Our paper is now out! Thanks to @annecharmantier.bsky.social , Samuel, Ségolène, Emilie, Baptiste, the whole zoo team, and the Montpellier tit team 🕊️

Evolution Letters@evolletters.bsky.social · last wk.

Are city birds genetically adapting to urban life? A common garden experiment in great tits reveals hidden evolutionary changes masked by environmental effects in the wild. doi.org/10.1093/evle... Image by G. Laurent, wikimedia

1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:

Back to some North African reptile #phylogeography! Highlighting a complex history of cryptic speciation, introgression, and cytonuclear discordance in the Ocellated Skink. doi.org/10.1111/zsc.... #herpetology #evolution

Glad to be part of this tremendous effort to document and understand landbird migration! More tagging and species soon! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... #ornithology #migration

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🧵

🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!

Heading home from Kazakhstan after a very nice field trip: 55 pipits tagged and some extra samples collected for colleagues’ projects (ex Eurasian/Pallid Scops Owls for @pcapi.bsky.social) Many thanks to our colleagues of the Institute of Zoology of Almaty, see you soon! @pdvsky.bsky.social

We stopped for a few days to see @wielandheim.bsky.social & colleagues from the Zoology Institute, who were tagging Himalayan Rubythroats in Almaty. And next in the series of birds outside their breeding range: some Siberian Chiffchaffs, quite a bit farther south than expected. @pdvsky.bsky.social

A nice surprise to find Yellow-browed Warblers (Phylloscopus inornatus) breeding in a relatively small larch forest at ~2,000m elevation in E Kazakhstan, in the same habitat as Hume’s Warbler. As far as we know, the species was not previously known to breed in Kazakhstan. @pdvsky.bsky.social

Some nice and unexpected bycatches from the last days while catching rubythroats: Black-throated Accentor & Water Pipit blackistoni. E Kazakhstan, with @pdvsky.bsky.social

And the star of the show: the Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi). We searched for the species along the Russian border, near where the birds that winter in Europe are breeding. Let’s see whether they all go east or west.

Two Siberian Rubythroats (Calliope calliope) from yesterday, E Kazakhstan. Tagged with multi-sensor geolocators for @wielandheim.bsky.social project. w/ @pdvsky.bsky.social

An Eastern Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos golzii) from yesterday, NE Kazakhstan. What a strange looking bird! w/ @pdvsky.bsky.social

Our (Jenny Dunn, Carolina Chagas, @willjsmith.bsky.social) paper on the evolution of island Wrens is finally out @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We describe the evolution of island gigantism in the St Kilda and Shetland subspecies. academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...

Today’s tagging: “Iberian” Dunnock (Prunella modularis mabbotti) in the Pyrenees with Paul’s team @pdvsky.bsky.social @paulcuchot.bsky.social #ornithology

How can we reconcile #SexualSelection in plants and animals? Some thoughts now published in a review led by Jeanne Tonnabel (@isemevol.bsky.social) in @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...

Sexual selection in plants and animals: toward a unified framework

Sexual selection is a cornerstone of evolutionary biology in animals but remains underexplored in plants, where empirical work is often disconnected from sexual selection theory. A major barrier to cr...

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Just back from a successful four-day Northern Wheatear sampling fieldtrip on Ouessant Island (21 breeding birds sampled) for @reto-burri.bsky.social and @vogelwarte.bsky.social’s genoscape project. The only drawback was dipping the first White-winged Lark for France back home...

out now in Science: @loganjames.bsky.social collected pairs of sounds in 16 species where we *know* which sound is more attractive (to that species) he played them to ppl on themusiclab.org, asking, in each pair, which was nicer. humans agreed w other animals doi.org/10.1126/science.aea1202

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology Tracking the range restricted white-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica namnetum using multi-sensor and light-level loggers link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Tracking the range restricted white-spotted Bluethroat Luscinia svecica namnetum using multi-sensor and light-level loggers - Journal of Ornithology

The Bluethroat Luscinia svecica is a Palearctic passerine comprising several subspecies with distinct migratory strategies. While the movements of L. s. svecica, L. s. cyanecula and L. s. azuricollis ...

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Curious about the full annual cycle of this 'Atlantic' Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica namnetum)? Check our latest paper is out now in Journal of #Ornithology 👇 doi.org/10.1007/s103...

Ravens have a mental heat map of where #wolf kills occur in a landscape and regularly sample these areas to update their beliefs, instead of continuously following the wolves. Amazing 🦊🐺 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ravens anticipate wolf kill sites across broad scales

Scavengers generally rely on patchily distributed, unpredictable carrion. A long-standing hypothesis suggests scavenging ravens reliably locate such food by directly following large carnivores to thei...

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Jens-Christian Svenning@jcsvenning.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wolves kill—and ravens remember where | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #raven #wolves #scavengers

Out now in Movement Ecology: We used multi-sensor geolocators to track myrtle warblers breeding in Alaska and found that they migrated much farther than expected to the Gulf Coast—rather than to the closer Pacific Coast non-breeding area 🪶🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Important milestone for the project and huge amount of work by @lvandenabeele.bsky.social to set up a pipeline for both investigating the systematics and characterising structuring reticulation events across the diversification of bee orchids (Ophrys): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url: academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology

Abstract. The current economics of scientific publishing reveal a profound imbalance: academia pays prices far exceeding the actual costs of publication. R

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🚨 2nd master’s project! Interested in bird migration & genomics? 🧬🐦 Use whole-genome data to trace the recent colonization of Ouessant Island by Blue Tits and explore how irruptive migratory events can shape colonization dynamics. Please share! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Very very happy to see my PhD work out! Congrats to the whole team 🎉🎉🎉

Reto Burri@reto-burri.bsky.social · 10mo ago

1/9 New in @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado8005 How does genetic architecture constrain evolutionary trajectories? To address this question, we inferred the genetic architecture of convergent plumage coloration and its evolutionary history in wheatears.

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦 a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:

You may have missed this #ant poster at #ESEB2025, but be sure not to miss the article just published in #openacess in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same moth...

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