[NEW PAPER] What a surprising behavior ! 🦇Greater noctules (𝘕𝘺𝘤𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘶𝘴) soar above 400 meters, using echolocation to chase and snatch nocturnal migratory passerines mid-flight—unlocking a high-altitude feast most predators can’t reach. #batresearch #bioacoustics

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

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NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

[ NEW TEAM PAPER ] 🦇🎤 Passive acoustic monitoring of 𝗯𝗮𝘁𝘀 holds huge potential, but how do bat counts correlate with actual numbers? Which factors affect detectability? New metrics & models could revolutionize our understanding. Time to standardize protocols & share data! #BatResearch #Bioacoustics

Current frontiers in the passive acoustic monitoring of bats

Passive acoustic monitoring of bats is used in a growing number of studies in applied and basic research, from local to global scales. Despite the publication of good-practice recommendations, sev...

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🦇A new article from our research team ! 🔍This time, we used 3D acoustic tracking of bats to study their behaviour when foraging alone, in presence of conspecifics or heterospecifics. 🎯A very interesing way to explore the optimal foraging theory under different scenarios.

Bat Research Team@bat-cesco.bsky.social · 10mo ago

[NEW PAPER OUT] 🦇 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗳𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 ! A deep dive into optimal foraging theory and social foraging through this bat study: flight speed, tolerance to conspecifics, and adjustments in the presence of heterospecifics revealed via 3D tracking.

There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Riley Lawson describes the backstory of his recent paper in The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology, which documents the underappreciated threat that collisions with anthropogenic structures pose to #seabirds. wilsonsociety.org/2025/07/28/g...

[ #Seabirds influence vegetation ] 👩‍🔬 Isotopes & nutrients were compared at an active, abandoned, and control shearwater site 📈 Vegetation & herbivores showed δ¹⁵N enrichment from guano, but soil δ¹⁵N remained unchanged 🏝️Phosphorus and potassium concentraitons suggest that seabirds fertilize soils

Adrift Lab (Marine Science)@adriftlab.bsky.social · last yr.

⭐#NewPaper alert⭐ Dr Megan Grant's last chapter of her #AdriftLab #PhD thesis focuses on the key role #seabirds play in transporting nutrients from the ocean to their breeding sites (in this case, #LordHoweIsland) doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Bertram et al. Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird – parental effects and links with growth and survival www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology #seabirds

Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird – parental effects and links with growth and survival

Environmental mercury levels continue to rise, leading to increased exposure, especially in long-lived species at high trophic positions, such as many…

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Sanz-Aguilar et al. Rat Odour Does Not Repel European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus bioone.org/journals/ard... #ornithology #seabirds

Rat Odour Does Not Repel European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus

Las aves marinas en general, y los petreles en particular, presentan múltiples problemas de conservación. Los depredadores invasores son su principal amenaza en las colonias de cría. Las ratas son los...

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[ 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 ] 🔍 While most researchers report positive interactions that facilitate the transfer of their findings, interactions within the wind energy 💨 and agrochemical sectors 🚜are more often negative ⛔ especially when the research conflicts with political or economic interests 💶

Bat Research Team@bat-cesco.bsky.social · last yr.

⚠️ Our study published today alerts about the 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐨-𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬⚙️ ⛔ Negative interactions include greenwashing, manufacture of doubt and abandonment of research topics❗ ✅ Solutions are discussed DOI : 10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111324

To protect wildlife as offshore wind grows, we need the best ecological data. Monash University researchers created a practical guide to seabird flight—how high, how fast & when they fly. 📄 Journal of Applied Ecology: bit.ly/4eXfqQw #Seabirds #ClimateAndNature

🍽️𝐀 𝐧𝐨𝐧-𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐭 ! The authors combined buccal swabbing and metabarcoding to investigate the diet of #Seabirds species. This method appears to be minimally invasive and relatively easy to implement. A complement to approaches based on regurgitates or fecal samples?

Advancing Seabird Diet Studies Through Buccal Swabbing for DNA Metabarcoding

Determining the diet of wide-ranging, pelagic seabirds is challenging. In this study, we investigated buccal swabbing and DNA metabarcoding to describe the diet of Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus...

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🎉New paper out! My first as last author 🔗http://www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_1/53_1_1-11.pdf 🧵 Let me walk you through years of research on a rare, elusive & endangered #Seabirds : the Tahiti petrel A story of exploration, discovery, and challenges in conservation science👇 📷Hadoram Shirihai

🍽️🐦 Proteomic studies reveals that #Seabirds with plastic in their stomachs had signs of neurodegenerative disease, kidney and liver disease as well as damage to the lining of the stomach ☠️While not always lethal, microplastics will undoubtedly have long-term effects on populations.

