Avian Science
@avianscience2.bsky.social
Science and studies in ornithology; focused on waterbirds, grassland birds, and wrens. #Ornithology #birds #conservationscience
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Two American sparrows with similar mtDNA: Rapid speciation or hybridization? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/07/20/t... #ornithology
Two American sparrows with similar mtDNA: Rapid speciation or hybridization?
Analyses of the nuclear genome provide the answer to this question.
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Registration is now open for #AOS26 from 3-7 August 2026 in Amherst, Mass. Join us! Discounted early-bird registration rates end on 31 May 2026. Details: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...
New paper: do GPS tags affect small shorebirds? In Kentish plovers, solar-powered devices showed no detectable effects on behaviour, reproduction, or short-term survival. ➡️ vist.ly/4xcxr #ornithology #biologging #birds #survival #reproduction
These wetlands provide important habitat for #endangered and #protected species 𓅰 𓅬 𓅭 𓅮 𓅯 Development can co-exist and enhance bird habitat and is doing so here. Monitoring will continue to ensure this lasts! Thank you 💫 Any questions? #BOU2026 #ornithology #conservationscience 6/6
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Singing a different song: Incipient speciation in the Small Tree Finch avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/07/02/s... #ornithology
Singing a different song: Incipient speciation in the Small Tree Finch
Two island populations are diverging genetically and acoustically.
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Journal of Avian Biology@avianbiology.bsky.social · 4mo agoNew paper: Female superb lyrebirds show diverse vocal mimicry unrelated to age, but older females more often mimic predators, suggesting mimicry is fine-tuned for nest defence rather than sexual selection. ➡️ vist.ly/4x338 #ornithology #birds #mimicry #vocalisation #age
Looking for opportunities for a graduate degree focused on #ornithology? Check out our free, volunteer-compiled Guide to Graduate Studies!
Guide to Graduate Studies in Ornithology in the United States and Canada
Information for undergraduates about graduate degree programs in ornithology.
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(1/) The 2026 BBS season has now officially begun! The survey is all about consistency, so here are a few tips to help to ensure that consistency of recording is maintained across the UK. @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science #Ornithology #CitizenScience
Job Alert 📢 Join BTO as a Senior Research Ecologist! Apply now➡️ www.bto.org/jobs This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of BTO’s climate change work! 📆 Application deadline: Sunday 26 April. 📝 £44,637 per annum. 📍 Hybrid, HQ in Norfolk or one of our country offices. #Ornithology
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Ancient gene flow complicates phylogenetic analyses of leaf warblers avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/07/09/a... #ornithology
Ancient gene flow complicates phylogenetic analyses of leaf warblers
Understanding underlying processes helps to select the “correct” genomic loci.
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AFOWOS2026 Registration Open Registration is open for the joint meeting with Wilson Ornithological Society and Association of Field Ornithologists, being held July 7–9, 2026, on the campus of Salve Regina University in beautiful Newport, Rhode Island! afowos2026.org/registration... #onithology🐦
Graham Appleton@wadertales.bsky.social · 5mo agoWaders/shorebirds have relatively high annual survival (and low productivity). Bird ringing/banding is key to mearsuring survival. When a survival rate falls it can have a rapid impact on population level. 🎂 Blog from 8 March 2018: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/m... #ConservationScience🌍
Biodiversity is declining rapidly 🌍📉 — but our ability to measure life on Earth is advancing faster than ever. A new paper by Sutherland and colleagues outlines Nine changes needed to transform how we monitor biodiversity and guide conservation decisions. 📄 Sutherland et al. 2026 👉 lnkd.in/g5nsc2qk
Temporal Not Foraging Factors Affect Reproductive Success for American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus) on Two Barrier Islands in Virginia, U.S.A. 2026. L. A. Brown, K. Oliver, K. Holcomb, and E. Nol. Waterbirds 48(3), 1-14. doi.org/10.1675/063.... #ornithology🐦
Dan Mennill@dmennill.bsky.social · 5mo agoOur new paper is out: "Acoustic differences persist in urban Parus major (Great Tit) over two decades of declining anthropogenic noise in Paris, France." A study of noise and bird song, by me and Hans Slabbekoorn, in Ornithological Applications @amornith.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/orni...
#ornithology academic.oup.com/beheco/artic... Learn more about Eleonara's Falcon at: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2020/03/24/h...
Looking for a postdoc on bird migration and have computer science or remote sensing skill? 🌍 🧪 🦑 #Ornithology
Kyle Horton@kyle-horton.bsky.social · 5mo ago🚨 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
We need to correct (and further improve) the maps for two sister South American thrushes: Hauxwell’s and Cocoa. Dear bird recordists: please pay attention to calls, too - they allow species recognition way better than songs in this case (and in thrushes and maybe Oscines in general?) #ornithology
Vitor Piacentini@piacentini.bsky.social · 4mo ago🚨New paper alert🚨 Proud to share the first paper by my student Nathália Victória. We show that plumage pattern of Turdus hauxwelli and T. fumigatus converge in central Amazonia, but that is not intergradation. Voice allows clear segregation between the 2 spp. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A new issue of Ornis Fennica is now available! The issue has articles of Eagle Owls in Finland, Goldcrests & Firecrests in Poland and bird assemblages in the West Carpathians. ornisfennica.journal.fi/issue/view/1... #ornithology #OpenAccess
Ornis Fennica Vol. 102 No. 3–4 (2025): Ornis Fennica Volume 102 Issue 3–4
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New article in Oikos with a global review of annual survival for waders comparing estimation methods and phylogeny. Survival increases with body mass but decreases with migration distance and during past 40 years. Team led by @dillensegerg.bsky.social. #ornithology #waders doi.org/10.1002/oik....
First papers from volume 54(1) of @marineorno.bsky.social are coming! Atlantic Puffin mortality along the Portuguese West Coast in early 2023. by Rute A. Costa et al. www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_... #seabirds #OpenAccess
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! How the Fasciated Antshrike met the Bamboo Antshrike avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/h... #ornithology
How the Fasciated Antshrike met the Bamboo Antshrike
An evolutionary journey across South America, culminating in secondary contact.
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🔈 NEW IBIS ISSUE Check out the latest issue here: onlinelibrary.wiley.... And our editor's highlights here: bou.org.uk/ibis/read... #ornithology 🪶
Brown-headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) alter songs across 50 years of Ohio urbanization. 2026. K. Ruscitelli and K. Provost. 2026. The Wilson Journal of Ornithology v 138, no. 1, pg. 134-148. doi.org/10.1080/1559... #ornithology🐦 #bioacoustics🦉
Shorebird abundance, migration phenology, and invertebrate prey availability at a mid-continental stopover site in Kentucky, USA. 2026. J. M Carrolla, et al. THE WILSON JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY v. 138, no. 1, 79–97 doi.org/10.1080/1559... #ornithology🐦
Call rate and types of calls produced vary with flock movements in wild Pine Siskins (Spinus pinus). 2026. J. G. DeSimone, et al. THE WILSON JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY v. 138, No. 1, 43–59 doi.org/10.1080/1559... #ornithology #bioacoustics
