More information on how flooding affects the breeding success of threatened Baltic #dunlins in this informative blog post.

Graham Appleton@wadertales.bsky.social · 2mo ago

How does climate change affect waders? For Dunlin breeding around the Baltic, climate change brings higher water levels, more storms and flooded nests. Blog from 20 June 2021 🎂5️⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/20/d... Papers by @vmpakanen.bsky.social @koivulakari.bsky.social et al. #ornithology

Strong winds resulted in flooding of the last remaining #ruff clutches that were close to hatching at Bothnian Bay. A week earlier and the consequences would have been catastrophic. Flood risk increases with climate change and is a concern for Baltic #waders: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An ethogram for #ruff chicks showing age-related changes in social and other behaviors. Results from a master thesis by @uditnair.bsky.social and PhD chapter from Veronica Rohr-Bender.

Udit Nair@uditnair.bsky.social · last mo.

Behavioural repertoire and the onset of precocious sexual behaviours in juvenile ruffs (Calidris pugnax) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Finally the paper is published.

#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link 1/n

Boomer year for #ruffs at Bothnian Bay. An incredible 88 nests at our study sites hatched so far, as predation and flooding have been unusually low. #ornithology #conservation #waders

🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶 🥇 Godman Salvin Prize 🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture 🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal 🥇 Early Professional Award Deadline: 15 September 2026 Nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the... 🪶

One person's wealth equals the wealth of 46% of all living humans combined. Inequality is the largest threat to democracy: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

We have ambitious plans to help breeding wader recovery from finding solutions to improve nest and chick survival to using tracking technology to compare breeding success in different areas. You can help us achieve them by donating via www.bto.org/breeding... Thank you. #Ornithology

In a rapidly changing world, site fidelity can be a trap. In our new paper in Movement Ecology, however, we find that stopover site fidelity by Whimbrel is associated with high flexibility in their local-scale habitat use. Awesome work by Maina Handmaker & folks at South Carolina DNR! rdcu.be/fn1EE

AfD-Funktionäre, BSW-Funktionäre und Holger-Friedrich-Funktionär trafen sich in der letzten Woche zu Gesprächen mit hochrangigen Vertretern des Putin-Regimes, darunter auch FSB-Mitarbeiter.

Hoywoj@aushoywoj.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In den letzten 8 Tagen haben AFD- und BSW-Politiker zahlreiche ranghohe Vertreter des russischen Regimes getroffen. Um zu verdeutlichen, welches neue Ausmaß die Einflussoperation Russlands angenommen hat, hier die Zusammenfassung aller Kontakte. Das alles passierte in den letzten 8(!) Tagen 🧵👇

@dunlin.bsky.social is such a deserving winner! He has been a huge force in the conservation of birds along the Pacific Coast for decades. Not to mention being a great mentor to many, many people. Congrats, Nils!!

American Ornithological Society@amornith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congratulations to Drs Jeffery L Larkin & Nils Warnock for winning AOS 2026 Ralph W Schreiber Conservation Awards for conservation-related contributions to ornithology. https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/ #AOSAwards

This season we introduced thermal drones into our fieldwork to find and monitor #ruff and #dunlin nests at #Liminka Bay. It has been a relevation, so far we found twice the number of #ruff nests in a third of the time! For the privileged drone pilots, fieldwork is now done from a comfortable chair!

#Wader breeding season on Baltic coastal meadows at Liminka Bay 🇫🇮. We have found record numbers of #ruff clutches this year. Many any of them contain again one or more blue eggs. Fortunately, current predation rates are very low 🤞 #ornithology #eggblue

Perfect timing for this picture. Ruff lekking is in full swing with their stunning display garnering a lot of attention (not only from ruff females). Unfortunately, ruffs have gone missing from many places across Europe as their breeding habitat, coastal meadows, are vanishing.

