Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

#VacancyEdu #PhD #PhDposition #PhDlife #PhdScholarship #DoctoralCandidate #PhDstudents #ResearchOpportunity #PhDcommunity #PhDStudentship

#ornithology

What an epic return! 🤩🌍🐦

A common snipe tagged in April 2025 near Olomouc is back in Czechia after migrating to the Yamalo-Nenets AO (east of the Urals) – a round trip of over 7,500 km!

#HABITRACK #ornithology #birdmigration #snipe

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...

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

Are animals randomly distributed in the air, or is there a structure to where and when we find them? In our new paper we outline factors that shape habitat use in the air, from abiotic structure to biotic interactions. A lot of fun discussions behind this one! 🦅🦋🦇🌬
www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/46pfg

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g27o3ttbhwno6sjns7wwl3yg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

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🚨 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 🐦

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Some labs drop papers on Bluesky.
Wolf Lab drops #haiku! 📝

Brilliant molecular poetry - check it out:
@jochenwolflab.bsky.social 🧬

Including this one:

Sauna, vodka, tea.

Inhale the North, speciate.

Even ants must pee.

#ornithology #MolecularEcology #evolution #SciComm

#ornithology #birdsong #bioacoustics

Congrats! That’s fantastic!!! 🎉 Well-deserved for your great work and beautiful poster... and wonderful to hear you also
connected with others in the field 😎🐦🌇

If you are an early career researcher and at #EOU2025 come to the @nordicoikos.bsky.social booth and learn all about our @avianbiology.bsky.social review award. 🪶🏆 #birds #ornithology

www.avianbiology.org/authors/jab-...

This collaborative study was led by Nora Bergman 🧬 and @informedbirds.bsky.social, with contributions from @katjaronka.bsky.social, @fishcongen.bsky.social, @frodefossoy.bsky.social , @willjsmith.bsky.social, and others. 6/6

@helsinki.fi
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@ivb-cas.bsky.social

🔑 Even philopatric species can maintain genetic diversity during rapid range shifts thanks to high dispersal. Yet, subtle genetic erosion via private allele loss still tracks the expansion route. This is key for predicting adaptive potential under climate-driven range shifts. 5/6

However, private allelic richness declined slightly with latitude, showing that even with high dispersal, some genetic footprint remains.
Combining all evidence revealed the expansion origin in the SW of the range. 4/6

There was no drop in nucleotide diversity or allelic richness across the expansion front and almost no founder effect signals. This suggests that high dispersal capacity buffered against the usual genetic costs. 3/6

Here, we combined historical observations on first occurrences, ring recovery data and genomic analyses spanning the European breeding range to map the expansion and to test its genetic consequences. 2/6

Our new study in Molecular Ecology doi.org/10.1111/mec.... explores the northward expansion of the Eurasian #reedwarbler. Despite a fast range shift, genetic diversity wasn't lost and only weak founder effect signs were found. Let’s break it down: 🧵👇 1/6

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Reed Warbler range expansion paper just out, led by the amazing Nora Bergman 🧬🪶 with @informedbirds.bsky.social @katjaronka.bsky.social @fishcongen.bsky.social @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @frodefossoy.bsky.social and others

doi.org/10.1111/mec.70077

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Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology

Happy to be at #EOU2025! 🐦🏙️
If you want to know, how does urbanization impact migratory bird seasonal distribution (and you didn't manage to come to my poster yesterday), don't hesitate to find me and ask!
@eounion.bsky.social

How robust is current hunting bag data, and can we rely on it to manage sustainable harvest of UK waterbirds?

For most species, it's pretty good, but released mallard🦆🦆can confuse the picture

Recent collaboration with @ecoevoenviro.bsky.social and Matt Ellis

The data roughly correspond to what we know from ring recoveries (see the map here: migrationatlas.org/node/1648 and the description in the tab 'Text'). In general, they follow a parallel longitudinal migration pattern. What's new is the level of detail thanks to the fine-scale tracking data! 😎

12 August marks the start of the Snipe shooting season in GB (not NI).
Historically, drainage has massively reduced breeding numbers. Species is amber-listed.
@bbs-birds.bsky.social trend for 1995-2023 is +17%.
Blog about Snipe & Jack Snipe:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/09/20/s...
#ornithology