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Geography, Environmental Conditions and Life History Shape Patterns of Within-Population Phenotypic Variation in North American Birds | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
Geography, Environmental Conditions and Life History Shape Patterns of Within‐Population Phenotypic Variation in North American Birds
Intraspecific variation is a fundamental component of biodiversity, shaping species interactions and coexistence dynamics. While numerous mechanisms have been proposed to shape the degree of phenotyp...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Geography, Environmental Conditions and Life History Shape Patterns of Within-Population Phenotypic Variation in North American Birds | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
A bird target detection model designed for substation scenarios | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶
A bird target detection model designed for substation scenarios
Scientific Reports - A bird target detection model designed for substation scenarios
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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 AM
A bird target detection model designed for substation scenarios | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶
A population estimate for Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) for the Turks and Caicos Islands with an assessment of current breeding status | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶
Bird conservation in the Brazilian cerrado: a special focus on the imminently threatened Chapada das Mesas National Park, Maranhão, Brazil
Ornithology Research - The establishment of protected areas (PAs) is critical for mitigating anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity and maintaining ecosystem functionality. This scenario is more...
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November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A population estimate for Phoenicopterus ruber (American Flamingo) for the Turks and Caicos Islands with an assessment of current breeding status | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶
Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex-Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex‐Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek
Reproductive success rates are a key parameter determining the recovery potential of ex-situ managed threatened species, with high rates often being required to produce offspring for wild releases wh...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Parental Age, Inbreeding and Incubation Method Influence Extremely Low Hatching Success in the Ex-Situ Population of the Extinct in the Wild Sihek | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna
In our study, we processed and analyzed data collected from 2014 to 2015 by a radar located in Manaus, AM, in the Amazon Rainforest, comparing it to a similar dataset from the Great Lakes region in N...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
NEW on #theBOUblog from Roni Ostreiher
To leave or to stay home? Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird
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Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
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To leave or to stay home? Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird
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Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEW on #theBOUblog from Roni Ostreiher
To leave or to stay home? Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird
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Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
#ornithology 🪶
To leave or to stay home? Sex-dependent dispersal decisions in a cooperative desert bird
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Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
#ornithology 🪶
Quantifying the effects of road-building on bird communities before and after activities | www.sciencedirect.co... | Journal of Environmental Management | #ornithology 🪶
Quantifying the effects of road-building on bird communities before and after activities
Urbanization with a rapid expansion of the road network disrupts ecological processes, fragmenting the landscape, and reducing biodiversity. The frequ…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Quantifying the effects of road-building on bird communities before and after activities | www.sciencedirect.co... | Journal of Environmental Management | #ornithology 🪶
Projected Spatial–Temporal Habitat Patterns of the Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) Under Climate and Land Use Change | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Projected Spatial–Temporal Habitat Patterns of the Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) Under Climate and Land Use Change
A multi-scale ensemble distribution model was used to evaluate the Chrysolophus amherstiae under different climate and land use change scenarios. Habitats of C. amherstiae are projected to decrease a...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Projected Spatial–Temporal Habitat Patterns of the Lady Amherst's Pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae) Under Climate and Land Use Change | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Machine learning predictions of climate change effects on nearly threatened bird species (Crithagra xantholaema) habitat in Ethiopia for conservation strategies | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶
Machine learning predictions of climate change effects on nearly threatened bird species (Crithagra xantholaema) habitat in Ethiopia for conservation strategies
Scientific Reports - Machine learning predictions of climate change effects on nearly threatened bird species (Crithagra xantholaema) habitat in Ethiopia for conservation strategies
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Machine learning predictions of climate change effects on nearly threatened bird species (Crithagra xantholaema) habitat in Ethiopia for conservation strategies | www.nature.com/artic... | Scientific Reports | #ornithology 🪶
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
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November 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
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#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky
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Small-scale farming benefits birds and boosts their diversity in nearby farmland and villages | www.sciencedirect.co... | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | #ornithology 🪶
Small-scale farming benefits birds and boosts their diversity in nearby farmland and villages
Since the post-World War II period, agricultural intensification and land consolidation programs have homogenized and simplified European agricultural…
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November 7, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Small-scale farming benefits birds and boosts their diversity in nearby farmland and villages | www.sciencedirect.co... | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment | #ornithology 🪶
Movements throughout the full annual cycle of three migratory swift species breeding in the Levant | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Movements throughout the full annual cycle of three migratory swift species breeding in the Levant
Journal of Ornithology - Movements throughout the annual cycle evolved as an adaptation to seasonality across different bird species with a continuum of migration strategies and behaviours at the...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Movements throughout the full annual cycle of three migratory swift species breeding in the Levant | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Trade mediated growth in alien bird species presents Indonesia with a conservation challenge | link.springer.com/ar... | Biological Invasions | #ornithology 🪶
Trade mediated growth in alien bird species presents Indonesia with a conservation challenge
Biological Invasions - Alien species represent a global challenge to biodiversity and human society. In many parts of the world, however, they remain poorly documented. Here we review citizen...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Trade mediated growth in alien bird species presents Indonesia with a conservation challenge | link.springer.com/ar... | Biological Invasions | #ornithology 🪶
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Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference 🪶
Low-carbon travel encouraged
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November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN
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Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference 🪶
Low-carbon travel encouraged
⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026
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For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants
Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference 🪶
Low-carbon travel encouraged
⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026
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Changes in land cover and bird community composition in a Dutch coastal Dune landscape – a two-decade analysis | link.springer.com/ar... | Biodiversity and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Changes in land cover and bird community composition in a Dutch coastal Dune landscape – a two-decade analysis
Biodiversity and Conservation - Land cover change (LCC) affects biodiversity at different spatial and temporal scales. Understanding how LCC affects bird populations is relevant for the...
