🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
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Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊
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🚨Trade-offs across life history stages and social association types shape winter communal roosting in a long-lived raptor
"Our study demonstrates how life-history trade-offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites"
📖Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/0JazKaB
Winter means.. communal roosts! 🦅🐦🦜
But why do birds form such roosts? In red kites, young single males are the most frequent visitors. Once paired, birds roost more solitarily, often together as a pair.
📢 Now online: tinyurl.tools/98e9279e
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These findings underscore the remarkable behavioral flexibility of this opportunistic scavenger, a factor that I am convinced is at the very core of its success in Switzerland!
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At the same time, they increased their use of areas rich in anthropogenic food—a preference that persisted even after the lockdown
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Red kites switched from selecting for proximity to roads lockdown to avoiding them during lockdown
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Fewer cars during lockdown = less roadkill
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Have you read our recent paper looking at how #COVID19 #lockdown changed foraging behavior of #redkites in Switzerland? 🦅 (🧵⬇️) doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
@vogelwarte.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org
TWO papers just out in @royalsocietypublishing.org #biologyletters :
1) Red kites switched from scavenging along roads to foraging away from roads during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
2) Fishers synchronise heart rates when cooperating with dolphins, but only when in close proximity.
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Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico.
www.istitutoveneto.it/premio-matte...
Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026
Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.
The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe'. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.
NEW ISSUE: read the full second issue of 2025 here:
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The cover of issue 2 depicts a red kite featuring the article 'Extracting reproductive parameters from GPS tracking data for a nesting raptor in Europe' by @steffopp.bsky.social et al. Photo credit: Patrick Scherler.
