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Fabio Marcolin, PhD @bibwatching.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Presented our #BiodivTourAlps work at #SItE2026 in Genoa: PAM at Alpine climbing sites showed that more anthropogenic sound was associated with lower bird species richness and short-term declines in acoustic activity. @birdlabtorino.bsky.social #APAM #bird #RecreationEcology #Biodiversity #AudioMoth

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Riccardo Alba @rickyalba26.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🐦 First Ustica Spring School was a success! Our inaugural event brought six researchers together to study #springmigration in real time, thousands of #migratorybirds passed through the island while we observed, learned, and discovered. #Ornithology at its finest in the Mediterranean!

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Sitting on a corn flake @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

How Do Introduced Parrots Thrive In Cities? "Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?" #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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EUFLYNET @euflynet.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re excited to join the community. And we’re starting with great news: 📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open! Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology. Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr #ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers

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New Call for STSM, YRI and ITC Conference Grants Now Open

We are pleased to announce that a new call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM), Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI), and ITC Conference Grants is now open within EUFLYNET.These funding opportun...

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

3. Cats have worse and shorter lifes if they roam outdoors The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

2. Outdoor cats exchange diseases with other animals and with people. There you have Toxocara, bird flu or feline leukemia And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too) theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...

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Toxoplasma: the parasite that takes over our brains

Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.

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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Today is (another) #Worldcatday A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons 1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer

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Fabio Marcolin, PhD @bibwatching.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.

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