Jason Loghry

Wader sounds: What did you hear?
NEW PERSPECTIVE by Edward H. Miller, Terje Lislevand, and Pavel S. Tomkovich
www.waderstudygroup.org/article/19261/
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology #OpenAccess

1/5 - What.an.increadible.fieldseason! Together with @koivulakari.bsky.social , @jelenasubotic.bsky.social , @chorlnev.bsky.social , @vmpakanen.bsky.social, Kristzi Kupan, Vroni Rohr-Bender and others we managed to find plenty of ruff nests (65!) and headstarted a bunch of Southern Dunlins (26!).

🪶🌾Avian diversity changes in traditional agricultural landscapes of Japan over ten years

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📷 © Toshifumi Miki

#AvianDiversity #CommunityStability #FarmlandBirds #FunctionalDiversity #PhylogeneticDiversity #Satoyama

69 HUGO + 63 BBSA + 129 FRGU + hundreds of others at a managed wetland in Palacios this weekend.

Today, a flock of 105 Hudsonian Godwits in a single wetland, alongside some 400+ Stilt Sandpipers (Calhoun County, Texas).

What were you doing on Sunday?
The flocks of Whimbrel that arrived in Iceland today were leaving West Africa - and they have been flying for five days non-stop since then.
Here's their story (written in 2022)
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/w...
#ornithology

The last large flock of #btgodwits (almost 20K) in the Tagus estuary, perhaps waiting for better weather conditions to complete their northward migration. Much more colourful now as some #ruffs gather.

Love birds and know demographic analyses? My lab is hiring a postdoc for 2 years to develop a population viability analysis for endangered Roseate Terns! Join our team, including collabs from @massaudubon.org & @audubon.org, among others. App review begins 15 May. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

AI documents first Melbourne Plains-wanderers for 30 years AI has helped in the rediscovery of Plains-wanderer in the Melbourne area for the first time in three decades. AI used by Zoos Victoria picked up the species' distinctive calls in the state's Volcanic...

Good news for this threatened species www.birdguides.com/news/ai-docu...

Trump swings budget ax at USGS biology research Plan to eliminate $307 million ecosystem program could face obstacles in Congress

www.science.org/content/arti...

Long‐haul flights and migratory routes of a nectar‐feeding bat Click on the article title to read more.

New publication out this weekend in Ecology highlighting the long-distance movements of lesser long-nosed bats. Individuals migrated as far as 1631 km between roosts and completed overnight flights across the Gulf of California (~189 km) 🧵1/7 @esajournals.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/ecy....

And a Baird’s and Long-billed Dowitcher (which many have continued for weeks, but now molt is really starting to shift into gear), also observed this week in Matagorda County.

A Semipalmated and Dunlin for comparison to the previous post.

Have a peak at the variation of these freshly arrived Western Sandpipers we’re seeing here in Matagorda County, especially the last one, all photographed yesterday on a moist soil unit.

Thousands of Golden Plovers are staging on Tiree's well managed machair grasslands just now before heading on up to Iceland, although no Black-tailed Godwits here yet
@patchbirding.bsky.social

In amongst the tidewrack Double-banded Plover Tidewrack has an image problem. Who wants to see a dark line of seaweed on a beach of white sand or to smell rotting beds of kelp in enclosed bays? Shorebird conservationists m…

Tidewrack is not messy or smelly.
Tidewrack does not need to be cleared away.
Tidewrack should be left to provide foraging opportunities and places to keep cool/warm.
This blog talks about temperature regulation:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/04/01/i... 🎂4️⃣
#ornithology

Short-eared Owl, today, at the ranch wetlands near Palacios.

Also notable: Flocks of 200+ Pectoral Sandpipers have been foraging in freshly flushed rice - which appears to be crucial drought relief and perfect timing for the Texas coastal plain. Even better, today's unexpected steady rain just might expand habitat a bit longer, right as the Buffies arrive!

Spring migration note: Big flocks of Long-billed Dowitchers were still foraging at freshly flushed rice fields last week, while American Golden Plover numbers continue to rise along Texas coastal plain pastures.

LOOKING BACK in IBIS

Disparate data streams together yield novel survival estimates of Alaska-breeding Whimbrels | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Daniel R. Ruthrauff, Christopher M. Harwood, T. Lee Tibbitts, Vijay P. Patil | #ornithology 🪶

Dunlin is the biggest loser in Southern Lowlands of Iceland.
Breeding numbers down 60% in eleven years.
Blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i...
Paper (Aldís Pálsdóttir et al):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
THREAD #ornithology

description of SIBES campaign

Our milestone #SIBES publication is out! We describe methods and share data of this huge sampling effort. We hope it will stimulate research, forge collaborations, and allow evidence-based management of the UNESCO #waddensea. Read the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #macrozoobenthos

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

Male Ruff travel thousands of kilometres in lekking season A new study on Ruff movements has defied traditional ideas about bird migration and breeding, with some males covering up to 9,000 km in search of a mate during the nesting season.

How much effort have you put in this Valentine's Day?

Research has revealed that male Ruff travel thousands of kilometres in search of mating opportunities over the course of the breeding season:

Wait a Minute? Hiding Behavior of Burrowing Crabs and an Oversized Bill Explain Why Crab Plovers Prefer Armored Swimming Crabs In the Indo-West Pacific biogeographical region, a suite of shorebirds searches for crabs as food. While the majority of these shorebirds hunt on burrowing crabs, the endemic crab plover Dromas ardeo...

WAIT A MINUTE? No way. New paper out on prey choice in the fascinating Crab Plover! We found that Crab Plovers strongly prefer feisty swimming crabs over burrow-hiding sentinel crabs. Their specialized bill enables them handle those feisty swimmers! doi.org/10.1111/eth.... @globalflyway.bsky.social

'science has viewed non-fluent English speakers through a deficit lens... I want to change that perspective, so that these people are viewed through an asset lens instead... you (non-fluent English speaker) can bridge different communities, and you also have unique perspectives, ideas and views.'

For the past few weeks, several thousand Sandhill Cranes have used a small complex of managed freshwater wetlands. Yesterday, I went for a peek. These inland wetlands are on private working lands along the midcoast of Texas, the same I monitor for shorebird use during migration. Beautiful to see.

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Moult is associated with higher diversity of food items in the diet of Common Bulbuls (Pycnonotus barbatus) in Cameroon | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Crinan Jarrett et al | #ornithology 🪶

High-resolution remote sensing for quantifying vegetation structure as avian habitat | doi.org/10.1002/wsb.... | Wildlife Society Bulletin | #ornithology 🪶

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so!

Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report.

NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger.
www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...