Thanks Julian, a well observed summary. It was great to catch up with you at the #BOUatEOU Woodland Birds meeting in Bangor.

What a great bunch of birdy folk! @bou.org.uk #BOUatEOU #ornithology #EOU2025

What a venue for a conference! @eounion.bsky.social @bangoruniversity.bsky.social #EOU2025 #BOUatEOU #ornithology

A common theme at the @bou.org.uk Woodland Birds symposium #BOUatEOU is we all work with birds in decline, which can be depressing! But @lesserspotnet.bsky.social boosted morale with great news that lesser spotted woodpeckers are doubling their brood sizes 🎉 A gold standard citizen science project 👊

Today's @bou.org.uk woodland birds symposium was the perfect warm up for the @eounion.bsky.social conference here at @bangoruniversity.bsky.social. I especially enjoyed Gilberto Pasinelli's keynote looking at how seed masts, rodents + predators influence wood warbler fecundity & survival. #BOUatEOU

My first international conference research talk in 10 years - scary! It's hard starting up a study system from scratch with no research group but with strong collaborations, hard work & great study species - there is progress. It was great to share today with @bou.org.uk folk #BOUatEOU #ornithology

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A big thank you to all our #BOUatEOU speakers for their presentations 💐

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Take-home:
🌲 As pine martens expand, spatial refuges for owls shrink.
🦉 Food availability remains the strongest driver of breeding success.
⚖️ Still early in the colonisation so as pine martens increase, we may see evidence of the alternative prey hypothesis to come but not just yet.
➡️ #BOUatEOU

tawny owl chick

Check out my BlueSky talk at #BOUatEOU on rewilding
Excited to share my research at #BOUatEOU on breeding failure of tawny owls (Strix aluco) in commercial plantations 🦉🌲
How do owls deal with changing food availability and the return of a new nest predator?
#ornithology #predation #prey-switching

Male pied flycatcher

1/ Developing conservation policies for declining migrant species amid 🌍 change is challenging.

I’m at #BOUatEOU presenting my findings on factors influencing breeding success for the conservation of Pied flycatchers in the Peak District 🐦

#ornithology #ecology #climate #conservationscience

I've made it to #EOU2025 in Bangor, and I'm starting with the #BOUatEOU symposium on #WoodlandBirds. Lovely talk by Ken Smith, who's been studying the nesting habits of #LesserSpottedWoodpeckers in the UK over decades. #CitizenScience @lesserspotnet.bsky.social @bou.org.uk @eounion.bsky.social

A large black bird (male cappercaillie) sits to the left of the image. He has a large red crest above his eye and large fanned tail feathers.

Check out my bluesky talk for #BOUatEOU.

We found that diversionary feeding is a suitable impact based tool to reduce conflicts between recovering predators (pine marten) and endangered ground nesting birds (cappercaillie) in Scottish Forests.

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1 Pleased to be presenting the latest results gathered by Woodpecker-Network volunteers on Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers and what we can do to conserve them better #BOUatEOU www.woodpecker-netwo...

Fantastic keynote talks by Marta Maziarz on Bialowieza Forest, and Gilberto Pasinelli on Swiss Wood Warblers. #BOUatEOU #ornithology

1/ 🧵 How to protect declining forest birds? Studies from near-pristine habitats can help us answer this question.

My keynote talk #BOUatEOU presents findings from our long-term bird studies in the primeval Białowieża Forest (BF) 🇵🇱

#openaccess paper👉 doi.org/10.3161/0001...
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New Woodland Birds Virtual Issue of IBIS in celebration of the #BOUatEOU symposium. Check out all these (free-to-access) great papers:

Woodlands birds symposium about to start at Bangor. Looking forward to a great series of talks. #BOUatEOU #ornithology

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Welcome to #BOUatEOU Woodland Birds, our one-day symposium at #EOU2025

Stay up-to-date with the symposium here on Bluesky by following #BOUatEOU, where presenters will be sharing their research via short threads.

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Presenting at #BOUatEOU 🦉 My talk explores tawny owl breeding success in Kielder Forest. With 40 years of data + field experiments, we find that food availability wins but pine marten colonisation is an emerging predictor of failure in owls.
#predation #communityassembly #interactions

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

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Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

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SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social

📢 BOU at #EOU2025

Join us for a woodland birds symposium on EOU registration day 18 August | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

SPC: Stuart Sharp @piedflynet.bsky.social Daria Dadam & @parusradious.bsky.social

#ornithology