EURING @euring.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Predictions from the EFSA / EURING / EuroBirdPortal/ EpiMundi Bird Flu Radar app.bto.org/mmt//avian_i... continue to show relatively high probabilities of HPAI outbreaks across Europe. You can use this tool to check the probabilities of outbreaks in your region. 033
Reposted by EURINGwendy-james.bsky.social @wendy-james.bsky.social · 11/12/2024The Teifi Ringing Group have several records of wintering Starlings ringed in Lithuania but this month an interesting movement was a bird caught near Lampeter. It had been ringed in a nest in Finland 2004 km away in May 2023 #birdringing teifimarshbirds.blogspot.com/2024/12/earl... 3469
Reposted by EURINGKane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Luckily, we stock Norwegian colour-rings in our ringing kit just in case we catch a Norwegian ringed bird that needs its ring changing 👍🏻 Keeping our 🇳🇴 ringing colleagues happy 😊 1251
Reposted by EURINGRowan Kuminski @rowankuminski.bsky.social · 09/12/2024"Understanding and addressing barriers to LGBTQIA+ participation in bird ringing in the United Kingdom" Getting quite excited for ASAB this week and to present this project that has meant so much to me! if you're attending make sure to look for our poster and stop by for a chat about our work! 🪶🦆 2228
Reposted by EURINGNorth Ronaldsay Bird Observatory @northronbirdobs.bsky.social · 08/12/2024🚨VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY🚨 We are looking for a volunteer for the 2025 season to help with bird monitoring, ringing, and obs maintenance! Full board included. Long term volunteers preferred, but all applications welcome! Contact alison@nrbo.co.uk for more info. Please share! 06330
Reposted by EURINGAndrew Harrop @ahjharrop.bsky.social · 10/12/2024My first impressions are that this is an exceptional book, written by someone who really knows the subject. Very refreshing. #UKBirding #Ornithology 2517
Reposted by EURINGSofia Bolumar @turriachedda.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 314051
Reposted by EURINGJesko Partecke @jpartecke.bsky.social · 09/12/20243-year Postdoc Position Join our team @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social and investigate the dynamics of seasonal songbird migration using biologging technologies See details here: bit.ly/3ZojW38 Please get in touch if interested & share with anyone else who might be! 27977
Reposted by EURINGBirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 09/12/2024🚨Calling for seabird tracking data! 🚢We are collating seabird data for the Humboldt Current region to assess fisheries bycatch risk. 🤝This is a collaborative project with Global Fishing Watch funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social. You can be part of it! Go to: www.seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...seabirdtracking.orgHumboldt Current seabird tracking data call for fisheries bycatch risk assessment - Seabird Tracking DatabaseThe BirdLife team are collating seabird tracking data for the Humboldt Current region and adjacent High Seas to assess fisheries bycatch risk as part of an 12319
Reposted by EURINGBirds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Join us THIS THURSDAY @12PM EST for our Spanish-language discovery webinar! Hosts Fernando Medrano (BOW Latin America lead) & Tomás Rivas Fuenzalida (president of the Ñankulafkén Foundation) will be talking all things South American raptors. 👇 Register here👇 buff.ly/49JNc9H 0416
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 10/12/2024Importance of the interplay between land cover and topography in modeling habitat selection | doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶 0195
Reposted by EURINGMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10/12/2024📖Published📖 Our new research article assesses the impacts of satellite tagging on growth rates of immature hawksbill turtles 🐢 🌎 🧪 Read more here 👇 buff.ly/3D6bpug 032
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 10/12/2024Towards transparency in AI: Explainable bird species image classification for ecological research | www.sciencedirect.co... | Ecological Indicators | #ornithology 🪶 063
Reposted by EURINGMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10/12/2024We are looking for contributors to our new series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season🎄 Please get in touch if you would like to find out more! 🌎 🧪 22114
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 10/12/2024Plastic pollution in a special protected area for migratory birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶 062
Reposted by EURINGStu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · 09/12/2024The rather nondescript Unicoloured Thrush (from the lowlands of N Bolivia) was added to the list of targets by the Search for Lost Birds (searchforlostbirds.org) in August this year. Two days later one was mist-netted in Chuchini Ecological Reserve! www.birdguides.com/news/mysteri... 0113
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 10/12/2024Wide spectrum of tick-borne pathogens in juvenile Ixodes ricinus collected from autumn-migrating birds in the Vistula River Valley, Poland | bmcvetres.biomedcent... | BMC Veterinary Research | #ornithology 🪶 0203
