We're excited to announce our MSc projects for 2027 are live! 🧪🪶 Our postgraduate opportunities page now also advertises placement projects for PhD students too Find out more here: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

New job alert 🪶🧪 We are hiring a Conservation Scientist to work on links between hydrological restoration and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker conservation Deadline: 7/10/26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme @naturalengland.bsky.social 📷Ben Andrew

Here is the 2nd big piece of my postdoc at @cesco-lab.bsky.social, out now in @consletters.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1111/con4...

Multi‐Sensor Logger Tracking Reveals the Threats of Offshore Windfarms to Passerine‐Sized Birds

Offshore wind energy is a cornerstone of the transition to renewable energy, yet its rapid expansion raises concerns for wildlife. These concerns notably involve small migratory birds whose movements...

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🐦🌊 Tracking 65 birds from 11 species found that most sea crossings happened at night and at low altitudes - overlapping with offshore wind turbine rotors 👉 doi.org/10.1111/con4... #ornithology #birdmigration @pdvsky.bsky.social @pauldufour80.bsky.social @piedflynet.bsky.social @rafnuss.bsky.social

New job alert🪶 2.5yr fixed term Conservation Scientist role in our England and Wales team Project: Developing a trial management intervention for upland breeding Whinchat through a programme of new science Deadline: 23 Sept Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Ben Andrew

1/🧵 Our 2026 Spring field season data is in! Here are some highlights from our long-term monitoring of blue tits, invertebrates & trees across 44 sites in Scotland👇🏼

🐦🌙 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 preprint with @allyphillimore.bsky.social, out now! As climate change shifts seasonal timing across food-webs, we present an experiment testing the impact of phenological mismatch in *48* plant-caterpillar 🌳→🐛 trophic interactions. Read it here: doi.org/10.64898/202... ...or scroll 🧵👇 1/7

New research by the RSPB shows Swifts are highly loyal to the same nest sites each year Read on for a summary Full paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @uniexecec.bsky.social

Check out this wonderful guest blog post on Willow tit conservation by our own MMU PhD student @bensecker.bsky.social for @songbirdsurvival.bsky.social www.songbird-survival.org.uk/post/guest-b...

Guest blog: Why are willow tits disappearing from our woodlands?

Guest blog from Ben Secker who is is a Doctoral Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University studying the willow tit. From SongBird Survival, your voice for songbirds and other small birds in the UK, a specialist charity.

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Dutch pied flycatchers raised in Sweden wintered about halfway between the usual Dutch and Swedish sites in West Africa, pointing to both inheritance and natal environment. doi.org/hb8qb4

Why these birds meet again in Africa: Flycatcher study reveals how genes and environment guide 13,000‑km migrations

Migratory birds such as the pied flycatcher typically have wintering locations in Africa close to others from the same breeding population.

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A new Pied Flycatcher nest on a fledged Blue Tit nest @piedflynet.bsky.social @somersetbirds.bsky.social @btosomerset.bsky.social

*Upcoming deadline for two advertised posts in the Miller Cognition and Conservation Group is 5 June 2026* - 4-year PhD advert: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - 4-year Postdoc advert: careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/78...

PhD Opportunity! 4-year funded PhD @uniexecec.bsky.social: “From cognition to conservation: using cognitive and behavioural research to enhance animal reintroductions”. Closes: 5 June 2026. Funding: @royalsociety.org (UK/Home students only). More info & to apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 1/

📣 New Preprint, out now on @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social... Resource abundance can buffer trophic mismatch in a caterpillar-passerine food-chain 🌳→🐛→🐦 w/ @kenandlindasmith.bsky.social, @piedflynet.bsky.social et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.32942/X2K... ...or scroll for some highlights 🧵👇 1/4

Resource abundance can buffer trophic mismatch in a caterpillar-passerine food-chain doi.org/10.32942/X2K...

A perfect sunny day to set up audio recorders at Yarner Woods with @ajhdoyle.bsky.social & @piedflynet.bsky.social. The recorders will act as a remote nest box monitoring tool to estimate breeding behaviour, phenology & success of the Pied Flycatchers. Find out more: www.durham.ac.uk/staff/andrew...

First Pied flycatcher at East Dartmoor today continuing the trend for earlier arrival. Another present at Dunsford Woods today. Also have the earliest ever first tit egg recorded (data starts in 1955) by two days - a Coal tit egg laid yesterday. Discovered with @drroskennerley.bsky.social

🚨 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING! 🚨 Only 1 week left to submit your abstract for #ExE2026! Submissions close April 1. All the details are at evoxeco.uk and below 👇

Welcome

ExE 2026 is a 3-day conference aimed at evolutionary ecologists from around the world, hosted by the University of Exeter in beautiful Cornwall. It provides a friendly and inclusive platform for all c...

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Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Then you cannot miss #ExE2026! Hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall, this #conference has a stellar line-up of speakers and lots of pre-and post-conference workshops. Space is limited, so register now at evoxeco.uk!

Never too late! From a hot summer in 2009 spent in the lab molecularly sexing pied flycatchers to a 2026 paper 🐦 Using 2,759 sexed nestlings (1997–2018) tracked through 2023, we show male attractiveness & annual rearing conditions increase the proportion of sons in broods 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

A successful annual meeting at the weekend for @piedflynet.bsky.social, with around 60 keen attendees there to hear about last season's results, @cateden91.bsky.social's research on spotted flycatchers, the Two Moors Pine Marten project, and to generally feel geed-up about the season ahead!

📢 Job Alert: Monitoring officer I am looking for an experienced ornithological fieldworker to join the team this spring to lead on the monitoring of Black tailed godwits at WWT Welney. Closing date: 6 March 2026 Apply ➡️ vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77...

New role! 📢 We're looking for a dynamic and experienced Science Manager to join us at BTO. Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology 📆 Full time, Permanent. 📝 £46,344 per annum. 📍 Hybrid working. Deadline for applications: Monday 9 March.

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Reproductive consequences of mate retention and divorce in a short-lived migratory passerine | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Daniel R. Rodríguez-Solís, Iraida Redondo, Jesús Martínez-Padilla, Carlos Camacho, Jaime Potti, David Canal | #ornithology 🪶

Our new guidance note/protocol for using sound recorders to detect Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers gives practical details for using Song Meter Mini & Micro recorders from Wildlife Acoustics in woodland with suitable habitat & has proved a great success www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/index.php/ne...

I’m excited to share our new paper in Ecology! Our 9‑year study across an urban–rural gradient shows native trees, especially oaks, boost blue tit breeding success. More native foliage supports more of the birds preferred prey and improves reproductive success. 📃 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #ornithology

Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient

Urban areas are altered from natural landscapes in several ways that can impact wildlife. Birds are widespread in urban areas, and it is well documented that there are phenotypic differences between ...

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We are hiring at the Wytham Woods for the upcoming field season. 4 roles available. Please share with anyone who might be interested. #UKbirds #birdringing

RSPB seasonal positions @rspbscience.bsky.social are live & we are ready for applications! 🌱🪶🌊⛰️🐣 Huge variety of posts available for 2026: seabirds, veg surveys, visitor questionnaires, upland monitoring, wader chick tracking... all listed on the attachments via the link 👇 Deadline 11th Jan 2026 📆

RSPB Science@rspbscience.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

📣 New paper out now in @conbiology.bsky.social! #Headstarting - hatching eggs and/or rearing chicks in captivity & releasing them back to the wild - has been increasingly used for #wader #conservation. But it can be challenging and expensive. So why do it and when❓ 📷WWT/Bob Ellis #godwit (1/4)