Cat Morrison
catmorrison.bsky.social
Cat Morrison
@catmorrison.bsky.social
Statistician/modeller in ecology & environmental science @bioss.bsky.social. Fascinated by migratory birds & their demography. Big fan of cake motivated exercise. Chair of the @bou.org.uk meetings committee.
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⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Nominate now for a BOU #ornithology award 🪶

Deadline: Mon 15 Sept

🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award

bou.org.uk/about-the...
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Delighted to welcome Mark Mainwaring to the Editorial Board of #BirdStudy as an Associate Editor.
The 4th to join over the past year, the growing Editorial Board is helping us expand the journal's #ornithology expertise, geographical representation and diversity:
www.bto.org/our-work/sci...
September 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Chuffed to see our meta-analysis of UK nest predator studies published- fantastic collaboration across diverse organisations and individuals @gwct.org.uk @rspbengland.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Meta‐analysis of predator identity in nest‐camera studies in the British Islands
Nest predation is the primary cause of nest failure across many bird species. Interventions to support declining or threatened species frequently involve measures to reduce nest predation, through le....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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📣 Nominations for this year's round of @bou.org.uk awards are currently OPEN!

Your chance to recognise those key people in #ornithology 👏

Find out more and make your nominations here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo...

📆 Deadline 15th Sept 2025

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Medals and awards - British Ornithologists' Union
Each year, the BOU presents awards to recognise individuals who have made an outstanding contribution within ornithology. Each award celebrates a specific contribution and nominations are warmly encou...
bou.org.uk
August 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Wonderful to see a few more BOU Conference Attendance Grant recipients in action at #EOU2025 yesterday

Joshua Wilson, Soladoye Iwajomo & Susan Ellen McKinlay

Look out for Malin Klumpp on Friday!

#ornithology
August 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Really excited about this conference, coming Sept 2026. But now is your chance to shape our programme. Who would you like to see as a keynote? Get your nominations in by 30th Sept 2025.
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🔊 KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS

#BOUasm26 | Avian futures | 29 Sept 2026

Who would you like to see deliver a keynote at #BOUasm26?

Anyone can nominate and you can do so here: bou.org.uk/event/avi...

Nomination deadline: 30 Sept 2025

#ornithology 🪶
July 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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New distribution models for Icelandic waders show how temperate to arctic species overlap across climatic and environmental gradients. Led by Dr. Verónica Méndez
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@wildlifebiology.bsky.social
#ornithology #waders #shorebirds #ConservationScience🌍
August 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡

At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.

Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.

More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...

#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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🔊 VACANCY

Could you be our next Conference Support Officer?

Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme

You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline: 29 August

#ornithology 🪶
August 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🔊 VACANCY

Could you be our next Conference Support Officer?

Help us to deliver our exciting conference programme

You'll receive an annual honorarium + free place at BOU conferences

Check out the details & apply: bou.org.uk/about-the...

⏰ Deadline: 29 August

#ornithology 🪶
July 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🏅 BOU AWARD NOMINATIONS OPEN

Early Professional Award

Awarded by BOU Council for an outstanding initial contribution to the field of ornithology

Nominate a deserving recipient now!

bou.org.uk/about-the...

#ornithology 🪶
July 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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New issue of #BirdStudy published today:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7...
UK Hen Harrier census
Capercaillie vocal ID
Barn Owls and agri-environment schemes
Bird trends in Faroes, and Iceland
Dunlin morphometrics
Sparrowhawk breeding habitat
Rock Partridge nest predation
#ornithology
July 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN...

...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries

Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025

Full details via links ⬇️

Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s...

Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

#ornithology 🪶
July 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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📆Deadline extended📆

If you're looking for an exciting #PhD opportunity in #Mathematics, #Statistics, and #AnimalHealth, you have two more weeks to apply! ✍️

Deadline: 14th July
#FindaPhD #PhDChat @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @roslininstitute.bsky.social
🚨PhD studentship opportunity!🚨

We are looking for a PhD student to develop research in computational statistics and modelling to enhance salmon health and robustness. 🐟

📆Deadline: 30th June 2025

Find out more:
www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ph...

#PhD #FindAPhD #Statistics #Mathematics #AnimalHealth
PhD studentship in computational statistics and modelling to enhance salmon health and robustness
Deadline: 30th June 2025
www.bioss.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜

I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology!

📍 Nottingham, UK
📅 6–8 April 2027

🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe

Please share widely!

#BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth
June 11, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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New article on annual survival of Great Tits in Hungary. Urban sites had highest and lowest survival but two forest sites were intermediate. Led by Boglárka Bukor with collaborators from Univ. Pannonia, Sheffield and Eötvös Loránd. #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
May 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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New in #BirdStudy

Lesser Flamingos may be nomadic between feeding sites in India.

Potential nomadism in sub-adult Lesser Flamingos Phoeniconaias minor: insights from satellite telemetry on movement, home ranges and habitat use in India (Ram et al):
doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
May 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social
May 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Our new OA paper is out: dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology

Using @euring.bsky.social Constant Effort Site data spanning 12 countries across Europe we explore geographic and temporal variation in synchrony in counts, productivity and survival rates.
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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New in #BirdStudy

Trait-based vulnerability assessment to #birdflu predicted mortality at the avian family, but not the species, level.

Assessing the vulnerability of wild bird populations to high pathogenicity avian influenza (Pearce-Higgins et al): doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology
Assessing the vulnerability of wild bird populations to high pathogenicity avian influenza
Vulnerability assessment to high pathogenicity avian influenza predicted mortality at the avian family, but not the species, level.To assess the vulnerability of UK birds to high pathogenicity avia...
doi.org
May 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Falling finch numbers, fading farmland birds, declining Dippers and vanishing Cuckoo calls in England are worrying findings from the 2024 Breeding Bird Survey report out now! Read the report ➡️ www.bto.org/bbs-results

@btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology
May 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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⏰ DEADLINE APPROACHING

Woodland birds symposium | 18 August 2025 | Bangor University | #BOUatEOU

Submit your abstract now!

Deadline: 30 May

bou.org.uk/event/woo...

#ornithology 🪶

SPC: Stuart Sharp
@piedflynet.bsky.social
Daria Dadam &
@parusradious.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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How Do Synchrony in Survival and Productivity Influence Abundance Synchrony in European Landbirds? | doi.org/10.1111/ele.... | Ecology Letters | #ornithology 🪶
May 15, 2025 at 5:06 AM