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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 1d

Gannets go through quite the plumage change, being primarily black as juveniles and white as adults!

Have a scroll through this thread to see how their plumage changes on the way to adulthood! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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Laura Kelley @lauraakelley.bsky.social · 7d

One of the risks of bowerbirds sharing space with a university - sometimes scientific equipment (and samples) get pinched! Soy sauce containers also seem to be popular

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ASAB @asab.org · 16d

Our autumn newsletter is OUT! 🍁 🍃 🍂

Don’t forget to sign up at asab.org to have it sent directly to your inbox tri-annually 💌

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ASAB Autumn Newsletter 2025

We’ve got updates from the exciting summer conference in Kolkata, call for nominations for the Christopher Barnard award & ASAB Medal 2026, news from the ASAB Grants & Education Committees and the Animal Behaviour Journal. And if that wasn’t enough there’s also a ‘Meet ASAB’ piece on our former Meetings Secretary: Joah Madden. You can also find infomation on our upcoming confrences!!

www.asab.org

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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 16d

#ISBE2026 Call for Abstracts is now open! Submit your abstract by 15 December 2025 on www.isbe2026.com

@behavecol.bsky.social

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Thomas MacGillavry @thomasmacgillavry.bsky.social · 16d

Victoria’s riflebirds are masters of time, accelerating their dance tempo by reducing the durations between movements by just 50 milliseconds, before leveling off at 3 alternations per second and flashing their yellow mouth.

Read more about this spectacular dance here:
www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Paritosh Ahmed @paritosh97.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations! Great work!!!!

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Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · Sep 11

New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Paritosh Ahmed @paritosh97.bsky.social · Sep 10

Thank you so much Friend🤩

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Paritosh Ahmed @paritosh97.bsky.social · Sep 10

Just wrapped up one of the biggest chapters of my life—successfully defended my PhD! 🎓✨
Years of fieldwork, writing, and countless late nights have finally come together. Feeling grateful, relieved, and excited for what’s next. 🌿🪶 #PhDDefense #NewBeginnings #BehaviouralEcology

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Extinct-In-The-Wild Bird Species Is Breeding On A New Island Home

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Extinction #conservation🌏 #birds🦉 #ornithology🪶 #rewilding #Guam🇬🇺 #Zoology medium.com/grrlscientis...

Extinct-In-The-Wild Bird Species Is Breeding On A New Island Home

The Guam kingfisher was extinct in the wild for almost 40 years but this species was recently released into the wild where it is now…

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sound on 🔊 Over the last few months our team released 56 headstarted Curlew in Norfolk! 🙌 The birds are already visiting the coastlines and moving around nicely.

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ASAB @asab.org · Aug 30

And just like that, #Behaviour2025 is finished! Huge thanks to the organizers and everyone who made this happen!

Raghavendra Gadagkar welcomes people to the closing ceremony

Sumana Annagiri delivers the vote of thanks

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Paritosh Ahmed @paritosh97.bsky.social · Aug 30

Super talk! 💯

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Paritosh Ahmed @paritosh97.bsky.social · Aug 29

Excited to share that I presented at the Behaviour 2025 Conference in Kolkata 🎓🕊️. My talk focused on nest site fidelity in painted storks, i.e. their tendency to return to and reuse nesting sites across seasons.
#Behaviour2025 #Ornithology #PaintedStork #BehaviouralEcology

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