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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 5h

Excited to be helping with this! Always love working with ringing data, and great to do so working on such an interesting question ☺️

Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 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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Jo Hood @jobirding.bsky.social · 7h

Mental!!!!! White-throated Needletail phone video!!! @flamboroughbird.bsky.social #yorkshirebirding

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 10d

Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️

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Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨

Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣

Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 22d

Sadly this is only open to ‘home-funded’ students (essentially UK residents) owing to the funding situation. This absolutely sucks, but would be a really good opportunity for a UK-based researcher looking to take their first steps in academia!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 22d

Supervised by the inimitable @jon-seabirds.bsky.social, @genmig.bsky.social and Susanne Åkesson (alongside me!), I'm quite excited to see how this one turns out!

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 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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giaranega.bsky.social @giaranega.bsky.social · Aug 25

1/10 We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on conservation genomics of the Balearic shearwater has just been published online at @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks both for organising! Really good fun and a lot of interesting discussions. Lots to think about!

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jul 22

Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people 🗺️ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration 🦅 🐝 🐟 🐁

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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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jun 16

We wondered much the same! Likewise the little buntings, even after 10 days looking for them I couldn’t sincerely tell you what habitat they favour (aside a bit of standing water).

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jun 16

2 seen up in Ivalo! Spotted by @pauldufour80.bsky.social, I thought they were wood sandpiper...

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jun 16

Insanely cool part of the world, very lucky to be working on these birds. Though can't say I'll miss the mosquitoes (or the sweet Gudbrandsdalen cheese, if I'm honest...). Excited to see what we learn when we sequence these guys (and their European-wintering cousins)! ☺️ #ornithology

Collage showing a tent in the midnight sun, a little bunting with two mosquitoes on its head and a red-flanked bluetail. Both birds are in the hand, having been ringed and sampled under licence.

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Dr Katrina Siddiqi-Davies @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social · Jun 3

Am super excited that our new paper is out, it looks at how reproductive role can constrain foraging and restrict evening diving opportunities for males during the pre-laying period in Manx shearwaters🥚

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

Pre-laying sex differences in reproductive roles can constrain foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird - Marine Biology

Sex differences in foraging behaviour can arise in monomorphic species when reproductive roles differ. How these differences shape foraging behaviour during the pre-laying period—an understudied repro...

link.springer.com

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · May 14

Now 11 birds recaught 😎 new pressure loggers giving insights into migration I never thought possible, absolutely incredible technology. Wouldn’t be possible without the help of friends here in Georgia, Levan, Sopo, Vano and Natia 🇬🇪 ☺️

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David Marques @davidmarques.bsky.social · May 9

The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis), recently better known as pope gull (Larus urbietorbicum 😁), has now a chromosome-scale sequenced reference genome! Our first publication from the #LarOmics project, congrats @eksramos.bsky.social et al., see: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

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Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social · Apr 25

My favourite passerine, the whitethroat (controversial, I know!) 💚

It's been great observing their numbers build in our local park over the last week & excellent to catch one in our first ringing session there this morning.

📷 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#ornithology #ukbirding

Common whitethroat in the hand having been fitted with a BTO metal ring. All birds were caught and ringed under BTO licence.

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Juan Carlos Illera @andalgalornis.bsky.social · Apr 16

New article on the differentiation process of common chaffinches in Macaronesia. A nice collaborative work with Brian Condori, María Recuerda and Borja Milá onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Relative Roles of Selection and Drift in the Chaffinch Radiation (Aves: Fringilla) Across the Atlantic Archipelagos of Macaronesia

When colonizing oceanic archipelagos, island populations diverge through mechanisms of local adaptation and neutral processes. This study investigates the roles of selection and genetic drift in the ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Robert E. Rollins @robertrollins1892.bsky.social · Mar 18

I am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions 😄

doi.org/10.1007/s004...

Analysis of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and associated microorganisms collected on the North Sea Island of Heligoland - Parasitology Research

Heligoland is an island located in the North Sea, where vegetation was almost destroyed as a result of heavy bombardment during and after the Second World War. However, over the past 70 years, the veg...

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jan 28

Very pleased to see this fella out at last☺️ a privilege to work with such lovely data and people, perhaps worth a read for those interested in #selection, #navigation and #telemetry! certainly some unexpected results from my perspective 👀

Common Tern Project @commonternproject.bsky.social · Jan 28

A lovely collaboration with the wonderful @joewynnbirds.bsky.social, Nathalie Kürten and @mmoiron.bsky.social, and kindly funded by the @ifv-whv.bsky.social, @dornitholges.bsky.social, @umweltstiftung.bsky.social, @humboldt-foundation.de and @dfg.de via @sfb1372.bsky.social.

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Jan 28

Very excited to collaborate working with these samples! Well in @pauldufour80.bsky.social on what sounded like some epic and eventful fieldwork 😮

Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · Jan 28

We have just returned from La Janda, S Spain, where we sampled some of the wintering Siberian buntings (1 Rustic, 5 Little Buntings) to uncover their birth/breeding origins. Huge thanks to the Cigüeña Negra ringing group for the warm welcome! @pdvsky.bsky.social #ornithology

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Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social · Dec 19

🪶 Citizen Science Special Issue 🪶

Really pleased to see our #seabirds paper now included in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Citizen Science Special Issue!

Lots of other exciting #ornithology research in there too 🔽

Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Issue: tinyurl.com/ymapsuda

At the top of the image is a header containing the paper title "Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology". Underneath is a photograph of seabirds breeding on a cliff. Citizen scientists are asked to identify adult and chick kittiwakes and guillemots in the image.

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · Dec 11

For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Nov 27

And here’s the link to the Q&A, hopefully see some of you there 👋 If you can’t make Q&A then don’t worry too much, it’ll be recorded and you can watch back in your own time 📺 I’ll post a link to the recording here after the event, so stay tuned!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

ACCE+ Candidate Webinar Registration 2024 - University of Liverpool

Please complete below if you would like to attend a Zoom webinar hosted by the supervisor of the project or projects you are interested in. You may select as many candidate webinars as you like. Plea...

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Joe Wynn @joewynnbirds.bsky.social · Nov 27

Here’s the ad!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

ACCE+ DLA programme: In reverse: using genomics approaches to investigate the rapid evolution of "reverse" songbird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - ACCE+ DLA programme: In reverse: using genomics approaches to investigate the rapid evolution of "reverse" songbird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

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