MPI for Biological Intelligence@mpiforbi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#pictureofthemonth: Ruffs in their natural environment in Finland. Their complex courtship provides fascinating insights into the dynamic changes of cooperation and competition. More: www.bi.mpg.de/kuepper June – Calendar of @mpiforbi.bsky.social & @mpibiochem.bsky.social 📸 Simon Vandepitte

Spot the Plover competition time. Ringed Plover on the nest, this is next to the main track, there are many more isolated small bays in the area which I will not visit. #DoNotDisturb *To make it easy, Plover is centre of frame. #ukwildlife #wildlifephotography #birdphotography #UKbirding #ukbirds

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Incubating Kentish plover female blending perfectly into the environment. Honestly, despite having found hundreds of plover nests in the past, I would have not spotted this one. #birds #camouflage

Miguel A Gómez Serrano@gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Criar en la arena de la playa implica estar a la vista de casi todo el mundo Los Chorlitejos patinegros siguen diferentes estrategias de respuesta ante la aproximación de intrusos: p. ej. huir temprano y evitar el riesgo, o intentar pasar desapercibido. 🧐 Puedes ver a la ♀️ incubando en esta imagen?

Do you want to know if birds can use hair-like feathers as high-frequency sound receptors during echolocation? Join our team as PhD student or postdoc and find out! ⬇️ www.bi.mpg.de/2809383/job_...

Testosteron ist kein Wundermittel für bessere Männlichkeit, sondern ein extrem wirkungsvolles Steroid, dass man nicht einfach als life style enhancer schlucken sollte: www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Gefährliche Selbstoptimierung: Testosteron als Lifestyle-Booster

Testosteron wird auf Social Media als Wundermittel für Muskeln, Energie und Libido beworben. Doch Ärzte warnen: Wer das Hormon ohne echten Mangel nimmt, riskiert Herzprobleme, Unfruchtbarkeit und Thro...

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May 23, 2006 is the hatch date of the world's most famous lance-tailed manakin. PXVm has starred in Netflix's 'Dancing with the Birds', and been highlighted for years by the Cornell Lab Manakin Cam. How do you celebrate such a momentous day? By dancing! Here he is today, with his current beta GSGm:

Testosterone therapy is trending www.nature.com/articles/d41... I struggle to understand how testosterone therapy can be considered as a solution for today's problems. Reminder that #ruffs have found a better solution a few million years ago: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Testosterone therapy is trending. Who really needs it, and why?

Some clinicians are pushing to broaden testosterone use, but there is debate about its benefits and risks.

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Interested in a PhD working on sexual selection in tropical shorebirds? I'm recruiting a student for Fall 2027! I'm happy to support an applicant writing a Simons Graduate Fellowship in Ecology & Evolution: www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...

Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution

The purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo...

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Registration is now OPEN for our 2026 conference in Spain 🇪🇸 www.waderstudygroup.org/conferences/...

Many wild populations are fragmenting and declining, leading to inbreeding. We are studying how animals avoid inbreeding and the consequences of inbreeding an in a >20 year study of >20,000 wild mice with whole genomes. We are recruiting a postdoc at Columbia and two PhD students in U Zurich.

Kuangyi Xu, a current EEB postdoc at UToronto and a former student in my lab, spearheaded this new dissection of the lek paradox. It often doesn't hold! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

When sexual selection through mate choice depletes versus exaggerates genetic variation: Unraveling the lek paradox | PNAS

The evolution of female preferences for male display traits relies on females receiving indirect benefits from their mate. This requires substantia...

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Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Stuck in a Ruff: Having a supergene is not always super avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/s... #ornithology

Stuck in a Ruff: Having a supergene is not always super

Female Ruffs with a large inversion have lower reproductive success.

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#Shorebird eggs are optimised for camouflage and each one is a unique piece of art. Thee eggs are coloured by the females individually (who probably inspired the #Easter 🐇). Our annual "egg hunt" at Liminka Bay, Finland, searching for hidden #ruff and #dunlin 🪺 will soon start again. #ornithology

Fieldwork surprise.

Wolfgang Goymann@dudumizi.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Looking for lesser coucal nests on Pongso no Tao and guess who is inside the nest? ...and feeling quite comfortable, obviously!

Nest failure in threatened #shorebirds has many reasons. Replacing eggs of vulnerable clutches with dummy eggs boosts nest survival of #Ruffs in grazed coastal meadows. New paper out 🎉 dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3... in @ecol-evol.bsky.social #conservation #ornithology

Mary Colwell and Prof Jenny Gill explore gender bias in fieldwork in our latest blog. Read it now: www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-tha...