Congrats to our Tuesday eBird #AOS26 birding competition winner Percy Ulsamer, who picked up a conference hat today as a prize! 27 Species at Orchard Hill including a Cedar Waxwing feeding young! Checklist: ebird.org/checklist/S3... Join in the fun! meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...

Excited to see this out in print now! Led by @hengxingzou.bsky.social this work empirically shows that the "Consequences of phenological shifts are determined by the number of generations per season." & how this relates to coexistence mechanisms. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Consequences of phenological shifts are determined by the number of generations per season

The order and timing of species' arrival in a community can often change species interactions. Termed priority effects, this phenomenon arises in communities with drastically different life histories...

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Why should applied ecologists & conservation practitioners be interested in precision ecology? Because meta-analysis gives average effects & can’t tell you how to target conservation actions But PE methods use contextual information to say what works & where www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action - Nature Ecology & Evolution

The fields of medicine and marketing use large data volumes and computational power to target individuals. This Perspective argues that applied ecologists should draw on such approaches to provide dec...

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Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · 3d ago

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

1/ A major new global review published in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com, featuring BTO authors CEO @julietvickery.bsky.social & Senior Research Ecologist Chris Hewson, finds that 51% of the world’s migratory bird species are declining! #Ornithology 🌍🌐 📖 www.bto.org/MigratoryBir...

🧵 The Search for Lost Birds is looking for young, adventurous birders to lead expeditions to find “lost” bird species. Currently, 121 birds lack any scientific documentation for a decade or longer (70+ are entirely missing from the Macaulay Library!) Continued... searchforlostbirds.org

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How does personality affect spring migration timing in Red Knots? We combined experimental food manipulations, measures of exploration speed, and individual tracking to find that fast-exploring birds delayed departure, but only after restricted food access. Read more in our paper👇

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 2w ago

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Exploration speed in Red Knots affects spring migration timing, but only after experimentally constrained fuelling conditions | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Tohar Tal, Allert I. Bijleveld, Karein van Bijssum, Hidde Kressin, Thomas K. Lameris | #ornithology

Our paper on breeding site fidelity in Red Phalaropes now available in early view @behavecol.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/beheco/advan... We colour banded 169 males and 184 females of this polyandrous shorebird on their Arctic breeding grounds, and monitored their return in the next year 1/4

"High elevation communities may not be capable of tolerating the rising temperatures that come with climate change, while low elevation communities are already experiencing environmental temperatures that may meet or exceed their thermal limits." 🌍🔥

🍁 Alex Smith 🍁@alexsmithants.bsky.social · last wk.

🧪 🪲 🌋 🌡️ When are things too hot to handle? Our new paper on insect thermal tolerance across elevation in @pnas.org nas.org suggest perhaps not too far in the future. @gdfcf.bsky.social sky.social @alexandreloureiro.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

📖 Priority research questions to generate decision-grade data to enable coastal ecosystems to mitigate the climate and nutrient crises 📖 👇️ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ten days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations. Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning. We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades. phys.org/news/2026-07...

Drought threatens irrigation in northern Italy

Water reserves are being depleted rapidly in northern Italy, threatening farming as the region's main river dries up, local officials warned Friday.

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how does seasonal migration evolve? this question is to the heart of our focus and here we use common garden approach to characterise the amount of seasonal change in chromatin accessibility in ancestral migratory and derived resident populations of the Eurasian blackcap doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Updated my applyingtoeeb.info site on applying to evolution and ecology grad school in the US to incorporate some of the latest immigration changes. Share with any REU or other students who might be considering grad school.

Although the GPS loggers are teaching us lots of really cool things about the members of Central Europe's last gull-billed tern colony, sometimes the news is just the saddest:

The Ebola outbreak in DRC just passed a grim milestone — 1,000 deaths. More than two months into the epidemic, health officials are struggling to keep up. Too much transmission is happening outside the view of contact tracers, and too many patients aren't getting care. www.npr.org/2026/07/23/g...

Why health officials do not have a good handle on the current Ebola outbreak

To get slightly ahead of the virus, health officials need to quickly identify people at risk of infection, a practice known as contact tracing. That's a challenge in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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So amazing to see these windows are now bird safe!

