Joe Wynn
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social
Used to DPhil at Oxford, then post-doc'd at the IfV, now an 1851/tenure-track fellow at Liverpool. Manc, birder, Liverpool FC. He/him.
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We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon.
DM me for me more info.
#birdringing
DM me for me more info.
#birdringing
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 AM
We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon.
DM me for me more info.
#birdringing
DM me for me more info.
#birdringing
One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Who thought that this project would end up in an actual book people can by in shops? I am very happy that the book is out there now and I hope that many will join the journey of the robin on its way south :)
coffee breaks inspire the coolest things, no? It certainly inspired this wonderful project – a kids book on a robin that takes you under its wing on its journey to their wintering grounds. gorgeously illustrated @co-la.bsky.social and beautifully written by a #dreamteam within @sfb1372.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Who thought that this project would end up in an actual book people can by in shops? I am very happy that the book is out there now and I hope that many will join the journey of the robin on its way south :)
Excited to be helping with this! Always love working with ringing data, and great to do so working on such an interesting question ☺️
🚨 Master’s project!
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology
www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...
Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology
www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...
October 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Excited to be helping with this! Always love working with ringing data, and great to do so working on such an interesting question ☺️
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Mental!!!!! White-throated Needletail phone video!!! @flamboroughbird.bsky.social #yorkshirebirding
October 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Mental!!!!! White-throated Needletail phone video!!! @flamboroughbird.bsky.social #yorkshirebirding
Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️
September 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️
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🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
doi.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣
Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!
September 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!
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1/10 We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on conservation genomics of the Balearic shearwater has just been published online at @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
1/10 We are thrilled to announce that our new paper on conservation genomics of the Balearic shearwater has just been published online at @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people 🗺️ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration 🦅 🐝 🐟 🐁
Ever wondered how animals know where they are? Or how they find where they need to be?
The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
The answer is that they have maps and compasses built into their heads! Excited to see this new review of map-and-compass navigation led by Joe Morford out in Animal Behaviour @asab.org
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
July 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Glad to see this one out! The product of some thought-provoking discussions with lots of cool people 🗺️ might be worth a read for those interested in #navigation or #migration 🦅 🐝 🐟 🐁
Insanely cool part of the world, very lucky to be working on these birds. Though can't say I'll miss the mosquitoes (or the sweet Gudbrandsdalen cheese, if I'm honest...). Excited to see what we learn when we sequence these guys (and their European-wintering cousins)! ☺️ #ornithology
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Insanely cool part of the world, very lucky to be working on these birds. Though can't say I'll miss the mosquitoes (or the sweet Gudbrandsdalen cheese, if I'm honest...). Excited to see what we learn when we sequence these guys (and their European-wintering cousins)! ☺️ #ornithology
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Am super excited that our new paper is out, it looks at how reproductive role can constrain foraging and restrict evening diving opportunities for males during the pre-laying period in Manx shearwaters🥚
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pre-laying sex differences in reproductive roles can constrain foraging behaviour in a monomorphic seabird - Marine Biology
Sex differences in foraging behaviour can arise in monomorphic species when reproductive roles differ. How these differences shape foraging behaviour during the pre-laying period—an understudied repro...
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June 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Am super excited that our new paper is out, it looks at how reproductive role can constrain foraging and restrict evening diving opportunities for males during the pre-laying period in Manx shearwaters🥚
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Now 11 birds recaught 😎 new pressure loggers giving insights into migration I never thought possible, absolutely incredible technology. Wouldn’t be possible without the help of friends here in Georgia, Levan, Sopo, Vano and Natia 🇬🇪 ☺️
May 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Now 11 birds recaught 😎 new pressure loggers giving insights into migration I never thought possible, absolutely incredible technology. Wouldn’t be possible without the help of friends here in Georgia, Levan, Sopo, Vano and Natia 🇬🇪 ☺️
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The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis), recently better known as pope gull (Larus urbietorbicum 😁), has now a chromosome-scale sequenced reference genome! Our first publication from the #LarOmics project, congrats @eksramos.bsky.social et al., see: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
May 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis), recently better known as pope gull (Larus urbietorbicum 😁), has now a chromosome-scale sequenced reference genome! Our first publication from the #LarOmics project, congrats @eksramos.bsky.social et al., see: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...
