@steffopp.bsky.social
I am a scientist focussing on #ornithology and #conservation and work at the Swiss Ornithological Institute (www.vogelwarte.ch)
GREAT NEWS in #conservation: the government of New Zealand has announced that they will include feral cats in their PredatorFree 2050 strategy, aiming to benefit #seabirds and landbirds across NZ by removing feral cats:
25.11.2025 07:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PAPER in #ornithology and #conservation reviews the marine threats to #seabirds and other marine #megafauna and confirms that #fisheries are a severe problem: buff.ly/5SXNdqr
14.11.2025 18:43 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds are doing very well on tropical #islands - especially when you can count them all with a #drone: buff.ly/4ngJ3ze
13.11.2025 16:49 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation promoting the amazing work of @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social across global #flyways: buff.ly/NNQNpRs
12.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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NEW PAPER in #ornithology summarizes why #seabirds are so important to the ecosystem of #islands and what knowledge gaps remain: buff.ly/rHuNnOr
06.11.2025 07:23 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to manage a team to evaluate peatland restoration projects that benefit #waders in #NorthernIreland: buff.ly/GyPhtQ5
05.11.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8
04.11.2025 07:19 — 👍 35 🔁 27 💬 0 📌 1
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation heading a team that develops habitat measures to benefit priority #bird species in #Switzerland (deadline 8 Dec 2025): buff.ly/Y1bIHr7
03.11.2025 07:39 — 👍 19 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #raptors switched foraging strategy when #COVID19 lockdowns reduced the availability of #roadkill: buff.ly/jUug7Yj
29.10.2025 08:37 — 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that a single pigmentation gene can affect different body parts and lead to the variety of colour morphs in #wheatears: buff.ly/PW3qpyj
23.10.2025 15:37 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
I love my #job - climbing up a mountain to look for #vultures on #IOD2025 #WMBD2025: buff.ly/LbLl4YW
12.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m
10.10.2025 06:39 — 👍 35 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 1
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to help build sustainable livelihoods that maintain #biodiversity in one of #Africa's greatest rainforests: buff.ly/SYKDIyb
03.10.2025 06:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB with @RSPBScience in #ornithology to analyze citizen science data of common #birds in #Britain: buff.ly/vr8iphE
21.08.2025 11:07 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
These two studies do not contradict each other but reinforce the desperate need to get strongly regulated and strictly enforced MPAs in place - not just boxes on a map with little effect
28.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1How is that possible? Quite simple - the second paper only looks at a small subset of strictly regulated MPAs. They have good enforcement, and may never had any fishing in the first place - so very little occurs there now
28.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
The second paper finds very little industrial fishing in the highly regulated and strictly protected MPAs: buff.ly/HYHfwwh
28.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0The first paper finds a lot of industrial fishing in all coastal MPAs, which is alarming because there does not seem to be much protection at all: buff.ly/S9IIg0t
28.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0NEW PAPERS in #conservation that seem to contradict each other about whether marine protected areas (MPAs) effectively reduce industrial fishing
28.07.2025 16:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT in #ornithology - the effects of lead poisoning on #raptors (in #Italy 17-18 Oct 2025):
28.07.2025 07:07 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
NEW PhD studentship in #ornithology studying foraging distribution of coastal #seabirds in #France: buff.ly/qBWQMVZ
23.06.2025 16:07 — 👍 16 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation managing two major restoration projects for #islands important for #seabirds: buff.ly/yfl1Vo2
19.06.2025 15:53 — 👍 27 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0The mice were introduced by people, so this is a human-caused problem. Because mice have no natural predators on this island, the mouse population depletes it's food supply forcing mice to eventually explore alternative food sources like seabirds
12.06.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that #seabirds on Marion #island continue to be assaulted by invasive mice now killing adult #albatrosses: buff.ly/ITtVrwN
11.06.2025 15:58 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
NEW PAPER collates #telemetry data of >100 marine vertebrate species including #seabirds and finds that protecting only 30% of the global ocean is not enough - because marine animals live everywhere: buff.ly/mYrtoAN
06.06.2025 06:37 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
NEW PAPER relevant for #ornithology provides guidance how to interpret #bioacoustics indices to characterize populations such as #seabirds. Paper is here: buff.ly/phErViS
ShinyApp is here: buff.ly/IechtSX
NEW PAPER in #ornithology provides a tool to inspect connectivity of #seabirds and other marine megafauna in the #oceans: buff.ly/C2ZBHwD Tool is here: buff.ly/Mh64gTo
09.05.2025 06:17 — 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
NEW PAPER in #ornithology highlights that populations of birds in North America decline most in areas where they are most abundant: buff.ly/0O3UzWf
02.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to work on an ambitious #telemetry project aiming to understand #wildlife movement in human-modified landscapes: buff.ly/g2eQjP7
25.04.2025 10:57 — 👍 13 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
