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Episode 17: For the first time in 20 years, hope is singing on Floreana Island
Sonia Kleindorfer on the Charles Darwin Podcast with updates from Floreana Island.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfiV... #Galapagos #Floreana #EcologicalRestoration #DarwinsFinches #univienna
#charlesdarwinfoundation
06.10.2025 19:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture: Daniela Matejschek
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In Memoriam Jane Goodall
The staff, students, and community of the Konrad Lorenz Research Center deeply mourn the passing of Jane Goodall. She was a friend, an advocate, a supporter of community-based nature connectedness, and an ambassador of hope.
janegoodall.sicher-helfen.org/jgi/spende/?...
06.10.2025 07:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Pictures: Karen Vera, Rashid Cruz
24.09.2025 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pictures: Karen Vera, Rashid Cruz
24.09.2025 10:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🪶 #Floreana, #Galápagos: After invasive mammal removal, rat egg predation was slashed.
👉 In 2024, as part of the Floreana Ecological Restoration Monitoring Program, we tested self-fumigation: 63% of nests had treated material, and Yellow Warbler nests showed fewer parasites.
Picture: S. Kleindorfer
23.09.2025 17:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Research Retreat in the Almtal 🏞️
Focused writing, cold swims & team bonding – plus a warm welcome to Theresa Ranieri, our new PhD in the #UrbanBEE project 🐝🌆
We return inspired, recharged & ready for what's next!
📸: Shane Sumasgutner
#univienna #konradlorenzresearchcenter @pesumas.bsky.social
23.09.2025 08:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New paper! In #greylaggeese, individuals are consistent in subgroup size & departure timing during collective flights. New insights into #individuality signatures of #movement!
📸 KLF #GreylagGoose #AnimalBehaviour #univienna
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
22.09.2025 12:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
#greylaggeese and #ravens were also the subject of a BBC series: “Do birds understand us?”
Thomas Bugyar and Andrew Katsis report on their research and observations on this topic.
www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...
@univie.ac.at
21.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🎙️ In a recent @OE1 interview Sonia Kleindorfer talks about animals' awareness of death and grief.
oe1.orf.at/player/20250...
from 18'40
Picture: M. Klymenko
@univie.ac.at
21.09.2025 15:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
From Sept 8–9, the #OpenScienceFestival took place for the first time at the @univie.ac.at — a hub for scientists, students & the public to connect.
Didone Frigerio spoke about the Open Science Center currently being built in Grünau im Almtal.
📸: D. Frigerio
20.09.2025 07:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW on #theBOUblog from Petra Sumasgutner
When kestrels turn pale: what colour tells us about bird health in human-dominated landscapes
A report from a BOU funded project
bou.org.uk/blog-suma...
Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
#ornithology 🪶
15.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
New paper: Red kite (Milvus milvus) collision risk is higher at wind turbines with larger rotors and lower clearance, evidenced by GPS tracking.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#rotmilan #redkite #collissionrisk #windturbines @pesumas.bsky.social
Picture: Robert Kreinz
15.09.2025 07:30 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Proud to be a partner in State of the World’s Raptors Initiative! 🦅 Petra Sumasgutner authored the chapter on Europe’s raptors. The book is open access—read it here:
🔗 science.peregrinefund.org/state-of-wor...
27.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Malva is one of this year’s hand-raised goslings—and a born troublemaker. From picking fights to making a mess, this one’s always had a big personality. 🐣💥
Now banded and learning to fly, Malva is almost ready to head out on his own. Can’t wait to see what he will be up to next. 🪿✨
(c) M.Klymenko
27.08.2025 07:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Picture: Daniel Koch
26.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do ravens have personalities?
We tested how free-flying ravens respond to predator calls & gunshots. No consistent boldness across individuals, but:
🖤 Juveniles fed sooner than adults
🦅 All reacted more cautiously to raptors than gunshots
doi.org/10.1002/jav....
@avianbiology.bsky.social #univienna
26.08.2025 06:59 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
@sarahguttenberger.bsky.social & @pesumas.bsky.social are showcasing the ICARUS #Kestrel Project at #EOC2025: 960 kestrels tagged across Europe to uncover migration routes, causes of death & #conservation needs. Stay tuned for their poster & talk insights!
Pictures: A. Hegeman & Wiener Wildnis
21.08.2025 07:13 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Personality predicts collective behavior in greylag geese: Influencers are bold and followers are exploratory
Wildlife behavior; Zoology; Ornithology; Social sciences; Psychology
New paper: In #greylaggeese, influencers are bold and their followers are open to novelty. Aggressive geese? They stick to family. Followers may choose leaders whose traits provide protection so that innovation can emerge and spread.
#AnimalBehavior @univie.ac.at www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
18.08.2025 11:55 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
✨ Original Goose Parents from 1973 return to the KLF!
Sybille Kalas & Jennifer Kickert once helped Konrad Lorenz move 149 greylag geese to the Alm Valley – sleeping outdoors with them in the forest near a stream. 🌿💚
Their story continues today. #Herstory #GreylagGeese #univienna @univie.ac.at
18.08.2025 10:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Tipps vom Falter-Vogelwart Klaus Nüchtern für "Stadtrand-Wanderungen" um Wien ....
