Jamie Dunning
@j-dunning.net
I am an ornithologist, broadly interested in the social behaviour of birds.
📚 Research - https://www.j-dunning.net
📚 Research - https://www.j-dunning.net
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John Endler opens up #ISBE2024 showing his long term work on bowerbirds and how they use and manipulate sensory perception. Also reminds us to remain astute natural observers as that's where all our hypotheses come from.
September 29, 2024 at 11:31 PM
John Endler opens up #ISBE2024 showing his long term work on bowerbirds and how they use and manipulate sensory perception. Also reminds us to remain astute natural observers as that's where all our hypotheses come from.
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📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Research Fellow in Global Conservation
Salary: Grade 7 (£41,064 – £48,822 p.a. depending on experience) This role will be based on the university campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are also open to discussing...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
📣Job vacancy!📣
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
Research Fellow in Global Conservation at Leeds, working with Dave Williams (and me, a bit) to assess the impact of conservation initiatives on biodiversity, carbon, and people: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#ConservationScience 🌍
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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
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
🦠 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
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
Thermal-imaging of two shearwaters in flight over St John's Valley on Lundy last Spring. As well as the bare parts, look at the radiation from the feathered wings!
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Thermal-imaging of two shearwaters in flight over St John's Valley on Lundy last Spring. As well as the bare parts, look at the radiation from the feathered wings!
Another yellow-browed warbler and a patch-tick woodcock from a foggy Aust this morning. Only goldcrest in the nets and a slow push of finches and redwing overhead.
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Another yellow-browed warbler and a patch-tick woodcock from a foggy Aust this morning. Only goldcrest in the nets and a slow push of finches and redwing overhead.
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Having dipped the Severnside patch penduline by literal minutes yesterday I was delighted to see it was still there this morning! Patch mega! #ukbirding #patchbirding
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Having dipped the Severnside patch penduline by literal minutes yesterday I was delighted to see it was still there this morning! Patch mega! #ukbirding #patchbirding
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This week we are excited to welcome Jamie Dunning from @universityofleeds.bsky.social, speaking on “Avian social networks in the wild — communication, social dynamics and disease.”
Join us! Today at 12:00 | ZT702 & online
Join us! Today at 12:00 | ZT702 & online
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This week we are excited to welcome Jamie Dunning from @universityofleeds.bsky.social, speaking on “Avian social networks in the wild — communication, social dynamics and disease.”
Join us! Today at 12:00 | ZT702 & online
Join us! Today at 12:00 | ZT702 & online
Thanks to the CASCB @uni-konstanz.de and @alexhhchan.bsky.social for hosting me today. It was a pleasure to see their exciting work on perception and decision making in person, and to talk about applied models of animal social behaviour.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thanks to the CASCB @uni-konstanz.de and @alexhhchan.bsky.social for hosting me today. It was a pleasure to see their exciting work on perception and decision making in person, and to talk about applied models of animal social behaviour.
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So pigeon day came around again in Gwent with mine (+ the UK @trektellen.bsky.social 2nd ever highest count of 242,160 woodpigeons from Goldcliff - usual watchpoint fogged in. Most moving in huge streams up to 15k strong S/SW over the Severn east of me #UKBirding #Vismig @birdguides.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
So pigeon day came around again in Gwent with mine (+ the UK @trektellen.bsky.social 2nd ever highest count of 242,160 woodpigeons from Goldcliff - usual watchpoint fogged in. Most moving in huge streams up to 15k strong S/SW over the Severn east of me #UKBirding #Vismig @birdguides.bsky.social
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Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Twite are now extirpated from this area of Derbyshire.
More broadly declines are driven by climate change, but what’s the mechanism?
More broadly declines are driven by climate change, but what’s the mechanism?
#OpenAccess in #BirdStudy
Low juv survival in Twites may drive decline in one English remnant breeding population, but wider decline more likely driven by factors affecting all age groups.
Age-specific survival in an English Twite Linaria flavirostris population doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Low juv survival in Twites may drive decline in one English remnant breeding population, but wider decline more likely driven by factors affecting all age groups.
Age-specific survival in an English Twite Linaria flavirostris population doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Twite are now extirpated from this area of Derbyshire.
More broadly declines are driven by climate change, but what’s the mechanism?
More broadly declines are driven by climate change, but what’s the mechanism?
