W. P. Mueller
@wpmueller.bsky.social
Ornithologist/environmentalist focused on biodiversity conservation and ethical behavior toward all of life; Emeritus Director of Lake Michigan Bird Observatory, in Wisconsin, USA. (He, him). Born at 310.7 ppm carbon in the atmosphere.
November 26, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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🦉🌎🧪 The Palomarin Banding Summary for April/May 25' is live! Highlights: the foreign recapture of a #SwainsonsThrush banded in Mexico, a #WesternFlycatcher set a new longevity record, and a rare #PileatedWoodpecker! In total, our team captured 273 new birds and recaptured 304. 🔗 shorturl.at/9TISl
November 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🦉🌎🧪 The Palomarin Banding Summary for April/May 25' is live! Highlights: the foreign recapture of a #SwainsonsThrush banded in Mexico, a #WesternFlycatcher set a new longevity record, and a rare #PileatedWoodpecker! In total, our team captured 273 new birds and recaptured 304. 🔗 shorturl.at/9TISl
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Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Check out paper and thread by @colincarlson.bsky.social on the crossroads of biodiversity conservation and zoonosis surveillance 🧪
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Research in Nature Communications suggests that Atlantic grey seal milk rivals human breast milk in sugar complexity. These findings challenge the previously held assumption that human milk is uniquely complex amongst mammals. go.nature.com/4p2hYRW 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Research in Nature Communications suggests that Atlantic grey seal milk rivals human breast milk in sugar complexity. These findings challenge the previously held assumption that human milk is uniquely complex amongst mammals. go.nature.com/4p2hYRW 🧪
November 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Öst et al. Breaking bonds: maternal and offspring states relate to constraint-based brood donation in a seaduck academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #ornithology #seabirds
Breaking bonds: maternal and offspring states relate to constraint-based brood donation in a seaduck
Duckling transfer in eiders relates to maternal and offspring physical and cognitive limits and is not necessarily adaptive.Our study shows that mothers in
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November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Öst et al. Breaking bonds: maternal and offspring states relate to constraint-based brood donation in a seaduck academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... #ornithology #seabirds
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Hunters target older birds living in remote areas, as they know more songs than young ones and are prized by buyers.
Just like trophy hunting goes for the more experienced individuals, the songbird trade removes culture repositories from bird communities.
www.mekongeye.com/2025/11/24/l... #birds 🌏
Just like trophy hunting goes for the more experienced individuals, the songbird trade removes culture repositories from bird communities.
www.mekongeye.com/2025/11/24/l... #birds 🌏
Laos’ birdsong is disappearing unnoticed
Unprotected and in demand, the Black-throated Laughingthrush is being trapped across Laos for the cross-border bird trade
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November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hunters target older birds living in remote areas, as they know more songs than young ones and are prized by buyers.
Just like trophy hunting goes for the more experienced individuals, the songbird trade removes culture repositories from bird communities.
www.mekongeye.com/2025/11/24/l... #birds 🌏
Just like trophy hunting goes for the more experienced individuals, the songbird trade removes culture repositories from bird communities.
www.mekongeye.com/2025/11/24/l... #birds 🌏
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In a new article on our blog, Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence @hobdy71.bsky.social details the momentous release of three rehabilitated Newell's shearwaters—a native Hawaiian seabird known locally as ‘a’o.
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In a new article on our blog, Safina Center Conservationist-in-Residence @hobdy71.bsky.social details the momentous release of three rehabilitated Newell's shearwaters—a native Hawaiian seabird known locally as ‘a’o.
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
www.safinacenter.org/blog/flying-free-on-kauai
#conservation #seabirds 🌎
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Cristian Pérez-Granados et al | #ornithology 🪶
Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Cristian Pérez-Granados et al | #ornithology 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 10:37 AM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Cristian Pérez-Granados et al | #ornithology 🪶
Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Cristian Pérez-Granados et al | #ornithology 🪶
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NEW BLOG - the RBBP reviews what species we should collect data on regularly. Here’s an explanation of what we consider when species are removed, and why Avocet and Mediterranean Gull are staying on our list, for now rbbp.org.uk/2025/11/25/r...
Reviewing the RBBP species list
Reviewing the RBBP species list
Mediterranean Gull, Mark Eaton
The RBBP collects data and reports upon all native species with UK breeding populations of fewer than 2,000 pairs. In addition, s...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NEW BLOG - the RBBP reviews what species we should collect data on regularly. Here’s an explanation of what we consider when species are removed, and why Avocet and Mediterranean Gull are staying on our list, for now rbbp.org.uk/2025/11/25/r...
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Interspecific proximity reduces breeding success of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) but not Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Interspecific proximity reduces breeding success of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) but not Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
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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.
➡️ vist.ly/4fwr2
#ornithology #birds 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4fwr2
#ornithology #birds 🪶
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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.
➡️ vist.ly/4fwr2
#ornithology #birds 🪶
➡️ vist.ly/4fwr2
#ornithology #birds 🪶
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From the current WJO issue: Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) breeding population on Big Giftun Island in Hurghada Archipelago, Egypt. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
From the current WJO issue: Sooty Falcon (Falco concolor) breeding population on Big Giftun Island in Hurghada Archipelago, Egypt. #ornithology doi.org/10.1080/1559...
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Identification of Farmland Bird Indicator Species for Practitioner Monitoring in the United Kingdom | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Identification of Farmland Bird Indicator Species for Practitioner Monitoring in the United Kingdom
Current farmland bird monitoring schemes are often too complex for widespread participation. Using breeding bird data from two UK Farmer Clusters, we identified indicator species strongly correlated ...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Identification of Farmland Bird Indicator Species for Practitioner Monitoring in the United Kingdom | onlinelibrary.wiley.... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