Feipeng Huang@feipenghuang.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Thirteen juvenile Cedar Waxwings died from window collisions at @umassamherst.bsky.social ’s Isenberg School of Management over the past three weeks, including eight that were found together on October 2. We are training undergraduate students to prepare them as study skins for the museum.

New paper out! 🎉 Common waxbills (Estrilda astrild) have spread far beyond their native African range, reaching cooler regions - so how do they cope when temperatures drop? doi.org/10.1016/j.cb... @ecobird.bsky.social

And the winners of the Edwards Prize for best major paper published in the WJO are Liam Corcoran, Megan Gray, and Scott McWilliams for their paper "Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) nesting ecology: behavior of nesting adults and chick growth." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2026 Publication Award Winners

We are excited to recognize the latest winners of our annual publication awards!

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New paper out! Limited evidence that butterflies are capable of changing their thermoregulatory performance or thermal tolerance in response to local climatic conditions. Instead, poorer thermoregulators have shown stronger upwards elevational range shifts in response to climate change rdcu.be/fuSJE

Butterflies with low thermoregulatory capacity show greatest upwards range shifts along an elevational gradient

Communications Biology - Lack of variation in thermoregulatory capacity or thermal tolerance in butterflies across an elevational gradient suggests limited adaptive capacity. Poorer...

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📖 Published📖 Magnetic geolocation is a viable complementary tool for tracking small avian species, particularly in contexts where pressure-based methods cannot be used🐦️ 🌏️ 🧪 buff.ly/qjJvgZt

When organisms colonize new environments, they can experience release from previous parasites. Bolnick et al. use an experiment to track how this release leads to large fluctuations in infection rates, as well as immune evolution. Read now ahead of print! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We are hiring a new PhD candidate 🎉as part of the No-REGRETS (NOrth Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the TranSition) consortium. If you are excited too, have what we are looking for and interested in joining us please apply. #ornithology #animalmovement

Eldar Rakhimberdiev@eldarrak.bsky.social · last yr.

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Please share! This fully-funded postdoc position at the UCLA La Kretz Center allows candidates to design their own projects in California conservation, and offers mentorship from both academics and conservation practitioners. drive.google.com/file/d/1K2Qi...

I'm joining Rutgers DEENR in a tenure-track faculty position this fall! I'll be recruiting a quantitative postdoc in climate change wildlife ecology (start fall 26 or jan 27) and PhD student doing bioacoustics to study avian responses to extreme weather (start fall 27). More- www.gcmelab.com/join-us

Glad to share my latest paper, published in @animalecology.bsky.social! This work was carried out under the supervision of Giulia Masoero and Pierre Bize at @vogelwarte.bsky.social. Read more about our findings 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The role of viability selection in shaping short‐ and long‐term consequences of early‐life conditions: An experiment in the Alpine swift

In an experimental brood-size manipulation in Alpine swifts, smaller nestlings were selectively lost during growth, eliminating treatment differences in adult size, yet individuals from enlarged broo...

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Out now! What do red kite parents do when food provisioning is covered? Our new study shows that good parenting is about more than just being on the nest. doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... Proud of this first senior authorship w/ @vsvanbergen.bsky.social @urskormann.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social

Florida scrub-jay genomes across space and time reveal impacts of population decline and reduced gene flow: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Florida scrub-jay genomes across space and time reveal impacts of population decline and reduced gene flow

By analyzing genomes from 241 Florida scrub-jays across five populations and two time points, Nguyen et al. reveal substantial losses of genetic diversity and increased inbreeding following population...

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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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It was a great collaborative effort! Excited to continue this work.

Graham Scott@scottlab.ca · 3w ago

Excited to share our new paper in @science.org on Andean leaf-eared mice, the world’s highest-dwelling mammal. It’s a fun and exciting project to be part of with a great team of collaborators!

New paper! We simulated foraging trips of Northern gannets at Bass Rock to decipher what information individuals use to keep returning to the same foraging patches. Memory was the strongest driver, but it wasn't the whole story. 🧵👇 doi.org/10.1186/s404... 1/5