🔈 NOMINATIONS OPEN
Know someone in #ornithology deserving of recognition? Nominate them for a BOU award now! 🪶
🥇 Godman Salvin Prize
🥇 Alfred Newton Lecture
🥇 Janet Kear Union Medal
🥇 Early Professional Award
Deadline: 15 September 2026
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In a rapidly changing world, site fidelity can be a trap. In our new paper in Movement Ecology, however, we find that stopover site fidelity by Whimbrel is associated with high flexibility in their local-scale habitat use. Awesome work by Maina Handmaker & folks at South Carolina DNR! rdcu.be/fn1EE
@dunlin.bsky.social is such a deserving winner! He has been a huge force in the conservation of birds along the Pacific Coast for decades. Not to mention being a great mentor to many, many people. Congrats, Nils!!
One person's wealth equals the wealth of 46% of all living humans combined. Inequality is the largest threat to democracy: www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
#NewPaperAlert! This one has a massive author list and has been a LONG time in coming, but is SO COOL! First, check out the first figure to get you interested! Manakins! Fruit! Sexual-selection in action (displays and Z:A chromosomal diversity)! Read on for the back story & link
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We have ambitious plans to help breeding wader recovery from finding solutions to improve nest and chick survival to using tracking technology to compare breeding success in different areas.
You can help us achieve them by donating via www.bto.org/breeding... Thank you. #Ornithology
Boomer year for #ruffs at Bothnian Bay. An incredible 88 nests at our study sites hatched so far, as predation and flooding have been unusually low. #ornithology #conservation #waders
AfD-Funktionäre, BSW-Funktionäre und Holger-Friedrich-Funktionär trafen sich in der letzten Woche zu Gesprächen mit hochrangigen Vertretern des Putin-Regimes, darunter auch FSB-Mitarbeiter.
Clemens Küpper
Clemens Küpper
Nathan Senner
Nathan Senner
Alice Boyle
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
Congratulations to Drs Jeffery L Larkin & Nils Warnock for winning AOS 2026 Ralph W Schreiber Conservation Awards for conservation-related contributions to ornithology.
https://americanornithology.org/aos-announces-2026-award-winners-for-research-service-conservation-publication/
#AOSAwards
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
In den letzten 8 Tagen haben AFD- und BSW-Politiker zahlreiche ranghohe Vertreter des russischen Regimes getroffen.
Um zu verdeutlichen, welches neue Ausmaß die Einflussoperation Russlands angenommen hat, hier die Zusammenfassung aller Kontakte.
Das alles passierte in den letzten 8(!) Tagen 🧵👇
