Understanding how animals move through these landscapes helps conservationists identify corridors, the pathways wildlife uses to survive in changing environments.

What does a landscape look like from the perspective of a wild predator?

#Carnivores #Conservation #MovementEcology

#biologging #ornithology #birds #birdresearch #tracking #movementecology

Movement patterns help us understand what predators truly need to survive, and which parts of the landscape are most important to protect.
Sometimes the biggest conservation insights come from a simple question: What is the animal trying to tell us through its movement?
#MovementEcology #carnivores

Very glad about this new paper by former Cardiff Uni @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social PhD student Annalea Beard @annaleabeard.bsky.social come out in #MovementEcology. Documenting very different foraging behaviours and ranges in cool versus hot season breeding populations #stormpetrels from #StHelena.

Come along with some geese as they migrate back from their southern winter havens Geese's iconic "V" formations and trademark squawks can be seen and heard overhead as they go back and forth to the south through the year. But what does it take for such a long trip?

Read the article here: www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

#Ecology #BirdMigration #MovementEcology

Oral Presentation and Poster submission is now open!

Our upcoming annual meeting will take place from 16–20 September at the University of Mainz. The main topics are #LifeHistory, #BehaviouralEcology, #MovementEcology, and environmental endocrinology.

www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

Movement Ecology (the Analysis of Movement Data) A five day online course on movement ecology and the analysis of movement data using R. Learn movement path analysis, home range estimation, interaction metrics, resource and habitat selection, scale ...

Live online course on movement ecology & the analysis of tracking & telemetry data, taught by leading ecologists working at the interface of behaviour, habitat selection, & biodiversity dynamics

11–15 May
prstats.org/course/movem...

#MovementEcology #QuantitativeEcology #SpatialEcology #RStats

Huge thanks to my co-authors @theomichelot.bsky.social, Katherine Mertes, Jared A. Stabach — and my PhD advisor John Fieberg 🙌

#AnimalTelemetry #DiseaseEcology #MovementEcology #WildlifeDisease #Reintroduction

WATLAS Bird Tracking

All GPS birds are being released alongside birds with WATLAS tags which can be followed along in real time alongside a few other waders here: maps.nioz.nl/watlas/ #movementecology #ornithology

24 knots now released and slowly spreading around the Wadden sea and beyond. Our UK bird has now moved down to Walton-on-the-Naze and seems settled down for now! #movementecology #ornithology #ukbirding @allertbijleveld.bsky.social @hanslinssen.bsky.social

Tracks of red knots moving around the Wadden sea

Track of one individual red knot flying from the Netherlands to the East coast of the UK

Track of one individual red knot arriving in the UK to Thorpeness

Red knot GPS tagging expedition on Griend off to a flying start (sorry). 6 birds released with 24 more to go. Most are hanging around in the Wadden sea but one left for the UK with strong tailwinds last night! #MovementEcology #ornithology @allertbijleveld.bsky.social @niozsearesearch.bsky.social

🔍 Continued monitoring is crucial for conservation, especially with proposed industrial projects in the Gulf (Proyecto Sahuaro) that could impact key habitats, with still-unknown ecological consequences.

#Conservation #Seabirds #GulfOfCalifornia #MovementEcology #ProyectoSahuaro #Ballenasogas

Final network summarizing the different significant relations between environmental covariates, individual‐level behaviour and energetics and colony‐level reproductive output.

This confirms energy as a ‘common currency’ linking individual behaviour to demographic outcomes.
#MovementEcology

⭐️An exciting opportunity for a fully funded PhD with BTO British Trust for Ornithology and Liverpool John Moores University, to study the population-level movement patterns of over-wintering #Curlew!⭐️

#ornithology #movementecology

Editor's choice January/February 2026 | Wildlife Biology Editor's choice January/February 2026 | Wildlife Biology

January/February Editor's choice: Differential effects of environmental predictability on ungulate movement behavior in disparate ecosystems vist.ly/4m2cc
#ClimateChange #MovementEcology #MuleDeer

Would love to connect/chat if you are interested or have any questions! #movementecology #spatialmodeling #habitatselection #stepselection #MoveBon #conservation #distributionmodeling #yaleEEB

There are still a few more days left to apply for our #AnimalEcology and #MovementEcology #PhDposition! 🧪 #PhDOpening @utu.fi

I love it when a student (who started their PhD two months ago) shares a GIF of their modelling attempts (here a draft of realistic foraging behaviour - more to come). #movementecology #geoprofiling

Interested in #RaptorResearch and #MovementEcology? 🧪
The #AnimalEcology Lab at @utu.fi has an open #PhDposition!

We’ll be tagging WTEs with cutting-edge #GPS devices to study their early-life journeys.

Curious to learn more? See the advert: shorturl.at/HMZ84

#PhDOpening #PhDChat #BioLogging

Exciting to see new technology help us better understand monarch butterfly migration 🦋🗺️📱

I hope we continue to see smaller (and cheaper 🙏) tags opening up new research opportunities.

#AnimalMigration #MovementEcology #SpatialEcology #biologging

Integrating predator energetic balance, risk‐taking behaviour and microhabitat in functional response to untangle indirect interactions in a multispecies vertebrate community Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Some had difficulties with the link of my previous post. Here is the full link: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #MovementEcology #uqar

An Arctic fox carries a goose egg on Bylot Island, Nunavut. Picture Louis-Pierre Ouellet.

In Functional Ecology, we integrate predator energy balance into functional responses to better understand tundra species interactions. This paper reflects major field and modelling efforts by our #UQAR team and colleagues. Read: bit.ly/49p6brL 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #wildlife #movementecology #arctic #fox #ecology

🔍 Postdoc opportunity!
We’re looking for one (or two) postdoctoral researchers to join our Arctic Ecology team to work on:
🛰️ Muskox movement ecology
🌍 Ecosystem & carbon modelling

📄 Details in the attached flyer.

#Postdoc #ArcticEcology #MovementEcology #CarbonModelling #WildlifeResearch

Introduction to Analyzing Animal Movement with R 16-18 February 2026 To foster international participation, this course will be held online

Registrations are open for the Introduction to Analyzing Animal Movement with R

Learn to import, clean, and analyze movement data, calculate key metrics, and explore home-range analyses — perfect for beginners with basic R skills: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#MovementEcology #Rstats

Differential effects of environmental predictability on ungulate movement behavior in disparate ecosystems vist.ly/4cdf6 #ClimateChange #MovementEcology

🚨New paper out
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

This is how you connect people to nature through science. Well done @theguardian.com !

🧪🪶🌎🐾 #ornithology #conservation #movementecology

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Two Arctic foxes examine a tent on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada). Picture: Laurianne Dumont, 2025.

Studying Arctic foxes on Bylot Island (Nunavut, Canada), or being studied by them? The collared fox in this photo is a male named Ram, captured this summer. Great shot by my excellent MSc student Laurianne Dumont. 🧪🌿🌎🦊 #MovementEcology #wildlife

Our global GPS study of 1,200+ carnivores reveals clade-level differences in movement patterns—shaping encounters, predation & more.

🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#MovementEcology #Carnivores #Wildlife

Understanding migration: Functional Ecology <em>Functional Ecology</em> journal publishes high-impact research providing a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to ecosystem scale.

Happy to be included in the ‘Understanding Migration’ virtual issue at Functional Ecology — alongside many influential papers 🐦🎉 #birdmigration #movementecology #ornithology
@funecology.bsky.social @besmovesig.bsky.social
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