You can find @joelene_x3 #BOU17TC presentation on that tag or on her timeline
#rspbscienceconf #ornithology #conservation #natureconnection

I’m at #rspbscienceconf and one of the #BOU17TC presenters @joelene_x3 is up talking to @RSPBScience about connecting people to nature #SocialSciences

Twitter is undoubtedly the #socialmedia platform of choice for #ornithology researchers.

Just take a look at this weeks #BOU17TC Twitter conference - over 60 presenters from around the world taking part, and hundreds following

2/21 #RSPBscienceconf

Finally, our thanks to @Nina_OHanlon and @stevedudley_ for putting #BOU17TC together and delivering an excellent event for for our global #ornithology research community to enjoy

Including DOIs or URL links to a research article also contributes to an article's #altmetrics | #ornithology #BOU17TC

6 #BOU17TC Tweets contribute to citations! #Ornithology articles in lower impact factor journals benefit more than those in higher impact factor titles. See rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371

5 #BOU17TC Individual institutes can help drive their own #ornithology articles #altmetrics with Twitter and #sciblogging e.g. @RSPBScience. See onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.12403/fu...

4 #BOU17TC Looking at individual #ornithology papers you can see that authors can help drive the Twitter #altmetrics of their own research http://ow.ly/u9Oq30gPOu8

3 #BOU17TC We looked at the different #altmetrics scoring sources for over 2,600 #ornithology articles. See rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371

2 #BOU17TC Twitter is the platform of choice in #ornithology contributing 75% of all #altmetrics. See rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171371

1 #BOU17TC @Altmetric measures the online mentions (attention) of research articles across different media including #socialmedia | #altmetrics

I’m on in 10 minutes #BOU17TC #ornithology

6 #BOU17TC Follow our #raptorresearch @urbanraptors, @Fitztituteand facebook

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5 #BOU17TC Survival increases in young birdsup to 5 years); then decreases in older birds (evidence for actuary #senescence); but no difference between dark and light morph adults& in slope of decline between habitat-types

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4 #BOU17TC Productivity declines with later egg-layingpotentially due to competition with Egyptian geese& with increasing age (evidence for reproductive #senescence); but no difference in slope of decline between habitat-types

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3 #BOU17TC MMs: urban #raptor with high productivity& high individual health

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2 #BOU17TC Hypothesis: animals are exposed to #urban #stressors -> major challenge to physiological systems -> might accelerate #senescence

1 #BOU17TC In theory: levels of somatic damage and/or mutations depend on habitat type & stress exposure. Exploring habitat-specific #senescence patterns in long-lived #urban #Raptors @Fitztitute #ornithology

In 5 min #BOU17TC another presentation on Black Sparrowhawks @urbanraptors @Fitztitute

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Wonderful key-note #BOU17TC @arjundevamar presenting our #raptorresearch on Black Sparrowhawks @Fitztitute

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25 #BOU17TC This long-term study has shed new ‘light’ in our understanding of the important factors involved in colour polymorphism in raptors. We now need to test the generalities of our findings. Specifically whether ambient light levels drive polymorphism in other raptors. END

24 #BOU17TC NEXT STEPS. We are exploring the mechanisms for why mixed morphs pairs produce more & better quality chicks - this is focus of @carinanebel 's PhD. We will also use Integrated Population Models (with @dylan_childs ) to tease apart why dark morphs are most common here

23 #BOU17TC Our research suggests that our high % of dark morphs is driven by a local adaptation to the climate (rather than a founder effect - see gene flow figure). However, we still don't understand the specific demographic mechanism which drives their numerical dominance

22 #BOU17TC In this paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2656.12...
We found higher survival for offspring from mixed morph pairs. Thus mixed morph pairs produced more young and these young survived better. However, despite these results, there is no...

21 #BOU17TC The higher productivity for mixed pairs might explain why both morphs persist in the population (but doesn’t explain why dark morphs are more common).
We colour-ring chicks and thus could also explore the survival of offspring produced by ‘mixed’ and ‘like’ pairs

20 #BOU17TC However contrary to our prediction dark morphs did not have higher survival or productivity. However, productivity was higher for mixed-morph pairs. Perhaps together the pair may be able to exploit a wider environmental niche. This is our Complementarity Hypothesis

19 #BOU17TC Thus, given that dark morphs forage more successfully in duller (more cloudier) conditions, we might predict them to have a selective advantage in Cape Town, with its wet winters. If so, we would expect that dark morphs might have higher fitness in our population

18 #BOU17TC If the 2 morphs have a selective advantages in different light conditions, we'd expect their morphs to be spatially structured according to solar radiation levels across RSA. Indeed, this is what we found. Morph ratio was most closely correlated with solar radiation

17 #BOU17TC Hunting success was better for dark morphs during dull light conditions & better for light morphs in brighter conditions onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12606/ab...
Thus dark morphs may have a selective advantage in the darker conditions of the W Cape...

16 #BOU17TC We used trail cameras at nests. These took a photo every 3 mins -> providing information on hourly provisioning rates – this rate was used as a surrogate for hunting success. We then match these data to hourly solar radiation levels from a nearby weather station.