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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Westeinderplassen, Netherlands 👷 Marcel Visser (@mevisser.bsky.social) 🏦 NIOO-KNAW (@niooknaw.bsky.social) 🐦 Eurasian coot 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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10th Hole-nesting Birds Conference @hnbirds2025.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Registration is now open for the Hole-nesting Birds Conference 2025! Researchers of all career stages are warmly invited to join us in the historic city of Olomouc, Czechia. #ornithology [Link to register: registrace.rapl.upol.cz/Form/HoleNes...

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Cory's shearwater (Calonectris borealis)

Cory's shearwater soaring in front of a grey sky.
Credits: Houssembo (CC-BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Selvagem Grande, Portugal 👷 Paulo Catry, José Pedro Granadeiro 🏦 MARE - Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Ispa - Instituto Universitário, University of Lisbon 🐦 Cory's shearwater (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Selvagem Grande

Metadata of the field study (SVG-1) at Selvagem Grande (SVG), Portugal

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

✨ 11 new studies ✨ 📍 Revda, Russia 👷 Eugen Belskii, Andrey Lyakhov 🏦 Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences 🐦 Pied flycatcher 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 La Maddalena Archipelago, Italy 👷 Jacopo G. Cecere (@jgcecere.bsky.social), Federico De Pascalis 🏦 ISPRA 🐦 Scopoli's shearwater 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

What do we need to know to stop biodiversity decline, at all levels of life ranging from genes, species, communities, habitats to entire ecosystems?

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Eurasian scops owl, European scops owl, scops owl (Otus scops)

Eurasian scops owl sitting on a branch near the trunk of a tree.
Credits: Frank Vassen (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds European roller, roller (Coracias garrulus)

European roller sitting on a wire.
Credits: Parth Kansara (CC-BY 4.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Guadix-Baza, Spain 👷 Deseada Parejo, Jesús Avilés 🏦 Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas (CSIC) 🐦 European roller, Eurasian scops owl, Little owl (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

What do we need to know to stop biodiversity decline, at all levels of life ranging from genes, species, communities, habitats to entire ecosystems?

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Dickcissel (Spiza americana)

Dickcissel perching on a branch, looking left.
Credits: Andrew C (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Eastern meadowlark (Sturnella magna)

Eastern meadowlark perching on a grass stalk, looking left.
Credits: lwolfartist (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum)

Grasshopper sparrow perching on a plant
Credits: Andrew C (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Konza Prairie Biological Station, USA 👷 Alice Boyle (@birdfiddler.bsky.social), Emily Williams, SK Winnicki, Emma Smith, Katy Silber 🏦 Kansas State University 🐦 Grasshopper sparrow, Eastern meadowlark, Dickcissel (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

What do we need to know to stop biodiversity decline, at all levels of life ranging from genes, species, communities, habitats to entire ecosystems?

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Lesser kestrel (Falco naumanni)

Two lesser kestrels soaring against the blue sky.
Credits: Christoph Moning (CC-BY 4.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Matera, Italy 👷 Diego Rubolini, Jacopo Cecere, Michelangelo Morganti, Andrea Pilastro 🏦 Università degli Studi di Milano, ISPR Ambiente, CNR-IRSA, Università degli Studi di Padova 🐦 Lesser kestrel (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)

What do we need to know to stop biodiversity decline, at all levels of life ranging from genes, species, communities, habitats to entire ecosystems?

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Northern Italy, Italy 👷 Diego Rubolini, Andrea Romano, Roberto Ambrosini, Alessandra Costanzo 🏦 Università degli Studi di Milano 🐦 Barn swallow 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Northern Italy

Metadata of the field study (NIT-1) at Northern Italy (NIT), Italy

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Continental great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis)

Great cormorant flying with a grey-blue sky in the background.
Credits: Donald Hobern (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Vorsø, Denmark 👷 Thomas Bregnballe, Jacob Sterup 🏦 Department of Ecoscience, Aarhus University 🐦 Continental great cormorant (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/project/s... 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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Vorsø

Metadata of the field study (VOR-1) at Vorsø (VOR), Denmark

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Southern Québec, Canada 👷 Carolyne Houle, Dany Garant, Fanie Pelletier, Marc Bélisle 🏦 Centre de Recherche en Écologie de l'Université de Sherbrooke 🐦 Tree swallow 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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Southern Québec

Metadata of the field study (SQB-1) at Southern Québec (SQB), Canada

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

White-rumped sandpiper (Calidris fuscicollis)

White-rumped sandpiper standing in the water.
Credits: Dario Niz (CC-BY 3.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Western sandpiper (Calidris mauri)

Western sandpiper walking on the beach.
Credits: Andy Morffew (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Semipalmated sandpiper (Calidris pusilla)

Semipalmated sandpiper standing on a rock and looking down.
Credits: Bear Golden Retriever (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Ruddy turnstone or turnstone (Arenaria interpres)

Ruddy turnstone standing on the beach.
Credits: Caroline Gagné (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Red-necked phalarope or northern phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus)

Red-necked phalarope floating through the water.
Credits: Andrew C (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Red phalarope or grey phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius)

Red phalarope floating on the water.
Credits: Mike Baird (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Pectoral sandpiper (Calidris melanotos)

Pectoral sandpiper wading through the water.
Credits: Andrew C (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus)

Long-billed dowitcher standing on the ground.
Credits: Mike Baird (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Buff-breasted sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis)

Buff-breasted sandpiper walking through the grass.
Credits: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters (public domain) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdii)

Juvenile Baird's sandpiper standing on the ground.
Credits: Jason Crotty (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds American golden plover (Pluvialis dominica)

American golden plover standing on the ground.
Credits: Peter Wilton (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Utqiaġvik, Alaska, United States 👷 Richard Lanctot, Sarah Saalfeld 🏦 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 🐦 12 species (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Utqiaġvik

Metadata of the field study (UTQ-1) at Utqiaġvik (UTQ), United States

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Little tern (Sternula albifrons)

Little tern standing on a beach.
Credits: Andrey Gulivanov (CC-BY 2.0) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Kujukurihama (九十九里浜), Japan 👷 Masaharu Hayakawa 🏦 Uekusa Gakuen University 🐦 Little tern (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only – data will follow

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Kujukurihama (九十九里浜)

Metadata of the field study (KUJ-1) at Kujukurihama (九十九里浜) (KUJ), Japan

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

⭐ New species for SPI-Birds Cabanis's greenbul or Cabanis's bulbul (Phyllastrephus cabanisi)

A ringed Cabanis's greenbul in hand, captured in the Taita Hills, Kenya.
Credits: Tom Callens (CC-BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) through Wikimedia Commons.

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SPI-Birds @spibirds.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

✨ New study ✨ 📍 Taita Hills, Kenya 👷 Luc Lens, Han Matheve 🏦 Terrestrial Ecology, Ghent University 🐦 Cabanis's greenbul (⭐) 🔗 nioo.knaw.nl/en/projects/... 📑 metadata only

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Taita Hills

Metadata of the field study (TAH-1) at Taita Hills (TAH), Kenya

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