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Malavika Madhavan

@malavika-m.bsky.social
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PhD student @JihoceskaUni 🔍, ecology, bioacoustics 🦉🎵🎶 Current focus: Individual identity signals in owls.

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Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
In case you missed it: We are hiring a new part-time, remote communications contractor to manage our website, social media, and email communications. Details (including how to apply) are on our website!
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Job Opening: Communications Specialist (Contract)
Are you a science communicator interested in a flexible, remote, part-time role with an ornithological society? Read on!
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A little late to share this, but an important milestone nevertheless :) Last month, I officially finished my PhD on individual identity signals in owl vocalisations and how they are shaped by the social environment. So grateful to my supervisors, family, friends, and reviewers! #PhD #bioacoustics
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Guillaume Dillenseger @dillensegerg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our new study with @justinedelautre.bsky.social @ankitha-jayanth.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social on forest impact on predation and behaviour of lapwing available in J. Animal Ecology: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #lapwing #ornithology #PhDstudy #ethology #ecology
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Predator‐guild‐specific parental responses mitigate higher predation risk on ground nests close to forest patches in a mosaic landscape
Predation increases close to habitat edges, but how animals cope with local predation variations remained poorly studied. In a mosaic landscape, lapwings were compensating for increased nest predatio...
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Dream job alert 🎉 Are you a talented videographer with a passion for nature? Join our team! Apply online ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📆 Full time. 📝 £33,954 per annum. 📍 Thetford, Norfolk (Hybrid). ⚠️ Application deadline: 5 July.
Puffins gather on the top of a rockface. Wording above reads: We're hiring! Digital Communications Officer (Videographer).
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LyrebirdLab @lyrebirdlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Funded #PhD scholarship: Vocal mimicry in toothbilled bowerbirds @westsyduhie.bsky.social with @animalecolab.bsky.social @drbackhouse.bsky.social @pec-exeter.bsky.social Closes: 31 July 2026 More info tinyurl.com/2axjy7pn
Lithograph of the Tooth-billed Bowerbird
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Maevatiana N. Ratsimbazafindranahaka @rmaevatiana.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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PhD candidate in Acoustic ecology of diving seabirds
PhD candidate in Acoustic ecology of diving seabirds
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Eliot Miller @eliotmiller.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
🔊 We're getting ready to update the @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social #phylogeny & #taxonomy! Please please please! If you have a phylogeny published in the last year, or you've noticed one we're missing, let us know via the feedback form at the top of the page. birdsoftheworld.org/bow/phylogen... @world
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Arjun Amar @arjundevamar.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me. South African Citizen or have a valid work visa. science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/... #Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
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Applications open for Quantitative Raptor Biologist postdoc at FitzPatrick Institute
Call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative raptor biology; deadline 15 May 2026
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🔊Out now with @lsburchardt.bsky.social @marcosqoliva.bsky.social, Kouřil & Petrusková: Yellowhammer males sing using individual isochronous rhythms & maximise rhythmic dissimilarity with their neighbours. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Colin Beale @cmbeale.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Are you a national of an African country? Looking to study birds of prey at one of three leading ornithological research university across the contient? This might be for you! raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-award...
Poster advertising the Arican Raptor Leadership Grant - African antionals applying for MSc or Hons courses at AP LEventis Ornithological Research Institute (Nigeria), Fitzpatric Institute of African Ornithology (UCT, South Africa) or Mohammed V University (Morocco) are invited to apply via https://raptorresearchfoundation.org
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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is able to adjust the nest defense to perceived risk link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Common Ringed Plover (Charadrius hiaticula) is able to adjust the nest defense to perceived risk - Journal of Ornithology
Shorebirds experience high rates of nest predation due to their ground-nesting, leading to diverse antipredator behaviors to mitigate this risk. Accurate predator recognition enables birds to adjust t...
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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟 ⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026 🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw 📌Cambridge/ Hybird Come join our fantastic team! Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...
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BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International
Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.
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Phyllis von Saucken @delphyllis.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Happy to share that my first paper with #KristinaBeck just got out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! We first documented coprophagic behavior in #Alpinechough, likely linked to a seasonal diet shift and/or nutritional benefits. 💩🦠 doi.org/10.1002/jav.... Foraging sequence: youtu.be/05O6BjnKQ4g?...
