Patrick Lewin

🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Last hours for this - deadline is midnight tonight, 1st October, UK time. That's for both the application (online form) and the referee statement (emailed direct to me). All info here:
www.asab.org/conference-g...

Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️

We’ve been delighted to host @joewynnbirds.bsky.social this week at FBO as part of the
Trans-Siberian
genoscape project
tracing geographic
origins of vagrant birds with 3 Yellow-browed Warbler sampled.

🌍🦋 Across 6 continents, 21 sites & 15,000 paper moths, we joined a worldwide experiment led by @wlallen.bsky.social & Iliana Medina, showing how ecological context shapes the evolution of animal colouration.

Proud to be part of this global team effort: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Greater flamingo in Camargue, France. CREDIT: Claude Gross

Migration comes with tradeoffs. Flamingoes that migrate don’t live as long as their resident cousins—their lifespan is 6.7 years shorter on average—but nonmigrating flamingoes see accelerated mortality and reproductive declines later in life. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨

Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣

Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Juvenile male Stonechat in the hand

Some good vismig on patch with the change in wind over the past two days so decided to go out ringing yesterday with @plewin.bsky.social and caught over 200 birds. 81 Chiff, 33 Blackcap, 33 Mipit, a late Whitethroat and the first Stonechat ringed on site being the highlights #ukbirding

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

1/10 We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on conservation genomics of the Balearic shearwater has just been published online at @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@devisatarkar.bsky.social gave beautiful talk on the extent to which social network traits are heritable vs. shaped by the spatial & social environment at birth using long-term data on blue tits 🐣🧬
@behaviour2025.bsky.social @asab.org

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:

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

Winter ASAB 2025 December 15-16 Edinburgh How sensory information affects behaviour.

ICYMI : #ASABWinter2025 will take place from December 15-16, once again in lovely Edinburgh!

Registration is now open 🎉 Abstract submission deadline for posters and talks is August 29 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

More information here: asabwinter.github.io/2025/

🎉 Huge congratulations to Ollie Padget on receiving the 2025 BOU Early Professional Award at #EOU2025 last week 🎉

Richly deserved recognition for an outstanding initial contribution to #ornithology 🪶

Read the IBIS citation here: onlinelibrary.wiley....

Optimal movement decisions in complex landscapes Understanding and predicting optimal movement decisions in complex and dynamic landscapes requires identifying the mechanisms driving movements, beyon…

Brilliant read for those interested in movement ecology and how we can integrate costs (e.g. wind), gains (food) and external moderators (e.g. the "landscape of disgust" which is a new one for me) for prediction and use in conservation strategies!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Image description: a reed warbler in the hand. The bird‘s right side is visible, warm brown all over, with its head and long pointed beak facing right.

Image description: a sedge warbler in the hand. The bird, facing right and away, is mottled brown and black across its back and wings. It has a strong pale supercilium above the eye.

Image description: myself holding a juvenile female Sparrowhawk. The bird is held towards the camera and is looking to the left. It has dark grey upperparts with chestnut fringes on the feathers. The underparts, including tail, are white with dark brown barring. It has yellow legs with curved black talons, a round bright yellow eye and a yellow hooked beak, tipped with black.

Image description: a tree pipit in the hand, showing the characteristic strong supercilium and deep chunky beak. The bird has green-brown upperparts with black markings, and pale yellow-buff underparts with strong dark streaks.

Autumn getting into full swing at our Oxford ringing site today 🍂 62 birds, mostly blackcap and chiffchaff.

Highlights were the first willow warbler of the autumn, a juvenile female Sparrowhawk, a rare pulse of acros for the site and the hoped-for addition of tree pipit to the site ringing list!

Tree Pipit in the hand on Port Meadow

After getting back from Suffolk at midnight it was a brutal turnaround to be out ringing on patch early morning, thankfully paid off with this Tree Pipit. After ticking this species heard only last week was a joy to see in the hand. Less happy about a flyover WTE report this afternoon 😡 #ukbirding

Image description: A view towards Snowdonia from across the Menai Strait. The Menai Bridge is visible to the left with the mountains rising in the background and the strait between reflecting a bright blue sky.

Had a great time at #EOU2025 meeting ornithologists from across Europe, seeing their work and exploring a beautiful part of North Wales.

Thanks to @eounion.bsky.social and the local organisers @bangoruniversity.bsky.social for a brilliant conference and for the poster prize!

So much cool avian vagrancy research presented and discussed at our #EOU2025 symposium today. Thanks to everyone who presented and attended @pauldufour80.bsky.social
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#Ornithology

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553!

🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on the importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution. Lots of great results in the talks from the different speakers!

LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30

@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social

For those attending the #EOU2025 in Bangor, this starter pack might help stay on top of the conversation ;)

Ping me to be included

go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA

Hi Pablo, could you add me please?

A person gently holding a bird.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Stephanie Harris' project investigates whether monogamous seabirds update their partners on the location of prey patches and how communication facilitates successfully raising offspring. Read now: media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/shar... @liverpooluni.bsky.social ‬

Global distribution, threats and population trends of the critically endangered Balearic shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus | doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology #conservation 🪶🌎

I'm delighted and honoured to receive this award from the Psychonomic Society! Thank you for the recognition and huge thanks to my fantastic co-authors :)

A lion cub walks down a misty road in the early morning in the South African bush.

🦁 Happy #WorldLionDay! 🦁

Lion subspecies used to roam across the globe, with fossils showing they used to live across Europe, Asia, North America and maybe even in Peru! We now only find them in Africa and northwest India due to a mix of human activity and climatic change. Follow to find out more 😎

Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map BehProc

Allopreening Black-browed Albatross

📢New blog post is out on the Seabird Tracking Database

Jonathan Rutter describes the distinct behaviours of Black-browed Albatross whilst they follow fishing vessels

➡️ tinyurl.com/BBAfollowves...

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Interested in animal navigation or machine learning?

New paper from Joe Morford using neural networks 🖥️🧠 to investigate how animals learn to navigate 🗺️🧭 Many animals can ‘true navigate’ using intersecting cue gradients. How do they learn to use these grid maps? Find out:

doi.org/10.1016/j.be...