Some recent photos from the field… One of the data points we collect from raptors is eDNA diet swabs, which is done by scrubbin’ microscopic prey 🧬 remains from their beaks. This can help us describe what American Kestrels are eating on California farms.

#AmericanKestrel #RaptorResearch #WildAg

Bushy‐Crested Hornbills Successfully Hunting Flying Bats in Gomantong Caves, Malaysia - Tella - 2025 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Great to see that the Lesser Whitethroat is staying around in the willow scrub area by the pond.
Also, many Chiffchaffs coming to the water in the shade - such delightful warblers when you observe them carefully.
#wildlifegardening #warblers #ornithology 🌿 #ukwildlife

Our June issue is now live! www.nature.com/natecolevol/...

Featuring research on:

🧬Airborne eDNA
💰Costs of biological invasions
🌡️Genomic predictions of temperature adaptation

Cover illustration by Marco Lawrence, based on Bradfer-Lawrence et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Biomass and abundance trends diverge as the North American avifauna undergoes widespread demographic declines | doi.org/10.1002/oik.... | Oikos | #ornithology 🪶

Today's paper...

Seasonal diet composition of partially migrating red deer (Cervus elaphus) in temperate forests of the Western Carpathians | Smolko et al. 2025 | European Journal of Wildlife Research

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We have had a lucky start of the spring season. Yesterday we tagged an adult territorial male in the north of Spain. A beautiful and combative individual. We named him Gaitzarra aka the bad guy.
#GoldenEagle
#RaptorResearch

A LEAP Forward in Wildlife Conservation: A Standardized Framework to Determine Mortality Causes in Large GPS-Tagged Birds | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Habitat selection by an extraordinary savannah raptor: environmental factors driving abundance of the Secretarybird Sagittarius serpentarius in the Serengeti National Park (Tanzania) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Bird Study | #ornithology 🪶

Applications are open for the African Raptor Leadership Grant: raptorresearchfoundation.org/grants-awards/
This grant is ideal for raptorphiles keen to do the FitzPatrick's Conservation Biology MSc programme: science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
Application deadline: 30 June
#AfricanOrnithology

“Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity, no political party.”

EC President Ursula von der Leyen, announcing a €500M initiative to attract top global talent.

In a fractured world, science remains a unifying force – rooted in diversity, driven by curiosity, and shared by all humanity.

Interesting new Nature Note published in Ecology and Evolution documenting an attack on a human by Harpy Eagle doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

A reminder that all wild animals can be dangerous!

#ornithology

Closing soon! I highly recommend applying for this travel award -- my time in Australia was rewarding and super fun! I got to meet and work with amazing researchers and do fieldwork in incredible places with fascinating and diverse species 🦘🇦🇺🐨

Raptor Poisoning in Europe between 1996 and 2016: A Continental Assessment of the Most Affected Species and the Most Used Poisons

meridian.allenpress.com/rapt/article...

New paper out "Reintroduced White Storks (Ciconia ciconia) Have Similar Diets to Their Wild Conspecifics" available open access in Ecology & Evolution #ornithology

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Late to the BlueSky party... but wanted to share a new paper of ours:

"A LEAP Forward in Wildlife Conservation: A Standardized Framework to Determine Mortality Causes in Large GPS-Tagged Birds" - a huge collaboration between #raptor researchers in Europe!

doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

#ornithology

Updated Raptor Ecologist starter pack - currently 70 people on it

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Lots of new people joining so please dm me or reply below if you have arrived to this site, and would like to be added.