Behavioural ecologist @Vogelwarte.bsky.social.
Studying how birds grow up, move out, and live fast—or slow—one GPS fix at a time
Associate Editor at @avocettajournal.bsky.social
Benedetta Catitti
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🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species
Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me
Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh
Winter means.. communal roosts! 🦅🐦🦜
But why do birds form such roosts? In red kites, young single males are the most frequent visitors. Once paired, birds roost more solitarily, often together as a pair.
📢 Now online: tinyurl.tools/98e9279e
@animalecology.bsky.social
@vogelwarte.bsky.social
Happy to have contributed to a new paper on the wonderful Yelkouan shearwaters, highlighting just how vulnerable this species is to human-driven threats 🌊
What a week! Huge thanks to all lecturers and participants from 19 different countries, who made our workshop on methods for analyzing animal movement (focused on Hidden Markov Models & step‑selection functions) a real success! 🐻🐦🐐🐬
New Job in software development available at @vogelwarte.bsky.social: please apply before March 22.
#python #django #typescript #javascript
🚨Trade-offs across life history stages and social association types shape winter communal roosting in a long-lived raptor
"Our study demonstrates how life-history trade-offs and pair bonds influence winter roosting in red kites"
📖Read the full paper ➡️ buff.ly/0JazKaB
Benedetta Catitti
Paul Dufour
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Benedetta Catitti
Jan von Rönn
Journal of Animal Ecology
Looking for a job at @vogelwarte.bsky.social as a full-stack developer? Please, have a look here: my.jobalino.ch/job/en/9ae61...
#software #development for #bird #monitoring #ringing & #citizenscience
How does chick-rearing affect fledging success in Yelkouan shearwaters? Proxies for diet varied between colonies, while fledglings grounded on first flight were more likely to have been poorly fed. Published in Marine Biology: doi.org/10.1007/s002... Funding by @dornitholges.bsky.social and EU LIFE
This week, we're hosting an international workshop focusing on decoding animal movement. We're happy to welcome 40 participants from all continents! #EUFLYNET @biologists.bsky.social
The Swiss Ornithological Institute in Sempach is a non-profit foundation for ornithology and bird conservation. It monitors native bird life, researches their habits, and campaigns for endangered bird...
