Ruedi Nager
@ruedinager.bsky.social
Researching #seabirds #gulls and #thermal-imaging at Glasgow Uni | Editing Ibis #ornithology | Running Animal #Welfare MSc
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
How are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
#ornithology
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November 4, 2025 at 7:36 AM
How are movement patterns affected by energy expenditure & gain, and what does it mean for fitness? This @iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD opportunity will use data on movement & demography of kittiwakes & spatio-temporal food abundance across their range
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
#ornithology
iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
#ornithology
To understand effects of climate change on fish size we need to account for both direct physiological effects & changes in resource availability. Turbidity (via its impact on intake rates in visual foragers) may also impact sandeel size. www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
October 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
To understand effects of climate change on fish size we need to account for both direct physiological effects & changes in resource availability. Turbidity (via its impact on intake rates in visual foragers) may also impact sandeel size. www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Breeding and foraging habitat are important in determining foraging ranges of sympatric generalist species | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Chris B. Thaxter et al | #ornithology 🪶
Breeding and foraging habitat are important in determining foraging ranges of sympatric generalist species | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Chris B. Thaxter et al | #ornithology 🪶
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 AM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Breeding and foraging habitat are important in determining foraging ranges of sympatric generalist species | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Chris B. Thaxter et al | #ornithology 🪶
Breeding and foraging habitat are important in determining foraging ranges of sympatric generalist species | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Chris B. Thaxter et al | #ornithology 🪶
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⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT
Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London
➡️ BOU member discounts
➡️ In-person & online
➡️ Visit Tring collections
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Keynote 🧵 ⬇️
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Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London
➡️ BOU member discounts
➡️ In-person & online
➡️ Visit Tring collections
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Keynote 🧵 ⬇️
#ornithology 🪶
September 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
⏰ EARLY-BIRD RATES TO 30 SEPT
Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London
➡️ BOU member discounts
➡️ In-person & online
➡️ Visit Tring collections
bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
Keynote 🧵 ⬇️
#ornithology 🪶
Register now for reduced rates at #BOUasm25
A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London
➡️ BOU member discounts
➡️ In-person & online
➡️ Visit Tring collections
bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
Keynote 🧵 ⬇️
#ornithology 🪶
More intense human-caused heat extremes have reduced terrestrial bird abundance - in particular in the tropics - more than other human pressures
#ornithology
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August 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
More intense human-caused heat extremes have reduced terrestrial bird abundance - in particular in the tropics - more than other human pressures
#ornithology
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#ornithology
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📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! 📢
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham | Zoom & Bluesky
Take a look at the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!
bou.org.uk/event/bir...
#ornithology
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham | Zoom & Bluesky
Take a look at the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!
bou.org.uk/event/bir...
#ornithology
July 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! 📢
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham | Zoom & Bluesky
Take a look at the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!
bou.org.uk/event/bir...
#ornithology
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026 | University of Nottingham | Zoom & Bluesky
Take a look at the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!
bou.org.uk/event/bir...
#ornithology
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There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Riley Lawson describes the backstory of his recent paper in The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology, which documents the underappreciated threat that collisions with anthropogenic structures pose to #seabirds. wilsonsociety.org/2025/07/28/g...
July 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There's a new guest post on the WOS blog! Riley Lawson describes the backstory of his recent paper in The Wilson Journal of #Ornithology, which documents the underappreciated threat that collisions with anthropogenic structures pose to #seabirds. wilsonsociety.org/2025/07/28/g...
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Some like it hot: Elevated heating capacity of carotenoid-containing contour feathers compared to melanized feathers and of rural over urban feathers | journals.sagepub.com... | Avian Biology Research | #ornithology 🪶
June 4, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Some like it hot: Elevated heating capacity of carotenoid-containing contour feathers compared to melanized feathers and of rural over urban feathers | journals.sagepub.com... | Avian Biology Research | #ornithology 🪶
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🥚
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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 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Manx Shearwaters show flexible migration visiting lower latitudes during non-breeding in El Niño years and experience cascading carry over effects on subsequent breeding behaviour #ornithology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
February 13, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Manx Shearwaters show flexible migration visiting lower latitudes during non-breeding in El Niño years and experience cascading carry over effects on subsequent breeding behaviour #ornithology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Had great fun to write this paper with Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Marin Ullrich & emilydoolittle.bsky.social on how animals respond to music & what needs to be reported in future to better understand their responses #AnimalWelfare @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
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February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Had great fun to write this paper with Pralle Kriengwatana, @amsouth.bsky.social, Marin Ullrich & emilydoolittle.bsky.social on how animals respond to music & what needs to be reported in future to better understand their responses #AnimalWelfare @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social
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📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN...
