🐦 First Ustica Spring School was a success! Our inaugural event brought six researchers together to study #springmigration in real time, thousands of #migratorybirds passed through the island while we observed, learned, and discovered. #Ornithology at its finest in the Mediterranean!

How Do Introduced Parrots Thrive In Cities? "Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?" #SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social #ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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BirdGuides@birdguides.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A recent study has examined whether non-native parrots in European cities compete directly with native birds or occupy ecological roles that are otherwise underrepresented in urban systems:

My first article for TheConversationUK #plastics @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-birds-ar...

How birds are spreading plastic pollution

Certain birds ingest more plastic waste, which causes them harm while transporting it to different locations.

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Hello Bluesky! 👋 We’re excited to join the community. And we’re starting with great news: 📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open! Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology. Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr #ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers

New Call for STSM, YRI and ITC Conference Grants Now Open

We are pleased to announce that a new call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM), Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI), and ITC Conference Grants is now open within EUFLYNET.These funding opportun...

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3. Cats have worse and shorter lifes if they roam outdoors The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)

2. Outdoor cats exchange diseases with other animals and with people. There you have Toxocara, bird flu or feline leukemia And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too) theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...

Toxoplasma: the parasite that takes over our brains

Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.

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Today is (another) #Worldcatday A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons 1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer

Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 6mo ago

NEW on #theBOUblog from Fabio Marcolin Are parrots filling ecological niche space?: How non-native parrots become established in urban bird communities bou.org.uk/blog-marc... Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... #ornithology 🪶