Reposted by EURINGGraham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 10/12/2024#ConservationScience🌍 Broad-billed Sandpiper recently moved to @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Red List. What do we know so far about this 'vulnerable' wader? wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/b... Summary of 2 papers in @waderstudy.bsky.social 13310
Reposted by EURINGElina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comBad bar charts are pervasive across biologyScientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers. 022
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 06/12/2024Migration of black terns Chlidonias niger and common terns Sterna hirundo between south Sweden and the Atlantic coast of Africa | doi.org/10.1111/jav.... | @avianbiology.bsky.social | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 0428
Reposted by EURINGNeeltje Boogert @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Come do a PhD with Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social , Dan Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social and me on Gulls! GPS- and Bluetooth-tracking! Microbiomes & AMR acquisition & transmission! Human-wildlife conflict & mitigation! should be fun :-) 17054
Reposted by EURINGAmerican Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024A paper recently published in the @amornith.bsky.social journal, Ornithology, was the focus of an article from ABC News, on how climate change is impacting the success of Aphelocoma coerulescens (Florida Scrub-Jay). Paper: academic.oup.com/auk/advance-... Article: abcnews.go.com/US/climate-c...abcnews.go.comHow climate change is impacting this iconic Florida bird speciesGlobal warming in impacting a one-of-a-kind bird species in Florida in a way that is surprising ornithologists, a study found. 0104
Reposted by EURINGErik Postma @erikpostma.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW 03439
Reposted by EURINGGraham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Useful paper for Curlew counters summarised in new WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c... Full list of 141 blogs about waders includes 13 focusing on curlews: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ #UKBirding 02010
Reposted by EURINGMark Cutts @slashercutts.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Final total for Ngulia 2024 - an respectable 13,328 Eastern Palearctic Migrants. Two weeks of great birds and good people. #kenya #nguliaringing #birdringing 1242
Reposted by EURINGBirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 07/12/2024A Golden Eagle has died following a wind turbine collision, marking the first recorded incident of its kind in southern Scotland: bit.lyGolden Eagle killed by wind turbine in ScotlandA Golden Eagle has died following a wind-turbine collision, marking the first recorded incident of its kind in southern Scotland. A pathological investigation confirmed that a locally fledged eagle nicknamed Sparky was killed by a turbine in Galloway. The news has prompted renewed calls for funding... 095
Reposted by EURINGElina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Deshpande et al. Changing Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban Centres onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithologyonlinelibrary.wiley.comChanging Bird Migration Patterns Have Potential to Enhance Dispersal of Alien Plants From Urban CentresUrban birds opportunistically eat fruit from native and alien plants in Helsinki, Finland. As autumns get warmer with climate change, these bird–plant interactions could help alien species spread out... 084
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/12/2024Barn Owl (Tyto alba)† Habitat Suitability, Nest Box Occupancy, and Management Implications Based on Kentucky Surveys 2010–2022 | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2393 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶 0162
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/12/2024Plastic nests or blue nests? The need for taxonomic rigor in studies on interactions between birds and plastics | www.sciencedirect.co... | Marine Pollution Bulletin | #ornithology 083
Reposted by EURINGTiago Falótico @tfalotico.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Great discussion about barriers and lack of incentives for long-term fieldwork. We collect data that give base and context for ecology discussions, but it's a time-consuming and expensive activity, and our results are often not valued as some fancy meta-analysis. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 086
Reposted by EURINGAmerican Ornithological Society @amornith.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Read the latest on the AOS Wing Beat Blog: The North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and fine-scale analyses: incorporating stop location uncertainty by Ryan C. Burner. americanornithology.org/north-americ... 📸Melospiza melodia/atlantica (Song Sparrow) by Nicholas M. Anichamericanornithology.orgThe North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) and fine-scale analyses: incorporating stop location uncertainty - American Ornithological SocietyThe Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) is a long-term monitoring program that collects data on bird populations across North America. Established in 1966, it involves trained volunteers conducting 50 standard... 0103
Reposted by EURINGThe Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 04/12/2024@critterchat1.bsky.social 174
