Matteo Beccardi
banner
matteobeccardi.bsky.social
Matteo Beccardi
@matteobeccardi.bsky.social
PhD student at @ifv-whv.bsky.social
Evolutionary Ecology | Behavioural Ecology & Ecophysiology | Animal Behaviour | Ornithology
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matteo-Beccardi
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
A great seminar from @mmoiron.bsky.social walking us through how to disentangle the causes of similarity among partners & the estimation & implications of indirect effects in natural populations
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
This week's EGI seminar is being given by Dr Maria Moiron @mmoiron.bsky.social of the University of Bielefeld at 3.30pm on Friday 21 Nov in LT1 in the Life & Mind Building @biology.ox.ac.uk. See below for online joining details - all welcome!
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Are you interested in PFAS and OCPs contamination in birds? In our latest publication, we studied the levels of these contaminants in Great tit eggs from areas with different anthropogenic pressures.

Read the paper here for more details👇
doi.org/10.1007/s113...
Evaluation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and organochlorine pesticides in great tit eggs from areas with different anthropogenic pressures in Padova, Italy - Environmental Science and Polluti...
This study investigates the contamination of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) in eggs of great tits (Parus major) from urban, agricultural, and woodland ...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Premio Matteo Griggio per tesi di dottorato di ambito ornitologico.
www.istitutoveneto.it/premio-matte...
Scadenza: 20 febbraio 2026

Per concorrere al Premio, bisogna aver conseguito un dottorato presso un'università italiana tra il 1° gennaio 2023 e il 31 dicembre 2025.
Premio Matteo Griggio | Istituto Veneto
Con i fondi messi a disposizione dai famigliari di Matteo Griggio e, attraverso una sottoscrizione promossa dalla Società Italiana di Etologia, da amici e colleghi, l'Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lette...
www.istitutoveneto.it
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...
October 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
When we hypothesised female terns to have lower mercury levels than males due to egg laying, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social et al designed an elegant experiment to prove the effectiveness of this pathway. That proof just got published & the open access paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Out now in Environmental Pollution: 'Experimental evidence for maternal offloading of mercury pollution via reproduction'
By @matteobeccardi.bsky.social, @commonternproject.bsky.social, @pablosalmon.bsky.social, @icbm-uol.bsky.social & @oscarvedder.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127121
September 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I'm happy to share with you our new paper out now in Environmental Pollution!
Here, we experimentally studied the maternal offloading of mercury pollution via reproduction in an avian model species.

Read the paper here for more details👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
September 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
#Birds and #ClimateChange
⚠️ spoiler alert ⚠️

Check out my #EOU2025 #poster in advance about #AlpineSwifts and Extreme Temperatures...

Interested? Come chat at the poster session Wednesday afternoon!
link: osf.io/cfe46

@eounion.bsky.social #ornithology
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
So much cool avian vagrancy research presented and discussed at our #EOU2025 symposium today. Thanks to everyone who presented and attended @pauldufour80.bsky.social
@joewynnbirds.bsky.social
#Ornithology
August 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
#EOU2025 delegates birding at the beautiful South Stack nature reserve
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
#EOU2025 at the start with a plenary by Tim Birkhead!
Fascinating talk about long term studies of seabirds in Wales!
August 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Out now in Environmental Research – Anna’s new paper in which she assesses the levels of 118 contaminants in unhatched eggs and dead chicks found in the last and endangered population of gull-billed terns in Central Europe, breeding at Neufelderkoog: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
August 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Ooooh, one of our beautiful terns made it to the cover of the issue of Ethology that contains Melina's study on individual behavioral responses to novel stimuli: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Are you interested in the effects of mercury contamination on seabirds?
Check out the latest @commonternproject.bsky.social paper pubblished in Environmental Research!👇

"Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird – parental effects and links with growth and survival".
doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
July 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
New publication by @commonternproject.bsky.social with @coralinebcht.bsky.social, @mmoiron.bsky.social, @matteobeccardi.bsky.social & @icbm-uol.bsky.social: 'Mercury levels in chicks of a long-lived seabird – parental effects and links with growth and survival'. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
July 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
And here it is - Justine's last thesis chapter got accepted too and can now be read as an open access paper in Environmental Research: doi.org/10.1016/j.en...
July 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Cute findings for a hot Wednesday morning.
July 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Hatching is hard work. ❤️
June 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Arrival was earlier, but it does not look like we are going to end up with many more birds this year than last. I guess the 'silent reservoir' was used up, such that we now wait for new recruits from last year's cohort to start making up for the severe losses HPAI induced in 2022 and 2023.
June 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Three weeks ago, the little one on the picture on the left was found cold and almost dead. But yesterday, it was the first chick from 'island A' to get its transponder. Happy fledging, little survivor. May you recruit to produce many little survivors yourself. ❤️
June 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
The facial expression of a parent with teenagers. I can relate. 😂
June 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Reposted by Matteo Beccardi
Weekend loveliness: retrapping a gull-billed tern carrying a GPS and getting to know a few of the newest colony members.
June 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM