📢 REMINDER Don't forget to submit your keynote nominations for #BOUasm25 A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London bou.org.uk/event/a-day-at… Deadline: 31 Oct 2024 | #ornithology

Did you know that birdsong can improve your mindfulness? 🐦🎶 Dr Natalia Zielonka from @biouea explores how hiding speakers in vineyards to mimic areas with more diverse bird soundscapes helps businesses improve their customer’s experience. #BirdSoundscapes #Biodiversity

📢 Exciting PhD opportunity 📢 Sex and synchrony: the role of males and females in driving population synchrony in wild birds. With me, Jen Gill (she/her) Catriona Morrison (she/her) & Rob Robinson (he/him) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @ARIES_DTP @biouea More info here: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/b…

📢This is the final week to register for #BOUsci24! BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 conference on Avian Conservation Translocations. Online 12-13th Nov. Registration closes this Sunday 3rd Nov. Sign up here: bou.org.uk/conferences-an… @drkevinwood Vix Franks

📢 REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! #BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Book your place now! Programme & registration: bou.org.uk/event/frontier… #ornithology Christine Howard Dr Ailidh Barnes Claire Buchan Marius Somveille Ollie Leedham

1/6 Post-translocation survival and breeding of Madagascar pochard, “the world’s rarest duck”: MadPoch were believed extinct until <30 were rediscovered in 2006. Egg collection established a captive breeding centre, and a new home was identified: Lake Sofia #BOUsci24 #POSTER1

Fennoscandia 🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮 is a 'wader factory'. Blog from 26 Nov 2017 summarises the fortunes of 14 breeding species. Golden Plover was the most commonly encountered, with Wood Sandpiper second. wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/fen… Paper in Wader Study #ornithology

📢Great new PhD opportunity to investigate drivers of breeding wader declines on Outer Hebrides coastal machair with me, Prof Kate Arnold, Mark Wilson @peatysmoky and Niall Burnside Scottish Association for Marine Science RSPB Science Department of Environment and Geography University of York BTO findaphd.com/phds/project/u…

An exciting PhD opportunity to investigate the migration strategies of a fascinating tropical #seabird with a unique long-term geolocator dataset and great supervisory team! 🤩 findaphd.com/phds/project/c… 🔗 #ornithology #seabirds #RoundIslandPetrels

Great project and team!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿"WaderTales - a taste of Scotland" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Reading for a wet and windy day? Updated blog highlights stories about Scottish waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/wad… Latest blog about surveying waders in the Cairngorms: wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/04/cou… #ornithology

If you're at the #BES2024 Annual Meeting in Liverpool this week, please come along to my talk in the Conservation Science and Policy - Conservation Macroecology session! l🐦🪲

Do soundscapes impact our time spent in nature? Find out in my The Conversation article written with Simon Butler 👉 theconversation.com/the-hidden-ben… Based on our recent People and Nature paper 👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pa… #ornithology #soundscapes #wellbeing

Do you have pictures of gulls eating stuff? We've just launched a brand new citizen science project that aims to collate photos of what gulls are eating - for science! If you think you can help, register at CitSci citsci.org/projects/gulls…. BTO eBird RSPB 1/2

Over 18,000 people read WaderTales blogs during 2024, to learn more about shorebird research. During the year, we lost another Curlew wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/lea… And added NINE shorebird species to the RED LIST wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/08/bro… #ornithology #shorebirds #waders

Ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit? This important paper could not have been written without you: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Summarised as a #WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/how… #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Early bird registration for BOU2025 closes on 3rd February. Make sure you don't miss out! BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 #birds #Ornithology

The deadline for these exciting seasonal roles with RSPB Science is fast approaching! Go, go, go 🏃 #ornithology #seabirds

Myself, Amy Leedale, Vix Franks and Dr Helen Whitehead from University of Salford will all be going to this. Join us! Food and accomodation all included in price and amazing student and ECR deals available for members.

New 📄 📣: Fab new paper using EURING ringing data to explore the geography of demographic synchrony in European land birds, and its implications for abundance synchrony | Ecology Letters | doi.org/10.1111/ele.70… Catriona Morrison (she/her) Jen Gill (she/her) UEA CEEC