Als Teenager überlebte sie als Einzige einen Flugzeugabsturz im peruanischen #Regenwald. Heute kämpft Juliane Diller gegen illegale Goldgräber – um das Lebenswerk ihrer Eltern zu retten. ‪
@hilwiller.bsky.social hat sie getroffen: www.riffreporter.de/de/internati...

"Our findings confirm the presence of a NIMBY effect on renewables, with landscape considerations emerging as a key factor. However, targeted communication about climate benefits and local financial gains, as well as implementing smaller-scale projects, significantly reduces resistance."

New(ish) paper; huge collaboration led by Aaron Skinner!

Using GPS tracking we show breeding grounds drive body size variation more than wintering grounds! First evidence that nightjars follow Bergmann’s rule👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#nightjars #birds #migration #ornithology

Gradual variation in vocalizations does not support multiple species within the White-shouldered Antshrike (Thamnophilus aethiops) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Check out pypi.org/project/xeno... where you'll find xcapi: a Python package for downloading animal sounds using the Xeno-canto API. Courtesy: Burooj Ghani (of AvesEcho etc. fame). #bioacoustics

Optimizing passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for biodiversity studies: Using species–area relationship (SAR) to predict species richness | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/46pfg

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g27o3ttbhwno6sjns7wwl3yg" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@silvereyedom.bsky.social , Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪

If You're Rare, Should I Care? How Imperfect Detection Changes Relationships Between Biodiversity and Global Change Drivers 🌎🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy to share a new peer-reviewed study on PubMed. Blessing eggs creates bigger and tastier chickens (p < 0.001). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41035978/

Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

This year marks the 100th birthday of #bioacoustics, established by Ivan Regen in 1925, which studies how animals hear, produce and propagate sound.

Let’s discover this discipline with @nicolasmathevon.bsky.social, Professor of Saint Etienne University, in the first episode of Acoustic World.

🚨 Excited to share our new research! 🚨

We tackle a big question in conservation: how can we make smarter use of existing surveys to learn about places and species we haven’t yet been able to survey? 🏔️

🔗 Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

“Jetzt hat ein Recht auf seine eigene Meinung, aber nicht auf seine eigenen Fakten.“ (Patrick Daniel Moynihan)
Gilt auch für „Star-Philosophen“.
Die „Gottes Volk“-Geschichte ist schlicht ein Holler:
www.straightdope.com/21343101/doe...
(Danke für den Hinweis, @drct.bsky.social!)

Using automated acoustic monitoring, citizen science, and centuries of ornithological research and understanding to quantify ecological integrity at scale.

The BirdsPlus Index, a novel method for assessing site-level conservation values.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New research carried out in Colombia by the University of Cambridge suggests that local surveys assessing the effect of land clearances on biodiversity may be underestimating the impact by as much as 60%.

Repost - DeepGreen on LinkedIn ⬇️

👂 Smart Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Embedding a Classifier on AudioMoth Microcontroller

#Bioacoustics #FrugalAI #Seabirds #PAM #Acoustics

Wildtierkriminalität bleibt ein Dauerproblem in 🇦🇹: Im Mai wurden 3 vergiftete Rohrweihen & ein Kaiseradler gefunden. Der Angeklagte wurde heute freigesprochen. Es braucht jetzt einen Aktionsplan mit strengen Maßnahmen gegen Wildtierkriminalität! @birdlife.at​

Decoding Owl Calls: Refining Occupancy Inference From Passive Acoustic Monitoring | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

🚨2025 #RedList Update🚨

We have reassessed 1,360 bird species. Out of the 11,185 species assessed worldwide: 

⚠️11.5% are globally threatened.

📉61% have declining populations.

But restoring habitats will help put these species on a path to recovery.🌱

Read more👉 www.birdlife.org/red-list-upd...

with the official IUCN listing for the slender-billed curlew now being Extinct here is the rather sad piece I wrote about what went into this decision

I tried to include everything we know about their behaviour and biology, which is tragically little 🪶🧪
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

🙋‍♀️ Veranstaltungstipp: Vom 08.-12. Oktober findet das innsbruck nature film festival (#inff) statt. Die Uni Innsbruck ist wissenschaftliche Partnerin des Festivals.

Programm und offizielle Website:
🦋 https://www.inff.eu/

Alle Events mit der Uni sind hier zu finden:
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Why listen to animals?

A new Foley based production at London's Royal Court Theatre invites us into the sound-making world of animals, writes Giles Bailey

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Plastic pollution is widespread across the Amazon Rainforest’s rivers, plants and animals, according to a recent study.

To understand how and where plastic pollution is present within the basin itself, researchers looked at 52 field studies dating back to 2000.

📦 GroupGets.com/devcase🎤The AudioMoth Dev Case is a waterproof, injection-molded shell designed for the AudioMoth Dev. It offers complete flexibility for hardware setup, featuring built-in mounts and slots to accommodate external microphones, GPS, larger batteries, and custom auxiliary boards.

💡 How can we build #AI models that generalize across species + tasks? 🐦🐋🐒

This is a fundamental question for our work at ESP and it’s the topic of our most recent paper and blog post: www.earthspecies.org/blog/what-ma...

🧵Read below for more👇