Baptiste Schmid
@baptischmi.bsky.social
researcher at @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#aeroecology #ornithology #animalMigration #radar
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Baptiste Schmid
@baptischmi.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Three years to explore, develop and implement a near-term bird migation forecast. SEMAFOR final meeting in Toulouse at météoFrance. So greateful to have worked with wonderful people #aeroecology #radar #ornithology #vogelwarte_ch
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🚨 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 3, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🚨 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...
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NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:
September 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
NEW PUBLICATION on stopover ecology of Songbirds during spring migration: After packmor et al. 2020 (Mov Ecol) found that trans-Saharan migrants react differently to weather for migratory departure, we aked ourselves, whether this is also valid for spring migration? 🐦
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:
a thread 🧵 on 7 hypotheses:
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🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩
Migration shapes senescence in a long-lived bird | PNAS
Each year, billions of animals migrate across the globe on diverse spatial and temporal
scales. Migration behavior thus plays a fundamental role in...
www.pnas.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🦩🦩🦩 First paper from my last postdoc at @tourduvalat.bsky.social, co-first authored with Hugo Cayuela, is now published in @pnas.org. Thanks to a wonderful dataset on the Greater Flamingo in southern France, we investigated the relationship between migratory behaviour and ageing. 🦩🦩🦩
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#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on the importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution. Lots of great results in the talks from the different speakers!
LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30
@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30
@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on the importance of vagrancy in ecology and evolution. Lots of great results in the talks from the different speakers!
LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30
@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
LR4 - Friday 22 - 10:30
@alexanderlees.bsky.social @joewynnbirds.bsky.social #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
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#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy.
LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
August 19, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#EOU2025 Come and join us for the symposium on #bird #migration and #ALAN, aiming to discuss fundamental research and policy.
LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
LR3 - Tuesday 19 - 10:30h
@baptischmi.bsky.social @carburt.bsky.social @jlyr.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social
#ornithology
#aeroecology
#movementecology
#lightpollution
#EOU2025 is starting in #Bangor (Wales, UK). Come to see my poster on nocturnal bird migration at the Mediteranean coast in France. #migraLion #aeroecology #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
#EOU2025 is starting in #Bangor (Wales, UK). Come to see my poster on nocturnal bird migration at the Mediteranean coast in France. #migraLion #aeroecology #ornithology @vogelwarte.bsky.social
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For those attending the #EOU2025 in Bangor, this starter pack might help stay on top of the conversation ;)
Ping me to be included
go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA
Ping me to be included
go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA
August 15, 2025 at 1:51 PM
For those attending the #EOU2025 in Bangor, this starter pack might help stay on top of the conversation ;)
Ping me to be included
go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA
Ping me to be included
go.bsky.app/TmuEgMA
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NEW PAPER: using South African nest records, the authors explore phenological shifts due to climate change in the understudied Southern Hemisphere. Three of four selected bird species shifted to later laying from 1950–1999, likely linked to rainfall.
➡️ vist.ly/3z5sd
#ornithology #birds
➡️ vist.ly/3z5sd
#ornithology #birds
July 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
NEW PAPER: using South African nest records, the authors explore phenological shifts due to climate change in the understudied Southern Hemisphere. Three of four selected bird species shifted to later laying from 1950–1999, likely linked to rainfall.
➡️ vist.ly/3z5sd
#ornithology #birds
➡️ vist.ly/3z5sd
#ornithology #birds
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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 5:05 PM
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...
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Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in @science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in @science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
Art: Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social
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Bird migration forecast models help mitigate the impact of human activity on avifauna. Using weather dynamics at various spatial and temporal scales, these models can be enhanced, as a new study shows: doi.org/10.1007/s004... @baptischmi.bsky.social
Enhanced forecasting of bird nocturnal migration intensity in relation to previous days and synoptic weather patterns - International Journal of Biometeorology
Operational bird migration forecast models have recently offered promising perspectives for mitigating the impacts of human activities on avifauna. These models improve on simple phenological expectat...
doi.org
June 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Bird migration forecast models help mitigate the impact of human activity on avifauna. Using weather dynamics at various spatial and temporal scales, these models can be enhanced, as a new study shows: doi.org/10.1007/s004... @baptischmi.bsky.social
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Are skylarks preferring bright nights around full moon for migration?
