New Job in software development available at @vogelwarte.bsky.social: please apply before March 22.

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What a week! Huge thanks to all lecturers and participants from 19 different countries, who made our workshop on methods for analyzing animal movement (focused on Hidden Markov Models & step‑selection functions) a real success! 🐻🐦🐐🐬

🚨 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

Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊

🚨Trade-offs across life history stages and social association types shape winter communal roosting in a long-lived raptor

"Our study demonstrates how life-history trade-offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites"

📖Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/0JazKaB

Winter means.. communal roosts! 🦅🐦🦜

But why do birds form such roosts? In red kites, young single males are the most frequent visitors. Once paired, birds roost more solitarily, often together as a pair.

📢 Now online: tinyurl.tools/98e9279e

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These findings underscore the remarkable behavioral flexibility of this opportunistic scavenger, a factor that I am convinced is at the very core of its success in Switzerland!

At the same time, they increased their use of areas rich in anthropogenic food—a preference that persisted even after the lockdown

Red kites switched from selecting for proximity to roads lockdown to avoiding them during lockdown

Fewer cars during lockdown = less roadkill

Have you read our recent paper looking at how #COVID19 #lockdown changed foraging behavior of #redkites in Switzerland? 🦅 (🧵⬇️) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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TWO papers just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org #biologyletters :

1) Red kites switched from scavenging along roads to foraging away from roads during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

2) Fishers synchronise heart rates when cooperating with dolphins, but only when in close proximity.

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Premio Matteo Griggio | Istituto Veneto Con i fondi messi a disposizione dai famigliari di Matteo Griggio e, attraverso una sottoscrizione promossa dalla Società Italiana di Etologia, da amici e colleghi, l'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lette...

Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico.
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Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026

Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.

The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe'. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.

NEW ISSUE: read the full second issue of 2025 here:

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The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe' by @steffopp.bsky.social et al. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.