Cat Morrison

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community.
Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research.
However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research?
#ornithology

New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social

We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25
"A day at the museum: collections-based
ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

On way to #BOUasm25 at @nhm-london.bsky.social. Looking forward to spending a day at the museum: bou.org.uk/wp-content/u...

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Nominate now for a BOU #ornithology award 🪶

Deadline: Mon 15 Sept

🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award

bou.org.uk/about-the...

Delighted to welcome Mark Mainwaring to the Editorial Board of #BirdStudy as an Associate Editor.
The 4th to join over the past year, the growing Editorial Board is helping us expand the journal's #ornithology expertise, geographical representation and diversity:
www.bto.org/our-work/sci...

Meta‐analysis of predator identity in nest‐camera studies in the British Islands Nest predation is the primary cause of nest failure across many bird species. Interventions to support declining or threatened species frequently involve measures to reduce nest predation, through le....

Chuffed to see our meta-analysis of UK nest predator studies published- fantastic collaboration across diverse organisations and individuals @gwct.org.uk @rspbengland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Medals and awards - British Ornithologists' Union Each year, the BOU presents awards to recognise individuals who have made an outstanding contribution within ornithology. Each award celebrates a specific contribution and nominations are warmly encou...

📣 Nominations for this year's round of @bou.org.uk awards are currently OPEN!

Your chance to recognise those key people in #ornithology 👏

Find out more and make your nominations here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo...

📆 Deadline 15th Sept 2025

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Wonderful to see a few more BOU Conference Attendance Grant recipients in action at #EOU2025 yesterday

Joshua Wilson, Soladoye Iwajomo & Susan Ellen McKinlay

Look out for Malin Klumpp on Friday!

#ornithology

Really excited about this conference, coming Sept 2026. But now is your chance to shape our programme. Who would you like to see as a keynote? Get your nominations in by 30th Sept 2025.

New distribution models for Icelandic waders show how temperate to arctic species overlap across climatic and environmental gradients. Led by Dr. Verónica Méndez
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wildlifebiology.bsky.social
#ornithology #waders #shorebirds #ConservationScience🌍

A top-down image of 12 various moths on a green egg carton.

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth

🔊 VACANCY

Could you be our next Conference Support Officer?

Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme

You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline: 29 August

#ornithology 🪶

🔊 VACANCY

Could you be our next Conference Support Officer?

Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme

You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline: 29 August

#ornithology 🪶

🏅 BOU AWARD NOMINATIONS OPEN

Early Professional Award

Awarded by BOU Council for an outstanding initial contribution to the field of ornithology

Nominate a deserving recipient now!

bou.org.uk/about-the...

#ornithology 🪶

New issue of #BirdStudy published today:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7...
UK Hen Harrier census
Capercaillie vocal ID
Barn Owls and agri-environment schemes
Bird trends in Faroes, and Iceland
Dunlin morphometrics
Sparrowhawk breeding habitat
Rock Partridge nest predation
#ornithology

🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN...

...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025

Full details via links ⬇️

Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

#ornithology 🪶

📆Deadline extended📆

If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️

Deadline: 14th July
#FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜

I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!

📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027

🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe

Please share widely!

#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

East of England project contributes to review of European curlew headstarting projects - Curlew Recovery Project Curlews breed across Europe in grassland, heathland and bog habitats, but are among the most threatened of European breeding bird species. As a result, they are the focus of a suite of conservation in...

New paper in @waderstudy.bsky.social led by @btobirds.bsky.social reviewing headstarting across Europe as a tool for #Curlew #conservation

Read the blog post:
www.curlewrecoveryproject.co.uk/european-hea...

Read the open access paper: www.waderstudygroup.org/article/18880/

#waders #shorebirds

Annual survival of Great Tits at two urban and two forest sites in Hungary

New article on annual survival of Great Tits in Hungary. Urban sites had highest and lowest survival but two forest sites were intermediate. Led by Boglárka Bukor with collaborators from Univ. Pannonia, Sheffield and Eötvös Loránd. #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Flock of Lesser Flamingo along with juvenile near Jamnagar railway station, India. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flock_of_Lesser_Flamingo_along_with_juvenile_near_Jamnagar_railway_stationDSCN1798_1.jpg

New in #BirdStudy

Lesser Flamingos may be nomadic between feeding sites in India.

Potential nomadism in sub-adult Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor: insights from satellite telemetry on movement, home ranges and habitat use in India (Ram et al):
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social

Here we present the results of the analysis of synchrony in annual population count, productivity, and survival for 26 species across 995 sites monitored from 1998 to 2019 under the European Constant Effort Scheme (CES) (Morrison et al. in prep.).

More exciting synchrony-based results can be read in the paper and many happy hours can be spent exploring our maps of abundance and demographic synchrony here: synchrony.uea.ac.uk.

@jengill.bsky.social @simon-butler.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Using wavelet analysis, we show that synchrony in both demographic rates occurred more commonly over long timescales in European-resident species and short timescales in subSaharan-migrant species.

Using spatial correlograms we estimated the scale and strength of synchrony and show that synchrony is strongest and largest scale in productivity and weakest and smallest scale in count.

Our new OA paper is out: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology

Using @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site data spanning 12 countries across Europe we explore geographic and temporal variation in synchrony in counts, productivity and survival rates.

Assessing the vulnerability of wild bird populations to high pathogenicity avian influenza Vulnerability assessment to high pathogenicity avian influenza predicted mortality at the avian family, but not the species, level.To assess the vulnerability of UK birds to high pathogenicity avia...

New in #BirdStudy

Trait-based vulnerability assessment to #birdflu predicted mortality at the avian family, but not the species, level.

Assessing the vulnerability of wild bird populations to high pathogenicity avian influenza (Pearce-Higgins et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results

@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology

⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social