Spring is arriving, but there's still snow in the forecast! How do late #winter storms affect our migratory #birds? Out now in @natecoevo.nature.com, we ask that Q with 25+yrs of #CitizenScience data and ~400 museum specimens collected after the 2021 Great TX Freeze: rdcu.be/e7aUy #EcoEvo #evolution

Storm-induced mass mortality results in both immediate and long-term consequences for a migratory songbird

Nature Ecology & Evolution - Combining 27 years of citizen science data with whole-genome sequencing, the authors show that mass mortality of purple martins caused by a severe winter...

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⚠️La ciencia denuncia el uso interesado y fraudulento de supuestos estudios científicos para intentar reabrir la captura de aves silvestres, en particular de fringílidos, como el jilguero #AvedelAño. 👉https://seo.org/alertan-por-el-uso-indebido-de-la-ciencia-para-la-captura-de-aves-canoras-en-espana/

1/Spring bird migration is getting earlier, right? Not necessarily! In our latest paper, led by former lab MSc student Lauren Puleo, we found that a population of Hudsonian Godwits breeding in Alaska is now arriving 6 days later than they were a decade ago. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Flexibility in the face of climate change? A rapid and dramatic shift towards later spring migration in Hudsonian godwits (Limosa haemastica) | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

With rapid environmental change, shifts in migration timing are vitally important for population stability in migratory species and have been widely documented. However, little remains known about how...

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Our research on waterbird ecology in the rice fields of the Tagus river basin made the cover of Hydrobiologia. You can read the paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology #ricefields @cienciasulisboa.bsky.social @jpgranadeiro.bsky.social

#ornithology #birds #radiotracking

A cool figure in doi.org/10.1002/ece3... is the "maximum clade credibility" tree for 37 Australian shorebird species included in the study. The colours of dots at the ends of branches indicate the 3 types of non-breeding habitats distinguished. Images from field guide of Menkhorst et al. (2017).

More than two decades in the making! Well worth it. The new question is: Why do migratory #shorebirds frequenting coastal non-breeding habitats delay #maturity (expressed in age of first return #migration) more than species using inland freshwater habitats? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Excited and honored to have my first solo paper out in Am Nat!! @asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/736225

The Evolution of Homeothermic Endothermy via Life History Optimization | The American Naturalist

Abstract Endothermy is an energetically expensive trait, yet it has posed an evolutionary advantage across different lineages—a paradox that remains puzzling to biologists. Here, I investigate whether...

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Por 2° año consecutivo los #vencejos de la Torre de Ensayos de Ascensores de la Universidad de Extremadura #UEx sacan pollos adelante. Esperamos que nuestros aliados alados ocupen las +80 cajas-nido que instalamos. Con José Masero e Ignacio Herrera @uexdivulga.bsky.social @sosvencejos.bsky.social

Love birds and know demographic analyses? My lab is hiring a postdoc for 2 years to develop a population viability analysis for endangered Roseate Terns! Join our team, including collabs from @massaudubon.org & @audubon.org, among others. App review begins 15 May. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

🚨Publication in @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Lameris et al. → Early snowmelt = earlier egg-laying, but only 2 waterfowl arrived earlier. → Over time, most arrived earlier—regardless of snowmelt or laying. → Why? Faster migration: shorter stopovers = earlier arrival. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Migratory Birds Advance Spring Arrival and Egg‐Laying in the Arctic, Mostly by Travelling Faster

A warming climate is affecting the phenology of life on earth, including when birds migrate and start breeding. We show that earlier arrival is a general pattern also for birds travelling to the Arct...

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Check out the latest publication from Julián Cabello-Vergel's thesis revealing that legs are primary heat exchangers in nest-bound White storks, (pre-proof) published in @jthermbiol.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Exciting News: Beta Release of the New Global Flyway Network! We're thrilled to share the beta release of the new and improved Global Flyway Network! Enjoy exploring the latest release, and let us know what you think! 🚀✨ www.globalflywaynetwork.org

Birds connecting the dots ~ Global Flyway Network

The Global Flyway Network (GFN) is a partnership between researchers worldwide who are devoted to long term – usually demographic – work on long distance migrating shorebirds.

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Today, Jesús Carriön photographed black-ailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER in flight at L'Albufera wetland comples near Valencia, Spain. Too bad transmitter has been dead for 2 years now, but the good news is that the #skries #grutto is perfectly alive! @laurabromet.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social

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Black-tailed #godwit WARNSERPOLDER from Friesland is a celebrity (e.g. x.com/GlobalFlyway...). Antonio Alcocer photographed it at L'Albufera wetland Valencia, Spain. This first obervation of this season on 6 Feb tallies well with the dates in 2020-2024 (6, 15, 9, 7 & 12 Feb, resp.). #skries #grutto

We've reached 1.5°C global warming. With current policies, we're heading for a catastrophic 2.7°C warming. A new review paper in Science shows: this would change the Arctic 'beyond recognition', with knock-on effects (like rising seas) around the world. 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper! @jappliedecology.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3C5gYJp We mapped out the migrations of over 10K ind ⚫-tailed godwits (!) to characterize connectivity between sites in Europe and Africa. We compiled tracking data, ring recoveries and resightings: >400K records in total! (1/5)