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Seasonal variation in coprophagic foraging in alpine choughs Pyrrhocorax graculus
Coprophagy, defined as the ingestion of faeces sourced from either self (autocoprophagy), conspecific animals (allocoprophagy), or heterospecific animals (heterocoprophagy), is recognized as a physio...
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Guillaume Dillenseger @dillensegerg.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
New paper with @calonectris.bsky.social on Andean shorebirds phenology is out in Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social, where we combined citizen-science and field data to decipher nest timing of understudied species: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #shorebird #bird #PhDstudy
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Breeding seasonality in Charadriiformes on the Andean Altiplano is influenced by rain and possibly flood risk
The Andean Altiplano in South America represents a remarkable mountain ecosystem with unique wildlife. However, knowledge of breeding ecology for birds inhabiting Andean Altiplano is scarce, relying ...
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🔊Looking for STUDENT ASSISTANTS or PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ANNOTATORS Come help us process large audio libraries to understand the evolution of rhythm in a globally distributed songbird genus! Funds and pubs possible. Straightforward tasks with awesome outcomes! tinyurl.com/song-anthus
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Super cool and important work on the effects of habitat quality and weather on parental provisioning rates in little owls 🦉🐛🐥 #Ornithology #RaptorResearch
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Sangeeth Sailas @sangeeth-sailas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A PhD chapter that I'm very proud of is finally out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!🦉 Using nestbox cameras from 4 countries, we explored interactive effects of habitat quality &weather on provisioning &prey composition 🪱🪲🐀in Little Owls -a rapidly declining farmland raptor. #RaptorResearch #Ornithology
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Habitat‐Dependent Provisioning Patterns Are Modulated by Weather Conditions in a Rapidly Declining Farmland Raptor
We monitored parental food provisioning of Little Owls in four European countries with contrasting farmland structure using nestbox cameras and demonstrated that across all countries, provisioning ra...
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning species🦉. For more details, check out our new paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle
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David Boukal @davidboukal.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We are hiring! One postdoc and two PhD positions to study (i) species invasions along environmental gradients and (ii) zooplankton-cyanobacteria interactions. See bit.ly/4pcWMIV for details. Application deadlines: 31 Jan 2026 for postdoc, 15 Jan 2026 for both PhD positions. Please repost.
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Web presentation of David Boukal and his research group.
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Cool post doc opening in the awesome MRI, Białowieża: ibs.bialowieza.pl/en/announcem...
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Competition for postdoctoral position in the project: „The multilevel impact of predation-induced stress in ungulates on the functioning of the temperate forest ecosystem” funded by the National Scien...
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/job...
Photo of the coastline of Rota by Asch Nighthawk with inset photo by Lauren Helton of two people banding a Mariana Kingfisher and inset of bander handling a Mariana Fruit-dove for photo documentaion by Kristin Attinger.
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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...
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Blair Costelloe @blaircostelloe.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation? We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network! Positions are fully funded for 36 months! More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment 🧪👩‍🔬🌍
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WildBotics - Recruitment
We are looking for you!
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 28/11/2025
EARLY VIEW in IBIS A new species of jewel-babbler (Cinclosomatidae: Ptilorrhoa) from the Southern Fold Mountains of Papua New Guinea | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Iain A. Woxvold, Banak G. Gamui, Leo Legra, Samson Yama, Bonny Koane, Salape Tulai | #ornithology 🪶
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
We had a new paper out yesterday in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. About how the cranial feathers of male Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants affect their visual fields. Nice to see it picked up The New York Times and Science. Paper link below.
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations. Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India 📷 © Sankar Subramanian vist.ly/4cfkr #Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor
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Amy Leedale @amyleedale.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looking for a PhD? 🦜 Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics? I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z
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Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Karthik Ashok @karthikashok.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
🚨Job alert! CMST are hiring an offshore fieldwork specialist to maintain our acoustic equipment, design and build moorings, manage field deployments, and join in data analysis, publication, presentation, and student support. Closing 21 Nov. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie... #bioacoustics
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Job vacancies, employment opportunities, academic and professional positions - Careers at Curtin | Curtin University, Perth Australia
Our mission is to transform lives and communities through education and research. Curtin employees form a unique and diverse community committed to innovative research and student learning. Find out a...
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Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).