Seabirds in crisis: Plastic ingestion induces proteomic signatures of multiorgan failure and neurodegeneration

Plastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver.

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Common Murres sitting on a rock covered in, well... common murre poop. #birds #newfoundland #seabirds

[𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆] Thrilled to share the first results of our APOCOPE project at the Renewable Energy & Biodiversity conference in Paris! A great opportunity to highlight our work on wind farms and wildlife. 🌬️🦇🌿

Bat Research Team@bat-cesco.bsky.social · last yr.

[𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 - 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠] @andreasravache.bsky.social investigated 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 at wind farms 🦇 💀↗️ near forests or wetlands 🌳💧 💀↗️ with low turbine ground clearance 💀↘️ with turbine age⌛ 🛑 Curtailment measures ↘️ but do not eliminate mortality

❗[OUT OF THE PRESS]❗ The authors collected distribution data from 57 seabird taxa, revealing seabird hotspots outside the existing ecological network 🐦🌐 Both methods and results worth a look ! #seabirds #conservation #marinebiology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mismatches between the current marine Natura 2000 network and seabird distributions call for enhanced protected areas off metropolitan France

Seabirds are among the most threatened vertebrates, under pressure from fisheries bycatch, climate change, overfishing, and human disturbance. In Fran…

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🦇 Greater sac-winged bat pups acquire their vocal repertoire through a conspicuous vocal practice behavior reminiscent of babbling in human infants. Pups spend about 30% of their daily activity time babbling – and it turns out that mothers influence this behavior. elifesciences.org/articles/99474

Maternal behavior influences vocal practice and learning processes in the greater sac-winged bat

Non-tutorial feedback shapes song acquisition in a mammalian vocal learner.

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🦇 Using acoustic activity to redict bat fatalities at wind farm could help to identify at-risk areas for bats, and to implement effective curtailment measures ❗ #bats #conservation #bioacoustics

Bat Research Team@bat-cesco.bsky.social · last yr.

[𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 𝑂𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 - 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑠] @elisesvlt.bsky.social identified a positive relationship between the acoustic activity of bats at wind turbine nacelle height and the number of fatalities 🦇 Further studies will aim to identify risk behaviors allowing to predict mortality.

❗[Job Opportunity]❗ 🦇 Sampling and banking of chiropteran acoustic data on the coast and at sea 📍 Concarneau, Brittany, FRANCE 📆 3 months, starting in June 📧 anais.pessato@mnhn.fr

‼️[NEW PAPER]‼️ Our team's latest paper explores the breeding biology of a little-known and threatened Procellariid species: the Tahiti Petrel. The marked decline in reproductive success in the presence of predators highlights the species' high sensitivity to disturbance and predation. #seabirds

New OA 🦇 research 📄 Differences in fur cortisol levels of three migratory bats link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Differences in fur cortisol levels of three migratory bats - Journal of Comparative Physiology B

Understanding how organisms respond to their environments is challenging, especially due to the complex processes related to metabolism, energetics, and reproduction. Glucocorticoids (GCs) are metabol...

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🦇 During our annual meeting, "Team Chiro" spent three days presenting current challenges in our respective studies and sharing ideas to solve them. 🔎 We then formed working groups around common research questions. 🔽 More information below 🔽

🖥️ I recently presented a webinar on bird and bat mortality estimation at wind farms, in association between @mnhn.fr and @cnrs.fr . 🔗 The presentation is available on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiOj...

Atelier 1 - Generalized Mortality Estimator et Evidence of Absence - A. Ravache

YouTube video by OUTILS.EOLIEN

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Uncovering Alpine swift foraging behaviour using GPS tracking & DNA metabarcoding! For the first time we describe Alpine swift foraging movements and what factors impact foraging trips, short-term range area size, & the prey diversity fed to nestlings #BOU2025 #ornithology 1/7

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

Our latest study is online! 🐣 We show that tebuconazole, a widely used fungicide, significantly reduces growth and survival of house sparrow chicks at concentrations similar to those found in birds from intensive vineyard areas ! 📢 CNRS press release 👉 bit.ly/42u5itZ 📄 Article 👉 bit.ly/4cjZs1F

One of the most widely used fungicides in farming harmful to reproduction in birds

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Common terns are assortatively mated with respect to their levels of #mercury #pollution, and transfer mercury to their eggs. Another amazing body of work from Justine's PhD thesis has turned into a paper. To be found in Environmental Research and open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Seabirds in crisis: Plastic ingestion induces proteomic signatures of multiorgan failure and neurodegeneration

Plastic consumption in seabirds causes blood signatures of widespread organ damage including brain, stomach, kidney, and liver.

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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Plastic pollution leaves seabirds with brain damage similar to Alzheimer’s, study shows

#ornithology #seabirds www.marineornithology.org/article?rn=1...