EURING

The Teifi Ringing Group have several records of wintering Starlings ringed in Lithuania but this month an interesting movement was a bird caught near Lampeter. It had been ringed in a nest in Finland 2004 km away in May 2023 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/12/earl...

Luckily, we stock Norwegian colour-rings in our ringing kit just in case we catch a Norwegian ringed bird that needs its ring changing 👍🏻 Keeping our 🇳🇴 ringing colleagues happy 😊

Scientific poster that has been mostly blurred, but the background is dark blue and the title says "Understandang and addressing barriers to LGBTQIA+ participation in bird ringing in the United Kingdom", with a picture of the lead author (person with long brown hair, holding binoculars and wearing a black shirt that says "Nature is Queer" in rainbow letters

"Understanding and addressing barriers to LGBTQIA+ participation in bird ringing in the United Kingdom"

Getting quite excited for ASAB this week and to present this project that has meant so much to me! if you're attending make sure to look for our poster and stop by for a chat about our work! 🪶🦆

🚨VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY🚨
We are looking for a volunteer for the 2025 season to help with bird monitoring, ringing, and obs maintenance! Full board included. Long term volunteers preferred, but all applications welcome! Contact alison@nrbo.co.uk for more info.
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My first impressions are that this is an exceptional book, written by someone who really knows the subject. Very refreshing. #UKBirding #Ornithology

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

3-year Postdoc Position

Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies
See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38

Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be!

Humboldt Current seabird tracking data call for fisheries bycatch risk assessment - Seabird Tracking Database The BirdLife team are collating seabird tracking data for the Humboldt Current region and adjacent High Seas to assess fisheries bycatch risk as part of an

🚨Calling for seabird tracking data!

🚢We are collating seabird data for the Humboldt Current region to assess fisheries bycatch risk.

🤝This is a collaborative project with Global Fishing Watch funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social.

You can be part of it!

Go to: www.seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...

Join us THIS THURSDAY @12PM EST for our Spanish-language discovery webinar!

Hosts Fernando Medrano (BOW Latin America lead) & Tomás Rivas Fuenzalida (president of the Ñankulafkén Foundation) will be talking all things South American raptors.

👇 Register here👇
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Importance of the interplay between land cover and topography in modeling habitat selection | doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

📖Published📖

Our new research article assesses the impacts of satellite tagging on growth rates of immature hawksbill turtles 🐢 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Towards transparency in AI: Explainable bird species image classification for ecological research | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology 🪶

We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪

Plastic pollution in a special protected area for migratory birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶

The rather nondescript Unicoloured Thrush (from the lowlands of N Bolivia) was added to the list of targets by the Search for Lost Birds (searchforlostbirds.org) in August this year. Two days later one was mist-netted in Chuchini Ecological Reserve! www.birdguides.com/news/mysteri...

Wide spectrum of tick-borne pathogens in juvenile Ixodes ricinus collected from autumn-migrating birds in the Vistula River Valley, Poland | bmcvetres.biomedcent... | BMC Veterinary Research | #ornithology 🪶

#ConservationScience🌍
Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List.
What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader?
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b...
Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers.

Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atlantic coast of Africa | doi.org/10.1111/jav.... | @avianbiology.bsky.social | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-)

How climate change is impacting this iconic Florida bird species Global warming in impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a study found.

A paper recently published in the @amornith.bsky.social journal, Ornithology, was the focus of an article from
ABC News, on how climate change is impacting the success of Aphelocoma coerulescens (Florida Scrub-Jay).
Paper: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-...
Article: abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...

Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social.

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW

Useful paper for Curlew counters summarised in new WaderTales blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c...
Full list of 141 blogs about waders includes 13 focusing on curlews:
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#UKBirding

Final total for Ngulia 2024 - an respectable 13,328 Eastern Palearctic Migrants. Two weeks of great birds and good people.
#kenya #nguliaringing #birdringing

Golden Eagle killed by wind turbine in Scotland A Golden Eagle has died following a wind-turbine collision, marking the first recorded incident of its kind in southern Scotland. A pathological investigation confirmed that a locally fledged eagle nicknamed Sparky was killed by a turbine in Galloway. The news has prompted renewed calls for funding...

A Golden Eagle has died following a wind turbine collision, marking the first recorded incident of its kind in southern Scotland:

Changing Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban Centres Urban birds opportunistically eat fruit from native and alien plants in Helsinki, Finland. As autumns get warmer with climate change, these bird–plant interactions could help alien species spread out...

Deshpande et al. Changing Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban Centres onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Barn Owl (Tyto alba)† Habitat Suitability, Nest Box Occupancy, and Management Implications Based on Kentucky Surveys 2010–2022 | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2393 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Plastic nests or blue nests? The need for taxonomic rigor in studies on interactions between birds and plastics | www.sciencedirect.co... | Marine Pollution Bulletin | #ornithology

Great discussion about barriers and lack of incentives for long-term fieldwork. We collect data that give base and context for ecology discussions, but it's a time-consuming and expensive activity, and our results are often not valued as some fancy meta-analysis.
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and fine-scale analyses: incorporating stop location uncertainty - American Ornithological Society The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is a long-term monitoring program that collects data on bird populations across North America. Established in 1966, it involves trained volunteers conducting 50 standard...

Read the latest on the AOS Wing Beat Blog: The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and fine-scale analyses: incorporating stop location uncertainty by Ryan C. Burner.
americanornithology.org/north-americ...
📸Melospiza melodia/atlantica (Song Sparrow) by Nicholas M. Anich