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Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
This ‘extra credit’ also awards people who put themselves first instead of eg promoting the careers of their students and junior collaborators. 🧪
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
What a cool finding! Eurasian Scops owls bring live worm snakes to the nest, and snakes feed on insect parasites in the nest, therefore increasing owl hatchling success! 🐍↔️🦉 #ornithology
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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 03/10/2025
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
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Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
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Miguel Silva-Monteiro @miguelbtg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📢New Paper: UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival 🛸🌿🪺 Excited to share the result of an incredible collaborative experience. Together with Miguel Villoslada, we combine UAV (drones) remote sensing with traditional wader nest survival surveys #scicomm 1/6
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UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival
In this study, we combine high-resolution vegetation structural metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery with on-field wader nest survival monitoring. We show that the immediate veg...
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Avery Maune @averymaune.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📢 City lizards are more social ! Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org ! We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... @behavecobie.bsky.social
Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.
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Alan McElligott @amcell.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
2025. Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts phys.org/news/2025-09...
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Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts
The next time you watch your dog visit the same places around your yard or notice that your cat seems to explore a new area every time it ventures outside, consider this: You might be witnessing an an...
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Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Fancy joining us? Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship: royalsociety.org/grants/caree... If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me. @bristolbiosci.bsky.social
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Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society
This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle 1. vocal efficiency across pipit species and, surpsingly, 2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!) Drop me a line! I love people! :) docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...
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Guillaume Dillenseger @dillensegerg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
[Please RT] 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
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 18/07/2025
EARLY VIEW in IBIS Individuality obscures geographical song variation in two passerine sister species with contrasting distributions and movement ecology | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Javier Oñate-Casado et al | #ornithology 🪶
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Ricard Marxer @ricard.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
📢 New paper! F0 estimation is a classic task in the Music Information Retrieval (#MIR) community. Yet, it's much less studied in bioacoustics—despite its frequent use to describe animal sounds. Images from doi.org/10.1038/srep... doi.org/10.1098/rspb... doi.org/10.3389/fmar...
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Anna N Osiecka 🍉 @aosiecka.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hallooo, are you looking for a really cool MSc project in bioacoustics/evolution of communication/linguistics? Help me process our goldmine of birdsong recordings, and investigate whether and how conformance to various linguistic laws varies in the Anthus genus! 🔊 🐦🎵 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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MSc thesis projects in animal communication Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), larger c...
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Coming later this year, the 10th hole-nesting bird conference, from 10-12 Sept in beautiful Olomouc, Czech Republic. Held every 3-4 years, this is a great meeting bringing all those interested in cavity-nesting birds (natural & artificial) together. #ornithology zoologie.upol.cz/hnb-2025/
Attendees at the 9th Hole-nesting Birds Meeting, hosted in Oxford, Sept 2022 at the conference dinner at Jesus College
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British Ecological Society @britishecologicalsociety.org · 10/03/2025
By only considering a single ecological trait for each species, we risk oversimplifying the complexity in nature. A new special feature in @animalecology.bsky.social aims to build a better understanding of intraspecific variation  besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
A draw of bird eggs in a museum collection. Image Credit: Juliano Morimoto
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Andreas Rimoldi @calonectris.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
For my first post here, i can't help but repost how I'm still collecting data for this project! If you have a digital camera and works with breeding shorebirds, please contact me! (Even here) Otherwise, repost please!
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Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🚨 Postdoc opportunity! 🚨 Join @ecology-radboud.bsky.social in the #HABITRACK @horizoneu.bsky.social project, studying waterfowl movement for conservation impact 🦆🌍 📅 Apply by April 20, 2025 🔗 More info: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Please, repost! 🙏 #postdoc #postdocjobs #ornithology #birdmigration
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Andreas Nord @cyanistesnord.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I am searching for a dedicated someone to take a research support/coordinating role in my lab, working mainly within @erc.europa.eu project "HotLife". MSc level and up, keen interest in energetics, physiology, or thermal biology helpful but not essential. Details 👇 Would appreciate a re-post!
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Malavika Madhavan @malavika-m.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Spent countless hours during my bachelor's degree observing the behaviour of captive gharials, watching them make bubbles. Turns out they were talking the entire time and I was just on the wrong side of the water! So happy to see work like this! :) 🐊💚
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