Back from fieldwork in Kazakhstan: in cooperation with the Institute of Zoology in Almaty & @vogelwarte.bsky.social we tagged songbirds with geolocators to uncover their unknown #birdmigration Main target species: Himalayan Rubythroat 😍

Very happy to be part of this collaborative #ornithology paper on the extent of nocturnal bird migration led by @pauldufour80.bsky.social

Paul Dufour@pauldufour80.bsky.social · 4w ago

🐦🌙 Happy to see this big collaborative paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social! We address a seemingly simple question using geolocator data collected across many species and individuals: how much of bird migration actually happens at night? www.cell.com/current-biol... A short🧵

New paper #ornithology #ortolanbunting #conservation Ortolan buntings consistently select breeding territories with structurally diverse crops on well-drained soils doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70324 Great outcome from Annika Jensen’s Master’s thesis, based on Jörg Grützmann’s >12-yr data.

The paper that turned out from the master´s thesis of our research group member @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social

Thiemo Karwinkel@thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

6 year anniversary of the first Long-tailed duck (clangula hyemalis)🦆 light-level-geolocator tracking paper "Year-round spatiotemporal distribution pattern of a threatened sea duck species breeding on Kolguev Island, south-eastern Barents Sea" doi.org/10.1186/s128... some results in the threat🧵⤵️

Very happy to work together with PhD candidate Pattraporn Simla from Thailand for the coming months! Watch this video to learn about their work on studying & protecting the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting on its wintering grounds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4j0... #EastAsianFlyway

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New #ornithology paper 🚨 Migration patterns and hybridization within the Asian stonechat complex in response to a major geographical barrier doi.org/10.1093/evle... Led by PhD candidate Tianhao Zhao, we studied #birdmigration routes & #genetics of individuals migrating E, W & across Qinghai-Tibet

A warm welcome to Pattraporn Simla (Bouquet) from King Mongkut´s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand, who joined our group for the next six months to work on her data regarding threats for the critically endangered Yellow-breasted Bunting #EastAsianFlyway

Last week we @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social @annikapeter.bsky.social @mguidotti29.bsky.social presented at the 12th RIN Conference on Animal Navigation at Royal Holloway College in the UK It was a fantastic setting, with plenty of engaging discussions and valuable exchanges throughout the event

1 year anniversary of our paper about long-tailed duck tracking! It just so happen, that I saw a lot of wintering Long-tailed ducks during the @eoufledglings.bsky.social conference in Gdansk!

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new publication by our team member @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social about the multi-year and multi site tracking of long-tailed ducks (Clangula hyemalis) from the Arctic to the Baltic Sea. @ifv-whv.bsky.social read here open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Last weekend, we joined #EOU26 in Gdańsk, sharing insights and results from @thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social and @giovannasandretti.bsky.social, with travel support from the @dornitholges.bsky.social Great atmosphere with lots of discussions and exchanges!

EOU Fledglings@eoufledglings.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Session 8 at #EOU26 focused on biologging Thiemo Karwinkel, Susan Ellen McKinlay, Giovanna Sandretti da Silva, Ryan Boswarthick and Trevor MacLaurin on tracking movements, flight behaviour, survival, and tag effects. A lot of insight from these approaches—what stood out to you?

It’s cool to see one of the first German articles I wrote out in print. If you told me at 14 when I started learning German that one day I would write about my science in that language I don’t know if I would have believed you 😅🙈

Today is the 1 year anniversary of our perspectives paper on the #Motus wildlife tracking System for Europe! read here: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)! We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science: 🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products 🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk Apply or reach out! aeroecolab.com/opportunities

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Three PhD positions are open at NINA: seabird ecology in a changing arctic (25 mar), areal planning and land use change (15 apr) and geospatial AI tools for fine-scale ecosystem accounting (15 apr). Study applied ecology at a major research institute in Norway! nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs

🦇We're Hiring! 🦢 Research Assistant position at ATU to determine the feasibility of establishing a radio receiver (Motus) network in Ireland for migrating bats and birds March 26th deadline! www.atu.ie/connect/jobs... @atu-ie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @shrewgod.bsky.social

Huge thanks to the SFB team for a fantastic spring meeting at Thülsfelder Talsperre! 🌿 Inspiring exchanges, poster sessions, walk & talks, and working groups on DEI and gender equity for #InternationalWomensStrike made it a true boost for collaboration and team spirit. 🌱

Meet Alice! + joined us as PhD candidate on pre-migratory flights & impacts of #pesticides on #birdmigration + has volunteered for multiple bird associations & participated in mig counts, passerine ringing & breeding bird surveys + has worked on climate change impact on bird phenology & behaviour

New Paper alert 📄 Rüppel et al. 2026 - "movetrack: An R package to model flight paths from radio-telemetry networks" -> this makes it possible to transform station-based radiotelemetry data into actual flight path, validated with a plane flight. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A warm welcome to Alice who joined our research group as a new PhD-Student today. We are happy having you with us for the next 3 years as part of the Cluster of Excellence "Navisense".

Meet Matteo! Our new @sfb1372.bsky.social songbird orientation fellow With a background in waterbirds, he is excited to dive deeper into migration research Originally from 🇮🇹, he is strongly motivated to contribute to various research activities & firmly believes that lunch should never be rushed

A warm welcome to @mguidotti29.bsky.social who joined our lab now as an @sfb1372.bsky.social fellow In the next 10 months he will work on orientation 🧭 in Northern Wheatears together with @annikapeter.bsky.social

We have a new group logo - honouring one of our key study species, the northern wheatear 😍 And of cause, this bird is also tagged with a transmitter - but the tracking devices we use for our studies are so tiny, that you can´t see them on the bird 😉

Congrats to @annikapeter.bsky.social and team for successfully organising this great young researcher symposium on #magnetoreception and #animalnavigation in connection with @sfb1372.bsky.social 🥳

Annika Peter@annikapeter.bsky.social · 9mo ago

[1/2] Thank you to everyone who joined our Young Researchers Symposium 2025 in Hamburg! In these 3 days, we learned about fascinating day and night science and connected with other early career researchers. It was a pleasure to organize this symposium as part of an amazing team! @sfb1372.bsky.social

New study led by our @wielandheim.bsky.social uncovered negative effects of an anthropogenic fire on bird abundance and diversity during stopover:

Wieland Heim@wielandheim.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New #ornithology paper + @ramonaheim.bsky.social negative effects of #fire on bird abundance & diversity during stopover🔥 past work focussed on breeding birds, while fire impacts during migration remained unknown 🐤 fire management needed to sustain stopover habitat 👩‍🚒 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

A skylark I tagged last autumn in northernmost Germany with a #Motus transmitter (to study #pesticide effects) was now detected near our University in Oldenburg - we @migecol.bsky.social col.bsky.social now have data from 3 migration seasons for this bird! motus.org/dashboard/#e... #birdmigration

We’re #hiring! Our new fellowship holder Dr. Alina Sigaeva will soon be establishing her research group on #cell #physiology 🥼🔬🧪🧫 🧬of avian #magnetoreception 🐣🧭🧲. She is looking for a talented PhD student 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓. Apply by 2 November at uol.de/job764en Please share widely!

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology

See the thread of our group member about one of our papers:

Thiemo Karwinkel@thiemokarwinkel.bsky.social · 10mo ago

3rd anniversary of this paper: Karwinkel et al. 2022 "A magnetic pulse does not affect free-flight navigation behaviour of a medium-distance songbird migrant in spring" in JEB, where we tried to reproduce old studies on magnetoreception, but found no effects. A thread: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....