🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN... ...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries Application deadline: 30 Oct 2026 Full details via links ⬇️ Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c... #ornithology 🪶

Lesser black-backed gulls avoid offshore wind farms - but not because they are attracted by the fishing boats outside of those windfarms New article on #seabirds #ornithology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social, @judyshamounb.bsky.social

Offshore wind farm avoidance by a discard‐feeding seabird is independent of local fishing activity

Fishing is not allowed within wind farms; therefore, discard-feeding seabirds may appear to avoid wind farm areas. We found that most Lesser Black-backed Gulls avoided the wind farm area, but not eac....

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🔈 BOU COUNCIL NOMINATIONS We are seeking nominations for 5 positions on Council, for appointment at the 2027 AGM A great opportunity to be involved with the governance of the BOU Nomination deadline: 15 June 2026 bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

🔊 WE'RE RECRUITING Would you like to play a central role in delivering our journal IBIS and engaging with the #ornithology community? Join us as our Journal and Engagement Manager! ⏰ Apply by 14 April bou.org.uk/vacancy-j... 🪶

We are hiring a new PhD candidate 🎉as part of the No-REGRETS (NOrth Sea Renewable Energy: Gaining the Required Ecological Knowledge for the TranSition) consortium. If you are excited too, have what we are looking for and interested in joining us please apply. #ornithology #animalmovement

Eldar Rakhimberdiev@eldarrak.bsky.social · last yr.

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Very cool PhD opportunity with a fab team of caring and inspiring supervisors at a great institution, and building on a fantastic study system! Recommended! #ornithology

Eldar Rakhimberdiev@eldarrak.bsky.social · last yr.

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Great PhD position on gull foraging behaviour ecology at sea! #ornithology Apply before 20-7-2025 or spread the word!

Eldar Rakhimberdiev@eldarrak.bsky.social · last yr.

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

New PhD position in our group! Join us to study gull foraging ecology at sea using GPS and accelerometry data! You will be working here Amsterdam Movement Ecology group under supervision of @judyshamounb.bsky.social, @rooskentie.bsky.social and me. Apply here werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — PhD Position Gull Foraging Ecology in the North Sea - NO-REGRETS Project

Are you passionate about animal movement ecology? Interested in studying gull foraging ecology at sea? Apply for this unique PhD opportunity at the Department of Theoretical and Computational Ecology ...

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1/2 A brief introduction to some of our research through this storymap summarizing our project "Interactions between birds and offshore windfarms" with links our papers. Funded by NWO, @rijkswaterstaat.bsky.social & Gemini windpark storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/51e7...

Interactions between birds and offshore wind farms project

Institute of Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics IBED, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research NIOZ, Rijkswaterstaat, Gemini Wind Park

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Vacancy: less than a week to apply for a job as lab assistent at @niozsearesearch.bsky.social working for #SIBES with benthic invertebrates in the Wadden Sea. workingat.nioz.nl/o/junior-med...

Please vote for Selin Ersoy who is nominated for this award! Her paper shows that #personality relates to #migration timing in Red Knots. Big honour already, but wouldn't it be great if she wins?! Vote here bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis-be... also to see other great nominees.The paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

IBIS - Best ECR paper of 2024 - British Ornithologists' Union

Our Associate Editors considered 38 IBIS papers, published in 2024, whose first or corresponding author was an Early Career Researcher (ECR), nominating their favourites. The top-ranking papers are no...

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · last yr.

‼️ VOTE NOW ‼️ For your favourite Early Career Researcher paper published in IBIS in 2024 bou.org.uk/ibis/ibis... Voting closes: 21 March Supported by Leica Camera (UK) | #ornithology 🧵 ⬇️

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📢 VACANCY Could you be our next Social Media Support Officer? We're looking for a social media whizz to support our output across multiple platforms Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

📢 VACANCY Are you committed to promoting equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility within #ornithology ? Perhaps you could be our next Equality and Diversity Support Officer Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

What is happening in the USA, including U.S. government censorship of research, is unacceptable. The least we can do is to state our opposition publicly. Please have a look at this declaration and--if you agree--put your name to it. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Declaration To Defend Research Against Government Censorship

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship, V.1.1 Drafted by Lisa Schiff (@lschiff.bsky.social), Alice Meadows (@alicemeadows.bsky.social), Catherine Mitchell (@camitchell.bsky....

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📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN... ...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Application deadline: 31 March Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s... 🪶 #ukbirds

#BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Alfred Newton Lecture Judy Shamoun-Baranes Synergies between ornithology, technology and movement ecology Book your place now! Early-bird closes 3 Feb bou.org.uk/event/fro... #ornithology 🪶

🔈 BOOK YOUR PLACE AT #BOU2025! Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK & on Bluesky ⏰ Early-bird rates end 3 Feb Programme & registration: bou.org.uk/event/fro... #ornithology #ukbirds 🪶

Here, a teaser (lnkd.in/dez8eSsV) for a documentary about gas extraction in the UNESCO site #Wadden Sea: "Dilemma Ternaard". Tomorrow, it will be aired on NPO2 at 15:30. These shots are beautiful and I am already curious to see the rest! #Waddenzee #SIBES #Shorebirds @waddenvereniging.bsky.social

Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology #seabirds

‘Blob’ heat wave killed millions of seabirds—and they haven’t bounced back

Historic 2016 event may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem

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"At low density, a trade-off between juvenile survival and growth structures life-history variation, whereas at equilibrium density, trade-off between reproduction and juvenile survival is the major structuring axes" [Soay sheep] onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Density Dependence Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs in a Food‐Limited Population

Quantifying trade-offs within populations is important in life-history theory. However, most studies focusing on life-history trade-offs focus on two traits and assume trade-offs to be static. Our wo...

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Great advice from Steve Dudley (@stevedudley.bsky.social) on the #theBOUblog how to navigate Bluesky. I found it very helpfull, as I didn't know about the feed function! I now follow the #Ornithology feed, and will add more interesting ones. @ibisjournal.bsky.social

British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU)@bou.org.uk · 2y ago

NEW on #theBOUblog from @stevedudley.bsky.social The ornithology community is growing on Bluesky, here's why you should consider this alternative to Twitter | bou.org.uk/blog-dudl... #ornithology

🔈 ANNOUNCING! BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Applications open Jan 2025 More details: bou.org.uk/funding/s... 🪶

Our paper in iScience on the evolution of aggression in the extinct solitaire on Rodriguez is highlighted in the latest issue of Science! Congrats to all my co-authors, especially to lead authors Kenneth Rijsdijk and Leon Claessens! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In Other Journals

Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature

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CALL FOR KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS #BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1-3 April 2025 We're seeking nominations for keynotes at #BOU2025 Anyone can nominate and you can do so here: bou.org.uk/event/fro... Nomination deadline: 30 April | #ornithology

Environmental factors influencing red knot (Calidris canutus islandica) departure times of relocation flights within the non-breeding period | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology