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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today we say bye to Bouquet, who is heading back to Thailand after six months with us! It was amazing to have you here! Safe travel back, and hopefully see you again soon!🦅

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MagBBB Research Group @magbbbgroup.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A new paper is out! We revisited a 25-year-old hypothesis that magnetic cues trigger increased fuelling in young migratory birds before crossing the Sahara. In thrush nightingales, we found no robust effect, suggesting that this response may be context-dependent rather than universal.

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Magnetic cues and refuelling in thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia): a 25-year-old hypothesis revisited - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Abstract On their first migration, young thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia) must store enough fat to cross ecological barriers such as the Sahara, but carrying too much fuel increases flight cost...

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tracking Whimbrels across the globe. Amazing insights that can help to target conservation action. BLOG wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/w... PAPER onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Conservation

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Behaviour 2027 @behaviour2027.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spread the word! Behaviour 2027 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from August 23-27.

Galapagos short-eared owl with text "Who is excited about behaviour 2027? Join us in Vienna August 23-27"

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New #ornithology paper! Knowledge gaps and research directions in migration ecology for advancing the #conservation of migratory songbirds onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Aims to stimulate research advancing #migration #ecology and conserving threatened migratory #songbirds.

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Opportunity! We have an #internship offer through the RISE program. This applies to undergraduate students studying at North American, British or Irish Universities. If you are interested in doing fieldwork with us next spring/summer, have a look at the RISE website: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise...

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our dear @mguidotti29.bsky.social presenting his fab work on how to infer bird orientation behaviour from videos using DeepLabCut at #ECBB2026 💪

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In our new study, we investigated correlates of reproductive timing in Northern Wheatears on Norderney. Our results highlight the importance of conserving natural dune habitats, maintaining rabbit populations, and avoiding further expansion of anthropogenic areas. doi.org/10.1007/s103...

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European Ornithologists' Union @eounion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🗓️ SAVE THE DATE! Join us for our 16th meeting in Brno, Czech Republic! #EOU2027 | 23 - 27 August 2027 | www.eou27.cz Stay tuned for more updates! #ornithology 🦅

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THE 16 th EOU Conference 2027! – THE 16 th EOU Conference 2027!

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!

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Thiemo Karwinkel @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

6 year anniversary of the first Long-tailed duck (clangula hyemalis)🦆 light-level-geolocator tracking paper "Year-round spatiotemporal distribution pattern of a threatened sea duck species breeding on Kolguev Island, south-eastern Barents Sea" doi.org/10.1186/s128... some results in the threat🧵⤵️

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 New #ornithology paper 🚨 Maize fields as post-breeding habitat for songbirds doi.org/10.1016/j.ag... What affects bird abundance and diversity in #maize fields? ➕Weed cover 🌿 ➕Surrounding woody structures 🌳 ➖Distance to field margin ➖Surrounding maize cover Led by Mirjam Rieger

Bluethroat captured, ringed and released in a maize field near Lake Constance. Photo by Wieland Heim, September 2023

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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Register now: 159th DOG Annual Meeting 2026 in Mainz The 159th Annual Meeting of the German Ornithologists' Society will take place from 16th to 20th September 2026 at the University of Mainz. Registration for participation in the conference is possible until 14 August. www.do-g.de/veranstalten...

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German Ornithological Society @dornitholges.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The DOG is awarding five travel grants of €2,000 each to members who will give a presentation at the 29th International Ornithological Congress (IOC) in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico (November 30 – December 5, 2026). For more information visit www.do-g.de/foerdern/rei... Photo: Johannes Lohmöller

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 New #ornithology paper 🚨 Evaluating the effectiveness of lasers for deterring birds doi.org/10.1111/1365... Our meta-analysis led by Cheng Huang revelead that #lasers are effective tools -to non-lethally deter🪿 & 🐦‍⬛ -when green 3B lasers are used -both handheld / automatic #WildlifeManagement

An automatic laser to deter Barnacle Geese from a field in Finland. September 2021, photo by Wieland Heim.

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Free PhD positions!!! Cluster of Excellence NaviSense -> Sensory Basis, Mechanisms, and Impacts of Animal Navigation -> is looking for curious and motivated individuals from resource constrained countries to join NaviSense as Doctoral Researchers. #NaviSense #ornithology uol.de/en/job/docto...

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Back from fieldwork in Kazakhstan: in cooperation with the Institute of Zoology in Almaty & @vogelwarte.bsky.social we tagged songbirds with geolocators to uncover their unknown #birdmigration Main target species: Himalayan Rubythroat 😍

releasing a male Himalayan Rubythroat wirth multisensor data logger

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Very happy to be part of this collaborative #ornithology paper on the extent of nocturnal bird migration led by @pauldufour80.bsky.social

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

New paper #ornithology #ortolanbunting #conservation Ortolan buntings consistently select breeding territories with structurally diverse crops on well-drained soils doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70324 Great outcome from Annika Jensen’s Master’s thesis, based on Jörg Grützmann’s >12-yr data.

