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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

¿Os acordáis de la singular historia de este Chorlitejo patinegro? hilo 👇🧵 Pues tiene un final feliz. Justo un año después de su liberación, ha vuelto a ser avistado en el mismo lugar de la Albufera de València. 🧐 Estad atentos a la anilla CY por vuestras zonas de pajareo.

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liedvogel lab @genmig.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

hello wonderful network, especially all of you in the #Doñana region - we are looking for someone who could check the island specified in Sandra's thread for a GPS logger and gull-billed tern chick that has died on an island in this area. please share in your networks to multiply our chances

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

‼️Now published @evolletters.bsky.social Developmental differences between males and females alter the sex ratio. 🐥🧵 about this study 1/9

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

More information on how flooding affects the breeding success of threatened Baltic #dunlins in this informative blog post.

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Strong winds resulted in flooding of the last remaining #ruff clutches that were close to hatching at Bothnian Bay. A week earlier and the consequences would have been catastrophic. Flood risk increases with climate change and is a concern for Baltic #waders: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

An ethogram for #ruff chicks showing age-related changes in social and other behaviors. Results from a master thesis by @uditnair.bsky.social and PhD chapter from Veronica Rohr-Bender.

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Alice Boyle @birdfiddler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link 1/n

above: montage of brightly coloured tropical birds, some in interesting display postures, some eating fruit
below: a phylogeny that includes those same taxa (and others) and a plot of the ratio of genetic diversity on the autosomes relative to the Z chromosomes

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Boomer year for #ruffs at Bothnian Bay. An incredible 88 nests at our study sites hatched so far, as predation and flooding have been unusually low. #ornithology #conservation #waders

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 15/06/2026

🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award Deadline: 15 September 2026 Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the... 🪶

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One person's wealth equals the wealth of 46% of all living humans combined. Inequality is the largest threat to democracy: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

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Soon-to-be trillionaire Elon Musk's wealth grew by over $1 million per minute in the last year | Oxfam International

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We have ambitious plans to help breeding wader recovery from finding solutions to improve nest and chick survival to using tracking technology to compare breeding success in different areas. You can help us achieve them by donating via www.bto.org/breeding... Thank you. #Ornithology

An adult Lapwing is on the ground, showing its striking head crest, as a small fluffy Lapwing chick stands in front. Wording over the image reads: Breeding Waders are at risk.

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

In a rapidly changing world, site fidelity can be a trap. In our new paper in Movement Ecology, however, we find that stopover site fidelity by Whimbrel is associated with high flexibility in their local-scale habitat use. Awesome work by Maina Handmaker & folks at South Carolina DNR! rdcu.be/fn1EE

Whimbrel at shellrake roost in South Carolina. Photo by Andrew S. Johnson.

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AfD-Funktionäre, BSW-Funktionäre und Holger-Friedrich-Funktionär trafen sich in der letzten Woche zu Gesprächen mit hochrangigen Vertretern des Putin-Regimes, darunter auch FSB-Mitarbeiter.

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

@dunlin.bsky.social is such a deserving winner! He has been a huge force in the conservation of birds along the Pacific Coast for decades. Not to mention being a great mentor to many, many people. Congrats, Nils!!

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This season we introduced thermal drones into our fieldwork to find and monitor #ruff and #dunlin nests at #Liminka Bay. It has been a relevation, so far we found twice the number of #ruff nests in a third of the time! For the privileged drone pilots, fieldwork is now done from a comfortable chair!

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

#Wader breeding season on Baltic coastal meadows at Liminka Bay 🇫🇮. We have found record numbers of #ruff clutches this year. Many any of them contain again one or more blue eggs. Fortunately, current predation rates are very low 🤞 #ornithology #eggblue

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Perfect timing for this picture. Ruff lekking is in full swing with their stunning display garnering a lot of attention (not only from ruff females). Unfortunately, ruffs have gone missing from many places across Europe as their breeding habitat, coastal meadows, are vanishing.

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Bert Sgroggins @bsgroggins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Spot the Plover competition time. Ringed Plover on the nest, this is next to the main track, there are many more isolated small bays in the area which I will not visit. #DoNotDisturb *To make it easy, Plover is centre of frame. #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #UKbirding #ukbirds

A pebbled shoreline with a mixture of natural and eroded building material, (assume this was to stop erosion of the track), centre of frame is a Ringed Plover on the nest.

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Susan Johnston @susanjohnston.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

A female and male sparrow stand on a wooden post. Photo by Peter S. Ranke.

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Incubating Kentish plover female blending perfectly into the environment. Honestly, despite having found hundreds of plover nests in the past, I would have not spotted this one. #birds #camouflage

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Dr. Susanne Hoffmann @susannehoffmann.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

Photo of a bird with large eyes sitting on a rock. The feathers are brown with white spots.

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Emily H. DuVal @emilyhduval.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Testosterone therapy is trending www.nature.com/articles/d41... I struggle to understand how testosterone therapy can be considered as a solution for today's problems. Reminder that #ruffs have found a better solution a few million years ago: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Testosterone therapy is trending. Who really needs it, and why?

Some clinicians are pushing to broaden testosterone use, but there is debate about its benefits and risks.