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My favourite passerine, the whitethroat (controversial, I know!) 💚
It's been great observing their numbers build in our local park over the last week & excellent to catch one in our first ringing session there this morning.
📷 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#ornithology #ukbirding
It's been great observing their numbers build in our local park over the last week & excellent to catch one in our first ringing session there this morning.
📷 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#ornithology #ukbirding
April 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My favourite passerine, the whitethroat (controversial, I know!) 💚
It's been great observing their numbers build in our local park over the last week & excellent to catch one in our first ringing session there this morning.
📷 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#ornithology #ukbirding
It's been great observing their numbers build in our local park over the last week & excellent to catch one in our first ringing session there this morning.
📷 @joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#ornithology #ukbirding
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New article on the differentiation process of common chaffinches in Macaronesia. A nice collaborative work with Brian Condori, María Recuerda and Borja Milá onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The Relative Roles of Selection and Drift in the Chaffinch Radiation (Aves: Fringilla) Across the Atlantic Archipelagos of Macaronesia
When colonizing oceanic archipelagos, island populations diverge through mechanisms of local adaptation and neutral processes. This study investigates the roles of selection and genetic drift in the ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:17 AM
New article on the differentiation process of common chaffinches in Macaronesia. A nice collaborative work with Brian Condori, María Recuerda and Borja Milá onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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I am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions 😄
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Analysis of ticks (Acari: Ixodida) and associated microorganisms collected on the North Sea Island of Heligoland - Parasitology Research
Heligoland is an island located in the North Sea, where vegetation was almost destroyed as a result of heavy bombardment during and after the Second World War. However, over the past 70 years, the veg...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
I am very excited to announce our new paper describing the tick communities on Helgoland. We highlighted a potentially stable population of a tick species which has not been described in Germany since the 1970s! Feel free to reach out if you have questions 😄
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Very pleased to see this fella out at last☺️ a privilege to work with such lovely data and people, perhaps worth a read for those interested in #selection, #navigation and #telemetry! certainly some unexpected results from my perspective 👀
A lovely collaboration with the wonderful @joewynnbirds.bsky.social, Nathalie Kürten and @mmoiron.bsky.social, and kindly funded by the @ifv-whv.bsky.social, @dornitholges.bsky.social, @umweltstiftung.bsky.social, @humboldt-foundation.de and @dfg.de via @sfb1372.bsky.social.
January 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Very pleased to see this fella out at last☺️ a privilege to work with such lovely data and people, perhaps worth a read for those interested in #selection, #navigation and #telemetry! certainly some unexpected results from my perspective 👀
Very excited to collaborate working with these samples! Well in @pauldufour80.bsky.social on what sounded like some epic and eventful fieldwork 😮
We have just returned from La Janda, S Spain, where we sampled some of the wintering Siberian buntings (1 Rustic, 5 Little Buntings) to uncover their birth/breeding origins. Huge thanks to the Cigüeña Negra ringing group for the warm welcome! @pdvsky.bsky.social #ornithology
January 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Very excited to collaborate working with these samples! Well in @pauldufour80.bsky.social on what sounded like some epic and eventful fieldwork 😮
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🪶 Citizen Science Special Issue 🪶
Really pleased to see our #seabirds paper now included in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Citizen Science Special Issue!
Lots of other exciting #ornithology research in there too 🔽
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Issue: tinyurl.com/ymapsuda
Really pleased to see our #seabirds paper now included in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Citizen Science Special Issue!
Lots of other exciting #ornithology research in there too 🔽
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Issue: tinyurl.com/ymapsuda
December 19, 2024 at 7:46 PM
🪶 Citizen Science Special Issue 🪶
Really pleased to see our #seabirds paper now included in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Citizen Science Special Issue!
Lots of other exciting #ornithology research in there too 🔽
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Issue: tinyurl.com/ymapsuda
Really pleased to see our #seabirds paper now included in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Citizen Science Special Issue!
Lots of other exciting #ornithology research in there too 🔽
Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Issue: tinyurl.com/ymapsuda
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For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 1:42 PM
For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
🚨PhD ALERT! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomic approaches 🧬 to unravel the mysteries of migration using yellow-browed warblers. Think this is you or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 02/12 and check out the ad below!
November 27, 2024 at 3:05 PM
🚨PhD ALERT! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomic approaches 🧬 to unravel the mysteries of migration using yellow-browed warblers. Think this is you or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 02/12 and check out the ad below!