Good to see some more movement on garden bird feeding but ultimately we need a rethink, not just because of disease but because making common birds commoner can make rare ones rarer #Ornithology #UKBirding
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Attending #WSC2026 and have some spectacular seabird photos? 📸
Enter the Seabird Photo Contest below! ⬇️
Our Chair @thelabandfield.bsky.social has found some real treasures in the archive @btobirds.bsky.social ! 🔎🌟
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Convergent evolution of color morphs in Skuas
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#ornithology
Underneath the headline 'WeBS Site Insight: Scoulton Mere, Norfolk’ is an image of two adult Mallards, one male and one female on calm water, with a map of the site boundary and location within the UK. The WeBS logo is beneath with the text ‘ Join WeBS - Can you help count waterbirds here?’
Are you a birder in Norfolk? We are looking for a volunteer to count Scoulton Mere, between Watton and Hingham as it hasn’t been counted since 1976! If you think you can help please contact us
via the "Contact the Local Organiser" button at
app.bto.org/websonline/s...
#Ornithology #NorfolkBirding
It’s official (get it in your diary!) 📅 🦅
The 16th Pan-African Ornithological Congress (PAOC16) will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 12 - 17 April 2027.
The website is being updated—check back for details on symposia and abstract calls soon: paoc.africa
#Ornithology #AfricanOrnithology
Photo of a Golden-chevroned Tanager (Thraupis ornata). Photo credits: Tom Field, Wikimedia commons.
Fig. 1 from the article: Global patterns of species richness and predictors of ecological specialization. (a) Map of global species richness (SR) of Emberizoidea. Model-averaged effect sizes (± 95% CI) of climatic stability, competition, and evolutionary history on three dimensions of specialization: diet (b), foraging behavior (c), and habitat (d).
New paper: How do history, climate, and competition shape ecological specialization? In Emberizoidea birds, their effects vary across diet, foraging, and habitat, and differ markedly among biogeographic regions, indicating context-dependent processes
➡️ vist.ly/4xzfv
#ornithology #birds
Substack post poster image
Becoming an independent researcher feels like rolling a wheelchair through academia — no ramps, no access, just sidelong glances. One tiny checkbox on a preprint server made me feel seen. Barrier-free science? Still fiction. 🧪🧬♿
#AcademicInclusion #AcademicSky
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Youngdung with a yak calf in Vijer (Tra) village in Dolpo. Image by Youngdung Jhama Lama.
Climate change tests Nepal’s wild and domesticated yaks 🧪
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/clim...
Warming temperatures are altering water cycles, vegetation and soil carbon, while drying wetlands and glacier changes increase fire risk and reduce grazing areas for both domestic and wild yaks.
A field-based, minimally invasive biomonitoring approach to evaluate American herring gull health at two Lake Erie colonies
#GreatLakes 🧪
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Recent fieldwork in East Greenland 🇬🇱🐻❄️🦭
Valuable wildlife and human samples were collected to explore the links between traditional diets, high contaminant exposure, immune system function, and other physiological effects🌐🌏🌱🧪
#Arcticresearch #Science #Contaminants
Details in thread and caption 📹
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows drought conditions across the country.
The one week change map shows areas of degradation in yellow and areas of improvement in green. Gray areas indicate where drought exists but has not changed, while white shows drought-free areas.
Drought expanded in the West and Southeast, but improved in the Midwest and Plains. Drought covers 60.05% of the continental US, an increase of 0.14 points. Drought has intensified in recent weeks as the spring planting season arrives.
#drought #USDroughtMonitor 🧪
droughtmonitor.unl.edu
Registration is now open for #AOS26 from 3-7 August 2026 in Amherst, Mass. Join us! Discounted early-bird registration rates end on 31 May 2026.
Details: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...
Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei secured a legislative victory Thursday after Congress revised a glacier-protection law that had been a major obstacle for global miners seeking to tap some of the world’s largest copper deposits. on.wsj.com/41TjUSG
Advocates warn changes could increase risks of pollutants contaminating water and exposure to toxic waste
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Thrilled to share my very first paper with you, now out in @avianbiology.bsky.social!
We investigated whether innate immune function varies during moult in adult & juvenile blackbirds (undergoing complete or partial moult).
Exciting to finally experience my personal equivalent of ‘is there a doctor on the plane?’ 🕊️
Microplastics found in fish in Tuvalu, a remote South Pacific nation news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🧪🦑🌎🐠
screenshot of Mongabay article depicting a critically-endangered Asiatic cheetah with the headline "War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world's rarest big cat"
only 27 left: we may lose Asiatic cheetahs because of this war. "I doubt that the government has any money left for the conservation of the cheetah” says Jamshid Parchizadeh in @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/2026/04/war-... 🧪🌍
#ornithology
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/c...
#ornithology
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#ornithology
www.audubon.org/news/protect...
The New Hampshire Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard two ideas to address shrinking insect populations in New Hampshire during a Tuesday hearing.
via @newhampshirebulletin.com
youtu.be/0iITtDXiECk
