Annika Peter

In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social

uol.de/job788en

#ornithology

🚨 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...

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩

On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks!

#Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

the 5 study species: Dunnock, Northern Wheatear, European Robin, Common Redstart, Garden Warbler

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

Join us in the migration ecology group at the University of Oldenburg! 📡🐦🐥

Great fun canoeing along the Wümme river near Bremen with the @migecol.bsky.social team!

Excellent food and some nice birds as well, incl. White-tailed Eagle, Black Kite, Kingfisher, Reed Buntings ...and a Cockatiel 😄 #birding

Registration is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals.

19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany.

Abstract submission extended to 8/8/25 :-)

www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...

Meet Melanie: she´s the good soul of the working group and our secret star. Nothing works without her & everything works with her. Our technician can do everything & saves the rest of us from putting our foot in our mouths. She is also into plant conservation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_0W...#isoetes

Our volunteer Annika releasing a Common Kingfisher captured for scientific studies

Meet (F)Annika!

She is helping the working group as a volunteer (oeko-freiwillig.de) and gets to do all the “fun” things (as Heiko would say :)) - such as supporting field work. She has always been interested in birds, but over the past few months she has learned to truly admire them.

Abstract submission is still open for two more weeks and we would love to receive more contributions for the Young-Researchers-Symposium on Magnetoreception & Navigation in Animals. Travel grants are also available.
www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...
@sfb1372.bsky.social

Are you a young ornithologist? Consider registering for the DOG Fledglings Meeting - deadline for registration will be prolonged 🐣 #ornithology

Great teamwork on #Norderney: we colour-ringed & sampled ~130 and tagged 40 Wheatears in just two days to study pre-migratory flights and survival - thanks to excellent preparation by @giovannasandretti.bsky.social #ringing #radiotracking

NEW: #travelscholarships available for qualified ECRs with lack of funding to attend our YRS on #Magnetoreception and #Navigation in Animals, 19-21 Nov im Hamburg! www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...

Today is the 1-year-anniversary of our extensive Review-Paper: "A conceptual framework on the role of magnetic cues in songbird migration ecology" doi.org/10.1111/brv....

- it is a must-read, when you work with magnetoreception and birds!

Introducing Georg:

Ornithologist and movement ecologist in our group, specialising in passerine migration, with a passion for warblers and chats. His work combines hands-on field methods—bird ringing and tagging—with statistical modeling using Bayesian inference frameworks in Julia, R, and Stan.

Meet @giovannasandretti.bsky.social

She moved from Brazil to start her PhD on the autumn migration of Northern Wheatears using #Motus tracking. Her passions include ecology and conservation, especially with birds.

She is excited to her first field season on Norderney in the coming weeks!

Abstract submission is open for our 2nd international conference for early career researchers on Magnetoreception and Navigation in Animals. 19-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany. www.sfb1372.de/young-resear...

Drivers of Willingness to Pay for Conservation in Southeast Asia: Nature Relatedness Over Visual Cues Among Japanese People Nature relatedness (NR) dictated the willingness of Japanese people to pay for conservation measures in Southeast Asia. Provisioning visual information on migratory routes and conservation organizati...

New #ornithology paper:

Lead by Yuichi Yamaura we investigated the drivers of willingness to pay (WTP) for #conservation

Notably, WTP was related to individual's connection to nature and not to showing respondents more information about the species’ #ecology in question

doi.org/10.1111/acv....

new publication by our team member @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social about the multi-year and multi site tracking of long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis) from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea. @ifv-whv.bsky.social read here open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In a new article, we summarise the opportunities of the #Motus Wildlife Tracking System from a European perspective. This #tracking method offers a wide range of opportunities for research of small migratory birds, bats and insects: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

You wonder what is our research about? See this word cloud, we collected, about our perspective of scientific fields and topics.

Thiemo Karwinkel with a Motus antenna

Meet @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social!

After PhD on ecological role of #magnetoreception in #songbirds, he continued researching offshore songbird migration using #Motus tracking

His research theme:
From Patterns & Pathways to Protection: Understanding mechanisms of #birdmigration for #conservation

Analysis of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and associated microorganisms collected on the North Sea Island of Heligoland - Parasitology Research Heligoland is an island located in the North Sea, where vegetation was almost destroyed as a result of heavy bombardment during and after the Second World War. However, over the past 70 years, the veg...

I am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions 😄

doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Stationary sites of a Bluethroat breeding Central Siberia and tracked with light-level geolocators in comparison with previously tracked Bluethroats from Europe and East Siberia.

New #ornithology paper ⏰

#birdmigration of a Bluethroat from Siberia along the Central Asian flyway to India/Pakistan

doi.org/10.1007/s103...

Based on BSc thesis of Sarah Strubbe & together with many collaborators 🇷🇺🇩🇪🇩🇰🇨🇭 incl. @ramonaheim.bsky.social

Great fieldwork in Siberia during pre-war times

❗️Symposium for Early Career Researchers working on Magnetoreception and/or Navigation in Animals, 19.-21.11.2025 in Hamburg, Germany❗️
Are you interested in joining us? As part of the Organizing Team, I will happily answer your questions and hope to see you there!
@sfb1372.bsky.social

Heiko Schmaljohann out birding

Meet Heiko, our group leader! Since kindergarten, he has been fascinated by #birds and has developed a deep passion for their spectacular journeys across continents. This amazing phenomenon motivates him to study their #ecology. He believes such research is essential for protecting #MigratoryBirds

Marine artificial light at night: Implications and potential hazards for offshore songbird and bat movements in the Greater North Sea Human activity in the North Sea is intensifying, which amplifies the need to understand better the biological implications of human activities in the ecoregion. Here we aim to characterize the impact...

NEW PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE
In a team combining bird and bat migration scientist with ecological economics, we draw attention on the threat of artifical light at night to migrating songbirds and bats to inform science-driven politics. See our article here: doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

I am beyond happy to be part of the Migration Ecology Group. The people are fantastic and work on amazing projects!