Ringing data suggests: yes!
Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birdmigration
Ringing data suggests: yes!
Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birdmigration
June 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Are skylarks preferring bright nights around full moon for migration?
Ringing data suggests: yes!
Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birdmigration
Ringing data suggests: yes!
Read more in our new #ornithology paper, based on MSc thesis of Dajana Prinz and in cooperation with @ramonaheim.bsky.social @jki-research.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#birdmigration
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📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
WORKSHOPS
Through our applied animal movement data analysis courses, both wildlife practitioners and research students receive immersive hands-on training in the utilization of state-of-the-art tools and...
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March 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT📢
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
George, South Africa, August 2025
🐻📊Join FatBear's Applied Movement Data Analysis in R courses for wildlife grad students & practitioners. Beginners & R users welcome 🌍📈
Info and registration: fatbearbio.weebly.com/workshops.html 🐾
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🐦Saviez-vous qu'il est possible d’utiliser les radars météo pour anticiper les mouvements migratoires des oiseaux ?
➡️Ce fut l’objectif du projet SEMAFOR, une collaboration entre Météo-France, France Énergies Marines, Biotope et l’Institut Ornithologique Suisse.
Plus d'infos👉 tinyurl.com/5n7tw4hd
➡️Ce fut l’objectif du projet SEMAFOR, une collaboration entre Météo-France, France Énergies Marines, Biotope et l’Institut Ornithologique Suisse.
Plus d'infos👉 tinyurl.com/5n7tw4hd
March 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🐦Saviez-vous qu'il est possible d’utiliser les radars météo pour anticiper les mouvements migratoires des oiseaux ?
➡️Ce fut l’objectif du projet SEMAFOR, une collaboration entre Météo-France, France Énergies Marines, Biotope et l’Institut Ornithologique Suisse.
Plus d'infos👉 tinyurl.com/5n7tw4hd
➡️Ce fut l’objectif du projet SEMAFOR, une collaboration entre Météo-France, France Énergies Marines, Biotope et l’Institut Ornithologique Suisse.
Plus d'infos👉 tinyurl.com/5n7tw4hd
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Now this is exciting.
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
March 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Now this is exciting.
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
Antonin and his team have just published a study showing that the number of migrating hoverflies through Czechia are positively correlated with the numbers of birds!
Suggests that the birds are using the flies as fuel on migration.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can.
Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
European data on animals aloft now publicly available
Weather radars detect more than weather, they also continuously register the movements of billions of animals (birds, bats, insects) in the air. Those data are now publicly available for large parts o...
go.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Weather radars continuously register the movements of billions of animals in the air! We have now published datasets covering large parts of Europe, providing an overview of the aerial habitat in a way no other method can.
Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
Data is available on Alofdata.eu , see our blogpost:
go.nature.com/3F0wQ0L
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And the paper can be found here:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@peterdesmet.com @baptischmi.bsky.social @barthoekstra.bsky.social @stijnvanhoey.be @inbo.be @biologylu.bsky.social @uva.nl @cornellbirds.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social
@biodiversaplus.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@peterdesmet.com @baptischmi.bsky.social @barthoekstra.bsky.social @stijnvanhoey.be @inbo.be @biologylu.bsky.social @uva.nl @cornellbirds.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social
@biodiversaplus.bsky.social
Biological data derived from European weather radars - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Biological data derived from European weather radars
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Trait matching between interacting bird and plant species is widespread globally! Yet its importance for avian seed dispersal is not just about complementarity among consumers but it depends on the resource traits in a community 🧪🌐 Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Trait matching between interacting bird and plant species is widespread globally! Yet its importance for avian seed dispersal is not just about complementarity among consumers but it depends on the resource traits in a community 🧪🌐 Now out in Ecology Letters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A great new paper by PhD student Samuel Hodges and colleague Ryan Neely has looked at how insects travel hundreds of km by riding tropospheric winds by using weather radars to explore atmospheric correlates of high-altitude insect migration 🌪️✨. Dive into the aerosphere with us 🧵👇 #Aeroecology 🧪🌍
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
A great new paper by PhD student Samuel Hodges and colleague Ryan Neely has looked at how insects travel hundreds of km by riding tropospheric winds by using weather radars to explore atmospheric correlates of high-altitude insect migration 🌪️✨. Dive into the aerosphere with us 🧵👇 #Aeroecology 🧪🌍
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Le sentiment de #submersion. Indépendamment du bord politique, il est nécessaire d'avoir des mots pour décrire l'univers mental de tous les citoyens, même lorsque leur vision du monde diffère de la nôtre.
