The unconventional life history of the American woodcock—first direct evidence of itinerant breeding in a migratory bird, an incredibly rare breeding strategy that involves the temporal overlap of migratory and reproductive periods | ow.ly/qaAk50RhYHc #ProcB Colby R. Slezak, PhD

The #NorthernLights seen off the Copeland Islands in Belfast Bay ✨ Manx shearwater research has never looked so incredible 🐦 Copeland Bird Obs.

Another great week at Copeland Bird Observatory helping with the Avian Behaviour and Ecology field course - finishing of course with the spectacular aurora on the ferry back @Ben_Sheldon_EGI Ollie Padget James King Oxford Biology

First time ringing at a new site last week & we've already had two Reed Warbler controls! 1) Ringed in July 2019 as an adult, 30km away in Buckinghamshire. This makes it at least 6 yrs old! 2) Ringed 5th May 2024, 40km away in Hertfordshire, just 6 days before we recaught it.

It's always exciting to find out where birds are moving, especially when it's not just within your local area! A Greenfinch we ringed in December 2023 was recaught in Old Weston, Cambridgeshire on 20th May 2024, having travelled 91km! 💚 ✈️

Paper out now in Animal Behaviour on navigational learning in homing pigeons: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe… Thanks to my collaborators and funders of this project!

"Manx Shearwaters make complex decisions about where to forage based on wind conditions" Stephanie Harris @Steph_MHarris reveals how these seabirds balance wind efficiency and known feeding grounds in their foraging strategies. #CoimbraSeabirds 🍃

My first paper from my PhD is out today on Manx shearwater behaviour and climate It’s published in the same journal as the first paper from the OG Dr Siddiqi (my grandpa) 🥳 ‘Behavioural responses of a trans-hemispheric migrant to climate oscillation’ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

And that’s a wrap folks! A brilliant day full of learning, networking, and of course a fair few birds! Many thanks to all of our fantastic speakers, and our exhibitors Copeland Bird Observatory, Butterfly Conservation 🦋, and CEDaR.

An article about my recent paper on shearwaters and climate osscilations from Oxford Biology "El Niño impacts migratory species’ behaviour across years and hemispheres" biology.ox.ac.uk/article/el-nin…

We are hiring a Field Assistant for 2025. 🌊Are you starting your career as a seabird biologist? 🏀Excited at the prospect of remote work on UK islands? 🌧️❄️Happy to work outside in unusual 'summer' weather conditions? For more info on applying: drive.google.com/file/d/1byRmF-…

🚨PhD ALERT! 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomic approaches 🧬 to unravel the mysteries of migration using yellow-browed warblers. Think this is you or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 02/12 and check out the ad below!

How do wandering albatrosses deal with broad-scale climatic variation? Pretty well, it seems! Our new Wiley Ecology & Evolution paper uses 11-years of GPS data to show how plastic behaviour helps albatrosses to buffer environmental effects on their breeding success: doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7…

!PhD opportunity! We are recruiting a student to use biotelemetry and modelling to understand bycatch in Europe's most endangered seabird, the Balearic shearwater. If you are interested come to our online Q&A session on 12th Dec. See advert below!

New paper out now! 🥳Nonadjacent dependencies and sequential structure of chimpanzee action during a natural tool-use task: peerj.com/articles/18484/

Loved seeing them in the film 😍😍

Check out our new paper “Night flight facilitates late breeding catch-up in a long-distance migratory seabird” We found that late laying shearwaters were more likely to fly more at night during migration and stopover less to “catch up” time nature.com/articles/s4159…

Super excited to see my first DPhil paper and my first first-author paper in print! 🪶🪺 Many thanks to my awesome supervisors, İrem Sepil and Ben Sheldon ✨ and my favourite artist, Pari Satarkar for the endless supply of great tit illustrations 🐣

New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show N. American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age. We link this to social learning in novel mig. route development. rdcu.be/d57Mw 1/10

📢 New paper in Biological Conservation! 📢 🪶 Global distribution, threats & population trends of the critically endangered Balearic shearwater (Puffinus mauretanicus). 📄 Read it here 👉 🔗 shorturl.at/9l4sx Hope you like it! 🌊🐦 #Seabirds #Conservation