...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme
Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements
Application deadline: 31 March
Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
🪶 #ukbirds
...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme
Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements
Application deadline: 31 March
Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
🪶 #ukbirds
January 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📢 APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN...
...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme
Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements
Application deadline: 31 March
Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
🪶 #ukbirds
...for the BOU Summer Placement Scheme
Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements
Application deadline: 31 March
Guidelines & application form: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
🪶 #ukbirds
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley....
T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley....
T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
January 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley....
T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Using model-based distance sampling to estimate decadal population change in Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) across periods spanned by different at-sea survey methods | onlinelibrary.wiley....
T.J. Clark-Wolf et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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Urban life of an elusive species: population trends, movement patterns, foraging habitats, and prospecting in Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) breeding in Hamburg, northern Germany | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Urban life of an elusive species: population trends, movement patterns, foraging habitats, and prospecting in Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) breeding in Hamburg, northern Germany
Journal of Ornithology - The lower River Elbe, including Hamburg, is part of a distribution hotspot for Mediterranean Gulls in northwest Europe. We studied local population trends and foraging...
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January 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Urban life of an elusive species: population trends, movement patterns, foraging habitats, and prospecting in Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) breeding in Hamburg, northern Germany | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
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IBIS Special Issue | Citizen Science
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley....
@aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley....
@aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
IBIS Special Issue | Citizen Science
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley....
@aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology | onlinelibrary.wiley....
@aliceedney.bsky.social et al | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
Considering infrared radiation may be necessary for a better understanding of animals' colouration diversity and possible responses to thermal challenge.
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How does Gloger's rule predict near- and mid-infrared radiation in birds? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.12.628255v1
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 AM
Considering infrared radiation may be necessary for a better understanding of animals' colouration diversity and possible responses to thermal challenge.
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"Gulls are intelligent, vital birds that deserve our protection, not scorn"
www.salon.com/2024/10/20/g...
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Why gulls don't deserve the hate
There’s a lot we get wrong about our least favorite seabirds
www.salon.com
December 16, 2024 at 1:51 AM
"Gulls are intelligent, vital birds that deserve our protection, not scorn"
www.salon.com/2024/10/20/g...
www.salon.com/2024/10/20/g...
Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem
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#ornithology #seabirds
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#ornithology #seabirds
‘Blob’ heat wave killed millions of seabirds—and they haven’t bounced back
Historic 2016 event may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem
www.science.org
December 13, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem
www.science.org/content/arti...
#ornithology #seabirds
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#ornithology #seabirds
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Since 2016 we have been fortunate to host Tanzanian conservation leaders thru the Karimjee MSc Conservation scholarship at the Univ Glasgow, a full ride 2-year scholarship, generously supported by a local Tanzanian NGO the Karimjee Foundation. Please help us spread the word to potential applicants!
December 3, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Since 2016 we have been fortunate to host Tanzanian conservation leaders thru the Karimjee MSc Conservation scholarship at the Univ Glasgow, a full ride 2-year scholarship, generously supported by a local Tanzanian NGO the Karimjee Foundation. Please help us spread the word to potential applicants!
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
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November 26, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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First record of a large breeding colony of the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in mainland Africa | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ostrich | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
November 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
First record of a large breeding colony of the Lesser Black-backed Gull Larus fuscus in mainland Africa | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ostrich | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶
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Out now!🔊 The SMP Report provides an overview of the status of the UK’s breeding #seabirds since 1986. It further highlights declines as shown by the recent Seabirds Count, a census of Britain & Ireland’s seabirds.
Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology
Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology
November 21, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Out now!🔊 The SMP Report provides an overview of the status of the UK’s breeding #seabirds since 1986. It further highlights declines as shown by the recent Seabirds Count, a census of Britain & Ireland’s seabirds.
Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology
Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology
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Do you like #petrels, islands and data analysis? Well the RSPB’s Conservation Scientist role could be the one for you!
Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️
Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology
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Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️
Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology
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Conservation Scientist (Fixed-Term) | RSPB
The RSPB Centre for Conservation Science is responsible for the science that informs delivery of the RSPB’s conservation programmes for species, habitats and landscapes. We are seeking a Conservation ...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Do you like #petrels, islands and data analysis? Well the RSPB’s Conservation Scientist role could be the one for you!
Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️
Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology
app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️
Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology
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