📣New paper alert 📢
Super Excited to see our new paper out in Methods in Ecology and Evolution w John Fieberg David Wolfson Dongmin (Dennis) Kim on modelling individual variability using step-selection
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#animalmovement #ecology BES Movement Ecology U of MN FWCB University of Minnesota
A small thread...

Preprint out! Methods to track small animals with automated radio telemetry Cellular Tracking Technologies in a complex landscape of the Colombian high Andes, with exciting new movement data on 2 hummingbirds species. Fantastic collab Parques Nacionales Naturales de Colombia School of Biological Sciences. Read: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Remind your students and quantitative friends that we are running a competition this year - #MoveModel2024 !

Showcase your skills by taking part in 4 challenges:
1. Points of interest
2. Behaviors
3. Model
4. Prediction

Fences along paved roads are more likely to trap or alter the way pronghorn move, according to a new report by the Miistakis Institute Institute at Mount Royal U.

Video by Greg Nickerson, WMI, and Teal Cufaude, WGFD

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1-year postdoc position on wolf impact on the behaviour of large herbivores in the French Alps. Attractive topic and nice team Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine Office français de la biodiversité and several other partners

Kelly & Cimprich (2024) Arrhythmia in the earth’s pulse: Bird migration timing does not track advancing spring phenology PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… | Jeff Kelly Paula Cimprich | #ornithology #birdmigration

Last week for applications!

#movementecology
#animalbehavior

At last, published in Movement Ecology, our paper on Arctic Skua migration! This paper has been about 8 yrs in the making, is the result of a large international collaboration and was a chapter in my PhD thesis. In this multi-colony ... rdcu.be/dCbRS #teamskua 1/9

Pierce et al. (2024) Seasonal migration alters energetic trade-off optimization and shapes life history Ecology Letters ➡️doi.org/10.1111/ele.14… | Alli Pierce Scott Yanco | #ornithology #birdmigration

Migrating birds may seem to be following instinct, but also learn and experiment. A study followed 258 white storks and found that young storks tried out alternate migration routes, whereas old storks were faithful to established routes. In PNAS: ow.ly/JMbi50QNzo1

REAKING news from Thailand! Welcome Orange K9 and A6, newly color-marked Spoonies! These Spoonies were colour-marked & equipped with satellite transmitters at the Gleua Café, Thailand as part of the 'Migratory Shorebird Research Project' led by the DNP!
#SaveSpoonie

Excited to share new work led by Denis Valle and w Josh Cullen Nina Attias and other great co-authors.

This work develops a new modeling framework to better link habitat selection with connectivity analysis:
rdcu.be/dAjov

Cuckoo update! More of our satellite-tagged Cuckoos are leaving their wintering grounds to feed up in West Africa. We didn't know they took this migration route before tracking!

When will they begin their risky Sahara crossing?

Keep an eye on them at bto.org/cuckoos

Honored to be part of this 📢new paper📢 led by Jade Vacquie-Garcia showing habitat changes for different 📈📉 hooded 🦭 populations. Huge international effort and #biologging data sharing coordinated by Tiphaine Jeanniard-du-Dot onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

🧵(1/3) “On July 4, 2022 at 2 a.m., a two-year-old collared female cougar — designated F66 by the researchers — sat on the banks of the Confluence bend of Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming.”

While during the pandemic I was a 🥔 that mostly travelled between the fridge and the couch, this 150 g seabird migrated >55,000 km from Chile to Japan and back across the vast Pacific Ocean!

Check out our paper in Marine Biology for more info 👉 rb.gy/xqlavn

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My first PhD chapter is out as a preprint!

We formulate step selection functions as GAM-like models, which can be fitted in mgcv. This allows for the inclusion of non-linear effects/interactions, as well as individual-level and spatial random effects!

doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

Season's Greetings! Exciting news: Spoonie chick X7 leg-flagged in Far East Russia in July 2023 travelled over 8,500 km, reaching Fujian, China by October and Sonadia Island, Bangladesh by late November 2023. Connecting coasts, mudflats, and people along the way! #SaveSpoonie

Might be of interest to participants of #BES2023 , in particular BES Movement Ecology people. 😊