Calling all movement ecologists in the Netherlands and surrounding areas. Along with @arnevaneerden.bsky.social @birdeyes-gfn.bsky.social, we will be hosting a session on movement behaviour at the Netherlands annual ecology meeting in February 2027. More details can be found here: shorturl.at/uw6qF

So excited to share my third PhD chapter, out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/science.adz2542 #ScienceResearch Read on if you’re interested in how birds use the sun to find their way, keep track of the time, and why they’re more like jetsetting holiday goers than you’d ever imagined! 🧵

Rapid longitudinal flights cause time shifts and Sun compass error

Many animals use the Sun compass to guide their movement, sometimes over thousands of kilometers. Consistent use of the Sun compass relies on the endogenous clock to track the Sun’s arc, yet animals t...

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Last year, we started a restoration project to re-establish breeding Manx shearwaters on the Isle of Canna, after extirpation by rats. This is a huge project & there's still lots to be done, but we are excited to share the story as it unfolds! 🐣 #seabirds #ornithology www.nts.org.uk/stories/star...

The competition for political parties in the UK to see who can shoot themselves in the foot the most times goes on...

Caroline Lucas@carolinelucas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Government support for drilling at #Jackdaw takes a wrecking ball to any pretence of UK climate leadership & pours fuel on an overheating world - and for what? It’s equivalent to just 2 months of UK gas demand, creates just 27 direct jobs & has *no* impact on energy bills🧵1/4

Our new paper, led by @nickajgraham.bsky.social, shows that #seabirds and native vegetation can drive ecosystem processes that support atoll island climate resilience by helping them to keep pace with sea level rise 🏝️🐦 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @science.org #ScienceAdvances

Foreign aid contributions fell in 2025 amongst almost all of the top 10 donors. In 2025, the amount of foreign aid given by the world’s richest countries fell by almost a quarter. That amounted to a reduction of roughly US$50 billion.

New paper in @animalecology.bsky.social!📝http://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.70350 Coordination is thought to be key to the success of biparental care, but we don’t know how this varies with species’ ecology 🍃 We explore: how important is partner coordination & does this depend on environment? 🏞️

Always great to help with a colour-ringing project! We ringed an extra 3 LBBG in Liverpool today (!), likely the last ones we'll catch here this summer. Keep an eye out for green colour-ringed gulls & report any sightings at nwgulls.org.uk 💍 #seabirds #ornithology @joewynnbirds.bsky.social

Alice Risely@alice-risely.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This year I wrote a Northwest #Gulls newsletter as it feels like so much is happening that I wanted to keep everyone updated. We’re at 5,723 gulls ringed! Please submit sightings of green colour-ringed gulls (left leg) to www.nwgulls.com. If you have gulls on your roof in the NW pls reach out!

“Neither the Starmer government, nor Andy Burnham’s, can say it didn’t know”: former Green party leader @carolinelucas.bsky.social on the shocking climate reports the UK government didn't want you to see www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-l...

Keir Starmer "I'm the worst Prime Minister the UK has ever had" Andy Burnham "Hold my pint of ale"

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Deeply irresponsible. We're in a climate crisis. This is such a terrible start. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨Very happy to share our new paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🦉 We show that barn owl colour morphs do not simply experience moonlight differently — they hunt differently under it. White morphs appear to turn bright moonlight into a hunting advantage. 1/3 #movementecology #barnowl #moon

Cell Press@cellpress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Barn owl color morphs hunt differently in moonlight" Learn more in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol... Kim Schalcher, @pbecciu.bsky.social, @owlsforpeace.bsky.social & colleagues @currentbiology.bsky.social

Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months. Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.

Raptor Persecution UK@raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

More news on the satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagle that 'disappeared' on a grouse shooting estate in the North York Moors National Park. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/03/m...

Crucial discussion by @rewildingbritain.org.uk of how nature conservation in the UK needs to change. It is currently locked into rigid criteria and fixed endpoints - an approach entirely alien to how ecosystems work. But there are better ways. www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/blog/the-wil...

The Wild View: Time to move beyond the 'museum model' of conservation

In her second Wild View opinion piece, Rewilding Britain Chief Exec Rebecca Wrigley calls for a radical modernisation of the way we protect our landscapes.

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Some kids are always on the move – others prefer a good book. We show that early-life behaviour in golden eagles 🦅 cascades across life stages: more active nestlings fledge earlier, explore more, and disperse sooner. tinyurl.com/3sb8jnsz @vogelwarte.bsky.social @safilab.bsky.social #ornithology

let's go lesbians let's go

BirdGuides@birdguides.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Spanish researchers have documented the first known case of a female-only pair of Bonelli's Eagles successfully adopting and raising young:

Little auks are small Arctic #seabirds that need to find enough food to raise their chicks in a rapidly changing ocean. This #RSOS paper studied their feeding behaviour over seven breeding seasons in Svalbard using GPS tracking, ocean data, and diet samples: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Amazing photos by @northronbirdobs.bsky.social of one of our tracked knots, Arenicola with Tellina also skulking around on the island somewhere. So cool to see the knots a lot fatter now than when we deployed the loggers in February and photos like this help so much with the tagging efforts!

