New study! We demonstrate a transatlantic flight for Vanessa cardui butterflies. An incredible feat for insects! Read the full paper here: nature.com/articles/s4146… #insectmigration #butterflymigration #PhyloMigrationLab Institut Botànic de Barcelona CSIC

This year’s field season is almost over. Feel exhausted 😅 but grateful 🙏 for the chance to work with new species, especially the elusive Turtle Doves. 🕊️ Can't wait to uncover more about their lives and to help conserve this beautiful vanishing bird. Stay tuned! | #HABITRACK

Need to analyze animal tracking data in R? Just out, our (Anne Scharf & Safi_Lab @safilabmpi ) paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution describing the R package move2 (bartk.gitlab.io/move2/) for analyzing movement data, including reading data directly from Movebank. doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

A review of reviews (#metaanalysis) - a masterpiece led by @pietro_pollo - putting together 152 meta-analyses on sexual selection onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/br… Get a glimpse into the wonderful world of sexual selection and its biases and issues - giving hints to the future work.

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN! #BOUasm24 | Birds and net zero: mechanisms, impacts and solutions in the transition to clean energy 24 Oct 2024 | York, UK & Zoom & X (Twitter) ➡️ In-person & online ➡️ 5 keynotes ➡️ 11 short talks ➡️ Summaries on X bou.org.uk/event/birds-an… #ornithology

⏰ REGISTER NOW Don't miss the chance to register at reduced rates for #BOUsci24 Avian conservation translocations on 12-13 Nov 2024 Early bird registration closes 30 Sept On Zoom & X (Twitter) bou.org.uk/event/avian-co… #ornithology

Calling all ornithologists!! We are only a couple weeks away from our first of THREE workshops on eBird data! Join us to explore how we can download, analyze, and visualize data from eBird products. buff.ly/3MPmhhJ

The Czech Turtle Doves tagged this year show two main migratory directions: one via Italy and one via the Balkans. Now they are in Africa where there is no LTE-M network. We hope to hear from them again when they are back in spring! 🕊️ | #HABITRACK #ornithology #birdmigration

Dufour et al. 2024: Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird communities Functional Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… | #ornithology | Paul Dufour Ferran Sayol Rob Cooke | @cefemontpellier CREAF BayCEER_is_leaving_X UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre

Host traits rather than migration and moulting strategies explain feather bacterial load in Palearctic passerines iScience journal doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… | University of Groningen Institute of Vertebrate Biology Vojtech Brlik Joana Falcao Salles Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social | #ornithology #MicrobialEcology #microbes #microbiome

NEW #Avian #sample #metadata AviSample Network! 147 #blood samples from House Sparrows and Rufous-collared Sparrows collected in #Ecuador in 2004. IDs: AS05347-AS05353 More details: avisample.net/samples #reuse #ornithology #birds

NEW #Avian #sample #metadata AviSample Network! 11 #feather samples from #threatened and #GPS tracked Turtle Dove collected in #Czechia in 2024 as part of the #HABITRACK project. IDs: AS05345 More details: avisample.net/samples/view?i… #reuse #ornithology #birds

📢Do not miss the registration for the #BOU2025 BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 #ornithology conference! The line-up of keynotes and speakers looks amazing. Check out the #birds programme: bou.org.uk/event/frontier….

News from international consortium led by T. Craft on #habitat use in nonbreeding black-tailed #godwits in #Senegal delta on basis of remote sensing (with ground truthing!) & GPS tracking. There were strong seasonal shifts. #openaccess at doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… Journal of Applied Ecology

Super stoked to share our latest research on the migratory patterns of painted lady butterflies across the Sahara! 🦋🏜️ cell.com/iscience/fullt…

🌍🌱 It’s often believed that plant communities with greater phylogenetic diversity also have higher functional diversity. In other words, the more evolutionary lineages present, the greater the range of traits. But is this always true? 🌿 In our Preslia article last year, led by

Excited to share kenyabirdtrends.co.ke & associated paper doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13…! We used KenyaBirdMap & eBird data to assess the change in distribution range of 1 088 bird species. We found a range reduction among scavengers & migrants, while introduced birds expanded.

🚨 Internship Alert 🚨 Join us for research weaving of #birdmigration in Aug & Sep 2025. #ornithology 📍Location: Brno, hosted by Bird Ecology & Migration Lab 💼Funded: #EUFLYNET (euflynet.eu/stsms) 🔑Required: R 🎯Acquired: Systematic mapping If interested,📩CV & 300-word motivation📝

👉Today, we published the 2024 PECBMS update of bird trends and Wild Bird Indices pecbms.info/european-wild-… Unfortunately, the birds keep declining.