Another busy spring monitoring, catching & GPS-tagging Tawny Owls in Scotland 🦉🌳

#tawnyowls #owls #scotland #wildlife

Check the last issue of #Avocetta Journal of #Ornithology to read the latest published paper 'Eurasian Oystercatchers adopt pole tops as safe nesting sites in the Lagoon of Venice' by Valle & Scarton
doi.org/10.30456/AVO.2…

Photo: L. Sattin

A big thank you to #GlobalUrbanEvolution collaborator Davide M Dominoni for hosting my trip to University of Glasgow and joining me in the hunt for Lotus corniculatus, the start of a new #urbanevolution project.

🆕 Planned electrical blackouts, such as those experienced in South Africa, could enhance our understanding of how artificial light in urban areas may be affecting wildlife.

New research by Davide M Dominoni and UCT 💡

Read more➡️ gla.ac/3QXbaps

Our Forum article is now out in Trends in Ecology & Evolution highlighting the unique opportunity of #loadshedding as a natural experiment to explore the impacts of ALAN on wildlife behaviour with Chevonne Reynolds Robert L Thomson Davide M Dominoni authors.elsevier.com/a/1j7fncZ3X04nm
Photo by Eric Nathan

Some people have responded to that chart with 'That can’t be right', or 'We can’t be worse than America'.

I’m afraid the chart is right. 15 years ago the UK’s record on homelessness *was* not too dissimilar to other developed countries, but things have rapidly deteriorated.

Are you coming to ECCB 2024 Bologna in Bologna next month? Encourage kids (of your own, relatives, neighbors etc.) to participate the ECCB kids drawing award😍🖌️🖍️
'Capture nature your own way' 🐞🐦🐯🦋🐌🦞🪶🍂🌼

More info here: eccb2024.eu/drawing-contes…

Giovanni Capuano Dario Baldi Ma perchè invece di perdere tempo a prendertela con una bambina (davvero non riesco a crederci) non fai una campagna-stampa contro le migliaia di tifosi adulti della Juventus che da anni, da almeno 10 anni, urlano ad ogni partita 'merda' in mondovisione ad ogni rinvio del

📢 Have you seen a mosquito in Scotland? The MosquitoScotland team want to hear about it!

You can report your sighting and submit a photo here ⬇️

mosquito-scotland.com

Please help us fill in the mosquito map for Scotland and understand future vector-borne disease risk!

🦐 A newly identified species of shrimp has been named in honour of the people of Glasgow - Tealliocaris weegie.
New research published in an RSE journal by researchers National Museums Scotland and The Hunterian has forever identified it as a Glaswegian crustacean. rse.org.uk/?p=46718

Hey soil friends🤎

European Commission Horizon Europe🇪🇺 2024 SOIL research funding calls open tomorrow, 8th May🥳

Among topics you’ve soil erosion, biodiversity, carbon and soils in Africa… you’ll be spoilt for choice🤩

Great ideas?It’s your moment😎🤓

Details➡️ec.europa.eu/info/funding-t…

Are you interested in using LiDAR in woodland ecology? Then don't miss the upcoming free webinar on May 17th by the TreEPlaNat TreE PlaNat UKTreescapes project team including Thiago Silva 💻(🍃↔️🌳↔️🌎) and Laura Braunholtz. Sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ef48d392…

Here at SCENE we would be very happy to host people interested in fish/aquatic/isotope ecology, food webs, avian ecology, invasion biology, (pre)historical ecology, restoration ecology (and much much more).

See here for a nice video of SCENE youtube.com/watch?v=yAtFvL…

Hard work now for many ornithologists right now....It's fieldwork time!!!

But imagine if your species could breed for 15 months in a row...😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
We describe the crazy breeding phenology of Sociable Weavers in our new Ostrich Journal of African Ornithology paper
tandfonline.com/eprint/VGHYZH6…

For the past 5 years, 1st May has been where I've moved up to SCENE for 2 months to manage and do fieldwork with Glasgow Urban Ecology Group. This year is a bit different, I'm moving to UWS to start as a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour. I'm excited for this new adventure!

We (Global South) complained about lack of access to papers. Then, we were provided with an amazing solution. With OA, we can read any papers from rich-countries, we just cannot publish ours anymore.
We are now allowed at the meeting, as long as we don't talk. Higly inclusive!

So pleased to be invited to the annual Royal Society of Biology Accreditation conference and Awards Ceremony. So many good areas of practice to think about! Laura C McCaughey @UofG_SBOHVM Well done to Maja Jorgensen on her Top Project Award too!

We are delighted to welcome Prof Harrod Chris Harrod who will be our new Director at our field station SCENE
Chris gave a fascinating talk and is clearly enthusiastic & passionate about his role and collaborating with others -watch this space!
#SBOHVMResearch #SBOHVMAwayDay

what has nature ever done for us ?!

#stableisotope study led by Olivia Bell with National Environmental Isotope Facility funding shows smaller dietary niche breadth of Tasmanian devils and sympatric spotted-tailed quolls with increasing human-modified habitat, but no effects with DFTD-related devil declines. doi.org/10.1007/s00442…