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Open access outlet for innovative, hypothesis-driven research on the biology of birds, with a particular emphasis on ecological, evolutionary and behavioural studies. Nordic Society Oikos journal advocating fair, openly accessible and reproducible research
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Journal of Avian Biology @avianbiology.bsky.social · Jul 4
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

We are happy to announce the third JAB Review Award competition!

Submit your mini-review by 30 April 2026

Who: early career researchers up to 8 yrs after completition of doctorate

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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Special issue:
FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY

More info: vist.ly/4ivd5

Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn

#ornithology #birds 🪶🧪
Flyer for special issue on passive acoustic monitoring
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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NEW PAPER: Tracking shows that Kazakh great reed warblers winter in East Africa like western populations, but reach breeding grounds via a novel two-step spring migration with a prolonged stopover in Iraq, indicating major route reprogramming

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#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
Great reed warbler. Photo: Wikimedia commons (Hobbyfotowiki). Fig. 2 from the article: Inferred migration routes, stopover and wintering sites of great reed warblers tagged in SE Kazakhstan (black square) with light-level geolocators. Fig. 4 from the article: Dark red lines depicting average autumn migration routes connecting breeding and wintering sites of five great reed warbler populations in Europe and the Middle East as well as from our study site in Kazakhstan. Each route is drawn from the average location per month during July–December (excluding October because of equinox issues) and hence does not illustrate stopovers, but average population movements. Circles show the frequencies of ‘Western' (light grey) and ‘Eastern' (black) mitochondrial haplotype clades in the populations.
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to @tashgillies.bsky.social and @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social, the runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award! 🏆

Runner-up article: vist.ly/4ir7q

#ornithology #birds #award # review #samesexpartnerships #evolution
The runner-ups of the 2025 JAB review award: Natasha Gillies and Katrina Siddiqi-Davies.
December 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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🎉 Congratulations to @pcapi.bsky.social and @alice-risely.bsky.social, the winners of the 2025 JAB review award for the best mini-review by early career researchers! 🏆

Winning article: vist.ly/4iq5m

#ornithology #birds #award #review #microbiome #migration
The winners of the 2025 JAB Review award: Pablo Capilla-Lasheras and Alice Risely. Their mini review on 'migratory microbiomes' got the best scores of all accepted mini reviews.
December 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Come and talk to us at #BES2025! Get some swag, learn about JAB and our other journals, and about the Nordic Society Oikos!
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We are ready for you in the exhibitor’s hall at the #BES2025! Publishing chat, Christmas spirit, free swag and friendly faces await you! @avianbiology.bsky.social @nordicjbotany.bsky.social @wildlifebiology.bsky.social @oikosjournal.bsky.social @ecography.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Get the most out of your conference visit! Meet us at the #BES2025 to:
- Ask about publishing
- Ask which of our journals fits your manuscript
- Find out the benefits of becoming an NSO member
- Join our workshop How to get published
- Just chat with us and get to know us!
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December 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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New research in @avianbiology.bsky.social:
"No detectable deployment impacts of solar-powered GPS devices for long-term use on a small shorebird"

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#Shorebird #Wader #GPS #Reproduction
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No detectable deployment impacts of solar‐powered GPS devices for long‐term use on a small shorebird
Portable devices, or biologgers, attached to animals are designed to record data on unobservable aspects of animal behaviour, physiology and ecology. However, wearing such devices is expected to be c...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Attending the #BES2025 annual meeting in Edinburgh next week? Come join our workshop on "How to get published", together with the @britishecologicalsociety.org and the @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social . Or why not stop by our exhibitor's table for a chat and some free swag?
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/4hgkh

Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue on avian senescence in Journal of Avian Biology. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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NEW MINI-REVIEW: examining how non-breeding ecology and migration shape reproductive isolation and population structure, synthesizing recent findings on song variation, habitat effects, migration shifts, and hybrid fitness.

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#ornithology #birds #speciation #moult 🪶
Fig. 1 from the article: Three potential processes resulting in two species with different nonbreeding strategies: (A) nonbreeding adaptive divergence arises after complete reproductive isolation. (B) Diverging lineages evolve nonbreeding divergence during a period of allopatry. Scenario (C) is a proposed model of sympatric speciation via the evolution of novel nonbreeding strategies. Alternatively, in scenario (D), divergence in nonbreeding strategies arises but does not precipitate reproductive isolation.
December 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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NEW PAPER: how bird diets and gut microbiomes shape each other: synthesizing how diet drives microbiome shifts, how microbes may steer diet choices, and outlining key questions and methods for studying diet–microbiome links.

