New in Animal Behaviour Asa Bjorg "Sex roles in parental care in a species with precocial offspring and frequent brood desertion" We investigated the balance of male & female brood care in families before female desertion vs. families that stay together in a wild shorebird

Checking out camera trap images just got so much more colourful. 🐗🌈Meta just released its Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2) and it plays nicely with our wild boar piglets. WILDLABS Community AI at Meta #Tech4Wildlife #cameratrap

NEW PhD opportunity in #ornithology and #conservation at a nature reserve near Basel: buff.ly/4dVQUOf

📣We assess the extent and severity of conflict between recovering pinniped species and increasing fisheries operations worldwide and 🗺️predict conflict hotspots New research out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146… Oxford Biology MCEM Oxford

Variation in nest survival of three species of tropical plovers in Madagascar with clutch size, age of nest, year and El Niño effect | doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

If you want to know more about Oystercatchers (especially if you are watching Verónica Méndez Aragón(she/her) at #IWSG2024), here are 3 blogs with links to papers: Who migrates? wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/whi… Dad knows best? wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/oys… Mixed marriages? wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/whe… #ornithology

Research postdoc position on predators-prey (carnivores-ungulates) relationships. University of Bern (Conservation Biology). Please distribute as broadly as you can.

🗣 New Paper hot off the press in Trends in Ecology & Evolution : Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts doi.org/10.1016/j.tree… EJ Milner-Gulland Joe W Bull Oxford Biology ICCS

Circadian patterns in male sexual behaviour and female resistance in a polygynandrous bird authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00… The optimal timing of sexual behaviour forms a key component of reproductive success but few studies explore circadian rhythms in the context of sexual selection

“we document four apparently deliberate nest relocations by plovers where a parent moved eggs.” – Dr Kristal Kostoglou et al. waderstudygroup.org/article/18481/ #waders #shorebirds #ornithology

The irreplaceable role of surviving megafauna in long-distance seed dispersal: evidence from an experiment with Neotropical mammals vist.ly/3mjezjr 📷© Emilio White Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution #defaunation #gutpassageeffects #frugivores #plantdispersermutualisms

Urban bird commensals maintain coexistence under extreme food shortages | doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… | Journal of Applied Ecology | #ornithology

🚨Red List Update🚨 Migratory shorebird populations are plummeting globally. ⚠️ 📉 16 species have been reclassified to higher threat categories, with potential causes including habitat loss and degradation, disturbance, hunting and climate change. 🌊 🌎 Travelling the world

Some species are difficult to get close to, but drones can navigate this issue and avoid disturbing animals 🦭 New research from Thomas Stone Katrina Davis will improve our ability to monitor species and help us make effective conservation decisions 👇 bit.ly/4fPEV5T

New Paper- Using UAVs to estimate body volume at scale for ecological monitoring! Super excited to share that my Master's research with Katrina Davis and first ever paper has been published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! 🦭 doi.org/10.1111/2041-2…

Ethiopian wolves have been seen feeding on nectar! 🐺 They are the first large carnivore documented doing this - and may be acting as pollinators too. New from Sandra Lai @sandralai.bsky.social Claudio Sillero WildCRU, Oxford University of Oxford 👇 bit.ly/3AQPsyJ 📷 Danielle Rubens

PhD position available 🚨 We are looking for a #PhDstudent to study the impact of #anthropogenicnoise on fitness-related behaviours, #geneexpression profiles, and #gutmicrobiome in #birds. Read all about it here: tinyurl.com/4xknfw8n picture © S. Golüke

Trophic #rewilding can help ecosystems adapt to our rapidly changing biosphere. From #megafauna-driven seed dispersal to buffering against invasive species, we explore how rewilding supports #biodiversity & resilience 🍃🐃Current Biology sciencedirect.com/science/articl… 🐺🌼 #Conservation

"New research reveals how predators and prey adjust their behaviours in space and time! 📷 Using camera-trap data from Brazil and Suriname, we found that red-rumped agoutis adjust their activity patterns in response to ocelots' presence." buff.ly/40QU0hz