Malavika Madhavan

🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India

📷 © Sankar Subramanian

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#Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor

Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? 🦜
Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics?

I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz

Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z

🚨Job alert! CMST are hiring an offshore fieldwork specialist to maintain our acoustic equipment, design and build moorings, manage field deployments, and join in data analysis, publication, presentation, and student support. Closing 21 Nov. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...

#bioacoustics

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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

This ‘extra credit’ also awards people who put themselves first instead of eg promoting the careers of their students and junior collaborators. 🧪

What a cool finding! Eurasian Scops owls bring live worm snakes to the nest, and snakes feed on insect parasites in the nest, therefore increasing owl hatchling success! 🐍↔️🦉
#ornithology

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival In this study, we combine high-resolution vegetation structural metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery with on-field wader nest survival monitoring. We show that the immediate veg...

📢New Paper: UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival 🛸🌿🪺

Excited to share the result of an incredible collaborative experience. Together with Miguel Villoslada, we combine UAV (drones) remote sensing with traditional wader nest survival surveys #scicomm 1/6

Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.

📢 City lizards are more social !
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !

We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪

doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

@behavecobie.bsky.social

Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts The next time you watch your dog visit the same places around your yard or notice that your cat seems to explore a new area every time it ventures outside, consider this: You might be witnessing an an...

2025. Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts phys.org/news/2025-09...

Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...

Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

MSc project MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...

🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)

Drop me a line! I love people! :)

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Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Individuality obscures geographical song variation in two passerine sister species with contrasting distributions and movement ecology | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Javier Oñate-Casado et al | #ornithology 🪶

📢 New paper!

F0 estimation is a classic task in the Music Information Retrieval (#MIR) community. Yet, it's much less studied in bioacoustics—despite its frequent use to describe animal sounds.

Images from doi.org/10.1038/srep... doi.org/10.1098/rspb... doi.org/10.3389/fmar...

MSc project MSc thesis projects in animal communication Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), larger c...

Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics?
Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Attendees at the 9th Hole-nesting Birds Meeting, hosted in Oxford, Sept 2022 at the conference dinner at Jesus College

Coming later this year, the 10th hole-nesting bird conference, from 10-12 Sept in beautiful Olomouc, Czech Republic. Held every 3-4 years, this is a great meeting bringing all those interested in cavity-nesting birds (natural & artificial) together. #ornithology

zoologie.upol.cz/hnb-2025/

A draw of bird eggs in a museum collection. Image Credit: Juliano Morimoto

By only considering a single ecological trait for each species, we risk oversimplifying the complexity in nature.

A new special feature in @animalecology.bsky.social aims to build a better understanding of intraspecific variation

 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652656/2025/94/3

For my first post here, i can't help but repost how I'm still collecting data for this project!

If you have a digital camera and works with breeding shorebirds, please contact me! (Even here)
Otherwise, repost please!

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! 🚨
Join @ecology-radboud.bsky.social in the #HABITRACK @horizoneu.bsky.social project, studying waterfowl movement for conservation impact 🦆🌍

📅 Apply by April 20, 2025
🔗 More info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Please, repost! 🙏

#postdoc #postdocjobs #ornithology #birdmigration

I am searching for a dedicated someone to take a research support/coordinating role in my lab, working mainly within @erc.europa.eu project "HotLife". MSc level and up, keen interest in energetics, physiology, or thermal biology helpful but not essential. Details 👇 Would appreciate a re-post!

Thanks for this great feed! Could you please add me too? :)

Spent countless hours during my bachelor's degree observing the behaviour of captive gharials, watching them make bubbles. Turns out they were talking the entire time and I was just on the wrong side of the water! So happy to see work like this! :) 🐊💚