North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory@northronbirdobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The newly ploughed observatory crop has played host to a colour-ringed Knot in the past few days. Initially seen in poor weather and post submission we discovered it’s also carrying a geo-locator from @globalflyway.bsky.social you can follow Arenicola’s progress on the globalflyways network website

Nothing to see here, just 22,400 Sabine's Gulls in one flock... 🤯🇨🇦😍 ebird.org/checklist/S3...

🥳 New paper alert 🥳 The first of the data chapters from my DPhil, and the works from my first few field seasons on Skomer, is out! "Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales" - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... A huge thank you to everyone involved 🩵

Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales

Summary: A fine-scale displacement of Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging pelagic seabird, reveals that they preferentially adopt shorter homing routes following release at proximal sites, demonstrating ...

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You are interested in evolutionary ecology and quantitative genetics. You enjoy fieldwork and birds. Join our laboratory and our international team. csee-scee.ca/job/fully-fu...

Why are Bewick’s Swans declining? Here, we set out to answer this question by breaking down the reproductive cycle of the rapidly declining Western Palearctic population, using both GPS/ACC and citizen-science data. Click the link below to read the full story! @hanslinssen.bsky.social

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 7mo ago

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Low breeding propensity in a declining Arctic-breeding swan revealed by telemetry data | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Tohar Tal, Bart A. Nolet, Tom S.L. Versluijs, Judy Z. Shamoun-Baranes, Götz Eichhorn, Sabine Urban, Hans Linssen | #ornithology 🪶

Reminder that you can still follow our tracked knots as they gear up for their migration. Nephtys (dark blue off Cuxhaven) continued its journey North last night and is now up with it's compatriots on the German/Danish Wadden Sea border! Who will make the first leap and head to the breeding grounds?

Global Flyway Network@globalflyway.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don't forget to look, every few days, at the amazing tracks of red #knots (tagged by team Bijleveld @ Royal NIOZ, Texel): www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci... This is part of project WAAKVOGELS www.waakvogels.nl/trekvogels/k... Within a fortnight they likely migrate on to Iceland or Norway!

The greatest use of supplementary material yet. All here for evolution leading to just popping an egg into a nest cavity and seeing what happens.

Petr Procházka@rytikerttunen.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New paper in Animal Behaviour: After centuries of debate, we finally have direct evidence that common cuckoos use different egg-laying tactics 🥚 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... Check the appendix videos! #ornithology #broodparasitism #cuckoo @animbehsociety.bsky.social @ivb-cas.bsky.social

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

Out now in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment: a study in which we assessed whether mercury levels vary among feather types within individual terns, how feather mercury levels relate to those in blood, and whether all levels vary with sex and age in a similar way: doi.org/10.1007/s106...

Another good entry into the award for fun and cute ways of weighing birds

Andrew Digby@digs.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#kakapo chick Hananui-A3 being weighed during a health check at Verity's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. We weigh chicks to assess health condition, and compare against the mean expected for its age. At 9 days old and 120g, this chick is tracking well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

🚨🚨 Breaking news from Wytham Woods: The 80th year of data collection of the long-term tit study officially started today with this nest with 3 Blue Tit eggs (pic: @mcmahok.bsky.social). First egg inferred 23 March which is our earliest EVER nest - beating the previous record of 26 March by 3 days!🚨🚨

Need to assess the future impact of changed survival or productivity on your UK #seabird population? Want to do PVA but don't have the resources? We have run 100000 PVAs for you and built a library of those impacts! New paper by Eve Merrall, @cathorswill.bsky.social + more doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Behind schedule with this but it was also very nice to see one of my PhD chapters officially come out in @animalecology.bsky.social last week! This one felt like a long road but came from a great collaboration and highlights the importance of long-term time series! 🧵below...

Journal of Animal Ecology@animalecology.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 new research! 🪽 "environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes" 🔍️ read it here: buff.ly/Zj9b7z0

Great to see this paper by Tash out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org. Beautiful piece of work bringing together an impressive dataset to show the flexibility in diel patterns of kittiwakes. Pleasure to be a part of!

Natasha Gillies@tashgillies.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Delighted to see our paper out today in Proceedings B @royalsocietypublishing.org! We investigated how kittiwakes adapt their activity patterns across latitudes in response to the changing day-night cycle ☀️🌃 In short - we find that Arctic kittiwakes don't have bedtimes.. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧵1/4