🚨Journalism job alert 🚨 Associate Editor for Audubon magazine. Pay scales dependent on geography (click through). This position is part of The Bird Union 🪶 careers-audubon.icims.com/jobs/5423/asso…

The latest news from AOS & SCO-SOC 2023 (#AOS_SCO23). Merch is here! Order by midnight ET tonight (7/17)to receive in time for conference. Field trip registrations links now available! aos.informz.net/InformzDataSer……

Some birds are more vulnerable to climate change, and some are more vulnerable to habitat loss. Then there are the particularly vulnerable that are getting squeezed hard by both. newyorker.com/news/news-desk…

We Audubon Society developed a new framework to translate hemisphere scaled processes, like bird #Migration, into local conservation actions. People need to be involved in every step. A fancy map can only do much. Local capacity and interest is key! doi.org/10.1111/csp2.1…

The Northern Lights were visible from the University of Michigan Biological Station along Douglas Lake, just south of the Mackinac Bridge, overnight (July 22, 2023). Watch the UM Biological Station time lapse to see the colorful sky dance. #northernlights #auroraborealis

Are you attending #AOS_SCO23 in London, Ontario? Join us on Tuesday 8/8 for this special presentation from Birds Canada! Guide to Helping Birds in Canada meeting.americanornithology.org/a-guide-to-hel… SCO-SOC

Yes, long-distance power lines can kill birds. But they're a hell of a lot better for the avian world than climate change. New report from Audubon Society calls for a massive transmission buildout to support solar and wind farms. My story for Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/environment/ne…

*** PLEASE SHARE WIDELY *** We are recruiting! Department Head - Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology at Colorado State University. jobs.colostate.edu/postings/130480 Posting ID:  202300246F Full Consideration Date:  9/8/2023 Close Posting Date:  Open until filled

🚨 Science Job Alert 🚨 The Audubon Society science team is looking for a spatial ecologist. Can be based anywhere in the US, and this position is represented by The Bird Union 🪶. Salary range: $60,000-70,000/year. careers-audubon.icims.com/jobs/5446/spat…

Were you involved in Great Lakes piping plover conservation this summer? Or do you just want to proclaim your love for these little shorebirds? Order your t-shirt today! All profits go to the UMN PIPL Conservation Team to support research & monitoring: brokenarrowwearstore.com/collections/gr…

For the first time outside the state of Michigan, captive-reared Great Lakes Piping Plovers were released into the wild. Find out more about this recovery milestone for the species—and how Audubon Great Lakes & partners worked to protect the endangered shorebird. bit.ly/3YwyixF

Some exciting new functionality in spOccupancy is now available on CRAN including: ✅ Multi-species, multi-season occupancy models ✅Multi-species spatially-varying coefficient occupancy models More details: jeffdoser.com/files/spoccupa…

5-day workshop by Marc Kéry, Dusit Ngoprasert, Ngumbang Juat on "Applied hierarchical modelling of species distribution and abundance with R package unmarked and spOccupancy" in Bangkok, Thailand. Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

The Defra UK and England Wild Bird Indicators, that I have helped create BTO, have been published today 🥳 The results aren't great, but I have mixed emotions of seeing our hard work published using fantastic citizen science data Breeding Bird Surveys Wetland Bird Survey UK RBBP RSPB 🐦

The Zipkin Lab is taking #robinhood approach to #modeling: getting info from data-rich species to inform conservation of data-poor species. In a new study at Journal of Animal Ecology, they explore how integrated community models help us understand rare or elusive species

Join us next Thursday 12/14 for an update on Great Lakes Piping Plover recovery progress! We have a lot to celebrate from this summer's breeding season! act.audubon.org/a/recovery-pro…

Registration is open for a 4-day workshop 24-27 June 2024 @ Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach, Switzerland taught by Marc Kéry and myself on hierarchical spatial modeling of species distributions using spOccupancy and spAbundance. Details here: doserjef.github.io/Switzerland24-…

.American Ornithological Society is seeking a new EIC for the journal Ornithological Applications - apply by 2/12! americanornithology.org/job-announceme…

Excited to see that our Audubon Society science team's 2022 paper in Ecological Applications was in the top 10% of downloads! Data integration + birds + migration = 🪄

#EEBer Dr. Kayla Davis from the Zipkin Lab and Audubon Society team up to protect the #blacktern: strategically expanding conservation and land management practices outside of their breeding habitat can be key for this species' #conservation