Wintering Thrushes as Microplastic Pollution Sentinels in the Ground-Foraging Guild of Mediterranean Olive Plantations - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution Plastic pollution is a growing global environmental problem, and evidence shows that many wildlife species ingest plastic. In terrestrial environments, thrushes are indicators of microplastics polluti...

🥤Plastic pollution is everywhere...
even in terrestrial birds🐦

In our new study from Mediterranean olive orchards in Spain, we found microplastics in 100% of wintering thrushes examined. 🧵👇

📄: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Microplastics #PlasticPollution #BirdEcology #Ecotoxicology

Cool new study by @susan-e-mckinlay.bsky.social, linking #citizenscience #birdecology #conservation #phenology!

📰🐦🌳 A new study examined #bird assemblage dynamics over 20 years in a primaeval beech-fir forest in Slovakia and found that species reordering and turnover were the main drivers of the long-term dynamics

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#birdecology #ecologyresearch #communityecology #birds

Putative ‘Dispersal Adaptations’ Do Not Explain the Colonisation of a Volcanic Island by Vascular Plants, but Birds Can It is widely assumed that adaptations for long-distance dispersal are identifiable from seed and fruit traits used to define ‘dispersal syndromes’. Sixty years of monitoring a new island allowed us t...

Our new study with @drandygreen.bsky.social
overturns the idea that seed or fruit traits determine plant spread. #botany #SeedDispersal #IslandEcology #Surtsey #Iceland #PlantScience #BirdEcology #EcologyLetters doi.org/10.1111/ele....

📑NEW PAPER!
Species composition and density of #woodpecker communities differs across forest management regimes and forest types in the Eastern #Himalaya.

🔗 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#woodpeckerbird #BirdCommunity #ecologyresearch #ecology #forestmanagement #birdecology

7/8 🐦 Justine Delautre est en stage en Tchéquie au Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích. Encadrée par Vojtěch Kubelka et Guillaume Dillenseger, elle étudie l'effet de la distance aux patchs forestiers sur la prédation et l'agressivité au nid chez le Vanneau huppé. 🌲 #birdecology #predation

Bird nest constructed of fishing line on the edge of Santa Cruz Lake near the dam just off the high road to Taos. Probably an oriole but not pendulous given fishing line strength. I did see orange/yellow birds but could not positively ID, nor photograph. 20 years ago so memory?

Bird Nest, after a fashion. Oriole? in cottonwood just above the Santa Cruz Dam off the high road to Taos. Who needs plants? Fishing line is not always a killer, but good arises less than bad. see alt

#birds #birdnest #oriole #roadtotaos #birdecology

A trio of #Spoonbills in Kent.

Hello @bsky.app Looking forward to connecting with lots of like minded folk who have an appreciation for nature and a drive to help restore and protect our environment. #birdecology #natureconservation #habitatregeneration #speciesprotection #naturerestoration #wildlifeprotection #saveourspecies