Hard work now for many ornithologists right now....It's fieldwork time!!!

But imagine if your species could breed for 15 months in a row...😱😱😱🤯🤯🤯
We describe the crazy breeding phenology of Sociable Weavers in our new Ostrich Journal of African Ornithology paper
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For the past 5 years, 1st May has been where I've moved up to SCENE for 2 months to manage and do fieldwork with Glasgow Urban Ecology Group. This year is a bit different, I'm moving to UWS to start as a Lecturer in Animal Behaviour. I'm excited for this new adventure!

We (Global South) complained about lack of access to papers. Then, we were provided with an amazing solution. With OA, we can read any papers from rich-countries, we just cannot publish ours anymore.
We are now allowed at the meeting, as long as we don't talk. Higly inclusive!

So pleased to be invited to the annual @RoyalSocBio Accreditation conference and Awards Ceremony. So many good areas of practice to think about! Laura C McCaughey UofG_SBOHVM Well done to Maja Jorgensen on her Top Project Award too!

We are delighted to welcome Prof Harrod Chris Harrod who will be our new Director at our field station SCENE
Chris gave a fascinating talk and is clearly enthusiastic & passionate about his role and collaborating with others -watch this space!
#SBOHVMResearch #SBOHVMAwayDay

what has nature ever done for us ?!

#stableisotope study led by Olivia Bell with National Environmental Isotope Facility funding shows smaller dietary niche breadth of Tasmanian devils and sympatric spotted-tailed quolls with increasing human-modified habitat, but no effects with DFTD-related devil declines. doi.org/10.1007/s00442…

Congratulations to UofG_SBOHVM #SofieSpatharis on award of a UKRI grant as part of the BBSRC Sustainable Aquaculture Partnerships for Innovation programme in an important research area: 'Biofouling prediction in seaweed aquaculture'. Well done!!

Beyond thrilled to share the new Urban Wildlife Information Network paper out today in PNASNews where we show that gentrification drives patterns of wildlife diversity in cities. #urbanecology #cameratrapping #mammals 🧵1/14
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

#BOU2024 - #SESH2 - 6/ 🧵

Huge thanks to University of Glasgow & Wild Animal Initiative for funding; and to a wide network of collaborators that contributed to the project at different stages Davide M Dominoni Claire Branston Mark Pitt paul baker
Xav Harrison Alice Risely Pablo Salmón and many more.

University of Glasgow Wild Animal Initiative Davide M Dominoni Claire Branston Mark Pitt paul baker Xav Harrison Alice Risely Pablo Salmón #BOU2024 - #SESH2 - 7/ 🧵

This work was done within the Glasgow Urban Ecology Group group University of Glasgow led by Davide M Dominoni. A fantastic place, a fantastic group of people and a fantastic mentor to guide me through the uncertainties of postdoctoral life.

Expansion of settlements and agriculture in #desert habitats may initially seem to provide an oasis of resources in an otherwise stark environment
Certified Bird Lover shows that for the #ArabianBabbler , the reality is just the opposite
Uri Roll Behavioral Ecology
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5/ #BOU2024 would not be possible without the fantastic Scientific Committee who put this amazing programme together

Thank you Christine Howard Davide M Dominoni Caroline Isaksson and Kate Plummer 👏

And last but not least: Giuseppe Orlando 🦉 closes the #BOU2024 urban birds conference with a cracking talk on tawny owls.

The one and only Claire Branston presenting her first results from our gradient system in Glasgow. Great talk!

The amazing Pablo Capilla-Lasheras kicking off the gut microbiome session at the #BOU2024 urban birds conference! First of several contributions to come from our group Glasgow Urban Ecology Group

FREE CONFERENCE in #ornithology to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Vogelwarte_Science on 21/22 JUNE 2024 in #Switzerland : buff.ly/3vGmNtK

Come join us in beautiful Sempach to celebrate 100 years of bird science! Free conference! Pls share. vogelwarte.ch/en/100-years/c…

The Canidae family has 4 clades: the fox-like, the wolf-like, the South American, & a basal clade w/ the grey+island foxes. Lycaon pictus (Painted Wild Dog) is in the wolf-like clade together w/ the Ethiopian wolf, the coyote & the domestic dog. #2024MMM nature.com/articles/natur…

BOOM, #BirdTwitter ! Flashy new family tree of #birds just landed in nature: doi.org/10.1038/s41586…. From B10K, led by Josefin Stiller, using nearly 1 BILLION ACT&Gs, we improve age estimates vastly & introduce cool new clade #Elementaves . 🧵

#ornithology #phylogenomics