Modern science lets us see the unseen.
Radar, thermal imaging, and sensors track life moving through the night sky.
The result is clear. Artificial light is reshaping migration at scale.
What we light up, we disrupt.
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#DarkSkyTexas #Aeroecology
We look up and see stars. Scientists see a living ecosystem.
Migrating birds, bats, insects, and airborne life all rely on the night sky.
Artificial light is disrupting it at scale.
The sky is not empty. It is alive.
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#DarkSkyTexas #Aeroecology
Wildlife evolved to navigate by stars, moonlight, and natural darkness.
Blue-rich white LEDs scatter farther and overwhelm these cues, disrupting birds, bats, and insects.
Warmer lighting helps protect night-dependent species.
#DarkSkyTexas #BlueLight #Aeroecology #WildlifeProtection
Artificial light at night fragments the aerial habitat above Texas.
Migrating birds, bats, and insects rely on darkness to navigate and sustain ecosystems below.
Protecting dark skies protects the life that moves through them.
#DarkSkyTexas #Aeroecology #ProtectTheNight #NightMigration
Every year, millions of soaring birds such as raptors and storks migrate in flocks, with important impacts on human activity. #JRSocInterface presents an accessible modeling approach for estimating large birds’ radar cross-section for #aeroecology studies: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Interested in how animals use the sky? 🌌
I’m recruiting a PhD student (Fall 2026, Purdue University) to study Purple Martin flight behavior and airspace use using barometric transmitters.
Details ➡️ jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id...
#Aeroecology #AvianEcology
The relatively new field of #aeroecology sounds fascinating!
The New Science of Aeroecology Reveals So Much About the Amazing Creatures That Populate the Skies and How Humans Can Ensure Their Survival
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The New Science of Aeroecology Reveals So Much About the Amazing Creatures That Populate the Skies and How Humans Can Ensure Their Survival #Science #Biology #Ecology #Aeroecology #Biodiversity #Conservation
#EOU2025 #ALAN #migration #policy symposium - LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 11:45h
The symposium will finish with @jlyr.bsky.social on using weather radar data to study effects of light pollution on bird migration.
#WaddenSea
#DarkerSky
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#lightpollution
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#EOU2025 #ALAN #migration #policy symposium - LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 11:30h
Then, Simon Hirschhofer will show how light pollution is impacting migratory bird flights at the Adriatic coast.
@vogelwarte.bsky.social
@barbarahelm.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
#EOU2025 #ALAN #migration #policy symposium - LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 11:15h
Then, come see @carburt.bsky.social present on light pollution, ecological forecasting, and emerging tools for sustainable night skies.
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
#EOU2025 #ALAN #migration #policy symposium - LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 11:00h
We will continue with Jitse Creemers telling us how nightjars change their behaviour when exposed to #ALAN.
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
Picture by _paVan_
#EOU2025 #ALAN #migration #policy symposium - LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
The symposium starts with Yana Yakushina giving us an overview of new proposals for legal protection of the nocturnal environment.
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#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy.
LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
Radar monitoring showed birds heading south crossing the Mediteranen sea in the Camargue, but migration intensity was lower in the Camargue than further west where most birds follow the coast towards Spain.
Bangor University, Wales UK
#EOU2025 is starting in #Bangor (Wales, UK). Come to see my poster on nocturnal bird migration at the Mediteranean coast in France. #migraLion #aeroecology #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
🚨 Tuesday 19 10:30 #EOU2025
Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy.
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
New research from CSG! 🪶
Missy Braham’s new study shows wind—not food—drives CA condor movement.
Airspace-aware models beat habitat ones, with big implications for conservation & wind energy.
Read: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
#CondorConservation #Aeroecology
#condors #condorconservation #ornithology
Summary text of the planned EOU symposium (Bangor, Wales UK, 18-22 August 2025): Artificial light at night (ALAN) can drastically alter the environment of migratory birds, both on their breeding grounds, non-breeding grounds and during their migratory journeys. ALAN can therefore disrupt the birds' evolved response to natural changes in environmental light. For example, light is an important cue for determining the circa-annual cycle of birds, and birds use it to orientate during their migratory flights. The scale of the problem has been recognised by the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), which aims to identify knowledge gaps and develop guidelines to reduce the impact of light pollution on migratory species. This symposium aims to present the latest research on the effects of ALAN on migratory birds, identify research gaps, and to improve our understanding of how to adapt research projects in order to translate research results into policy and legislation.
Happy to co-organise a symposium on migratory birds and artificial light at night: from research to policy. #ornithology #aeroecology submit 👆🏽your abstract before March 15 😀 #eou2025
SEMFOR core team
Three years to explore, develop and implement a near-term bird migation forecast. SEMAFOR final meeting in Toulouse at météoFrance. So greateful to have worked with wonderful people #aeroecology #radar #ornithology #vogelwarte_ch
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This should've been in the #birds 🪶 feed, but as a raptor enthusiast I just naturally (but wrongfully) assumed 🦅 would be sufficient to get it in there.
Anyhow. Birds, #fireworks, everything you wanted to know, below.
#ornithology #weatherradar #aeroecology #movementecology #conservation
I don't know! @cnilsson709.bsky.social @baptischmi.bsky.social seems like there should be a way to look at this using weather radar, no? Not sure who else from the radar #aeroecology world is here on bluesky yet, someone should make a starter pack!
A great new paper by PhD student Samuel Hodges and colleague Ryan Neely has looked at how insects travel hundreds of km by riding tropospheric winds by using weather radars to explore atmospheric correlates of high-altitude insect migration 🌪️✨. Dive into the aerosphere with us 🧵👇 #Aeroecology 🧪🌍