@falter.at #turmfalken
17.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New paper: Your song says more than you think. In #songbirds, exploratory birds sing with greater variety, aggressive ones keep it short. Song may be part of the language of #personality.
#BirdLab #KLF #animalbehavior #birdsong #wildlife @univie.ac.at
doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Pictures: A. Katsis
13.08.2025 10:54 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
This year’s hand-raised #goslings - now fully grown and banded — are joining the KLF flock of #greylaggeese now after spending the last weeks with their human parents in Oberganslbach. @univie.ac.at #animalbehaviour #longtermmonitoring
Picture: S. Bakanova
11.08.2025 12:01 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A little throwback to the gosling days of our hand-raised Greylag Geese. 🐣💦 Qualia went from awkwardly flapping tiny wing nubs after bath time to becoming a full-fledged, majestic Greylag teenager. They grow up so fast! 🪿✨ #GreylagGoose #animalbehavior #almtal #univienna
Picture: M. Klymenko
06.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New study: Uncovering Bias in Movement Ecology. We investigated who does #movementecology research, where it happens, and how it’s shared. Results show biases shaped by geography, funding, and power-including #parachutescience. Let's make science more inclusive and equitable
doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
04.08.2025 17:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
In the experiment one of our researchers was dressed as a "dangerous human", wearing a mask to hide the face and holding a dead raven which triggers a clear antipredator response. The raven in hand died of natural causes.
🆕 New paper out on raven antipredator behaviour! How do young ravens learn to mob predators? 🦅 We showed captive families a fake threat—and found that adults back off as chicks grow more alert. But only some youngsters scolded. Why? Big individual differences. doi.org/10.1007/s100...
29.07.2025 10:51 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Postdoc @ Kyoto University 🌳
Comparative psychology, animal behaviour & social cognition in elephants & canids 🐘🐾
One of @manydogsproject.bsky.social 🐕
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Research assistant at the University of Innsbruck
Interested in avian disease ecology, population genetics, and museomics
Kathryn (Katy) Willcox | PhD @ecobird.bsky.social | social environments <-> bird behaviour and cognition | 🐥🐦🧠🦦🐝 | ❤️ welfare & outreach | also 🎶🎨🎮🎲👩🍳🌿 | she/her
Professor specializing in bird social behavior and ethology. Enactive cognition, developmental systems thought, ontogenetic niches, organismal agency, ייִדיש. PI: Animal Social Interaction lab, kohnlab.wordpress.com
The European Ornithologists' Union is an international forum for #ornithology and promotes the scientific study of birds within Europe. Next meeting #EOU2025!
We are a small research team studying Orientation and Navigation in Birds 🐦⬛, Bats 🦇, and Butterflies 🦋 with a focus on Magnetoreception.
Virtual home - www.magbbb.com
postdoc @dee-unil.bsky.social @thesensech.bsky.social @InkawuP | PhD @univie.ac.at | L'ORÉAL-UNESCO "FWIS" alumna | personality, comparative cognition | primates, naked mole-rats | @TheManyBirds | #LINO23
Ethology and conservation 🐾🌿🪶
Studying individual differences, cognition and communication | PhD student at MPI Animal Behavior, Orangutan cognition and curiosity 🦧🍃
Research team led by Alex Thornton at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, studying cognition in wild jackdaws and other creatures.
wildcognitionresearch.com
Postdoc in elephant behavioural ecology at The University of Hong Kong 🐘 🌱 🏳️🌈
Scientist. Physiologist, Zoologist, Ornithologist - Assoc Prof at The University of Oxford. Associate Ed at RSocPublishing 🏳️🌈🇪🇺🐦🎾
PhD student working on the socioecology and dispersal of male Asian elephants @Jncasr.
Ornithologist/environmentalist focused on biodiversity conservation and ethical behavior toward all of life; Emeritus Director of Lake Michigan Bird Observatory, in Wisconsin, USA. (He, him). Born at 310.7 ppm carbon in the atmosphere.
librarian by profession & data stewardess by position, works @ univie, ex-archivist, tree hugger, forest lover, trekkie, germanist, DH dabbler, writes master thesis in urban development about urban heat stress, formerly ZAMG and Wienbibliothek
Passionate about science, biodiversity and animal behaviour
MSc in wildlife and biology, MA in science journalism, communication and audiovisual
Web development, data management and visualizations. Consulting services for scientific and r&d communities. https://www.researchelements.org/
Professor of Philosophy and History of Economics at Leibniz University Hannover; ERC project (2023-29) on MODEL TRANSFER in Science (#ERCStGr; @ERC_research), co-editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science at @univie.ac.at, pioneering microbiome and environmental research for the benefit of the planet.
Postdoctoral researcher & MSCA Alumna Uni of Jyväskylä working on transgenerational effects of pollution in birds 🕊️🪺🇫🇮 | Subject editor @ Journal of Field Ornithology | ecotox, behavior, cognition, ecophy, epigenetics | she/her
