A warm welcome to Pattraporn Simla (Bouquet) from King Mongkut´s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, who joined our group for the next six months to work on her data regarding threats for the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting
#EastAsianFlyway
Last week we
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presented at the 12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation at Royal Holloway College in the UK
It was a fantastic setting, with plenty of engaging discussions and valuable exchanges throughout the event
1 year anniversary of our paper about long-tailed duck tracking!
It just so happen, that I saw a lot of wintering Long-tailed ducks during the @eoufledglings.bsky.social conference in Gdansk!
Last weekend, we joined #EOU26 in Gdańsk, sharing insights and results from @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social and @giovannasandretti.bsky.social, with travel support from the @dornitholges.bsky.social
Great atmosphere with lots of discussions and exchanges!
It’s cool to see one of the first German articles I wrote out in print.
If you told me at 14 when I started learning German that one day I would write about my science in that language I don’t know if I would have believed you 😅🙈
Today is the 1 year anniversary of our perspectives paper on the #Motus wildlife tracking System for Europe! read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...
🚨 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
Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox
Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs
🦇We're Hiring! 🦢
Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds
March 26th deadline!
www.atu.ie/connect/jobs...
@atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social
Huge thanks to the SFB team for a fantastic spring meeting at Thülsfelder Talsperre! 🌿 Inspiring exchanges, poster sessions, walk & talks, and working groups on DEI and gender equity for #InternationalWomensStrike made it a true boost for collaboration and team spirit. 🌱
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
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".
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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
A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow
In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭
in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social
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 😉
Congrats to @annikapeter.bsky.social and team for successfully organising this great young researcher symposium on #magnetoreception and #animalnavigation in connection with @sfb1372.bsky.social 🥳
New study led by our @wielandheim.bsky.social uncovered negative effects of an anthropogenic fire on bird abundance and diversity during stopover:
In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems
Map showing detections of radio-tracked individual.
Skylark with radio transmitter before release.
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!
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#birdmigration
We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑🎓👩🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!
We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
See the thread of our group member about one of our papers:
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
(vii) Over all species, the departure direction within the first 1-10 km does not change from Helgoland towards the coastline within 50-100 km flight distance.
(vi) departure direction from Helgoland only aligned with ring recovery directions in Redstart, Robin and Dunnock, all towards a nortwesterly direction (as expected). Wheatears depart significantly to southeast (why?) and Garden warbers depart in a random direction (why?).
(iv) the more fat the bird has, the more motivated it is to depart
(v) the more fat the bird has, the earlier the bird departs within the night
(iii) There is no difference in the time of night, when the birds depart, except, that Dunnocks depart during morning dawn and all other species during evening dusk - interestingly both at the same sun´s angle below horizon!