1/🧵 Today I’m at #BOUasm26, engaging with colleagues on predicting the future of #avian #biodiversity. Recently in my own work I asked, how do we predict the movements of #birds in the world’s ever-growing cities? #ornithology
Gregory Eckhartt
@gregoryeckhartt.bsky.social
PhD researcher investigating urban avian movement ecology in Birmingham. For posts older than 2025 please refer to https://x.com/gregoryeckhartt
It was a great pleasure to present my work on the effects of ALAN (see here: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...) on the predation of ground-based insects at @ecbb2026.bsky.social. Thanks for having me!
European Conference on Behavioural Biology@ecbb2026.bsky.social · last mo.#ECBB2026 staying in the spotlight, we had @gregoryeckhartt.bsky.social sharing his works on how streetlights may decrease predation of ground-based insects
What do we know about the movements of birds in cities? My latest research, published today in Royal Society Open Science (doi.org/10.1098/rsos...), highlights what we already know, and where we need urgent research effort, such as satellite tagging of smaller birds!
Movement ecology of urban birds: a review of tracking studies
Abstract. The world is urbanizing rapidly, impacting the movements of wildlife living within ever fragmenting urban habitats. Movement tracking by biologge
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A male blackbird was ringed and deployed with a GPS tag in my own garden this morning for @gregoryeckhartt.bsky.social 's project monitoring their movements in urban landscapes! Happy to have been part of the process.