This Cuckoo on Dartmoor was under unrelenting persecution from the Meadow Pipit, who saw fit to chase it off from every perch. Luckily for me they chased it right over my head! @BTO Devon Wildlife Trust

There is still a week left to apply for this fully funded (for home and international students) PhD with me at University of Oxford on multiple stressors in wetlands. Come join our lab! #ecology #phdlife #biology

I love lambs

A potential White-headed Duck on Down Level this evening. Access from New Bridge rd, Rickney. Limited parking at end of White Dyke

Dolphins spotted at Teddington Lock this afternoon @teddington

A traditional morning walk over Thursley Common. Dartfords, Redstarts, Woodlarks, Tree Pipits, Stonechats etc. Curlew heard but not seen. Cuckoo seen but not heard.

Lovely Oxford

Happy weekend everyone 🐝🌼

Excited to share an illustration I created for an infographic appearing in the recent issue of Canadian Geographic depicting some of Dr. Catie Ivy 's research. Article written by Julia Zarankin
#SciArt , #AvianAnatomy , #AnimalAnatomy , #birdmigration

Are you or someone you know looking for a postdoc? Consider joining my lab at University of Wyoming where we use imaging and computer vision to study animal behavior in complex natural ecosystems. Collective behavior, salmon, migration, machine learning! kogerlab.com

Sansalone et al. examine morphological trade-offs between bite force & speed in 132 carnivore species, finding that velocity optimisation can be obtained in more ways than force optimisation.
@G_Sansalone CarmeloFruciano
nature.com/articles/s4146…

Please share! I'm looking to hire 2 PhD students to join my lab Clemson CAFLS as part of a landscape scale grassland #bird and habitat monitoring project funded through USDA RCPPs awarded to National Bobwhite and Grassland Initiative. jobs.rwfm.tamu.edu/view-job/?id=9…

Four sequential shots from a burst of the amazingly showy Alpine Swift at Kenfig Pool. Thanks to Neil Donaghy for the great find and promptly getting the news out.

European Rollers are arriving at their breeding grounds and we have just retrieved the data of a GPS-tagged bird! What an incredible journey!
#migration
#tracking

Many know of the Bony-eared Assfish, but do you know about its prickly cousins? Introducing the Thorny Assfishes: ethereal larvae, ghoulish adults, and a spine-locking mechanism, too.

Check out our paper: spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/content/discov…

Smithsonian NMNH NOAA Fisheries

You sound like a coffee pot

Parallel executive pallio-motor loops in the pigeon brain | J Comparative Neurology | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cn… | #ornithology

New insights into avian malaria infections in New Zealand seabirds link.springer.com/article/10.100…