#Shorebird eggs are optimised for camouflage and each one is a unique piece of art. Thee eggs are coloured by the females individually (who probably inspired the #Easter 🐇). Our annual "egg hunt" at Liminka Bay, Finland, searching for hidden #ruff and #dunlin 🪺 will soon start again.
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We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN
This year our workshop will take place in Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social . Learn cutting-edge methods in animal movement analysis. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you at #Mpala 🇰🇪
Applications are now open for our #BasicR Course followed by the two week #Animove workshop @mpalarc.bsky.social. Perfect for African-affiliated students and researchers-with funding available for eligible participants! 👉 Apply now: animove.org/basic-r-cour...
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#AfricanResearchers
Nest failure in threatened #shorebirds has many reasons. Replacing eggs of vulnerable clutches with dummy eggs boosts nest survival of #Ruffs in grazed coastal meadows. New paper out 🎉 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #conservation #ornithology
"feeling you must constantly prove you belong in boots and bad weather, in remote places, and in male-coded spaces"
Four eggs ✅
Five eggs ❌
Chicks from five-egg Ringed Plover nests are far less successful.
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WaderTales blog #156
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Why do advances in timing of breeding occur more in short-distance migrants? Latest wadertales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/m...
on our new @ecol-evol.bsky.social paper about Icelandic waders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Happy International Day for #WomenInScience! I’m Lisa Kreye, a HelLO master’s student studying whether species traits can explain variability in birds’ responses to environmental change. Grateful for the mentorship of amazing women scientists like @jellybb.bsky.social and @laurabosco.bsky.social 🐦
Our new paper on Bateman gradients in black coucals and white-browed coucals is out. Females of both species outperform males in mating and reproductive success - confirming the generality of Bateman's principle when sex roles differ.
Check it out: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.
Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva Estación Biológica, Organization of Tropical Studies 👍
We will see you tomorrow!
@mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social
Purple throated mountain gem
Lesson's motmot
Resplendent quetzal
Crocodile
After absolutely amazing adventures in Costa Rica for 2wks it's time to start working in the jungle and learn lots of cool & useful things with @animove-course.bsky.social
Looking forward to tomorrow!
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Congrats!
Victoria’s riflebirds are masters of time, accelerating their dance tempo by reducing the durations between movements by just 50 milliseconds, before leveling off at 3 alternations per second and flashing their yellow mouth.
Read more about this spectacular dance here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The diversity in plumage and behaviors of #ruffs is stunning and probably an underused asset for their #conservation @simonvandepitte.bsky.social #IWSG2025 #shorebirds #ornithology
Something to look for in #wader nests. Blue eggs are becoming increasingly common in #ruff clutches @jellybb.bsky.social #IWSG2025 #shorebirds #conservation
Interesting talk by @jellybb.bsky.social about the aberrant egg coloration in Ruff clutches. Blue eggs may affect nest survival, but fitness effects may be habitat dependent. @waderstudy.bsky.social IWSG Conference 2025 in Groningen (Netherlands) #IWSG2025 #waders #shorebirds
Belated but wonderful news: Kriszti Kupán has won a 3-year grant from the Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung for monitoring and developing an integrative #conservation management approach for threatened #ruffs and #dunlins at #Liminganlahti! 🥚🎉🐣
There are now 148 blogs about waders/shorebirds in the WaderTales catalogue. Here's the list of what's available, with a short descriptor of each blog:
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There are 14 blogs about (Eurasian) #Curlew, just to name one species.
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Face-first view of a brown spider with long legs. He is carrying a nuptial gift (silk-wrapped prey) in his chelicerae.
The first chapter of my thesis is out now in Journal of Ethology! Check it out if you're interested in taking a deep dive into the vibrational signal of a very cute spider 🕷️〰️
Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...
We're not really sure! Could be something from the environment? We noticed fluctuation between years/field sites in the occurrence of these blue/pale eggs which are the most odd ones..
Intraclutch egg color variation in #ruffs is striking. Pale to strongly pigmented, speckled and not speckeled and even blue eggs within a single clutch 💙
Adorable #ruff chicks for your Sunday evening. Or Monday morning.
It's always nice to have back a bird you ringed!
@wmgvs.bsky.social remember Ljudmila?
Sunday morning delight! Woodcock with her chicks feeding and brooding in front of our kitchen window.
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Blonde ruff female standing in grasses by its nest.
Ruff clutch of four eggs, three eggs abnormally pale.
Yesterday, we found the nest of this blonde female. Three of her eggs were also exceptionally pale. #ornithology #waders
Ruff male with brownish ornaments co-display with pale-ruffed satellite morph. Female stands by them.
Ruff lekking: The co-display of a pale satellite and a court-defending independent morph increases male attractiveness. Lekking began here (65°N) in the first week of May and continues, even though most females are already incubating and the first chicks are expected to hatch any day now.
Yeah. Lapwings are quite contrasting, even in grass. But I know the struggle with plovers. Here in Finland they nest on former snow dumps and beaches too. Takes some serious pattern recognition to find them
Maybe a posted the one from a rather difficult angle 😁
