📯New #Friday4birds webinar! Minding Migrants: RSPB and Allies’ Efforts to Conserve Waterbirds and Landbirds in the East Atlantic Flyway 🎙️ Wenceslas Gatarabirwa 📅Friday, 25 April 🕒3:00 PM CET 🔗 Zoom: zoom.us/j/92432510204 🆔924 3251 0204 🔐EastFlyWay

🐦The #EUFLYNET Training School on Ornithological Field Methods, has just wrapped up in the stunning Sidi Boughaba Nature Reserve, Kenitra, Morocco — and it was a great success!!🦆 🍀We hope this is just the beginning of many more to come!🦢 #EUFLYNET #birdringing #wildlife

🦆 Just a few of the wonderful bird species you can admire at the enchanted Sidi Boughaba Nature Reserve, Morocco.🦢🌱 📷Big thanks to Dr. Mohamed Mounir for the amazing photos! 💚 EUFLYNET COST Action @wildlifeconservation heather crowley

✨At today's #Fridays4Birds: Join Tony Rinaudo “The Forest Maker” 🌳live from Australia! 🌿Regreening the Land Without Planting a Single Tree! 🗓️Friday, May 9 ⏰11:00 AM CET | 7:00 PM Melbourne, May 9 🔗Zoom: zoom.us/j/99348221127 🆔: 993 4822 1127 🔐: Regreening

🦅 Protecting the Honey Buzzard: A Mission for Migration! Each spring, the Strait of Messina becomes a vital flyway, but illegal hunting still threatens birds like the honey buzzard🐝 Thanks to #LIPU, Carabinieri & volunteers, thousands flew safely💚 #StopPoaching #Birdmigration

Today at #Friday4Birds: "Restoring habitats for people & biodiversity in Burkina Faso" 🌱 🎙️Gabriel Marcacci, #Swissornithologicalinstitute 📅Friday, 16 May 2025 ⏱️3:00 PM (CET) 🔗zoom.us/j/97234484914#… 🆔: 972 3448 4914 🔐Passcode: ResBurkina 📷© Crinan Jarrett

🦅Meet our #BirdOfTheMonth: the European Honey Buzzard – a raptor with serious migration goals! 📍 Breeds in Europe, winters in Africa 🐝 Eats wasp & bee larvae (ouch-proof gear included!) ⚠ LC but threatened by habitat loss & illegal hunting Learn more➡️tinyurl.com/zye76sb7

How will migratory birds cope with climate change?🌍 A new study on the lesser kestrel 🦅 offers key insights into how evolution, migration & human landscapes shape responses to a warming world.🌱🌾 #ClimateChange #BirdMigration #wildlifeconservation ➡️tinyurl.com/4spfvaw8

🩸Vampire birds? Shrikes snack on engorged camel ticks in the Sahara! 🐦 🧬A new study by the #SwissOrnithologicalInstitute reveals Woodchat Shrikes feed on Hyalomma ticks—DNA of their camel hosts included!🐪 🏜️Desert stopovers matter! #birdmigration #stopover #metabarcoding

The Southern Ground-Hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri) faces severe threats: habitat loss, poisoning ☠️, climate change 🌍. The Mabula Project applies science-based conservation: artificial nests, chick rearing, reintroductions. 🔗ground-hornbill.org.za #wildlifeconservation

🌍Multi-year GPS tracking of European nightjars reveals strong wintering site fidelity and flexible stopover use during migration.🐦Individuals appear to rely on personal experience to shape routes across years. 🔗tinyurl.com/3jzu6d45 #LundUniversity #birdmigration #Tracking

🐦The First Pallid Swifts Are Starting to Migrate! They spend nearly 100% of their lives in flight-eating, drinking, sleeping, and even mating while airborne. They only land to breed and raise their chicks! 🔗tinyurl.com/nzzuzmb4 #birdofthemonth #birdmigration #conservation

📢Join Us for Fridays4Birds Webinar! Predicting bustards, storks & harriers in Kenya using citizen science🪿 🗣️Frank J. Ong'ondo (Mississippi State University, USA) 📅Friday, 4 July 2025⏰Time: 4:00 PM CET 💻Zoom: tinyurl.com/33srj4nv 🔐ID: 910 6776 9409 Password: Otididae

🎉The LIFE AWOM-Aquatic Warblers on the Move project is the first multi-country LIFE project dedicated to restoring staging and wintering areas for the species 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑎-Europe’s rarest migratory songbird!🌾🌍 🔗tinyurl.com/58hbn9y9

🦅 Join us for the next #Fridays4Birds webinar! 📌 Wings of Scavengers: Saving Southern Africa’s Vultures 🌍 🎙 Dr. Lovelater Sebele (BirdLife International) 🗓 Fri, 11 July | 🕒 3PM CET 🔗 zoom.us/j/95220726933 🔑 ID: 95220726933 | Code: ZimVulture #BirdLifeInternational

📢New #Fridays4Birds webinar: Desert biodiversity conservation and challenges🏜️ 🎤Dr. Alaaeldin Soultan (Swiss Ornithological Institute) 📅Friday, July 25 ⏰3:00 PM CET 🔗: zoom.us/j/99739656927 🔐: DesertLife #WildlifeConservation #DesertBiodiversity #DesertLife

📢On today´s #Fidays4Birds webinar: From Siberian Steppes❄️to Tropical Plains via Deserts🏜️: Movement Patterns of Common Cranes Wintering in Western India 🎙️Harindra Baraiya (Wildlife Institute of India) 📅Friday, 1 August 2025🕒3:00 PM CET 🔗tinyurl.com/3t4zb4tt 🔑Grusgrus

🌍New research by Joanna Wong #SwissOrnithologicalInstitute reveals Tree Pipits show huge variation in migration routes, timing and stopover sites!🐦 ➡️Such flexibility could help them cope with environmental changes!!🌿 Read the full paper here 👇link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🐦The Japanese Waxwing (Bombycilla japonica) is a rare, migratory songbird of East Asia.🌸 ⚠️Habitat fragmentation and illegal trade threaten its survival. Listed as Near Threatened (IUCN), urgent conservation and ecological research are needed! #BirdoftheMonth #BirdConservation

Today’s #Fridays4Birds webinar:🦆Safeguarding Velvet Scoters: Diverting the Duck from Imminent Extinction in the Caucasus! 🎙️ Nika Paposhvili (NGO GARIELI – Velvet Scoter conservation, Georgia) 📅 15 Aug 2025 | 🕒 3:00 PM CET 🔗 zoom.us/j/91877236670 🔑15825