Hi bird people! Anybody knows if there is some field evidence of continued skeletal growth in birds? I have some starling data that suggests so for beak and tarsus length and cannot find much elsewhere. Thanks in advance!

Postdocs do a lot of invisible labor in academia. The majority of which is helping PhD students. Many of us are happy to do it, but when students fail to acknowledge that help, especially in front of the PI, it kinda kills the vibe. Give people credit for their work.

Looks like a very cool PhD oppo @CornishJackdaws join us on the butterfly app so we can share there

My student Griffin just sent me this profoundly sad photo of a Great Bowerbird bower. The painting on the right depicts what the bower should look like, filled with pebbles, shells, and bones. Nowadays, the birds use what they can most easily find in their surroundings: garbage.

🚨VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITY🚨 We are looking for a volunteer for the 2025 season to help with bird monitoring, ringing, and obs maintenance! Full board included. Long term volunteers preferred, but all applications welcome! Contact [email protected] for more info Please share!

NEW JOB in #ornithology to track nutcrackers through alpine forests in #Switzerland: buff.ly/4f54bUU

I am horrified by FedEx's commercial portraying a driver who killed a rattlesnake while delivering a package as a hero. I have written a letter to FedEx marketing officials and hope that you will do so as well, and will share this post to get more people involved. 1/4

🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨 Topic: The impact of anthropogenic noise on fitness-related behaviours, gene expression profiles, and gut microbiome in birds 🦅🦆🐓 University of Bielefeld, Germany Learn more: uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/bi…

👉Today, we published the 2024 PECBMS update of bird trends and Wild Bird Indices pecbms.info/european-wild-… Unfortunately, the birds keep declining.

Do you want to carry out fieldwork in Togo, West Africa? Are you a bird ringer who is available from Feb-May 2025? Then check out the (paid) field worker positions available here: cutt.ly/yeM807A9. The deadline for applications is January 13 2025. #ornithology

The evidence for Homo sapiens playing the dominant role in the global #megafauna #extinctions constitutes one of the clearest, well-supported patterns in #ecology -see our 2024 review cambridge.org/core/journals/…🦣🏹🐘🥩🐎🌿#mammals #paleobiology #archeology #ecosystem #defaunation

BREAKING NEWS: One quarter of freshwater animals at risk of extinction - IUCN Red List The analysis published in nature is the largest global assessment of freshwater animals on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ to date. bit.ly/4adwI9N

🚨JOB alert 🚨 We are looking for a technician at full time 100% and permanent position 🙌🏽 The job is in the Behavioural Physiology lab Université Neuchâtel Please see detailed description (in French) 👉🏼 recruitingapp-3040.umantis.com/Vacancies/6007… Deadline end of February

🍯🤝Honeyguides & humans: a sweet deal! Our new paper quantifies how these birds boost honey-hunter income in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique— where 75% of honey harvests rely on them! A vital mutualism for livelihoods & culture in miombo woodlands: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecos…

This masterpiece just dropped at BMC Biology, brilliantly led by a great team with the help of 300+ analysts & reviewers Same question, same data: go figure! tl;dr: Substantial heterogeneity among results comes from differences among analytical choices doi.org/10.1186/s12915…

The Kalahari Research Centre (Northern Cape, South Africa) is hosting a FULLY FUNDED course on animal behaviour and communication! Check out the flyers below and find out more on their website - exc.uni-konstanz.de/cbfc/applicati… #kalahariresearchcentre #africanbioacoustics #fieldcourse

🚨 Postdoc opportunity! 🚨 Join Radboud Faculty of Science & Andrea Kölzsch in the #HABITRACK Horizon Europe 🇪🇺 project, studying waterfowl movement for conservation impact 🦆🌍 📅 Apply by April 20, 2025 🔗 More info: ru.nl/en/working-at/… #postdoc #postdocjobs #ornithology #birdmigration

💥 Our study 👇 has just been accepted for publication Ecology Letters in arguably the fastest resubmission-to-acceptance time ever: 8h 13' 💥 Preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… Data & Code: github.com/ASanchez-Tojar… Pre-registration: doi.org/10.17605/OSF.I… 👏Mentesana et al!

We are hiring a postdoc to work on our NSF-funded project on suboscine bird diversification! Rough goal is to build phylogenies from massive dataset (data are incoming!) and analyze diversification. Posting: shorturl.at/RkYkE

RT! Looking for an exciting opportunity to join a wonderful field team in Senegal as a PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT? CRP_Simenti is hiring! Explore the lives of wild Guinea baboons in their natural habitat, while gaining proficiency in diverse research methods: bit.ly/4j5itaM