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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 5d

Still there on Sep 30th (reported on FB)

Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 7d

She was inspiring. She really made a difference. And she really believed in mankind. RIP Jane Goodall, may we have the power to take the inspiration you gave us and keep fighting the fight for nature and mankind.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 7d

Welcome to Heaven, Dr. Jane Goodall. You made the world a better place.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Jeroen Reneerkens @jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social · 13d

A vagrant juvenile Sanderling turned up in Israel—likely after a single non-stop flight from the Dutch Wadden Sea. Here’s thread explaining why that’s remarkable and interesting. @wadertales.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social #Birds #Migration

The colour-marked Sanderling photographed in Israel, still carrying its radiotransmitter

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 15d

Is it really? Do you really think that double blind is meant for the student who's first author? I think that it is usually more about the last author or the group.

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 15d

I think that it depends on the types of corrections - is it potentially wrong or misleading? I say raise these issues until the editor makes their decision.
But if it is "this could have been better", than in my opinion that might be beyond the referee's job, especially in the second round.

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 15d

Officially yes, but working with animals as study species, it is almost impossible to really hide who the involved study groups are. I know who is working on species X in area Y, so what you mentioned will only mean that I do not know who exactly the authors from these groups are.

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 15d

Just started reviewing a paper that's supposed to be double-blind. There are indeed no names in the document, but the file names are the name of the first author...

Which made me think - how often do you really not know who's paper you are reviewing?

🧪🌎

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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · 23d

Happy to be included in the ‘Understanding Migration’ virtual issue at Functional Ecology — alongside many influential papers 🐦🎉 #birdmigration #movementecology #ornithology
@funecology.bsky.social @besmovesig.bsky.social
👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Understanding migration: Functional Ecology

<em>Functional Ecology</em> journal publishes high-impact research providing a mechanistic understanding of ecological pattern and process from the organismic to ecosystem scale.

besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 20d

After many many nights of field work, Yohay Wasserlauf led the GPS tagging of a few birds, discovering that at least some are resident.
How long were they there without us knowing? What else is under our noses without us knowing?

🧪🌎🪶🐾 #ornithology #conservation

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

Egyptian Nightjars are residents in the Dead Sea region, showing a high year-round roost fidelity - Journal of Ornithology

We investigated the spatial behavior of a recently discovered breeding population of Egyptian Nightjars (Caprimulgus aegyptius) near the Dead Sea. While there is a prevalent migratory tendency in othe...

link.springer.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 20d

These amazing birds breed and roost in what can only be described as Martian Habitat. They find shade under trees that were washed centuries ago when the Dead Sea reached further north.
Feeding seems to mainly occur in nearby agriculture fields

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 20d

In 2014, a car hit a strange bird in the northern Dead Sea area. The driver found a dead Egyptian #Nightjar, and saw another one flying away. First observation for that area.

Multiple efforts started - surveys, ringing, tagging - and a breeding population was discovered!

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 20d

Larger than a blackbird, in one of the most populated areas in the world, but still unseen for who knows how long.

A second paper from the story of the discovery of the Egyptian #Nightjar in the Dead Sea area was published recently.

🧪🐾🌎🪶
📷 Y. Wasserlauf

#ornithology #conservation #ecology

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 27d

Another touristic site with my parents, another cool #bird_behavior. This time, Mainau and its beautiful trees present a cool Nuthach.

#ornithology

Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 28d

Took my parents to see the Rhine Falls today.
They enjoyed the falls, I enjoyed other things enjoying the falls 🙃

#ornithology

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Batumi Raptor Count @batumiraptorcount.org · 29d

A new study led by @moveandconserve.bsky.social used GPS tracking to test the monitoring potential of Eilat and Batumi.

An invaluable step toward linking counted birds to their origins, but we found it needed some elaboration from a migration count perspective!

Our commentary: tinyurl.com/nnbzu7kc

One million raptors: But where do they come from? — Batumi Raptor Count

As a migration counter, you can’t help but wonder: “Where did the bird I just tallied come from, and where is it going?” In light of BRC’s main aim — monitoring raptor population trends — this very ...

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 29d

Hi @askaboutanimals.bsky.social can you please add me? I am a zoologist studying mainly migratory birds but recently adding sedentary mammals so shifting from Ornithologist to Zoologist :) Here is my google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?us...

scholar.google.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · 29d

This is now officially out with the new @currentbiology.bsky.social issue (current Current Biology issue 🙃).

@yaelbird.bsky.social
🧪🌎🐾🪶 #ornithology #conservation #movement_ecology

Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Aug 22

How are human-altered habitats affecting birds' migratory routes? And what is the role of age and wind conditions?

We tested this for an #endangered #Eagle

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🐾🧪🪶 @yaelbird.bsky.social @talavgar.bsky.social
@currentbiology.bsky.social
#conservation #ornithology

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 8

Since you asked, I'll take the opportunity :) We got this published officially today. I am pretty proud of it and I think it is a nice paper: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Age-dependent response to anthropogenic habitat during migration of an endangered raptor

Efrat et al. use complementary data sources and statistical methods to show how experience, weather, and landscape affect endangered eagles’ migratory behavior. Most prominently, they present an exper...

www.cell.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think I might print this and put it on my office door (the part about the khachapuri, of course 😋)

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 8

So we wrote back
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Science is an ongoing conversation between people. It happens in conferences, in the field, in every day life, and sometimes even over the pages of a scientific journal.

I love it.

@yaelbird.bsky.social

#conservation #ornithology 🧪🐾🌎

Complementary use of Eulerian and Lagrangian data can improve conservation output: A response to (Hoekstra et al., 2025)

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 8

So they wrote a comment www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

They raised some good points, improving our initial work, and allowing us to address a few more aspects of our work

@barthoekstra.bsky.social @tohar-tal.bsky.social @wmgvs.bsky.social

#conservation #ornithology 🧪🐾🌎

Toward integrating migration counts and GPS tracking for flyway-scale avian population monitoring — A response to

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 8

Science as a conversation:

In January, we published a paper about migratory bird counts www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For different reasons, we did not include the managers of the bird counts. But the @batumiraptorcount.org people had some important comments
#conservation #ornithology 🧪🐾🌎

Using GPS tracking data to validate the conservation value of bird migration counts

Effective conservation of migratory birds requires gathering of information about their population trends, often acquired using migratory bird counts.…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 5

Someone's being enjoying our garden 🤩

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Ron Efrat @moveandconserve.bsky.social · Sep 4

A great thank you to the organizers of #BESMove2025!

It was really nice meeting new and old friends, hearing about so many interesting studies and even enjoying nice weather that allowed me to see the local wildlife 😅.

See you next year?

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