Habitat selection and conservation issues of the Eurasian Curlew in Europe - PhD thesis by Marie Donnez

www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20183/

#research #waders #shorebirds #ornithology #OpenAccess

VOOR HET GOEDE DOEL
Uit het archief: een wulp in pastel, aquarel en driemaal met zwarte inkt.
Even stilstaan, want het is Wereld Wulpendag — zodat we deze bijzondere vogel niet vergeten.
#worldcurlewday #wulp #kunst #aquarel #inkt #vogelbescherming

Incubation strategy and hatching start time affect the duration of the nestling period in precocial Arctic-breeding sandpipers doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... | #BiologyLetters #Behaviour

A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.

1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay

Diagram showing hypothesized life history and ecological relationships of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx.

Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)

It's World Curlew Day.
Time to remember extinct curlew species:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
Time to try to make a difference for Eurasian Curlew in the UK:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/m...
Time to buy a wonderful book:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/04/29/c...
#birds

#7 - Nathan Senner Spotify video

I had a lot of fun joining the middle school student led podcast Voices of the Sky for an episode about bird migration. Check out the episode, but also the cool work that the group is doing to create habitat for birds at schools and libraries across the U.S. open.spotify.com/episode/2yWT...

Gelezen: 'Het pesticiden paradijs' van Dirk de Bekker.

Over de verstrengeling van wetenschap, gifindustrie, overheid en toezichthouders in Nederland.

Schokkend om te lezen hoe meetgegevens van landbouwgif in grondwater stelselmatig genegeerd worden bij beoordeling van veiligheid van landbouwgif.

Mest vergisten verhoogt risico op ammoniakemissie Vergisten van mest is ongunstig voor de uitstoot van ammoniak. Het risico op de vorming van ammoniak bij de opslag en het uitrijden is groter bij digestaat dan bij niet-vergiste mest.

Mestvergisting is een geloofsartikel van LTO. Mestvergisting lost het probleem van mestoverschot niet op, maar vergroot die. Ook het huidige kabinet gaat grootschalig inzetten op mestvergisting met gekoppeld daarna enorme subsidies. Al meer dan € 1 miljard over de balk gegooid...

Why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive mass extinction Scientists finally understand why birds were the only dinosaurs to pull through the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Start your week with a cool story from Scientific American: New evidence from fossils, genetics, and ecology hints at why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. #ornithology

So cool to see this study getting highlighted, but also so gutting to once again be reminded that Tom Johnson is no longer with us. Thanks for helping us see the invisible, TBJ. I hope wherever you are, all the birds are visible.

Reminder that you can still follow our tracked knots as they gear up for their migration. Nephtys (dark blue off Cuxhaven) continued its journey North last night and is now up with it's compatriots on the German/Danish Wadden Sea border! Who will make the first leap and head to the breeding grounds?

Don't forget to look, every few days, at the amazing tracks of red #knots (tagged by team Bijleveld @ Royal NIOZ, Texel): www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...

This is part of project WAAKVOGELS www.waakvogels.nl/trekvogels/k...

Within a fortnight they likely migrate on to Iceland or Norway!

The first day was full of exciting animal research input:

Two sessions covering topics on cultural and genetic inheritance 🧬🧪 and celestial navigation ✨️☀️🕗 in moths, birds and fish🦋🐦🐟 as well as a poster session with flash talks to attract interested visitors 🦋💡🤗

A diagram showing the evolutionary relationships among modern birds. The branches are color coded by the estimated likelihood of retaining ancestral character variability, with higher likelihoods in red.

A new paper I'm on is out today! Led by Stanley Somogyi, we suggest that ancestrally variable characters stabilized independently in different bird lineages, causing distantly related groups to retain similar traits and creating headaches for bird systematists. www.cell.com/current-biol... 🪶🧪

Green Sandpiper in its breeding plumage - more distinctly white spotted.
From a Pett Level trail camera on 10th April.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#sandpiper

Nederland importeert de helft van de kalveren uit het buitenland.
90% van het vlees gaat naar het buitenland.
Wij mogen de problemen houden: mest, antibiotica, en dierenwelzijn.
De winst gaat naar een Quote 500-ondernemer.

