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

Dunlin: tales from the Baltic

Veli-Matti Pakanen, Kari Koivula  and colleagues have been studying Finnish Dunlin for nearly twenty years. These are schinzii birds that breed in coastal grazing meadows around the Baltic Sea…

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New paper: how does forestry affect different tit species? 30 years of data from Finland show that clear-cutting and thinning can have contrasting effects on willow, great and blue tits, with consequences for recruitment and population persistence. ➡️ vist.ly/57q7h #ornithology #birds

Ilmastonmuutoksen myötä yleistyvät meritulvat uhkaavat yhä useammin uhanalaisten kahlaajalintujen pesintää Suomen rannikoilla. Kahlaajat ovat parhaillaan aloittamassa pesintäkauttaan.

Yleistyvät tuulitulvat vievät kahlaajien pesät – avuksi maankäytön suunnittelu, tekomunat ja keinohaudonta äärimmäisenä ratkaisuna

Tulvimisen lisääntyminen on kytköksissä ilmastonmuutokseen ja koskee kahlaajien lisäksi muitakin lintuja.

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amazing course with cool tutors!!

AniMove@animove-course.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#Animove26 is going to Kenya. Come and join us! Applications are now open until 31st of May 🦁🦏🐘🦛🦇🦂🦗 animove.org/next-animove...

#Animove26 is going to Kenya. Come and join us! Applications are now open until 31st of May 🦁🦏🐘🦛🦇🦂🦗 animove.org/next-animove...

#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

🌿Apply now! 🌿🦒🐘🦓🌍 We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Animove are NOW OPEN This year our workshop will take place in Africa @mpalarc.bsky.social . Learn cutting-edge methods in animal movement analysis. We can't wait to see your application come through. See you at #Mpala 🇰🇪

Applications are now open for our #BasicR Course followed by the two week #Animove workshop @mpalarc.bsky.social. Perfect for African-affiliated students and researchers-with funding available for eligible participants! 👉 Apply now: animove.org/basic-r-cour... See you in Kenya! 🇰🇪 #AfricanResearchers

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

"feeling you must constantly prove you belong in boots and bad weather, in remote places, and in male-coded spaces"

Curlew Action@curlewaction.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Four eggs ✅ Five eggs ❌ Chicks from five-egg Ringed Plover nests are far less successful. wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/f... WaderTales blog #156 #ornithology

Why do advances in timing of breeding occur more in short-distance migrants? Latest wadertales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/28/m... on our new @ecol-evol.bsky.social paper about Icelandic waders: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Happy International Day for #WomenInScience! I’m Lisa Kreye, a HelLO master’s student studying whether species traits can explain variability in birds’ responses to environmental change. Grateful for the mentorship of amazing women scientists like @jellybb.bsky.social and @laurabosco.bsky.social 🐦

Our new paper on Bateman gradients in black coucals and white-browed coucals is out. Females of both species outperform males in mating and reproductive success - confirming the generality of Bateman's principle when sex roles differ. Check it out: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Sex-role reversal and the Bateman gradient in coucals—females benefit from mating with multiple partners

Abstract. Conventional sex roles imply that males compete more vigorously with each other for fertilizations, whereas females are more selective in choosin

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Another day of #AnimoveCR 😀 Analysing animal movement with continuous-time models by @ecoisilva.bsky.social and Chris Fleming, ending with a fantastic plenary talk by @kamransafi.bsky.social on Kruger National Park research.

Countdown for #AnimoveCR at La Selva Estación Biológica, Organization of Tropical Studies 👍 We will see you tomorrow! @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @animove-course.bsky.social @animaltracking.bsky.social @livingingroups.bsky.social

After absolutely amazing adventures in Costa Rica for 2wks it's time to start working in the jungle and learn lots of cool & useful things with @animove-course.bsky.social Looking forward to tomorrow!

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Victoria’s riflebirds are masters of time, accelerating their dance tempo by reducing the durations between movements by just 50 milliseconds, before leveling off at 3 alternations per second and flashing their yellow mouth. Read more about this spectacular dance here: www.cell.com/current-biol...

The diversity in plumage and behaviors of #ruffs is stunning and probably an underused asset for their #conservation @simonvandepitte.bsky.social #IWSG2025 #shorebirds #ornithology

Something to look for in #wader nests. Blue eggs are becoming increasingly common in #ruff clutches @jellybb.bsky.social #IWSG2025 #shorebirds #conservation

Interesting talk by @jellybb.bsky.social about the aberrant egg coloration in Ruff clutches. Blue eggs may affect nest survival, but fitness effects may be habitat dependent. @waderstudy.bsky.social IWSG Conference 2025 in Groningen (Netherlands) #IWSG2025 #waders #shorebirds

Belated but wonderful news: Kriszti Kupán has won a 3-year grant from the Bauer-Hollmann Stiftung for monitoring and developing an integrative #conservation management approach for threatened #ruffs and #dunlins at #Liminganlahti! 🥚🎉🐣

There are now 148 blogs about waders/shorebirds in the WaderTales catalogue. Here's the list of what's available, with a short descriptor of each blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ There are 14 blogs about (Eurasian) #Curlew, just to name one species. #ornithology

The first chapter of my thesis is out now in Journal of Ethology! Check it out if you're interested in taking a deep dive into the vibrational signal of a very cute spider 🕷️〰️ Variation of vibratory performance during courtship of a cursorial spider: doi.org/10.1007/s101...

Intraclutch egg color variation in #ruffs is striking. Pale to strongly pigmented, speckled and not speckeled and even blue eggs within a single clutch 💙

Adorable #ruff chicks for your Sunday evening. Or Monday morning.

It's always nice to have back a bird you ringed! @wmgvs.bsky.social remember Ljudmila?

Sunday morning delight! Woodcock with her chicks feeding and brooding in front of our kitchen window. ☺️🪄✨

Yesterday, we found the nest of this blonde female. Three of her eggs were also exceptionally pale. #ornithology #waders