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Sara Lipshutz (she/her) @jacanamama.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

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Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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International Wader Study Group @waderstudy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Registration is now OPEN for our 2026 conference in Spain 🇪🇸 www.waderstudygroup.org/conferences/...

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Andres Bendesky @bendeskylab.com · 17/04/2026

Many wild populations are fragmenting and declining, leading to inbreeding. We are studying how animals avoid inbreeding and the consequences of inbreeding an in a >20 year study of >20,000 wild mice with whole genomes. We are recruiting a postdoc at Columbia and two PhD students in U Zurich.

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Jente Ottenburghs | Avian Hybrids @jenteo.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Stuck in a Ruff: Having a supergene is not always super avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/s... #ornithology

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Stuck in a Ruff: Having a supergene is not always super

Female Ruffs with a large inversion have lower reproductive success.

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#Shorebird eggs are optimised for camouflage and each one is a unique piece of art. Thee eggs are coloured by the females individually (who probably inspired the #Easter 🐇). Our annual "egg hunt" at Liminka Bay, Finland, searching for hidden #ruff and #dunlin 🪺 will soon start again. #ornithology

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Nest failure in threatened #shorebirds has many reasons. Replacing eggs of vulnerable clutches with dummy eggs boosts nest survival of #Ruffs in grazed coastal meadows. New paper out 🎉 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #conservation #ornithology

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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Mary Colwell and Prof Jenny Gill explore gender bias in fieldwork in our latest blog. Read it now: www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-tha...

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Becca Wood captures amazing video of Sharp-tail grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus) males demonstrating their sexy dance, which involves moving legs up & down more than 20 times per second, inflating purple neck sacs, tails behind them like a flag. They're native to Canada & central plains of the US.

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Resting Snowy Plover male in deep thoughts about life and everything. He has this slightly annoyed expression, probably was thinking about humanity. #ornithology

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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

✨ Happy International Women’s Day. ✨ Today, we celebrate the power, courage, and impact of women around the world. Let’s continue to create space where women feel seen, valued, and unstoppable. May we continue to challenge stereotypes, support one another, and inspire the next generation.

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

1/ Remember when Ted Cruz went to Cancún as the Texas power grid failed? It wasn't just the people of TX left behind, it was also the wildlife. Out now @natecoevo.nature.com, our paper led by @mstager.bsky.social & @treeswallows.bsky.social documents how bad the storms were for birds. rdcu.be/e7aUy

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New Paper alert 📄 Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks" -> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Conservation Biology Göttingen @consbiogoe.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Ready to start your own lab? Interested in #GlobalChange,#Biodiversity and #Ecosystem#Resilience? Join us in Göttingen - we are looking for a (female) Junior Research Group Leader in #EcologicalNovelty. Attractive conditions, see euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/415857 - please share widely if you can!

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Jenny Tung @jennytung.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11. www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...

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Professorship in population genetics in the field of evolutionary anthropology and medicine (W2)

Faculties & Facilities

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Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences @gelifes.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

📢 Hiring: Tenure Track Professor of Flyway Ecology & Scientific Director of BirdEyes, the Centre for Global Ecological Change Apply before 31 Mar 👇 werkenbij.rug.nl/vacature/ten... #Hiring #Vacancy #ScienceJobs #SciComm

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Tenure Track Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Flyway Ecology, Scientific Director of BirdEyes, Centre for Global Ecological Change - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Wader Quest @waderquest.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Job Alert Help monitor breeding Black-tailed Godwits at WWT Welney • Colour-ring reading • Nest monitoring • Trail cameras • Predator surveys Closing date: 6 March Photo © Astrid Kant More details here!! vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77... Be #inspired by #waders or #shorebirds

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Miguel A Gómez Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

When pets devour biodiversity. My new article on the European edition of @uk.theconversation.com about the impacts of pet-wildlife interactions and the opportunities for their legal regulation in the EU. theconversation.com/our-pets-are.... Related paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Congratulations 🥂, Dr. Hanna Algora! Thesis on nesting ecology featuring Finnish #waders, ruffs and dunlins, defended convincingly today. Another fledgling 🪺🐦🐣 from @oulu.fi and @mpiforbi.bsky.social

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Really grateful to be able to interact and work with some of these #WomenInScience, they are wonderful colleagues. Our research has benefited immensely from their unique perspectives.

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International Bio-Logging Society @ibiols.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems. Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk

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Helen Hipperson @hhippers.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Join us in Sheffield this April to celebrate 70 years of the Ecological Genetics Group Abstract submission is closing soon!

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Nathan Senner @drgodwit.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Please repost! We are looking for two field technicians to work on our deer mouse project in the Colorado Rockies this spring-fall. Learn about physiology, ecology, and evolution, all in one project! Not to mention that you get to be in the ⛰️. Reach out if you have any questions.

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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Shout out to Lisa, who has been an amazing fieldworker over the last few years at our field site at #Liminganlahti, Finland. On this picture, she is (probably) returning freshly hatched #Ruff chicks to their nest after ringing. #WomenInScience #ornithology #conservation

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MPI for Biological Intelligence @mpiforbi.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Who benefits from mating with multiple partners? Darwin suspected that in some cases, it may be the females rather than the males. A new long-term study on African coucals shows: when males provide all parental care, females can have more offspring by competing for and mating with multiple partners.

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