Well, not only this (previously) Finnish breeding Lapwing continued to move east, crossing the Ural mountains, it started breeding in what seems a very similar arable land habitat in Russia. Breeding dispersal of 2300Km! 😮A possible record contender for the species? 👀 #scicomm

It's that time of the year again: We are looking for volunteers to join our count this Autumn!

Spectacular raptor migration guaranteed: 1 Million+🦅

Read more & apply here: batumiraptorcount.org/volunteer-as-r…

#BRC16 #vismig #trektellen #raptormigration #volunteering #ornithology OSME

PhD position announcement: please share! Interested in joining the amazing FutureScapes team University of Tartu for lab challenges and fieldwork? Fully financed 4y position open on carbon accumulation in soil and dead wood under changing climate, with fungi in focus. w/Ivika Ostonen

In the LATEST ISSUE of BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

Icelandic Whimbrel first migration: Non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel than adults | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Camilo Carneiro Tómas Gunnarsson Triin Kaasiku Theunis Piersma José A. Alves | #ornithology

We are still looking for count coordinators!

Coordinators are the backbone of our counts as they know the protocol by heart, keep an overview of migratory movements, and delegate tasks on station. Read more & apply here: batumiraptorcount.org/autumn-count-c…

Video by Elien Hoekstra

Do not miss the new Wader Study issue!
Links to all contents in this thread 👇
#ornithology #waders #shorebirds

I wonder if Levant Sparrowhawk is the most migratory European species with the fewest extralimital records.

Recommended read for this week: our new Autumn Report!🥳

Here we summarise our 15th autumn count with great stories and tonnes of pictures from the season. In total, we ended up counting 1.020.910 raptors:
👉batumiraptorcount.org/autumn-report-…👈

#BRC15 #ornithology OSME

📷Marc Heetkamp

The year is almost over, and NYE fireworks are just around the corner. So it's time to talk birds and fireworks! Thread 🧵👇

We have now published new work in ESA Frontiers looking at the effects of fireworks on birds, using weather radar and bird counts: doi.org/10.1002/fee.26…

Really glad this one is finally out.

We found fireworks 🎇 is an unprecedented disturbance for birds, impacting them up to 10km distance & most problematic for larger-bodied birds. 🧵 later.

EN: uva.nl/en/content/new…

See how the radar lights up with birds fleeing at NYE 👇

We just collected the #cameratraps for another year of #SnapshotEURO .
Unquestionable highlight was an Eurasian lynx, recorded by two cameras!
#Estonia #Snapshoteurope

EARLY VIEW in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

Icelandic Whimbrel first migration: Non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel than adults | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Camilo Carneiro Tómas Gunnarsson Triin Kaasiku Theunis Piersma José A. Alves | #ornithology

As a final treat, here are the tracks over Sudan in Google Earth. In 2022 we saw how Dudu (blue) 'hugged' the Nile over S Sahara. Our new Global Messenger data for Julia (red), Gia (green) and Shotiko (purple) seem to confirm the Nile as a leading line at this stage of the migration. 4/4

It's been over 2 weeks since our last Levant Sparrowhawk update. This was partly due to a lack of transmissions, but yday and today we finally got some new data. Some bad, but mostly good news.🧵👇1/4

📸 Left: Levant Sparrowhawk 'Dudu' in Sept 2022. Right: 'Kimara' in Sept 2023.

Chuffed with publication in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 on maiden #migration of young #whrimbrel from Iceland to West Africa. Tagging by Camilo Carneiro and Eco Flyway team has yielded important insights into the ways that young inexperienced birds differ from adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Time to celebrate our most recent paper BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈.

It is about the first migration of Icelandic #whimbrel : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
#shorebirds #waders #ornithology

NEW PAPER on juvenile migration!

It is open for everyone, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ib…
#waders #shorebirds #whimbrel #ornithology #OpenAccess

ACCEPTED in BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈

Icelandic whimbrel first migration: non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel than adults | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Camilo Carneiro Tómas Gunnarsson Triin Kaasiku Theunis Piersma José A. Alves | #ornithology #shorebirds #waders

Miguel Aurora #LicencedBirdRinger Global Flyway Network What Miguel said. We are travelling many miles through absolutely barren land to find just few spots wt water. Here is the rice fields of Veta la Palma.

Excited to announce the hatching 🐣 of Wader Study's latest #ornithology Project, in partnership with Movebank- the Global Wader Tracking Data Project (GWTDP)!

waderstudygroup.org/projects/globa…
globalwader.org
But - what is it?
Why do we need it?
How does it work?

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