New paper by Tom Mason et al Durham BioSciences & #RSPBScience investigates how human activities such as #agriculture, #deforestation, & drainage of #wetlands have shaped where bird species are found in GB today Paper bit.ly/3iMh7mM Blog bit.ly/2YaRhQf #ornithology

Using indices of species’ potential range to inform #conservation status. Species with wider potential ranges may warrant higher conservation prioritisation. Congratulations to Tom Mason et al. #ornithology

Study shows where birds would exist without human activity in research that could help set #conservation priorities Paper bit.ly/3iMh7mM Blog bit.ly/2YaRhQf #ornithology Tom Mason Kate Jennings 💙 Christine Howard CEG Durham Durham University Vogelwarte_Science Durham BioSciences

This #InternationalWomensDay we're celebrating the amazing #RSPBScience #WomenInStem. These women are working hard to find practical solutions to the most pressing conservation problems - find out more about their work below👇

Watch bird migration in real time with CROW, a new interactive tool we just launched! 📡🐦 oscibio.inbo.be/blog/crow/ #opensource

Interested in modelling #bird #migration? Apply for a 2yr postdoc and join our BiodivERsA3-funded @globam_net team. More details vogelwarte.ch/en/vogelwarte/… or from Silke Bauer!

Weather radars' role in biodiversity monitoring science.sciencemag.org/content/372/65… A paradigm shift in needed NOW in wx radar data policy in Europe to use these sensors to also quantify aerial biodiversity such as bird migration. @globam_net IBED EuropaBON BiodivERsA3 World Meteorological Organization

Out OA now Rocío Pozo | Conservation Scientist & Communicator Jeremy Cusack and colleagues Reconciling livestock production and wild herbivore conservation: challenges and opportunities dlvr.it/S1G8vF

Remember the story of Matt Hancock and Alex Bourne, the publican turned medical equipmemt supplier, a photo of whose pub Mr Hancock kept on his office wall?

How red deer shape habitat suitable for the transparent burnet rdcu.be/cEBca. Great work from Hagen O'Neill, just out in #Oecologia. With Sean Twiss, Nils Ryrholm, Joseph Burman, Tom Mason and me. #moths Butterfly Conservation 🦋 CEG Durham Durham BioSciences Durham University

Are you looking for a #MSc project in which you can combine molecular lab work and #RStats to answer ecological questions about #avianbloodparasites in #Jackdaw nestlings? Then, this is your opportunity: biologyedu.blogg.lu.se/are-all-siblin… Lund University @Biology_LU MEEL

This is heinous. The BBC is censoring not only itself, but David Attenborough, by pulling an episode of its new flagship series on British wildlife as it focuses on UK wildlife declines... in case it upsets right-wing politicans and media. #WildIsles theguardian.com/media/2023/mar…

It's 2023, folks, and a Tory MP is asking the UK's climate minister "what scientific evidence his depatment [sic] has which demonstrates the need to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere" UK climate minister directs his colleague to the latest IPCC report

🆕8 more Favourable Conservation Status definitions have just been published. Based on ecological evidence & describing what 'good' looks like for England, these definitions bring us closer to our nature recovery goals. View all 33 definitions here: publications.naturalengland.org.uk/category/54150…

Our paper is out now in Nature Communications. We explore how well changes in climate explain the observed range shifts of European breeding birds CEG Durham Stephen Willis @EmmaMarjakangas Dr. Alejandra Morán Luomus Eco-land lab CREAF European Bird Census Council thread 1/9 nature.com/articles/s4146…

Local colonisations and extinctions of European birds are poorly explained by changes in climate suitability | nature.com/articles/s4146… | Nature Communications | #ornithology

Anyone interested in the actual facts VS claims the new oil and gas licences will bring UK energy prices down? This is quite the humdinger. Well done Channel 4 News 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Our new paper is now out in Diversity & Distributions, where we present a new modelling framework - Spatially explicit Adaptive Migration Models (SAMMs). We show how this approach can simulate the optimal behavioural decisions to migrate across open land- and seascapes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Looking for a PhD? Interested in bird migration? Come and join my new lab Durham BioSciences! I’m currently advertising for two PhD students - see below. If you're interested, please get in touch (preferably before the 15ht December). #PhDposition #PhD #Birds #Migration CEG Durham

Howard et al. (2023) Explaining and predicting #animalmigration under #globalchange Diversity & Distributions doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13… | Christine Howard Tom Mason Stephen Baillie Silke Bauer Stephen Willis Philip Stephens CEG Durham BTO Vogelwarte_Science | #birdmigration #ornithology