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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 1d

New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By @bennett-sophie.bsky.social et al.

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

#seabirds #OpenAccess #biologging

Data and predictions from non-linear least squares models of the relationship between the number of days with location data and
the distance between centroids derived from global location sensor loggers and platform terminal transmitters deployed on Black-browed
Albatrosses Thalassarche melanophris

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 1d

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

A picture of two slender-billed curlews in the Natural History Museum's collections.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 23h

Latest articles from the WJO: Breeding biology of the Pelagic Cormorant (Urile pelagicus) at Cape Peirce, Alaska. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

(a) Map showing the study area at Cape Peirce and its location in Alaska. (b, c) West cliffs, seen from the north after a snowstorm on 29 April 1973 (b) and in June 1970 (c). (d, e) South cliffs, western half in aerial view, with Cape Peirce to the left and Nanvak Bay in background center (d), and cormorant nesting areas (upper left) along Shaiak Strait as seen from Shaiak lsland in foreground (e).

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 1d

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 1d

BIRDBASE, a new publicly available dataset, brings together "ecological and life history traits for 11,589 bird species across 254 families." #ornithology

Explore a bird database with 11,500 species

Twenty-six years ago, a PhD student's unanswered question sparked a bird data revolution.

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Steve Ross @maximumsteve.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning, and Happy Thurs-Jay!! Peace! California Scrub Jay... #birds #birding #birdwatching #jays #corvids #scrubjays #thursjay #peace

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · 2d

NEW PAPER: do cavity-nesting birds use egg brightness (luminance) or nest light levels to recognize foreign eggs? In eastern bluebirds, 413 trials with altered blue model eggs, neither factor affected rejection, suggesting luminance doesn’t guide egg recognition

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Eastern Bluebird. Photo: Paul Danese, Wikimedia Commons

Fig. 2 from the article: mean and standard error of three experimental eggs for perceived differences in color and luminance (in JND) between the natural bluebird eggs and each of the three experimental treatments: darker, regular, and lighter eggs.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Latest articles from the WJO: Shorebird abundance, migration phenology, and invertebrate prey availability at a mid-continental stopover site in Kentucky, USA. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Location of Kentucky Lake, Kentucky, USA, mudflat sampling sites (a–c), a representative mudflat (d), and shorebirds foraging near an exclosure (e) in September 2023. Star symbols in (a) and (b) show the location of Kentucky Lake in the United States and Kentucky, respectively. Star symbols in (c) represent, from north to south, Jonathan Creek, Wildcat Creek, and Blood River mudflat sites.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 2d

Latest articles from the WJO: Demographic trends for the Boreal Owl, Aegolius funereus, using standardized migration monitoring data in eastern North America. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

photo of a boreal owl, a small brown-streaked owl with a round face and yellow eyes, perched on a branch by the trunk of an evergreen tree

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Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social · 3d

New paper alert: Behavioral response of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica to marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Maine, USA: A webcam study. By Julie Wallace et al.
#seabirds #OpenAccess #HeatWaves

www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

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Dr. Catie Ivy @catieivy.bsky.social · May 6

Do you like songbirds? Are you concerned about how wildfire smoke may impact their physiology?

I'm searching for graduate students who are interested in looking at the effect of wildfire smoke on songbird physiology! Come join my lab @usaskartsci.bsky.social!

research-groups.usask.ca/ivy-lab/

The Ivy Lab! - Welcome to the Ivy Lab!

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 3d

"I hope that this article will get more people thinking about learning and mimicry in calls and call variation in general. Clearly there is a lot to be learned on this topic, even in one of the most thoroughly studied North American bird species." #ornithology

Guest Post – Lessons From Yard Listing: What I Learned From a Few Bilingual White-throated Sparrows

I have always loved listening to birds, and I am especially fascinated by birds that mimic other species.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 3d

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 4d

Connectivity and evolution between forest macrorefugia: a niche and morphological study of South American birds | doi.org/10.1093/biol... | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | #ornithology 🪶

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Evolutionary Ecology Group, Cambridge @eegcam.bsky.social · 6d

#newpaper out in @natecoevo.nature.com on Learned use of an innate sound-meaning association in birds, co-led by @jameskennerley.bsky.social when he was a PhD student at @eegcam.bsky.social . Nice summary on the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/birds-all-ov...

Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

theconversation.com

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 4d

Latest articles from the WJO: Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Call rate during Pine Siskin flock movements (arrival, circling, departure) was significantly greater than during baseline minutes.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 4d

Latest articles from the WJO: A confirmed case of social polygyny in Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus). #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...

Home ranges (minimum convex polygons) of three Eastern Whip-poor-wills in relation to known nest sites (stars) in the northern section of Chaumont Barrens Nature reserve, Jefferson County, NY, USA (44.110972°N, 76.091528°) during the 2024 breeding season. Male A attended nests of both females concurrently, confirming polygynous social behavior.

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Elham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 5d

🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

Golden eagle on the nest in Finland (by O. Karlin)

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 5d

One for the occasional series of #ornithology papers you need in your life but might not have read - Common/Spotted Sandpiper flight style as an antipredator behaviour.
academic.oup.com/auk/article-...

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 5d

New radar research is revealing how long-distance bird migrants change the pace of their migration once they reach South America. #ornithology

In South America, Bird Migration Is Slow and Steady

Blackburnian Warbler in Colombia by Linda Rudolph / Macaulay Library. From the Autumn 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. For birders in the U.S. and Canada, fall migration means the…

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 7d

It's Friday, and for at least some of us that means we'll have time in the next two days to get outside and look for birds! Congratulations on making it through another week. 🐦

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 8d

The frontispiece of the current issue of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology is this gouache and colored pencil illustration of an Eastern Whip-poor-will by artist Kelly C. Balantine, inspired by a paper in the issue on the species' nesting phenology and chick development.

artist's close-up illustration of the head of a whip-poor-will

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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 8d

POV: you’re a mouse about to have a bad time

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 8d

The absence of top predators may increase nest predation through mesopredator release: bou.org.uk/blog-afm-...

Read all about it on #theBOUblog, and check out the original #IBISjournal paper: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... | #ornithology

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 8d

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