#Ornithology

Well, that's a wrap on #NAOC2020!Congrats to @NAOCbirds and the organizing societies for putting on such an excellent #VirtualConference in such Unprecedented Times™!! Now that we've absorbed this research, time
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Our new project - WaderTrack - has started!3 sleepless nights in the Tagus estuary and the first batch of #waders has been tagged!By the end of the wintering period we
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NEW PAPER @EcographyJourna (short thread)Linking range wide energetic trade-offs to breeding performance in a long-distance migranthttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.05152#OpenAccess#ornithology #waders #shorebirds We loo
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*Research Alert*Could roads be simplifying bird communities in Britain? New research by @sophiacooke, @NewsonStuart et al published in @NatureComms uses BBS data to investigate this possibility. Read the thread belowVideo
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Today's #BlackBirdersWeek topic is #BirdingWhileBlack.Here's a review of a fascinating book looking at the role Black Africans played for colonial white expeditionists. Has much changed?The Black Birders Who Made White
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This picture will be of interest to people discussing low numbers of juvenile Black-tailed Godwits in UK, such as @FrodshamBirder @Vaasetter @ed_keeble @Harrier1234 @RichardduFeu. Short thread follows.https://twitter.com/Iceland_Review/stat
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My second PhD chapter is out! We used an #experiment on female kittiwakes to test the role of food/energy status in timing of reproduction Available free for 50 days: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1c3Kn,QxXaDAo  #seabirds
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Inspired by the pic earlier, today's #BirdsAtTea is the Hildebrandt's Francolin. Restricted to East Africa this attractive #bird is a favourite prey for virtually everything! I've seen them hunted by
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I've been working on the @UniOfYork's biology MOOC this week https://www.futurelearn.com/admin/courses/the-biology-of-bugs-brains-and-beasts/2 & someone raised the excellent question of why do we do #conservation anyway? So my a
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The #Fluffenchops Championship is almost here!Voting for Round 1 will start this evening at 7pm AWST (GMT+8). Voting will remain open for 24hrs, so all timezones will be able to
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Just out in @AvianAce our #ornithology paper analyzing 20 years of #citizenscience data from coastal British Columbia, Canada, home to globally important populations of 22 bird species, exposing major differences
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Super exciting to stumble upon this #Sanderling with #geolocator in #Zackenberg @ZERO74N 11 years after I ringed her on her birthday. She cared for 4 fresh hatchlings together with a
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Hey everyone! If you have a bit of time and you think I did a good job advertising my science and with my tweets in general... could you nominate me
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Today's #BirdsAtTea is the Bateleur. This colourful relative of the snake-eagles is widespread but fast declining across much of Africa (another @IUCNRedList are considering uplisting). Adult back panels come in
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Our new paper with @ConnorEcology is now (online early) in @IBIS_journal - A threadSex and age differences in the diet of the Eurasian Sparrowhawk using web-sourced photographs: exploring the feasibility
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World, meet the #NewBirdOnTheBlock! Today we formally describe Calandrella cinerea rufipecta ssp. nov.—a vulnerable #African #relic species, and evaluate #species delimitation in #larks. Read #OpenAccess:https://doi.org/10.3390/d121104281
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