EURING is delighted to announce publication of the Eurasian-African Bird Migration Atlas migrationatlas.org based on @_EURING ring recoveries and tracks from @MovebankTeam The Atlas was developed in collaboration with @BonnConvention and funded by the Italian Government

Asamblea general de @_EURING . Estamos en #Tata (Hungría) para compartir proyectos y estudiar cuál será el futuro del #anillamientocientifico @SEO_BirdLife. 50 años de #BirdLifeHungary @BirdLifeEurope, y qué mejor manera de celebrarlo que con la Asamblea General. @CMA_SEOBirdLife

Two decades of monitoring in Mauritania The paper by El-Hacen et al. under the spotlight. Spotlight: waderstudygroup.org/article/… Paper: waderstudygroup.org/article/… #waders #shorebirds #ornithology #openaccess @DebbieBuehler @GlobalFlyway

Our latest recovery is of a juvenile male Siskin ringed at Ramsley Reservoir, Derbyshire in July 2023. It was retrapped in January 2024 at Andijk, The Netherlands, a distance of 458km east in 184 days @_BTO @shefbirdstudy @Derbyshirebirds

We are already in October, but some of our #WhiteStork fledglings are still reluctant to cross the Straits! Although named after a Portuguese island, Berlenga - unlike many famous Portuguese sailors - does not seem to be at the forefront of European overseas exploration!

📣 🐔Just published | New quarterly monitoring report on #AvianFlu: the situation in poultry & wild birds has eased over the summer ☀️ However, there’s been a resurgence in seabirds along European coasts. Find out more → europa.eu/!VBCmch #EURL

We are looking forward the the EURING General Meeting 2024 that will be held in Tata, Hungary. Over 80 people will be attending and most European Ringing Schemes will be represented. See euring.org/meetings/general-… for more information

👉The intensity of agriculture in 7 countries that entered the EU in 2004 and 2007 increased after the accession, while farmland bird population trends started to decline. 🧐Read the new paper based on the PECBMS data in Science of the Total Environment: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

Excited to share my final PhD paper on lesser kestrel migration!! We explor how arrival dates vary across breeding colonies: link.springer.com/10.1007/s1… Big thanks to: @DanielGarSil2, @busta43, @JGCecere, @miche_morganti, @DRubolini, @WMGVs, @Luscinia_joshua, @emmanuellourie

Combining local ecological knowledge with camera traps to assess the link between African mammal life-history traits & their occurrence in anthropogenic landscapes 📸 Advocates for wisely combining methods to guide land-use planning 📊 🔗doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…

After >20 years of tracking, our ringed black-tailed godwits have revealed that the autumn and winter sites used by juveniles are (nearly always) the ones they will use throughout their lives. New @AnimalEcology paper (besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…) and #wadertales blog:

We only have three small Storm-petrel chicks in the study boxes on Nólsoy at the moment, with 38 boxes having had eggs laid! Others will certainly hatch in the next week, but it’s very interesting to observe how late the season is this year. Anyone else found the same?

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Excellent day @spurnbirdobs chaperoning Lars Svensson around the ringing sites at Church Field meeting @TimsBirding and at the Warren with @SBO_Jason & @CharlotteFoote5. It all got too much for @Duerdenc1 who was blown away with the occasion! #Migfest24

Sounds of the underground reflect soil biodiversity dynamics across a grassy woodland restoration chronosequence 🔊 Supports that ecoacoustics can help monitor soil biodiversity in different forest restoration contexts 🌱 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14…

New paper out in @JBiogeography doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14996! We compare some 15 years of GPS tracking and citizen science resighting data of Bewick's swans, to see which contains more information on population space use. GPS data substantially outperform resightings. Nonetheless...

SAVE THE DATE! The next EOU Conference will be in Bangor, Wales from 18-22 August 2025. The call for symposia, round tables & pre-conference meetings is now open. Details at cutt.ly/Genn0ikX Follow @EOUnion or check eounion.org/for updates #EOU2025 #ornithology

We're hiring for a spatial analyst to support our work with spatial assessment of avian sensitivity to offshore wind turbines: birdlifeinternational.teamta… #job #ornithology #conservation #seabirds #EnergyTransition #Renewables @birdlifescience

It's been a nice wader summer here at Ottenby, and >5000 have been ringed. Most adult birds have passed by now, and the juveniles are taking over - like this beautiful Broad-billed Sandpiper. #birdmigration #birdringing #birdbanding #autumnmigration #ottenby

@Ana_P_Coelho & coauthors published a daring and important paper today in @IBIS_journal: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13348 Detailed measurements of food intake rates across range of #shorebirds indicate that during fuelling before northward #migration the smaller species run into trouble.

📰New paper! We investigated long-term variation in ♀️ #CommonEider🦆#prolactin (the main parental care hormone), breeding success🐣and environmental conditions🦅🌦️doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2024… @FAngelier @Ecophy_CEBC @CEBC_ChizeLab @INEE_CNRS @UnivLaRochelle @AboAkademi @Tvarminne 🇫🇮