Registration and abstract submission for #Ecology2026 are open! 🌿🐛🐦
Join the 10th Conference of the Czech Society for Ecology in Prague (9–11 Sept 2026)
Early-bird registration & abstract: 15 June
More info: www.cspe.cz/konference/e...
@ceskaekologie.bsky.social #Ecology #Ecologyconference
#birdmigration #ornithology
#ornithology #broodparasitism
New story on the Avian Hybrids blog!
Why don’t Common Cuckoo host races turn into separate species?
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/w...
Based on the Science paper by Justin Merondun et al. | #ornithology
New in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biol Lett:
🐦 Thrush nightingales migrate at night and stay completely inactive during the day while crossing ecological barriers
🔗 doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
👏 @pablomaciastorres.bsky.social @hedenstrom.bsky.social
#ornithology #birdmigration #animalbehavior
New paper in Animal Behaviour:
After centuries of debate, we finally have direct evidence that common cuckoos use different egg-laying tactics 🥚
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
Check the appendix videos!
#ornithology #broodparasitism #cuckoo
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@ivb-cas.bsky.social
How to force a @nature.com retraction and get zero credit for it. A short thread on "invisible correctors" and bibliographic erasure in top-tier journals. 🧵
Read the full behind-the-scenes story at @retractionwatch.com below.
Our preprint: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
#OpenScience #ZebraFinch
We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social
Seeking a motivated postdoc (2+3 yrs) to study links between cognition, behavior, and fitness in lemurs at our long-term field site in Kirindy Forest, Madagascar. Join an interdisciplinary team working on wild populations. @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Apply here: www.dpz.eu
Our (Jenny Dunn, Carolina Chagas, @willjsmith.bsky.social) paper on the evolution of island Wrens is finally out @evojlinnsoc.bsky.social! We describe the evolution of island gigantism in the St Kilda and Shetland subspecies.
academic.oup.com/evolinnean/a...
The genetic basis of egg coloration provides insights into speciation dynamics.
A zebra finch in New South Wales, Australia. Source: JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Researchers who flagged methodological issues in a paper on birdsong a year and a half before Natur…
Cool new preprint led by Martins Briedis: Eurasian wrynecks from Germany use very different migration strategies (from S Europe to sub-Saharan Africa). Multi-sensor logger data show long migration trips are costly, but warming winters may soon favor staying in S Europe doi.org/10.64898/202...
Our new study shows that CONSPECIFIC BROOD PARASITISM is extremely rare in BARN SWALLOWS. We revealed mixed maternity in only six of almost 2000 broods. This strikingly contradicts previous studies that demonstrated parasitism based on unusual egg-laying patterns.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP) has been reported in more than 100 altricial avian species, yet its frequency and underlying behavioural processes remain poorly understood. We studied CBP in the ba...
