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#ornithology #raptors #owls #urbanecology

Many thanks to everyone at #BOU2024 for recommending my poster! It was a great conference with great people and full of inspiring talks!

Had a great time at #BOU2024 learning all about the amazing research happening on urban birds. A big thanks to the BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 organizing committee for putting on an excellent conference! I'm honoured to receive this certificate for my talk! Glad it was enjoyed!

A truly urban brownfield site situated 5 kms south of Burgas, Bulgaria’s largest port. 2 #BOU2024 #Break1

6 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 Disappearing species are usually those which declined at national scale too. (Ilustrations by Jan Hošek).

A marshland reserve with freshwater lakes to the West and the Black Sea to the East. 3 #BOU2024 #Break1 #ornithology

3 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 That could happen in 2023, when we published a new book. Thanks to V. Wahl we could compare birds & habitats in Prague in 1930/1940s and 2010/2020s. We also provide access to forgotten findings by V. Wahl and his tragic life story.

1 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 Here I present a story of birds in Prague & a brave man: in 1944, a book Birds of Prague described a state of birds in the city. Main habitats were described, comments on urbanisation of birds and recommendations to nature conservation were provided too.

2 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 The author, Veleslav Wahl (22), was excellent ornithologist, active in anti-nazi resistance, later also in the anti-communist resistance. He was executed by the communist regime in 1950. In his last will he wished the book is updated and published again.

4 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 Number of species recorded in the city increased from 182 to 248. The increase in waterbirds is the most obvious, most likely due to absence of ice cover in recent winters, more water bodies & perhaps their better management.

5 #BOU2024 #BREAK1 Species colonising the city since 1930/1940s include those increasing at national scale or some waterbirds. Species with large body size are often among those appearing in the city as newcomers. (Ilustrations by Jan Hošek).

At the narrow point of the VIA PONTICA flyway, important for raptors, Pelicans, Storks, waders and passerines both breeding and migratory 4 #BOU2024 #Break1 #ornithology

Proactive visitor engagement alongside the use of static telescopes enhance the visitor experience. 6 #BOU2024 #Break1 #ornithology

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We often discuss the impact of anthropogenic food on birds, but what is the impact of bird feeding on people? Notions like the extinction of experience and pigeon paradox suggest we need to reconnect to nature, especially children growing up in cities

1/6 #BOU2024 #BREAK2 #Anthropogenic #noise affects the vocalisations of many species, with recent meta-analyses finding an increase in the amplitude and minimum frequency of calls to be the most common changes. But how does noise affect the carols of Western Australian #magpies ?

PODA bird reserve is one of only 2 bird reserves in the nature rich country of Bulgaria administered by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds. 1 #BOU2024 #Break1 #ornithology #birds #birding

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Hi everyone!

I'm Chi-Heng Hsieh, a graduate student from National Taiwan University, and also a member of the Raptor Research Group of Taiwan. We initiated bird-window collision study in Taiwan roughly 4 years ago. Follow this thread to know more! 🪟🐦

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Today I’m presenting part of my PhD research at the #BOU2024 ! 🐦Join me in the following thread as I’m looking into infectious hotspots and prevalence rates in the urban landscape.
#DiseaseEcology #UrbanEcology

Majority of visitors are new to viewing birds reinforcing the importance of PODA as an avian engagement tool. 5 #BOU2024 #Break1 #ornithology jstor.org/stable/2679691…

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Finally, species colliding sort by rank. Subtropical Asian islands showed distinctively different patterns. (1) Non-passerine as super-colliders, e.g. barbets and goshawks. (2) Cryptic species collide along the flyway, e.g. Rubby kingfisher. 🪟🦅⁉️