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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 2d

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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Stu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 22d

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...

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 14d

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩

On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks!

#Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 14d

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

the 5 study species: Dunnock, Northern Wheatear, European Robin, Common Redstart, Garden Warbler

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Behavioral Ecology and Endocrinology Lab @behavecol-lab.bsky.social · 21d

Please share!🙏
🚨 PhD Oportunity in Avian Behavioural Ecology in Spain
The BirdBond Project (MNCN & IREC) studies how pair bonds form, change & affect reproduction/survival in the spotless starling 🐦

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Ryan Norris @ryannorrissci.bsky.social · 23d

PhD position available to study the migration ecology and year-round demography of blackpoll warblers.

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 23d

New bird species for our project investigating animal diversity in stands of #invasive #fallopia #knotweed: Eurasian Jay!

Eurasian Jay captured and ringed for scientific project before released again.

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 29d

Meet Lasse,

He‘ll support the working group as a volunteer for the next year, hoping to learn and observe scientific work in the process. While his interests lay elsewhere beforehand, he‘s become curios about the groups work and likes to try to think along :)

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Andre Moncrieff @andremoncrieff.bsky.social · Aug 25

🐦🔬 Recruiting PhD students! 🌎🧬
I’m looking for 1–2 PhD students to join our team starting Fall 2026 at the Sam Noble Museum & University of Oklahoma.

Our research: 🐦 birds • 🌍 biogeography • 🌴 Neotropics • 🧬 population genomics • 🌱 speciation

👉 Learn more: www.moncriefflab.org

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Moncrieff Lab | Bird Evolution

The Moncrieff Lab is a research lab based at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on the campus of the University of Oklahoma. Research in the lab involves museum specimens, fieldwork, and...

www.moncriefflab.org

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Pete Manning @peteecology.bsky.social · Sep 8

3 year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in Landscape Multifunctionality here in beautiful Bergen jobbnorge.no/en/available... please repost

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Diego Gil @diegogil.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · Sep 5

This week we were at #BESMove2025, where @giovannasandretti.bsky.social presented our results on the overlooked pre-migratory flights.
The conference title of this year was "Understanding Migration", and she came back home full of fresh insights and great new connections!

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great fun to teach students how to catch and handle #birds for scientific studies and how to collect and analyse fecal samples together with @giovannasandretti.bsky.social - but shocking to see how many songbirds´ droppings contain #microplastics

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Sep 1

Only 10 days left to apply:

We are searching for a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical ecology and evolution.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · Aug 26

Spread the word: we’re #hiring! We offer two short-term #fellowships for master’s degree holders and PhD candidates for 6-12 months to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our SFB/CRC 1372. Find more information on www.sfb1372.de/jobs

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Aug 25

Based on samples of the elusive Swinhoe´s Rail from 🇷🇺 and 🇯🇵 we show that island-derived genetic variation contributes to the genetic makeup of the continental population, indicating ongoing gene flow and establishment of populations originating from the Japanese islands!

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Aug 25

New #ornithology paper out in Journal of Biogeography:

Phylogenomics Supports Island Contribution to Metapopulation Dynamics in a Predominantly Continental Bird Species

doi.org/10.1111/jbi....

Using the world´s smallest rail as study species 😍

Many thanks to Daisuke Aoki and all collaborators!

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Aug 25

Great fun to present at #EOU2025 in Bangor last week, and so nice to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over the world! 🐦

David La Puma (he/him/his) @woodcreeper.bsky.social · Aug 21

@wielandheim.bsky.social presents "From Siberia to the tropics: landbird migration along the Asian flyways" at the symposium Filling the knowledge gaps on small landbird migration in poorly known migratory systems using individual tracking. #EOC2025 #ornithology Excellent research and synthesis!

A presenter at the 15th European Ornithologists’ Congress in Bangor, Wales, speaks beside a projected slide about migratory landbirds crossing the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The slide poses research questions on conditions for crossing, ecological requirements during the non-breeding season, and identifying threats and limiting populations. It includes a small migration map, text references, and an illustration of a blue-and-gray bird in flight. The presenter stands at a lectern with a computer monitor, disinfectant supplies, and a water bottle visible.

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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · Aug 12

Join us as Assistant #Curator of Vertebrates @ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿NMS! Large collections of #birds & #mammals + very active specimen prep = cool place! The ad doesn't say, but I say there's a good chance of prolongation beyond 1y. Hurry up and apply/spread the word: careers.nms.ac.uk/job/748553!

🪶🧪 #museumjobs #job

Yours truly and our mounted Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) specimen

The bird collection store, busy with visiting researchers, mounts, and in the background our volunteers who capture data from the specimen labels. It's not always this packed, but we do have a fair number of volunteers and visitors.

Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in trays in the cabinets. The collections spaces are pretty new, fresh, and functional, which is not always the case for museum collections...

A tray of African raptor eggs to illustrate the breadth of the bird collection, which holds som 70K skin specimens, 60K egg clutches, and 10K skeletons.

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EvolDir @evoldir.bsky.social · Jul 26

Bielefeld University seeks a postdoc for a 6-year scientific assistant position in Animal Behaviour, starting March 2026. Apply by Sept 10, 2025. More info: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/biologie/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/behaviour #job

Animal Behaviour - Bielefeld University

With a team of over 50 people, the different research groups study animal behaviour within the framework of the four questions of Tinbergen, both in the lab and in the field. Current model systems include laboratory studies on zebra finches (

www.uni-bielefeld.de

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jul 28

Check out this Senior Research Ecologist- Bioacoustics vacancy @btobirds.bsky.social

britishtrustforornithology.postingpanda.uk/job/734089

#ornithology 🪶

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animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social · Jul 28

New postdoc position available 🚨
We are looking for a new post doc to work on adaptive management in geese. Are you experienced in working with animal movement patterns? And are you used to working with large files of transmitter date? Then apply before the 1st op september!

Postdoc Goose Impact

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher for research in the context of international adaptive management of geese. Did you analyse animal movement patterns during your PhD? Do you want to work wi...

nioo.knaw.nl

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · Jun 30

#ornithology
dialogue.earth/en/nature/ma...

Malaysia’s booming songbird competition scene could silence its forests

Growing songbird ownership, enabled by weak laws, is pushing Oriental magpie-robins into cages – with growing concern over wild populations, as explored in a co-publication with Macaranga

dialogue.earth

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Jun 30

New #ornithology paper on the #animalmigration of barn swallows breeding in Siberia 🪶

They migrate southward to mainland SE-Asia, unlike other Asian swallow populations

Many thanks to my collaborators!

Study unfortunately discontinued for unscientific reasons (first #covid, then war)

Link 👇

German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · Jun 30

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology

Geolocator tracking and ring recoveries reveal the migration of Siberian Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica tytleri

Short Communication

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Geolocator tracking and ring recoveries reveal the migration of Siberian Barn Swallows Hirundo rustica tytleri - Journal of Ornithology

The Barn Swallow Hirundo rustica exhibits diverse migration behaviours across its extensive breeding range. While most of the migratory subspecies have been tracked with geolocators, information is la...

link.springer.com

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