Bird Flu Radar image for week of 23 February to 1 March 2026 showing probabilities of HPAI outbreaks.
Predictions from the EFSA / EURING / EuroBirdPortal/ EpiMundi Bird Flu Radar app.bto.org/mmt//avian_i... continue to show relatively high probabilities of HPAI outbreaks across Europe. You can use this tool to check the probabilities of outbreaks in your region.
The Teifi Ringing Group have several records of wintering Starlings ringed in Lithuania but this month an interesting movement was a bird caught near Lampeter. It had been ringed in a nest in Finland 2004 km away in May 2023 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/12/earl...
Luckily, we stock Norwegian colour-rings in our ringing kit just in case we catch a Norwegian ringed bird that needs its ring changing 👍🏻 Keeping our 🇳🇴 ringing colleagues happy 😊
Scientific poster that has been mostly blurred, but the background is dark blue and the title says "Understandang and addressing barriers to LGBTQIA+ participation in bird ringing in the United Kingdom", with a picture of the lead author (person with long brown hair, holding binoculars and wearing a black shirt that says "Nature is Queer" in rainbow letters
"Understanding and addressing barriers to LGBTQIA+ participation in bird ringing in the United Kingdom"
Getting quite excited for ASAB this week and to present this project that has meant so much to me! if you're attending make sure to look for our poster and stop by for a chat about our work! 🪶🦆
🚨VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY🚨
We are looking for a volunteer for the 2025 season to help with bird monitoring, ringing, and obs maintenance! Full board included. Long term volunteers preferred, but all applications welcome! Contact alison@nrbo.co.uk for more info.
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My first impressions are that this is an exceptional book, written by someone who really knows the subject. Very refreshing. #UKBirding #Ornithology
Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
3-year Postdoc Position
Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies
See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38
Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!
🚨Calling for seabird tracking data!
🚢We are collating seabird data for the Humboldt Current region to assess fisheries bycatch risk.
🤝This is a collaborative project with Global Fishing Watch funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social.
You can be part of it!
Go to: www.seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...
Join us THIS THURSDAY @12PM EST for our Spanish-language discovery webinar!
Hosts Fernando Medrano (BOW Latin America lead) & Tomás Rivas Fuenzalida (president of the Ñankulafkén Foundation) will be talking all things South American raptors.
👇 Register here👇
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Importance of the interplay between land cover and topography in modeling habitat selection | doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
📖Published📖
Our new research article assesses the impacts of satellite tagging on growth rates of immature hawksbill turtles 🐢 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇
https://buff.ly/3D6bpug
Towards transparency in AI: Explainable bird species image classification for ecological research | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology 🪶
We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪
Plastic pollution in a special protected area for migratory birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶
The rather nondescript Unicoloured Thrush (from the lowlands of N Bolivia) was added to the list of targets by the Search for Lost Birds (searchforlostbirds.org) in August this year. Two days later one was mist-netted in Chuchini Ecological Reserve! www.birdguides.com/news/mysteri...
Wide spectrum of tick-borne pathogens in juvenile Ixodes ricinus collected from autumn-migrating birds in the Vistula River Valley, Poland | bmcvetres.biomedcent... | BMC Veterinary Research | #ornithology 🪶
#ConservationScience🌍
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social
Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atlantic coast of Africa | doi.org/10.1111/jav.... | @avianbiology.bsky.social | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)
A paper recently published in the @amornith.bsky.social journal, Ornithology, was the focus of an article from
ABC News, on how climate change is impacting the success of Aphelocoma coerulescens (Florida Scrub-Jay).
Paper: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
Article: abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...
Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social.
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW
Useful paper for Curlew counters summarised in new WaderTales blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
Full list of 141 blogs about waders includes 13 focusing on curlews:
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Final total for Ngulia 2024 - an respectable 13,328 Eastern Palearctic Migrants. Two weeks of great birds and good people.
#kenya #nguliaringing #birdringing
A Golden Eagle has died following a wind turbine collision, marking the first recorded incident of its kind in southern Scotland:
Deshpande et al. Changing Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban Centres onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology
Barn Owl (Tyto alba)† Habitat Suitability, Nest Box Occupancy, and Management Implications Based on Kentucky Surveys 2010–2022 | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2393 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
Plastic nests or blue nests? The need for taxonomic rigor in studies on interactions between birds and plastics | www.sciencedirect.co... | Marine Pollution Bulletin | #ornithology
Great discussion about barriers and lack of incentives for long-term fieldwork. We collect data that give base and context for ecology discussions, but it's a time-consuming and expensive activity, and our results are often not valued as some fancy meta-analysis.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