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#ornithology #birds 🪶
Fig. 1 from the article: Hypothesized bidirectional pathways connecting the gut microbiome and diet in wild birds. Fig. 2 from the article: Proposed methodology of DNA extraction, PCR, and amplicon sequencing to characterize aspects of avian diet and gut microbiome from the same fecal sample. Researchers can also use the same DNA extract for microbial metagenomics, and they can perform an RNA extraction on the same fecal sample for transcriptomics analysis.
November 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🌺🥤Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant–pollinator networks

📷 © Stéphane Aubert

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#Hummingbird #NectarRobbing #Pollination #TraitMatching

November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Species-observer link and kernel density estimation of background points allow for sampling bias correction in bird species distribution models vist.ly/4gc4n #Birds #SDM #SamplingBias
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Join us at the Nordic OIKOS–GfÖ Conference 2026!
📅 14–17 Sept 2026 | 📍 Odense, Denmark
Open call for workshops & thematic sessions!
Deadlines:
Thematic sessions: 16 Jan 2026
Workshops: 17 Apr 2026

👉 Details & submission: vist.ly/4fvnx
#Ecology #NSO202 #gfoe2026 #Science @gfoesoc.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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NEW PAPER: In Medellín, Colombia, human activities and urban infrastructure strongly reduced bird richness and abundance, especially for low- and moderate-abundance species, while diverse vegetation and lower fragmentation supported higher diversity.

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#ornithology #birds 🪶
Black-billed thrush. Photo: Félix Uribe, Wikimedia commons Fig. 2 from the article: Rank-abundance plot of Medellín's bird assemblage, differentiating highly-, moderately-, and lowly-abundant species.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS - NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 30 JUNE 2026📣

Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives

More info: vist.ly/4fn5i

Guest editors: @jj255.bsky.social #RoxanaTorres, @brittheidinger.bsky.social @jaime-muriel.bsky.social @toblermichi.bsky.social

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Avian senescence: patterns, mechanisms and new perspectives. Photo showing zebra finches of different ages. Photo: Paul Jerem & Glasgow University, courtesy of Pat Monaghan
November 23, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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NEW PAPER: Post-arrival and pre-migratory Hudsonian godwits showed similar baseline immunity, but pre-migratory birds displayed higher agglutination and bacterial killing, indicating immune upregulation before long-distance migration.

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#ornithology #birds #migration 🪶
Hudsonian godwit. Photo: Jose Valdebenito Fig. 1 from the article: Body condition (a) and constitutive immune function (b)–(d) in post-arrival and pre-migratory Hudsonian godwits Limosa haemastica (n = 74) sampled within their non-breeding season in Chiloé.
November 22, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The interacting effects of climate and land-cover change on bird communities in the United States vist.ly/4fgg9 #Birds #Biodiversity #ClimateChange
November 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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IN-DEPTH: Read the blogpost by Nicolás Ron Arroyo about how yellow-legged gulls facilitate establishment of other breeding birds in their colony area.

➡️ vist.ly/4f664

#ornithology #birds #urbanisation #colonisation 🪶
GULLS PROMOTE MULTI-SPECIES COLONIES AS THEY LEAVE FORMER REFUGES | Journal of Avian Biology
GULLS PROMOTE MULTI-SPECIES COLONIES AS THEY LEAVE FORMER REFUGES | Journal of Avian Biology
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November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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NEW PAPER: Introduced house sparrows showed more numerous, larger, and more variable DNA-methylation changes after simulated infection than native birds, suggesting distinct epigenetic responses that may aid introduction success.

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#ornithology #birds #plasticity #stress 🪶
Fig. 1 from the article: introduced house sparrows had more sites with significant change in DNA methylation and a larger magnitude of change in DNA methylation between 0- and 8-h after lipopolysaccharide injection.
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🐦🌊When species are lost but functions persist: a trait-based perspective on Wadden Sea bird diversity dynamics

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#BiodiversityLags #ColonisationExtinctionImbalance #DiffusionMaps #ExtinctionDebt #LongtermMonitoring #WaddenSea

November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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NEW PAPER: how does urban noise, lights, and stress disrupt birds’ sleep? This review shows that our knowledge about this is fragmeneted and calls for direct tests linking disturbed sleep to bird behavior, fitness, and survival.

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#ornithology #birds #urbanecology 🪶
Fig. 1 from the article: A representation of the state of research on the impacts of sleep disturbance on birds. The size of the arrows represents the relative abundance of studies between the connected concepts. Blue arrows indicate that data are available, with thicker arrows indicating a greater amount of data. The grey dotted line represents a relative lack of empirical data.
November 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Using programmable infusion pump in avian species – a validation methodology in geese vist.ly/4dmhy #Geese #Stress
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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NEW PAPER: comparing two DNA methylation methods for building epigenetic clocks in chestnut-crowned babblers. Whole-genome enzymatic methyl sequencing yielded highly accurate age estimates, outperforming fragment-based approaches (epiRADseq).

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#ornithology #birds #aging 🪶
Chestnut-crowned babbler. Photo: JJ Harrison, Wikimedia commons. Fig. 1 from the article: Epigenetic (predicted) versus chronological (known) age in the train (A) and test (B) datasets using WGEM-seq data as input using a 10-fold CV. The solid line shows the regression line. The dashed line indicates a perfect correlation (r = 1) between epigenetic and chronological age. Fig. 2 from the article: Epigenetic (predicted) versus chronological (known) age in the train (A) and test (B) datasets using epiRADseq data as input using a 10-fold CV.
November 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India

📷 © Sankar Subramanian

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#Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor

October 31, 2025 at 6:06 PM