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Spatial patterns of local dialects of the declining Corn Bunting in three regions with different population densities and small-scale landscape features | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Anne-Laure Geboes, Tomasz S. Osiejuk, Nicolas Magain | #ornithology 🪶
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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A machine learning approach to managing game bird introductions | peerj.com/articles/2... | Biodiversity and Conservation | #ornithology 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Escape behavior and refuge selection preferences by two common urban birds | www.sciencedirect.co... | Avian Research | #ornithology 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ecological Constraints Alone Cannot Explain Delayed Dispersal in Splendid Fairywrens | doi.org/10.1093/behe... | Behavioral Ecology | #ornithology 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Best practice guidance for recreational and professional drones near colonial breeding birds | journals.plos.org/pl... | PLOS One | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Survival Remains High in Griffon Vultures 40 Years After Reintroduction | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Trapped between darkness and heat: desert birds (Argya squamiceps) initiate daily activity earlier (and terminate it later) in response to heat | royalsocietypublishi... | Proceedings of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Conscious birds | doi.org/10.1098/rstb... | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Ecovoltaic solar energy development can promote grassland bird communities | doi.org/10.1111/1365... | Journal of Applied Ecology | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Coffee berry borer control, but not coffee yield, is mediated by non-additive interaction between birds and ants across different cultivation systems | www.sciencedirect.co... | Basic and Applied Ecology | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Are the impacts of artificial light exposure at night on bird’s cognitive performances always negative? | www.sciencedirect.co... | Avian Research | #ornithology 🪶
November 19, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Our speakers at the #NaturalHistoryMuseum @nhm.org for #BOUasm25 !!
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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And finally last, but not least, thank you to the BOUasm25 team 🐦‍⬛⤵️
Angela Langford, Josh Coupar-Evans, River Stewart, Edis Juscius & AV team, Natalia Zielonka, Zach Williams, Hannah Teague, Leila Walker 🧵5/5
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Thank you to the Scientific Programme Committee for all their hard work 🦉⤵️
Ken Norris, Alex Bond, Andreanna Welch, Gavin Thomas, Catriona Morrison, Shane Dubay 🧵4/5

November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Thank you to our session Chairs who joined us today! 🐦⤵️
Andreanna Welch, Gavin Thomas, Catriona Morrison and Shane Dubay. 🧵3/5
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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That’s a wrap for #BOUasm25, but don’t go just yet! 👋

You can go back through our #BOUasm25 feed to review all the presentations and connect with our speakers. If you enjoyed someone’s presentation, please do engage with them. 🧵1/5
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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We’re now joined by Ken Norris who is closing the conference for us.

#BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Sushma Reddy brings us to a close with her keynote, and our last presentation of the day, “Using natural history collections to build community”

@sushred.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Our penultimate presentation for the day, Arianna Salili-James gives us some insight into AI with their presentation “Utilising artificial intelligence for the automatic extraction of valuable ecological data from avian record cards” 🖥️🧪

#BOUasm25 #ornithology #ai #artificialintelligence #ecology
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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We turn our focus back online, for Maggie Mwale’s presentation “Have birds' eggs become paler as the climate warms?” 🐣

#BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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We’re kicking off session 4, our final session for the day, with Claire Spottiswoode for her keynote presentation “A Zambian ornithological collection as a window into brood parasite-host coevolution”

Shane Dubay joins us as Chair for this session.
#BOUasm25 #ornithology #coevolution
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Our final speaker for session 3 is Joe Wynn bringing us “Whole-genome resequencing reveals the origin of a rapidly emerging ‘reverse’ songbird migration” 🐦🧬

@joewynnbirds.bsky.social #BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Zhifan Xu now brings us “Tracking bill morphology in endangered island-endemic crows using museum and field images” 🐦‍⬛

#BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Joining Allen Chochinov for his presentation, “Using museum specimens to uncover contemporary evolution in urban tolerant birds” 🚧

#BOUasm25 #ornithology #museums
November 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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We’re moving onto our next speaker of session 3, Heather Skeen, bringing us “Temporal dynamics of avian haemosporidians in Nearctic-Neotropical migratory birds” 🪶

#BOUasm25 #ornithology
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM