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Journal of Avian Biology
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Open access outlet for innovative, hypothesis-driven research on the biology of birds, with a particular emphasis on ecological, evolutionary and behavioural studies. Nordic Society Oikos journal advocating fair, openly accessible and reproducible research
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition!

Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026

Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate

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NEW PAPER: In Medellín, Colombia, human activities and urban infrastructure strongly reduced bird richness and abundance, especially for low- and moderate-abundance species, while diverse vegetation and lower fragmentation supported higher diversity.

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#ornithology #birds 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/4fn5i

Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
NEW PAPER: Post-arrival and pre-migratory Hudsonian godwits showed similar baseline immunity, but pre-migratory birds displayed higher agglutination and bacterial killing, indicating immune upregulation before long-distance migration.

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#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The interacting effects of climate and land-cover change on bird communities in the United States vist.ly/4fgg9 #Birds #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
IN-DEPTH: Read the blogpost by Nicolás Ron Arroyo about how yellow-legged gulls facilitate establishment of other breeding birds in their colony area.

➡️ vist.ly/4f664

#ornithology #birds #urbanisation #colonisation 🪶
GULLS PROMOTE MULTI-SPECIES COLONIES AS THEY LEAVE FORMER REFUGES | Journal of Avian Biology
GULLS PROMOTE MULTI-SPECIES COLONIES AS THEY LEAVE FORMER REFUGES | Journal of Avian Biology
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November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
NEW PAPER: Introduced house sparrows showed more numerous, larger, and more variable DNA-methylation changes after simulated infection than native birds, suggesting distinct epigenetic responses that may aid introduction success.

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#ornithology #birds #plasticity #stress 🪶
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🐦🌊When species are lost but functions persist: a trait-based perspective on Wadden Sea bird diversity dynamics

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#BiodiversityLags #ColonisationExtinctionImbalance #DiffusionMaps #ExtinctionDebt #LongtermMonitoring #WaddenSea

November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
NEW PAPER: how does urban noise, lights, and stress disrupt birds’ sleep? This review shows that our knowledge about this is fragmeneted and calls for direct tests linking disturbed sleep to bird behavior, fitness, and survival.

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#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Using programmable infusion pump in avian species – a validation methodology in geese vist.ly/4dmhy #Geese #Stress
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
NEW PAPER: comparing two DNA methylation methods for building epigenetic clocks in chestnut-crowned babblers. Whole-genome enzymatic methyl sequencing yielded highly accurate age estimates, outperforming fragment-based approaches (epiRADseq).

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#ornithology #birds #aging 🪶
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India

📷 © Sankar Subramanian

vist.ly/4cfkr

#Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor

October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW PAPER: As direct persecution declines, yellow-legged gulls abandon remote refuges for human-accessible habitats, driving new colony growth and fostering multispecies waterbird communities of unexpected conservation value.

➡️ vist.ly/4db9c

#ornithology #birds #colonisation 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📣 🚨 NEW ISSUE ALERT: issue 5 of 2025 is now complete!

All content open access here: vist.ly/4cxmj

Cover depicting a rock partridge pair featuring Bernard-Laurent et al: vist.ly/4cxmn

Cover 📷 Jean Guillet

#ornithology #birds #research #ecology #evolution #behaviour #hypotheses
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
NEW PAPER: Female wild turkeys produce fewer male offspring where hunting increases male mortality, suggesting adaptive adjustment of brood sex ratios to enhance reproductive success under harvest pressure.

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#ornithology #birds #adaptive #sexratio 🪶
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
NEW PAPER: Artificial nest boxes trap more heat than natural burrows, pushing little penguins beyond safe thermal limits. As temperatures increase, nest box design improvements are critical to prevent population declines.

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#ornithology #birds #climate 🪶
October 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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This paper shows the importance of collaborations! Who knew a bunch of "leftover" fecal samples could turn out into such a cool paper.

We found that lack of sleep and increased stress decrease diversity in the gut microbiotas of common mynas.

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October 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
NEW PAPER: LiDAR-based habitat mapping shows that nightingales prefer dense mid-level vegetation and tall canopies. The study showcases how remote sensing can inform habitat restoration and biodiversity conservation.

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#ornithology #birds @vogelwarte.bsky.social 🪶
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
NEW PAPER: do common ravens show consistent boldness–shyness responses to risk? Reactions of individually marked ravens vary by age but not over time. Ravens fear bird-of-prey calls more than gunshots, suggesting flexible, not fixed, personalities.

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#ornithology #birds 🪶
October 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
🎤GUEST EDITOR INTERVIEW: read about the key takeaways, guest editor experience and the gaps in our understanding of the effects of human-induced changes on avian reproduction in the interview with Judith, Juan Diego and Elisa

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#ornithology #birds #reproduction #humanchanges
October 11, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🏔️Arctic-breeding black-legged kittiwakes show individual variation in foraging responses to glacial conditions without consequences for reproductive output

📷 © Delphin Ruche

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October 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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My first first-author paper has been published in @avianbiology.bsky.social! Do #buzzards defend their nest differently strong against eagle owls and against goshawks? If you're interested in the answer, check out the link: doi.org/10.1002/jav....

#raptorresearch #intraguildpredation #birdsofprey
Experimental comparison of defence behaviour against different avian top predators in an intraguild prey
The loss of top predators has been shown to lead to drastic changes in community structure. An important part of this is the shift in behaviour of other species. The understanding of such changes is ...
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October 10, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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✔️🔀Optimal foraging can drive emergent initiator-follower dynamics in social groups

📷 © 1,2 Damien Farine 3 James Klarevas-Irby

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#CollectiveBehaviour #CollectiveDecisionMaking #GroupLiving #Leadership #MarginalValueTheorem #SocialBehaviour

September 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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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#ornithology
October 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders

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#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪
October 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW PAPER: Nest mass in forest tits increases with elevation and decreasing body mass, promoting reproductive success.

➡️ vist.ly/48zub

#ornithology #birds #extendedphenotype #climate #adaptation
October 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM