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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 13d

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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Sébastien Roques @sebroques.bsky.social · Aug 26

🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩

Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS

Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...

www.pnas.org

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · Aug 20

#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on the importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution. Lots of great results in the talks from the different speakers!

LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30

@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social

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Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social · Aug 19

#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy.

LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h

@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution

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Baptiste Schmid @baptischmi.bsky.social · Aug 18

#EOU2025 is starting in #Bangor (Wales, UK). Come to see my poster on nocturnal bird migration at the Mediteranean coast in France. #migraLion #aeroecology #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Radar monitoring showed birds heading south crossing the Mediteranen sea in the Camargue, but migration intensity was lower in the Camargue than further west where most birds follow the coast towards Spain.

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Pablo Capilla-Lasheras @pcapi.bsky.social · Aug 15

For those attending the #EOU2025 in Bangor, this starter pack might help stay on top of the conversation ;)

Ping me to be included

go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA

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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · Jul 25

NEW PAPER: using South African nest records, the authors explore phenological shifts due to climate change in the understudied Southern Hemisphere. Three of four selected bird species shifted to later laying from 1950–1999, likely linked to rainfall.

➡️ vist.ly/3z5sd

#ornithology #birds

Fig. 1 from the article: The overall density of estimated lay dates over a calendar year, revealing the peaks and duration of breeding for (a) African paradise flycatcher, (b) cape turtle dove, (c) cape wagtail, and (d) laughing dove.

Fig. 3 from the article: The results of the linear models (M1–M3) and linear mixed model (M4 – with card as random term) using different data combinations exploring association with lay date (during the period 1950–1999) for (a) African paradise flycatcher, (b) cape turtle dove, (c) cape wagtail, and (d) laughing dove.

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Patrick Lewin @plewin.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be?

The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org

doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Image description: figure from review titled Map and compass navigation: the mechanism and ontogeny of animal maps. The figure shows how environmental cues can vary in predictable gradients through space, generating unique cue combinations at each location. The second part of this figure shows how animals may respond to these cue combinations, either treating them as discrete cue-location associations, or as continuous gradients. These differences may lead to differences in navigational strategies and performance.

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Lauren Wilson @lnwilson.bsky.social · May 29

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵

Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

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Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social · Jun 30

Bird migration forecast models help mitigate the impact of human activity on avifauna. Using weather dynamics at various spatial and temporal scales, these models can be enhanced, as a new study shows: doi.org/10.1007/s004... @baptischmi.bsky.social

Enhanced forecasting of bird nocturnal migration intensity in relation to previous days and synoptic weather patterns - International Journal of Biometeorology

Operational bird migration forecast models have recently offered promising perspectives for mitigating the impacts of human activities on avifauna. These models improve on simple phenological expectat...

doi.org

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · Jun 6

Are skylarks preferring bright nights around full moon for migration?

Ringing data suggests: yes!

Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#birdmigration

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FatBear wildlife science solutions @fatbear-bio.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢

George, South Africa, August 2025

🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈

Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾

WORKSHOPS

Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...

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Météo-France @meteofrance.com · Mar 4

🐦Saviez-vous qu'il est possible d’utiliser les radars météo pour anticiper les mouvements migratoires des oiseaux ?

➡️Ce fut l’objectif du projet SEMAFOR, une collaboration entre Météo-France, France Énergies Marines, Biotope et l’Institut Ornithologique Suisse.

Plus d'infos👉 tinyurl.com/5n7tw4hd

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Dr Will Leo Hawkes @willleohawkes.bsky.social · Mar 5

Now this is exciting.

Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · Mar 5

Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can.

Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L

European data on animals aloft now publicly available

Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...

go.nature.com

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Cecilia Nilsson @cnilsson.science · Mar 5

And the paper can be found here:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

@peterdesmet.com @baptischmi.bsky.social @barthoekstra.bsky.social @stijnvanhoey.be @inbo.be @biologylu.bsky.social @uva.nl @cornellbirds.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social
@biodiversaplus.bsky.social

Biological data derived from European weather radars - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Biological data derived from European weather radars

doi.org

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Matthias Schleuning @mschleuning.bsky.social · Feb 25

Trait matching between interacting bird and plant species is widespread globally! Yet its importance for avian seed dispersal is not just about complementarity among consumers but it depends on the resource traits in a community 🧪🌐 Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Chris Hassall @katatrepsis.bsky.social · Nov 25

A great new paper by PhD student Samuel Hodges and colleague Ryan Neely has looked at how insects travel hundreds of km by riding tropospheric winds by using weather radars to explore atmospheric correlates of high-altitude insect migration 🌪️✨. Dive into the aerosphere with us 🧵👇 #Aeroecology 🧪🌍

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Claude A. Garcia @claudegarcia.bsky.social · Jan 29

Le sentiment de #submersion. Indépendamment du bord politique, il est nécessaire d'avoir des mots pour décrire l'univers mental de tous les citoyens, même lorsque leur vision du monde diffère de la nôtre.

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Baptiste Schmid @baptischmi.bsky.social · Jan 25

Happy to co-organise a symposium on migratory birds and artificial light at night: from research to policy. #ornithology #aeroecology submit 👆🏽your abstract before March 15 😀 #eou2025

Summary text of the planned EOU symposium (Bangor, Wales UK, 18-22 August 2025):

Artificial light at night (ALAN) can drastically alter the environment of migratory birds, both on their breeding grounds, non-breeding grounds and during their migratory journeys. ALAN can therefore disrupt the birds' evolved response to natural changes in environmental light. For example, light is an important cue for determining the circa-annual cycle of birds, and birds use it to orientate during their migratory flights. The scale of the problem has been recognised by the Bonn Convention on Migratory Species (CMS), which aims to identify knowledge gaps and develop guidelines to reduce the impact of light pollution on migratory species. This symposium aims to present the latest research on the effects of ALAN on migratory birds, identify research gaps, and to improve our understanding of how to adapt research projects in order to translate research results into policy and legislation.

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Baptiste Schmid @baptischmi.bsky.social · Jan 10

Three years to explore, develop and implement a near-term bird migation forecast. SEMAFOR final meeting in Toulouse at météoFrance. So greateful to have worked with wonderful people #aeroecology #radar #ornithology #vogelwarte_ch
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...

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Birgen Haest @birgenhaest.bsky.social · Dec 17

Come work with us - PostDoc on characterizing insect migration 🦋🪲🪰 using vertical-looking radars 📡
Deadline: 31 January
Please Share!
my.jobalino.ch/job/en/6cd50...

Post-doctoral researcher (100%) in 'Characterizing insect migration using vertical-looking radars' | 100%

The Swiss Ornithological Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to ornithology and the protection of birds. It monitors native birds, researches their way of life and advocates for threatened...

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Airam Rodríguez @airamrodriguez.bsky.social · Dec 9

Are you looking for a #postdoc in #ornithology or #lightpollution or #plasticpollution?
Would you like to work at #MNCN @csic.es?
Please let me know if you are interested in a #JuandelaCierva grant funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
Happy to discuss potential projects
www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...

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Bart Hoekstra @barthoekstra.bsky.social · Dec 30

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).

Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.

Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Thread below 🧵👇

A composite image of birds flying in front of fireworks, meant to depict fleeing birds.

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