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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We are very excited to be joined by four great invited speakers for #SPE2026! Swipe to see! If you want to join them in presenting your work, register and submit your abstract here 👇👇👇: etologia.pt/congress-2026/

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Portuguese Ethological Society (SPE) @spetologia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We are excited to announce that BIOPOLIS-CIBIO @biopolis-cibio.bsky.social , Universidade do Porto, will host the 2026 Conference of the Portuguese Ethological Society (hashtag#SPE2026)!

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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New species of pigeon from the Philippines, the Tawi-Tawi imperial pigeon (Ducula tawitawi): bioone.org/journals/bul... 🪶🧪 (📷 @matthewhalley.bsky.social)

Preserved museum specimen of a pigeon with a gray-and-white head, mostly dark green wings, chest, and tail, lighter-colored belly, and brown underside of the tail. There is a white band along the top of the tail.

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Ana V. Leitão @anavleitao.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Photo of a 3D model of a Pyrrhula pyrrhula in a Laurel forest, São Miguel island, Azores.

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Island Bird Research @islandbirdresearch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Date & Time Sep 23, 2026 03:00 PM in Lisbon

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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture @burkemuseum.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

In the early 1980’s, we began preparing separate spread wings to help illustrate features of birds that had never been accurately drawn. Today our collection of spread wings is the largest in the world, preserving more than 40,000 specimens.

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Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

📖 Published📖 Convergent digestive adaptation to resource limitation in an insular lizard across a microgeographic archipelago🌍 🦎 🌊 🔎 buff.ly/VWorYzt

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Çağlar Akçay @caglarakcay.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

New preprint on the avian vampire flies in Galapagos Islands: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Alper Yelimlieş @alperyelimlies.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

New preprint from our Galápagos Yellow Warbler project! Functions of duet answering seem to be sex specific in this species. doi.org/10.64898/202... @caglarakcay.bsky.social @klf-univienna.bsky.social

A yellow bird with brown chest streaks (male Galapagos yellow warbler) is singing perched on a branch.

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Marc Anderson @wildambience.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

On a hike through the mossy montane forests of Kolombanagara, Solomon Islands, I found this incredible little grasshopper. This is a species from the genus Opiptacris, locals called them the 'rasta grasshopper'. It seems this taxon is endemic to this small island. #inverts #insects

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Island Bird Research @islandbirdresearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We are so happy to share that we made the cover and the editor's choice in the latest issue of @jevbio.bsky.social with our paper: "Predation and the evolution of island bird plumage colouration: experimental insights from island and mainland environments" More: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Predation and the Evolution of Island Bird Plumage Colouration: Experimental Insights from Island and Mainland Environments www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Sushma Reddy @sushred.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/ 🧵 I'm at #BOUasm25 A day at the museum to talk about using natural history collections to build inclusive community. Natural history #museums are undergoing a renaissance of novel research. However -who has access to collections? -who is being left out of biodiversity research? #ornithology

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Island Bird Research @islandbirdresearch.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/8 Island environments drive unique evolutionary changes in birds. 🌴🐦 At #BOUasm25, we’re sharing our global 🌍 study using museum collections to uncover how living on islands influences the evolution of locomotion traits. Our paper 👉 doi.org/10.1111%2Fge... #IslandBirds #Ornithology

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/11/2025

We’re back! 😄 We‘re kicking off session 2 online with Mary Caswell Stoddard for her keynote “Feathers and eggs: leveraging ornithological collections to explore the evolution of colour, pattern and structure in the avian world” 🪺 Gavin Thomas joins us as Chair. #BOUasm25 #ornithology #eggs

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Ana V. Leitão @anavleitao.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

New work out from our @islandbirdproject.bsky.social team lead by @raquelponti.bsky.social We will be presenting this at the upcoming conference #BOUasm25 "A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world" on BlueSky, 18th of Nov.

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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

*** Academic BFD alert *** We just published a new global bird phylogeny. It synthesizes the work of thousands of researchers before us, and it will grow and improve over time. @snacktavish.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Joseph Tobias @josephtobias.bsky.social · 13/01/2020

A birdy & traity thread... What can morphological form tell us, if anything, about ecological function? Our paper out today in @NatureEcoEvo asks this question from the perspective of ecological niches and convergent adaptation of bird...

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Island Bird Research @islandbirdresearch.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Happy #WomenInScience Day ! What better day to introduce our incredible core team—powered by four women! 💪✨ #WomenInSTEM See here 1/5 👇🧵

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Global Ecology 🌐 @global-ecology.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Global bioacoustics dataset ! 🎶🦜 WABAD, the World Annotated Bird Acoustic Dataset 5,044 min of annotated bird vocalizations, 1,147 species, 70 sites 🌍 across 27 countries & 13 biomes Open-access for AI training & conservation research 👉 by C. Pérez-Granados et al. doi.org/10.21203/rs.... 🌐🧪🌍🦤🪶

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The International Biogeography Society @biogeography.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Our first Funk lecture of the new year is tomorrow! For more information and to register please visit our website: www.biogeography.org/news/news/gh...

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

[please share widely!] We have two PhD positions available at the Swedish Museum of Natural History: [Position 1] Birds, hybridization, genomes, island biology, biogeography, sexual selection 🦚, w/ me, Knud Jønsson, Martin Iredstedt and @stelkens.bsky.social et al recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a...

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PhD student in Evolution of Indo-Pacific birds

The Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics is offering a four-year PhD position focused on analyzing population-level genomic data from museum bird samples. The project will employ cutting-edge gen...

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Island Bird Research @islandbirdresearch.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We study evolution of birds on islands, particularly focusing on investigating the mechanisms underlying life history traits, colour, song, behaviour and morphology. We examine questions from both ultimate and proximate perspectives and combine field and comparative work.

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