January 29, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Le sentiment de #submersion. Indépendamment du bord politique, il est nécessaire d'avoir des mots pour décrire l'univers mental de tous les citoyens, même lorsque leur vision du monde diffère de la nôtre.
Three years to explore, develop and implement a near-term bird migation forecast. SEMAFOR final meeting in Toulouse at météoFrance. So greateful to have worked with wonderful people #aeroecology #radar #ornithology #vogelwarte_ch
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
January 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Three years to explore, develop and implement a near-term bird migation forecast. SEMAFOR final meeting in Toulouse at météoFrance. So greateful to have worked with wonderful people #aeroecology #radar #ornithology #vogelwarte_ch
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
www.france-energies-marines.org/wp-content/u...
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Come work with us - PostDoc on characterizing insect migration 🦋🪲🪰 using vertical-looking radars 📡
Deadline: 31 January
Please Share!
my.jobalino.ch/job/en/6cd50...
Deadline: 31 January
Please Share!
my.jobalino.ch/job/en/6cd50...
Post-doctoral researcher (100%) in 'Characterizing insect migration using vertical-looking radars' | 100%
The Swiss Ornithological Institute is a non-profit foundation dedicated to ornithology and the protection of birds. It monitors native birds, researches their way of life and advocates for threatened...
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December 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Come work with us - PostDoc on characterizing insect migration 🦋🪲🪰 using vertical-looking radars 📡
Deadline: 31 January
Please Share!
my.jobalino.ch/job/en/6cd50...
Deadline: 31 January
Please Share!
my.jobalino.ch/job/en/6cd50...
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Are you looking for a #postdoc in #ornithology or #lightpollution or #plasticpollution?
Would you like to work at #MNCN @csic.es?
Please let me know if you are interested in a #JuandelaCierva grant funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
Happy to discuss potential projects
www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
Would you like to work at #MNCN @csic.es?
Please let me know if you are interested in a #JuandelaCierva grant funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
Happy to discuss potential projects
www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
December 9, 2024 at 9:51 AM
Are you looking for a #postdoc in #ornithology or #lightpollution or #plasticpollution?
Would you like to work at #MNCN @csic.es?
Please let me know if you are interested in a #JuandelaCierva grant funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
Happy to discuss potential projects
www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
Would you like to work at #MNCN @csic.es?
Please let me know if you are interested in a #JuandelaCierva grant funded by @ageinves.bsky.social
Happy to discuss potential projects
www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
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Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
December 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
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Advent Sci-Fact 4:
New headlights hurt moths!
Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful.
Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx
#SciComm 🧪🌍
New headlights hurt moths!
Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful.
Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx
#SciComm 🧪🌍
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Advent Sci-Fact 4:
New headlights hurt moths!
Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful.
Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx
#SciComm 🧪🌍
New headlights hurt moths!
Unlike us, moths can’t blink in bright light. Moths are more likely to fly erratically towards pulses of cool toned phosphor-LEDs, compared with warmer and RGB lights. Meaning new headlights are more harmful.
Paper: tinyurl.com/29avcnnx
#SciComm 🧪🌍