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 05/12/2024Seasonal diversity, daily use and behaviour of birds using a green roof in a Mediterranean city | royalsocietypublishi... | Royal Society Open Science | #ornithology 🪶 0246
Reposted by EURINGBTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Job vacancy! 📢 Join BTO as Farmland Research Manager➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs This role sits in the Terrestrial #Ecology Team and manages farmland-focused field survey, review and analytical projects. 📝Closing date: 5 January 2025. #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology 14041
Reposted by EURINGGraham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Counting breeding waders in the Cairngorms using remote listening devices. wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/c... Paper by David Jarrett & Stephen Willis #BirdingScotland 03712
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 04/12/2024Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference? | besjournals.onlineli... | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶 04212
Reposted by EURINGRSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 04/12/2024We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍 281825468
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 05/12/2024NEW on #theBOUblog from @stevedudley.bsky.social The ornithology community is growing on Bluesky, here's why you should consider this alternative to Twitter | bou.org.uk/blog-dudl... #ornithology 0316
Reposted by EURINGRichard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 05/12/2024It's publication day! My Poyser book on Marsh Tits & Willow Tits is now available. Huge thanks to publishers @chiffchat.bsky.social who have been fantastic. #NatureWriting #Ornithology #ukbirding #ForestEcology #nature 810423
Reposted by EURINGRon McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Old fish boxes set up for kittiwakes to nest, Vardo, Norway. #birds 26853132
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 03/12/2024Wintering grounds leave their mark: where birds winter influences genomic structure in Arctic nesting common eiders | link.springer.com/ar... | Conservation Genetics | #ornithology 🪶 0296
Reposted by EURINGConvention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 02/12/2024Attending #UNCCDCOP16? Come join us and discover how we can protect the Sooty Falcon and its desert habitat! 🏝️ Join leading experts for an inspiring discussion on conservation, habitat restoration, and sustainable land use. Be part of the journey to safeguard migratory species and biodiversity. 🦅 043
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 02/12/2024Phylogenetic analyses support flush-pursuit foraging and flocking behaviors as evolutionary drivers of flash plumage signals in North American passerines | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶 052
Reposted by EURINGConvention on Migratory Species (CMS) @cms.int · 02/12/2024The #IUCN unveiled the Global Status of Sharks, Rays & Chimaeras report, which outlines the urgent threats these species face—primarily from overfishing and bycatch—and offers solutions tailored for countries worldwide. 🌊🦈 Download: portals.iucn.org/library/node... +Info: iucn.org/press-releas... 142
Reposted by EURINGRichard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Titbit: If you think Willow Tits and Marsh Tits are difficult to tell apart, then consider this: they're not even each other's closest relative! There's other species in Eurasia that are even more similar to them. The Marsh Tit & the Willow Tit: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit... #ukbirding #birds 4617
Reposted by EURINGBritish Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 02/12/2024Seeds consumed by three sympatric species of threatened Sporophila seedeaters: lessons for conservation and grassland restoration | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶 0221
Reposted by EURINGGraham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 02/12/2024If you read the WaderTales blog about the problems facing Dunlin breeding in the Baltic: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/d... You might be interested to learn that head-starting is now being used to try to boost numbers: simonvandepitte.com/sos-baltic-d... #ornithology 23310
Reposted by EURINGTrevor Codlin @trevorcodlin.bsky.social · 31/10/2024A ringing session on Hayling Is, Hampshire was slow, only 17 birds. Inc. a Dartford warbler, 4 ea chiff & redwing & a juv male sparrowhawk. One of the redwing was the Icelandic race coburni, a large dark bird, with max wing chord of 126mm, few records from Hants I believe. #ukbirding #birdringing 1221
Reposted by EURINGElina Mäntylä @elinamantyla.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Reiczigel et al. Changes of nestling ringing dates in nine bird species over seven decades nature.com/articles/s41... #ornithologynature.comChanges of nestling ringing dates in nine bird species over seven decades - Scientific ReportsScientific Reports - Changes of nestling ringing dates in nine bird species over seven decades 031
Reposted by EURINGFlorian Keil @floriankeil.bsky.social · 23/11/2024In "Consequences of cross-season demographic correlations for population viability," the authors establish positive correlations between population growth rates for three distinct groups of Atlantic puffins. t.co/vFyPXFI3yD 3389