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The paper that turned out from the master´s thesis of our research group member @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Very happy to work together with PhD candidate Pattraporn Simla from Thailand for the coming months! Watch this video to learn about their work on studying & protecting the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting on its wintering grounds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4j0... #EastAsianFlyway

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絶滅危惧種シマアオジのいる景色を取り戻したい　クラウドファンディング　活動成果報告

YouTube video by NPO バードリサーチ

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New #ornithology paper 🚨 Migration patterns and hybridization within the Asian stonechat complex in response to a major geographical barrier doi.org/10.1093/evle... Led by PhD candidate Tianhao Zhao, we studied #birdmigration routes & #genetics of individuals migrating E, W & across Qinghai-Tibet

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A warm welcome to Pattraporn Simla (Bouquet) from King Mongkut´s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, who joined our group for the next six months to work on her data regarding threats for the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting #EastAsianFlyway

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Last week we @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social @annikapeter.bsky.social @mguidotti29.bsky.social presented at the 12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation at Royal Holloway College in the UK It was a fantastic setting, with plenty of engaging discussions and valuable exchanges throughout the event

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Thiemo Karwinkel @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

1 year anniversary of our paper about long-tailed duck tracking! It just so happen, that I saw a lot of wintering Long-tailed ducks during the @eoufledglings.bsky.social conference in Gdansk!

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Last weekend, we joined #EOU26 in Gdańsk, sharing insights and results from @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social and @giovannasandretti.bsky.social, with travel support from the @dornitholges.bsky.social Great atmosphere with lots of discussions and exchanges!

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Robert E. Rollins @robertrollins1892.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

It’s cool to see one of the first German articles I wrote out in print. If you told me at 14 when I started learning German that one day I would write about my science in that language I don’t know if I would have believed you 😅🙈

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today is the 1 year anniversary of our perspectives paper on the #Motus wildlife tracking System for Europe! read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

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Kyle Horton @kyle-horton.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

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Purdue AeroEco Lab Opportunities

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𝙱.𝙺. 𝚂𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚘𝚌𝚔 @bksandercock.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

Home page for available jobs at NINA with a photo of a red fox

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Sammy Ball @sammyhareball.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

🦇We're Hiring! 🦢 Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds March 26th deadline! www.atu.ie/connect/jobs... @atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Huge thanks to the SFB team for a fantastic spring meeting at Thülsfelder Talsperre! 🌿 Inspiring exchanges, poster sessions, walk & talks, and working groups on DEI and gender equity for #InternationalWomensStrike made it a true boost for collaboration and team spirit. 🌱

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Meet Alice! + joined us as PhD candidate on pre-migratory flights & impacts of #pesticides on #birdmigration + has volunteered for multiple bird associations & participated in mig counts, passerine ringing & breeding bird surveys + has worked on climate change impact on bird phenology & behaviour

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

A warm welcome to Alice who joined our research group as a new PhD-Student today. We are happy having you with us for the next 3 years as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Navisense".

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Meet Matteo! Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭 in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

We have a new group logo - honouring one of our key study species, the northern wheatear 😍 And of cause, this bird is also tagged with a transmitter - but the tracking devices we use for our studies are so tiny, that you can´t see them on the bird 😉

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Congrats to @annikapeter.bsky.social and team for successfully organising this great young researcher symposium on #magnetoreception and #animalnavigation in connection with @sfb1372.bsky.social 🥳

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

New study led by our @wielandheim.bsky.social uncovered negative effects of an anthropogenic fire on bird abundance and diversity during stopover:

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

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Wieland Heim @wielandheim.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

A skylark I tagged last autumn in northernmost Germany with a #Motus transmitter (to study #pesticide effects) was now detected near our University in Oldenburg - we @migecol.bsky.social col.bsky.social now have data from 3 migration seasons for this bird! motus.org/dashboard/#e... #birdmigration

Map showing detections of radio-tracked individual.

Skylark with radio transmitter before release.

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SFB 1372 @sfb1372.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!

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Doctoral researcher in cell physiology of avian magnetoreception // University of Oldenburg

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

See the thread of our group member about one of our papers:

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

1. Yellow-browed Warbler tagged in 2025! 🤩 On September 24, @annikapeter.bsky.social tagged the first Yellow-browed warbler (Phylloscopus inornatus) on Helgoland in 2025 to study its migratory behaviour. Stay tuned for fascinating bird tracks! #Motus #Tracking #Birdmigration

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦 a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

the 5 study species: Dunnock, Northern Wheatear, European Robin, Common Redstart, Garden Warbler

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Meet Lasse, He‘ll support the working group as a volunteer for the next year, hoping to learn and observe scientific work in the process. While his interests lay elsewhere beforehand, he‘s become curios about the groups work and likes to try to think along :)

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Migration Ecology Group @migecol.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This week we were at #BESMove2025, where @giovannasandretti.bsky.social presented our results on the overlooked pre-migratory flights. The conference title of this year was "Understanding Migration", and she came back home full of fresh insights and great new connections!

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