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Work with us at BTO! Discover our vacancies and apply on our website ➡️ www.bto.org/about/jobs #Ornithology

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🐦 Exciting volunteering opportunity! 🔭

We are looking for an Ornithological Volunteer to join our friendly team on the Calf of Man during peak autumn migration, from the 2nd September until 30th September 2025!

See below for more information 👇
www.mwt.im/jobs/calf-ma...

@btobirds.bsky.social

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We’re looking for two Research Ecologists. Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology

These roles in our Terrestrial Ecology team focus on farmland, heathland & woodland bird projects using landscape-scale, local, volunteer & professional surveys.

📅 Closing date: Monday 16th June

Very happy to see this new paper led by @catmorrison.bsky.social out, using the amazing data collected by @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site ringers to reveal how demographic synchrony influences fluctuations in abundance of landbirds across Europe @simon-butler.bsky.social #ornithology

Lead GIS Analyst (Habitats Specialist) Would you like to use your interest in data and habitats to help one of Europe's largest nature conservation charities? You will lead the team that will produce accurate and up to date spatial data .....

Lead GIS Analyst (Habitats Specialist) - RSPB - www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/105501-... #birdingScotland #gis

NIOZ - Postdoc position for 3 years: “Unravelling bottom-up and top-down affects between shellfish prey and red knot predators in the Dutch Wadden Sea” The department of Coastal Systems (COS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ-Texel) is looking for a highly motivated postdoc candidate with a background in (behavioral) ecology to

POSTDOC VACANCY: We have a 3 year position available studying variation in population size and habitat use of red knots in the #WaddenSea. We the aim to understand bottom-up and top-down processies. More info here: workingat.nioz.nl/o/postdoc-po... #WATLAS #SIBES #ornithology #movementecology

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.

A graphic consequence of the mass birdfeeding industry. Sights like this were virtually unknown before aggressive marketing for more year-round feeding everywhere. Now feeders are main hotspots of disease transmission that causes Chaffinches to lose their legs. If a pesticide did this, we’d ban it.

Are you my successor? The @ibisjournal.bsky.social are looking for their next social media support officer to help deliver conferences, promote #ornithology and grow engagement across social media platforms

Very happy to chat more about the role, just comment 👇 or message me! ☺️

🧪 #AcademicSky #ECR

Scheme for developers to boost nature ‘failing’ in first year, campaigners warn The amount of land delivering ‘biodiversity net gain’ linked to developments is falling well short of expectations, research suggests.

In its first year, the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) scheme has failed to deliver even half the of the Government’s minimum expected habitat creation, finds new @wclnews.bsky.social research.

In 2025, BNG must start delivering on its nature boosting potential🌍

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

NEW Decline of European bird populations continues especially birds of farmland. Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents updated wild bird indices 1980–2023. Data = 168 bird species 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @uclcber.bsky.social 📉🐦

Pet owners accidentally poisoning garden birds.
Our latest research finds pet flea treatments (fipronil and imidacloprid) in 100% of blue tit and great tit nests, with nestling mortality higher in the more contaminated nest. @SongBirdSBS @SussexUni @CannelleTassin

Do you want to carry out fieldwork in Togo, West Africa? Are you a bird ringer who is available from Feb-May 2025? Then check out the (paid) field worker positions available here: cutt.ly/yeM807A9. The deadline for applications is January 13 2025. #ornithology

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1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant - Seasonal Recruitment 2025 | RSPB We are delighted to bring the details of our seasonal Research Assistants and Senior Research Assistants vacancies on a variety of projects within Great Britain in 2025. Full details of the roles curr...

Seasonal field staff needed for @rspb.bsky.social projects in 2025 - advert live, closing date 12 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities across the UK!

Get in touch if you’d like to know more about the #seabird roles 🌊 🐦

app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology

Why birdsong matters more than you think | Natalia Zielonka and Simon Butler Our natural soundscapes are falling silent as bird populations decline. To improve our lives, we must invest in conservation

Did you know that everything on The Conversation is published with a Creative Commons license and we actively encourage other publishers to share our work with their readers?

Here's a recent story re-published by the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Call out to UK upland entomologists - please do get in contact

Green background with photo of drake mallard with outstretched wings. Title: “improving understanding of mallard productivity, survival and movement in a changing world (Hannah Coburn)”. Bottom left: Essex University, ARIES, NERC, BASC, UEA logos.

Missed my talk at #BES2024? Here’s a summary. 1/6

If you're at the #BES2024 Annual Meeting in Liverpool this week, please come along to my talk in the Conservation Science and Policy - Conservation Macroecology session! 🐦🪲

Image of a Yellowhammer on a purple background alongside the wording: Word with us! Farmland Research Manager. www.bto.org/jobs

Job vacancy! 📢 Join BTO as Farmland Research Manager➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs

This role sits in the Terrestrial #Ecology Team and manages farmland-focused field survey, review and analytical projects.

📝Closing date: 5 January 2025.

#ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

Excited to share a new opportunity in my new lab at Cambridge!

We are looking for a highly motivated, early-career, postdoctoral scientist to be part of a growing effort in #connectivity conservation.

3-yr position housed in the Cambridge Conservation Initiative!

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49330/

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JOB VACANCIES!
We're seeking 3 Conservation Scientists to join our friendly team of #seabirders at the RSPB. We're an inclusive team where everyone is welcome.

DEADLINE: Friday 3rd January.

#conservationjobs #ornithology #seabirds #science

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