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November 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Changes in land cover and bird community composition in a Dutch coastal Dune landscape – a two-decade analysis | link.springer.com/ar... | Biodiversity and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Sex-biased dispersal in the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Roni Ostreiher, Roger Mundry, Aviad Heifetz | #ornithology 🪶
Sex-biased dispersal in the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Roni Ostreiher, Roger Mundry, Aviad Heifetz | #ornithology 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Sex-biased dispersal in the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Roni Ostreiher, Roger Mundry, Aviad Heifetz | #ornithology 🪶
Sex-biased dispersal in the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps) | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Roni Ostreiher, Roger Mundry, Aviad Heifetz | #ornithology 🪶
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis | Bird Conservation International | Cambridge Core
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis - Volume 35
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November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Seasonal migration across the north-western Pacific and Indian Oceans in Swinhoe’s Storm-petrel Hydrobates monorhis | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
The Wind of Change: Mapping Wind Energy Growth and Multi-Species Vulnerability in Sardinia, Mediterranean | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
The Wind of Change: Mapping Wind Energy Growth and Multi‐Species Vulnerability in Sardinia, Mediterranean
The rapid expansion of wind energy across the Mediterranean region calls for more advanced tools to assess and mitigate its impacts on biodiversity. In this study, we present an innovative approach c...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The Wind of Change: Mapping Wind Energy Growth and Multi-Species Vulnerability in Sardinia, Mediterranean | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
NEW on #theBOUblog from Rebecca Gillmore
The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales
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The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales
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November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW on #theBOUblog from Rebecca Gillmore
The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales
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The ecology of a nationally important Great Cormorant population on Puffin Island, Anglesey, Wales
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Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime
Agri-environmental schemes, such as wildflower strips (WFS), can help to mitigate biodiversity loss caused by agricultural intensification. WFSs can p…
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November 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Wildflower strips support birds and ground-dwelling arthropods during winter period regardless of mowing regime | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Camera Trapping Uncovers Nesting Ecology and Infant Mortality Causes in the Critically Endangered Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in Ghana | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
Camera Trapping Uncovers Nesting Ecology and Infant Mortality Causes in the Critically Endangered Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in Ghana | Bird Conservation International | Cambridge Core
Camera Trapping Uncovers Nesting Ecology and Infant Mortality Causes in the Critically Endangered Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in Ghana - Volume 35
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November 6, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Camera Trapping Uncovers Nesting Ecology and Infant Mortality Causes in the Critically Endangered Hooded Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in Ghana | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
Spring weather influences breeding propensity, the most important productivity component for Arctic-nesting lesser snow geese | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
Spring weather influences breeding propensity, the most important productivity component for Arctic-nesting lesser snow geese | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Animal reproduction is composed of several stages, which collectively determine overall
productivity. Yet, it is not fully understood how different productivity components
contribute to population change. To bridge this gap, we leveraged integrated ...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Spring weather influences breeding propensity, the most important productivity component for Arctic-nesting lesser snow geese | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
Vehicle-mounted cameras reveal negative impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on large-bodied bird abundance via paddy field abandonment | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶
Vehicle-mounted cameras reveal negative impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on large-bodied bird abundance via paddy field abandonment
Populations of birds utilizing farmlands are declining due to farmland abandonment and agricultural intensification. Effective conservation strategies…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Vehicle-mounted cameras reveal negative impact of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident on large-bodied bird abundance via paddy field abandonment | www.sciencedirect.co... | Science of the Total Environment | #ornithology 🪶
Effects of habitat structure on spatiotemporal dynamics of bird acoustic communities in the urban forest | www.sciencedirect.co... | Global Ecology and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Effects of habitat structure on spatiotemporal dynamics of bird acoustic communities in the urban forest
The habitat structure of urban forests plays a crucial role in shaping bird diversity and activity patterns, yet the specific mechanisms behind these …
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November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Effects of habitat structure on spatiotemporal dynamics of bird acoustic communities in the urban forest | www.sciencedirect.co... | Global Ecology and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
Ornamentation is associated with social costs in male red-backed fairywrens (Malurus melanocephalus) | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Ornamentation is associated with social costs in male red-backed fairywrens (Malurus melanocephalus) | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