If you thought yesterday's pic was a David & Goliath encounter, what do you make of this? Peregrines at #Gibraltar also go for Griffon Vultures! @Birder_Griffon Gib Nature Reserve Thinking Green GI GONHS Gibraltar BBC Springwatch #BBCWildlifePOTD BBC Wildlife BirdWatchingMagazine BirdWatchingMagazine

Two young wedge-tailed eagles are having a stand-off at one of our feeding stations... #wedgetailedeagle

We've been tracking Woldja the Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle since she took her first flight out of her nest as a young eagle. This video shows her flying around the Tasmanian Midlands for four years before settling into her own territory #wedgetailedeagle 🦅

Georgie the adult female Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle reached a new highest altitude! This video shows her flight where she reached over 2 km high 🦅 #wedgetailedeagle #endangered

Amazing photo of 9 wedge-tailed eagles in one shot: Wedge-tailed eagles gather for vulture act in stunning photo abc.net.au/news/2022-04-2… ABC Hobart

New paper- authors.elsevier.com/a/1fqaG1R%7EeO… We present an approach for predicting where animals perform different behaviours. Using data from Tasmanian #wedgetailedeagles we map where perching, short and long flights are likely to occur, which can help manage this endangered population.

Researchers used GPS tracking to analyze the behavior of Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles. Info on where behaviors occur on the landscape can guide planning for new roads, power lines, and wind turbines to minimize risk. Read more: ow.ly/LuYI50Lcsgo 📷 by Francesco Veronesi

🚨new paper alert! Animals bred in captivity develop physical changes that may hinder survival in the wild theguardian.com/australia-news…

new paper: "Great Gray Owls hunting voles under snow hover to defeat an acoustic mirage" was just published! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… In it, we ask: how does great gray owl hunt thru snow? Part of the answer is this enormous facial disc they have (largest of any owl species)

We learnt a lot from this one bird...

And thats a wrap for PhD fieldwork! Four seasons of surveys, nest monitoring, and tagging birds has come to an end with our last juvenile tagged this morning for our survival study. On to analysing data and writing up findings! Hopefully they can help support this species

MRes 2023/24 applications now open University of Chester @BioSciChester! Two projects with me - on social behaviour/conservation in birds🐦& camels🐫. Plus other projects covering wide interests. Please share far & wide! #findamasters #postgraduatestudy www1.chester.ac.uk/biological-sci…

Fantastic PhD opportunity to get to grips with the maths of population monitoring – via Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles: utas.edu.au/research/degre… University of Tasmania Dr James Pay #ScienceTwitter #PhD #ecology #maths #threatenedspecies #monitoring #conservationbiology #PhDchat #Tasmania #Australia

Stoked to have a cover photo for Ecography! In our paper doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0… we included temporal dynamics into SSFs, resulting in daily patterns of movement and habitat selection. Simulating then gave us dynamic spatial predictions Code! github.com/swforrest/dyna…

As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them? Dr James Pay University of Tasmania theconversation.com/overhead-power…

Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/overhead-power…

New research! 🦅Fine-scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines Journal of Applied Ecology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fine‐scale spatial risk models to predict avian collisions with power lines - researchgate.net/publication/39…