(A bit late but) we are super proud that @Ruthvikpsi was 2024 finalist of the Hamilton Award! Ruthvik presented his work on the evolution of colouration and body size in social bird species developed in the Bird on Islands research group. Congrats!

Very happy to announce that we got the FCT PEX project!! ISLANDBIRDIET project aims to explore if island birds are more generalist than their mainland counterparts. Congrats to the PI @ReiZubi and all the team! Ana V. Leitão 🦋 @anavleitao.bsky.social @c_doutrelant Rita Covas and more BIOPOLIS-CIBIO

Island Conservation’s new Vice President of Conservation, Cameron Diver , was recently featured on ABC Australia, talking about the promises and success of Island Conservation’s work and our ambitious Island-Ocean Connection Challenge. Listen here: islandconservation.org/cameron-diver-…

Very happy with our new book Marvels and Perils of Island Life, Evolution, Ecology and Extinction in Splendid Isolation, by Mark Lomolino and me, now available at Amazon - Kindle Direct Publishing: ISBN-13 979-8879215922 at a.co/d/hw4nr7v

21th Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society will take place at Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento - Fundação Luso-Americana Para o Desenvolvimento, located close to the centre of Lisbon. #etologia #ethology #science #Lisboa

The global loss of avian functional and phylogenetic diversity from anthropogenic extinctions | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… #ornithology

Dufour et al. 2024: Niche filling predicts evolutionary trajectories in insular bird communities Functional Ecology doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… | #ornithology | Paul Dufour Ferran Sayol Rob Cooke | @cefemontpellier CREAF BayCEER_is_leaving_X UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre

A small step outside my usual field of study on bird migration during my postdoc at Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre. In this paper Functional Ecology, we explored the evolutionary trajectories of >350 endemic (extant&extinct) species from diverse island bird communities. doi.org/10.1111/1365-2…

It is a please to announce our second invited speaker, a brilliant Portuguese researcher in Norway. More information about the invited speaker can be found here enbe2024.rd.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/plenary-speake…… XX ENBE

Are you looking for a master's thesis project? Are you interested in island biology? Our research focuses on the evolution of #birds on #islands. Find out more about our available projects here 👉: islandbirdproject.com/#position

Host traits rather than migration and moulting strategies explain feather bacterial load in Palearctic passerines iScience journal doi.org/10.1016/j.isci… | University of Groningen Institute of Vertebrate Biology Vojtech Brlik Joana Falcao Salles Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social | #ornithology #MicrobialEcology #microbes #microbiome

The Role of Geography, Diet, and Host Phylogeny on the Gut Microbiome in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Radiation | doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7… | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology

Drum roll please!! 🥁 🥁 The 2024 eBird/Clements Taxonomy update is HERE!! Please give a warm welcome to our 128 NEW SPECIES! As updates continue to roll out these next few weeks, enjoy FULL OPEN-ACCESS to BOW from 23 October through 28 October! buff.ly/4dZaxof

New look, same values, maximum impact. Meet the updated Island Conservation. Check out our refreshed website here >> islandconservation.org

The Island Thrush was previously considered to have the most subspecies of any bird. As part of our 2024 Taxonomy Update, it is now considered a complex of over 50 diverse species, possibly with more to come! Explore this update and others at BOW! buff.ly/3NEkgp9

Interesting Ecological Niche Modeling Tutorial using R!

Tired of flattened early bird fossils? Today is your lucky day. Very happy to finally welcome 'Navaornis hestiae' to the world! It allowed us to see for the first time a (near)complete enantiornithine brain. Today in nature: nature.com/articles/s4158… #spinningskull

Avian Dispersal Ability Shapes Species–Area Relationships on Islands Worldwide | doi.org/10.1111/ele.70… | Ecology Letters | #ornithology

The XXI Congress of the Portuguese Ethological Society has officially started! 🎉🎉🎉 #science #ethology #Portugal José Ricardo Paula MARE Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento @ciencias_ulisboa_oficial