A special thank you to everyone who contributed to this project!
@ifv-whv.bsky.social @commonternproject.bsky.social @cyanistesnord.bsky.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social @pablosalmon.bsky.social
Excited to share our new paper out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social!
Here, we investigated how sex and age shape mitochondrial function under natural conditions in a long-lived seabird, the Common tern.
Read the paper here for more information👇
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.
“Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife”. Out now, and open access, in Biological Reviews: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
✨ Editorial: a summary and synopsis of the studies included in the special issue on migration physiology written by the editorial team @pablosalmon.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social #TiiaKärkkäinen
➡️ vist.ly/4ucex
#ornithology #birds #migration #physiology
🔈Really happy to see this one ⬇️ out! 🎉
Great to see this compilation of studies finally published. Thanks to all the authors, reviewers and the team @avianbiology.bsky.social who made this possible!
Editorial: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
#Ornithology #Physiology #Migration
The observation huts and rat protection are up. It's beginning to look a lot like the breeding season of 2026. Thanks to yet another dreamteam this season!❤️
Bugging is underway, and we are missing @matteobeccardi.bsky.social who spent two seasons supplementing the team to collect data on sex- and age-specific mitochondrial functioning in the terns. His paper on this just came out in @jexpbiol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
The 2-year-olds have started to arrive en masse and, with 83, now make up 18% of the registered birds at the colony. At 470 of those, we are exactly 70 above the number we had this time last year. Food is looking good too, and the chicks are growing nicely. ❤️
Proud to present: Suitcase Science, a new outreach format containing 6 assignments to take on a journey to schools in the region, to teach kids about terns, how to study them, their fascinating behaviour and some of the things that threaten them. Wanna book us? Drop me a line. :-)
Summary: Age and sex influence mitochondrial function in a long-lived seabird, offering insights into ageing and individual differences in performance.