This is nice. Feeds are a powerful tool here, for bird news and dissemination of research. I wonder if the increased impact from #ornithology tags on Twitter will hold over here ?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This is nice. Feeds are a powerful tool here, for bird news and dissemination of research. I wonder if the increased impact from #ornithology tags on Twitter will hold over here ?
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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
Pigeons moving over central Bristol this morning, as well as Chaffinch, Siskin and Skylark. Highlight though was a single Crossbill - a first for the East Bristol patch.
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Pigeons moving over central Bristol this morning, as well as Chaffinch, Siskin and Skylark. Highlight though was a single Crossbill - a first for the East Bristol patch.
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Twite is a rare bird in Oxfordshire, the last being in November 2011. News of two birds at Farmoor late afternoon led to mad dash out to the reservoir on the bike, but great views in fading light and rain
#Oxonbirding
#UKbirding
#Oxonbirding
#UKbirding
October 23, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Twite is a rare bird in Oxfordshire, the last being in November 2011. News of two birds at Farmoor late afternoon led to mad dash out to the reservoir on the bike, but great views in fading light and rain
#Oxonbirding
#UKbirding
#Oxonbirding
#UKbirding
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Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
October 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Our paper, describing kittiwake nesting on offshore infrastructure, is published OA today.
There are obvious implications for population monitoring, but comparison with onshore colonies would also be an interesting extension. 🌊🌊🌊
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
There are obvious implications for population monitoring, but comparison with onshore colonies would also be an interesting extension. 🌊🌊🌊
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Kittiwakes nesting on offshore oil and gas infrastructure: An emerging and under‐recorded phenomenon
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October 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our paper, describing kittiwake nesting on offshore infrastructure, is published OA today.
There are obvious implications for population monitoring, but comparison with onshore colonies would also be an interesting extension. 🌊🌊🌊
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
There are obvious implications for population monitoring, but comparison with onshore colonies would also be an interesting extension. 🌊🌊🌊
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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NEW on the #BOUdiversityBlog from Ellie Leech
Redressing the balance: why gender equity matters to BTO
bou.org.uk/blog-leec...
#ornithology 🪶
Redressing the balance: why gender equity matters to BTO
bou.org.uk/blog-leec...
#ornithology 🪶
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEW on the #BOUdiversityBlog from Ellie Leech
Redressing the balance: why gender equity matters to BTO
bou.org.uk/blog-leec...
#ornithology 🪶
Redressing the balance: why gender equity matters to BTO
bou.org.uk/blog-leec...
#ornithology 🪶
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Studying breeding waders sometimes involves catching chicks multiple times.
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...
How do wader chicks respond to being handled?
Every wader researcher knows that their actions can have negative consequences for the birds they are studying. Given that most shorebird species are in trouble or causing concern, conservation sci…
wadertales.wordpress.com
October 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Studying breeding waders sometimes involves catching chicks multiple times.
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...
Do these intensive studies have negative effects on chick growth?
Blog about reassuring paper by Camilo Carneiro et al from 5 Oct 2024 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/10/05/h...
Late to posting an early yellow-browed warbler, briefly through scrub at Aust on Monday morning. Otherwise, Siskin moving and single grey plover over. Despite the autumnal feel, still no redwing.
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Late to posting an early yellow-browed warbler, briefly through scrub at Aust on Monday morning. Otherwise, Siskin moving and single grey plover over. Despite the autumnal feel, still no redwing.
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This has received no publicity but is damning. A clear explanation of why this type of reintroduction is not just a distraction and a waste of resources but is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to conservation. Environmental journalists please note and please publicise.
operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...
operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...
Operation Turtle Dove’s view on the release of captive-bred Turtle Doves as a conservation measure - Operation Turtle Dove
Operation Turtle Dove is a science-led conservation partnership working to reverse the decline of Turtle Doves in the UK by restoring habitat and addressing key threats. Learn why captive-bred release...
operationturtledove.org
September 21, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This has received no publicity but is damning. A clear explanation of why this type of reintroduction is not just a distraction and a waste of resources but is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to conservation. Environmental journalists please note and please publicise.
operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...
operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...
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We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
September 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Cool opportunity to work with Joe on the mechanics of seabird migration. #ukbirding #ornithology
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September 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Cool opportunity to work with Joe on the mechanics of seabird migration. #ukbirding #ornithology
I've just had the disappointing news that Ladybird have discontinued their series of modern Ladybird Books due to declining sales, including the unpublished books in the series.
September 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I've just had the disappointing news that Ladybird have discontinued their series of modern Ladybird Books due to declining sales, including the unpublished books in the series.