Aan alle kanten oneerlijk.

Bottom sea trawlers snaring many endangered species: UBC study Researchers say bottom trawling is taking a serious toll on marine ecosystems and recommend the world rethink this practice.

When we talk about fisheries, it’s our last wild food source that we consume on the regular. And this is not farming. It is going out into the wilderness and bulldozing wildlife.

vancouversun.com/news/bottom-...

@projectseahorse.bsky.social

The molluscivorous red knots may eat seagrass rhizomes. To examine this ability, bird were fed plant-based rabbit pellets before being reversed back to protein-rich pellets. They rapidly adjusted to eating rabbit food!
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Interesting track of a homeward-bound Icelandic Golden Plover (@tomasgunnarsson.bsky.social on Facebook).
Portugal to east England, then Netherlands & Orkney.
Caught up in flock heading to Europe and readjusted to head to Iceland?
#ornithology
Background: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w...

Beibu Gulf, south China, is an important wintering area for spoon-billed sandpipers. With dead shells topping mudflats and fishermen mentioning high mortality of cultured shellfish, it did not look good. At Fangchenggang we observed far fewer great & red knots than in previous 2 years.

The 2026 China coastal shorebird–food web field surveys began on 24 March.

Led by Dr Hebo Peng, the 13-strong team travels along Chinese coast, surveying >40 key coastal sites with migratory shorebirds. We focus on intertidal shellfish aquaculture & external pollutants reshaping food-web processes.

Waiting for the wind – spring flocks of Black-tailed Godwit in Scotland When a flock of Black-tailed Godwit turns up on a Scottish island or lochside, in April or May, it’s probably a sign that the birds have aborted the Atlantic crossing to Iceland. On 24 Februa…

4 Black-tailed Godwits in fine summer plumage at Tayport this a.m.
This is the time of year when flocks get 'stuck' in Scotland, in northerly winds. More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/w...
(article modified from Scottish Birds)
Please check for colour-rings 🙏
📷 @tireebirder.bsky.social

Part of a larger flock of Golden Plover, Westray, Orkney Isles, 14 April 2026

Golden Plover, Westray, Orkney Isles, 14 April 2026

Lots of waders moving through Westray the last few days on these southerly winds. Hundreds of Golden Plovers was one of today’s highlights, but also large numbers of Oystercatcher and Curlew going through too. Ringed Plovers will be next. #WestrayBirding

Conflicts hinder research into animal movements - Ambio Satellite tracking has revolutionized our understanding of animal migration, yet its reliability increasingly depends on the geopolitical stability of the regions frequented by wildlife. Here, we show...

New short paper on how wars like the #Ukraine war are impacting studies of animal movement ecology by interfering with location data for migratory birds @csic.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social @victormartinvel.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Christiaan Both was een van de ontdekkers van de ‘mismatch’ tussen broedseizoen en voedselpiek: veel vogels broeden te laat, nu de lentes vroeger vallen. De vogels kunnen zich aanpassen, maar geldt dat voor alle soorten – en gaat het snel genoeg?

Lees het artikel 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

Westhoek saltmarsh – important staging site for Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea in the Dutch Wadden Sea

NEW RESEARCH PAPER by Kleefstra and Schekkerman

www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20171/
#shorebirds #waders #ornithology #research

NEW on #theBOUblog from Jacopo Cerri

Acclimatization shapes vulture movements after release

bou.org.uk/blog-cerr...

Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

#ornithology 🪶

All change at Welney!
'Limosa' Black-tailed Godwits are paired up and breeding.
'Islandica' Black-tailed Godwits are preparing to return to Iceland.
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/g... 🎂🔟
#ornithology
@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @lizziebruce.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social

Israël nam vorige week een racistische wet aan die het mogelijk maakt om Palestijnen te executeren. En Nederland trekt wéér geen harde grens.

Als zelfs deze doodstrafwet geen rode lijn meer is, wat dan wel, @minister-president.bsky.social?

Kamervragen: www.partijvoordedieren.nl/vragen/vrage...