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Posts by Malcolm Burgess. Runs PiedFly.Net, a citizen science network monitoring Pied flycatchers across SW England contributing to science on #phenology #migration #demography and more.
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Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...
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Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
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Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Cross-system transfer of fatty acids from aquatic insects supports terrestrial insectivore condition and reproductive success - Oecologia
Cross-system fluxes of aquatic insects rich in omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (ω-3 LC-PUFAs), specifically eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), may subsidise ins...
link.springer.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟
Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
November 5, 2025 at 9:32 AM
🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds).
🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK.
🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025.
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...
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I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
November 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Want your modelling to save birds? PhD with me at UvA (Amsterdam): build spatial integrated population model for black-tailed godwits with world-class dataset and strong team here & @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social/RUG). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Apply by 1 Dec 2025: #Ecology #Bayesian #Conservation
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Spotted Flycatchers declined by 88% between 1970-2018, could low reproductive productivity be the cause?
Read on for a summary of new RSPB research
Full paper:
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
(1/5)
Read on for a summary of new RSPB research
Full paper:
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
(1/5)
Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England
Most demographic studies of multi-brooded species require information on breeding success per nesting attempt and the number of nesting attempts made to derive a measure of whole-season productivity....
doi.org
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Spotted Flycatchers declined by 88% between 1970-2018, could low reproductive productivity be the cause?
Read on for a summary of new RSPB research
Full paper:
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
(1/5)
Read on for a summary of new RSPB research
Full paper:
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
(1/5)
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Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Epigenetic Potential and Dispersal Propensity in a Free‐Living Songbird: A Spatial and Temporal Approach
Natal dispersal is a key life history trait determining fitness and driving population dynamics, genetic structure, and species distributions. Despite existing evidence that not all phenotypes are eq...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Very excited about this work now out in
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@molecology! We test whether🐦with ⬆️dispersal propensity differ in the nº CpGs across the genome, with the hypothesis that⬆️CpGs allow for⬆️epigenetically-driven plasticity facilitating environmental coping
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust
September 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Should I stay or should I go?🐦 Fancy a #PhD studying Pied flycatchers in the Peak District to help better understand what drives individual & population performance? Think #habitat #movement #ecology #genetics 🌍 Make use of this nestbox PIT tag study system and join us! Email me #LJMU #NationalTrust
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Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru
Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?
Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent
Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Jake Stephen
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru
Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?
Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent
Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Jake Stephen
October 14, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Job vacancy 🧪
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru
Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?
Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent
Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Jake Stephen
Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru
Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales?
Deadline: 3rd Nov
Location: Flexible within Wales
Duration: Permanent
Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Jake Stephen
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
October 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶
Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶
Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶
Closing date tomorrow, an exciting PhD linking insects with demography of aerial foraging birds such as House martin based @uniexecec.bsky.social in Cornwall.
Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Closing date tomorrow, an exciting PhD linking insects with demography of aerial foraging birds such as House martin based @uniexecec.bsky.social in Cornwall.
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Only a few days to go… please share!!!
Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
September 28, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Only a few days to go… please share!!!
Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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New job alert: An amazing opportunity - our International science team are hiring for a 2yr position (initially) for an experienced scientist to work on tropical forest conservation 🌍🧪
Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Nick Williams/RSPB
Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Nick Williams/RSPB
September 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New job alert: An amazing opportunity - our International science team are hiring for a 2yr position (initially) for an experienced scientist to work on tropical forest conservation 🌍🧪
Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Nick Williams/RSPB
Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
📷Nick Williams/RSPB
Back from Olomouc — such a well-organised conference in a brilliant location. This community through these HNB conferences has sparked so many collaborations for PiedFly.Net, putting UK data on the map, and led to @spibirds.bsky.social making working together even easier. Thanks you organisers!
The 10th HNB Conference has finished! The atmosphere was fantastic, and we hope everyone enjoyed both the conference and the city of Olomouc. Congrats to the winners of the student competition: Beau Strijker (Best Poster) and Daisy Abraham (Best Talk)! We’re already looking forward to the next HNB!
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Back from Olomouc — such a well-organised conference in a brilliant location. This community through these HNB conferences has sparked so many collaborations for PiedFly.Net, putting UK data on the map, and led to @spibirds.bsky.social making working together even easier. Thanks you organisers!
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Extending Long-Term Avian Studies Alters Temporal and Climate-Driven Trend Conclusions | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Extending Long‐Term Avian Studies Alters Temporal and Climate‐Driven Trend Conclusions
Long-term population studies are essential for understanding the effects of climate change on biodiversity, yet predictions based on short-term data may be unreliable. Our findings reveal that initia...
doi.org
September 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Extending Long-Term Avian Studies Alters Temporal and Climate-Driven Trend Conclusions | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
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Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more
Get in touch if you want to know more
September 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Come work with us… PDRA position to work on a host of exciting things! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...
Get in touch if you want to know more
Get in touch if you want to know more
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I last saw Arin in 2014 when he was a field assistant at APLORI helping us monitor whinchats in Nigeria (on his bike 🤣). Caught up with him today - 11 years later. He’s starting a zoology degree in Sep because he’s inspired to do a PhD in ornithology and help protect his home. All because of APLORI!
August 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I last saw Arin in 2014 when he was a field assistant at APLORI helping us monitor whinchats in Nigeria (on his bike 🤣). Caught up with him today - 11 years later. He’s starting a zoology degree in Sep because he’s inspired to do a PhD in ornithology and help protect his home. All because of APLORI!
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Standard Nestling Manipulation by Researchers Does Not Affect Fledging Age: A Field Experiment With Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca | doi.org/10.13157/arl... | Ardeola | #ornithology 🪶
July 8, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Standard Nestling Manipulation by Researchers Does Not Affect Fledging Age: A Field Experiment With Pied Flycatchers Ficedula hypoleuca | doi.org/10.13157/arl... | Ardeola | #ornithology 🪶
Pleased to contribute a nest to this years @lesserspotnet.bsky.social monitoring. A brood of 4 revealed by the special camera thanks to @angusrobin.bsky.social
June 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Pleased to contribute a nest to this years @lesserspotnet.bsky.social monitoring. A brood of 4 revealed by the special camera thanks to @angusrobin.bsky.social
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⏰ 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
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
May 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
⏰ 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
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
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⏰ 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
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
May 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
⏰ 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
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