you're a science communicator or a journalist, take a moment to familiarise yourself with the differences. - It may be handy!
#SciComm
Less than a month to apply to join the BES editorial board as an Associate editor!🌳🌍 📖
If you're interested in contributing to any of the BES journals, check out the link below 👇
buff.ly/6ymRGcB
I was just wondering the other day where all the salt on the roads goes after winter…
A project at Abberton Reservoir in Essex has begun colour-ringing and tracking Eurasian Wigeon in an effort to better understand how the species uses landscapes during the winter and beyond:
🚨 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
A plea from an editor:
postdocs & grad students who want to review manuscripts, please (!) have an online presence with your current email. I try to solicit reviews from ECRs, but we all move a lot, and it's hard to know if we'll be able to reach you at the email address on your last paper 🧪🌍
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
📢 NOMINATE FOR BOU COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
➡️ Awards Nominations Committee
➡️ Engagement Committee
➡️ IBIS Management Committee
➡️ Meetings Committee
➡️ Records Committee
Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme
Full details: bou.org.uk/about-the...
#ornithology 🪶
BES grant application is now open. Image shows a diver photographing a large whale shark underwater, with the British Ecological Society logo.
We are now accepting grant applications to fund ecological research and outreach worldwide.
⏰Apply before 10 March 2026!
Find out what grants you can apply to 👇
https://f.mtr.cool/cucxadvxjq
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#AI is transforming #ecology — but at what cost? A new #Nature piece warns that as models, drones & remote sensing boom, many scientists are spending less time outdoors (“I rarely get outside”). Are we losing essential natural-history insight? 🌿🤖
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www.nature.com/articles/d41...
For ID purposes videos can be great for familiarising yourself with seabird flight actions, structure, etc. but it’s a pain tracking down useful clips. I’ve collated video links for various N Atlantic species here #seabirds #seawatching #birding #birdID
chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/s...
New research in @avianbiology.bsky.social:
"No detectable deployment impacts of solar-powered GPS devices for long-term use on a small shorebird"
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Shorebird #Wader #GPS #Reproduction
@roasty247.bsky.social
Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!
We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.
Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.
drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...
Maio Shorebird Conservation logo, with Kentish Plover and salt piles of Salinas do Porto Inglês
🧵5/5 Many thanks to co-authors @gcmcdon.bsky.social, Tamás Székely, András Kosztolányi and Ivan Maggini, in addition Fundaçao Maio Biodiversidade (FMB) for support during fieldwork!
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
