Advancing the conservation and understanding of animals throughout their cycle by promoting science of #MigConnectivity
Migratory Connectivity Project
Joined August 2012
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📢 #WorldMigratoryBirdDay will be celebrated around the world on 10 May 2025!
Read the statement received from Dr. Musonda Mumba, Secretary General of the Convention on Wetlands, to mark #WMBD2025
➡️ youtube.com/watch?v=AJeXFquR…
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NEW PAPER in #ornithology models the future population trajectory of #seabirds in #Europe under #climate change and avian flu: buff.ly/4a9FiGt
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Excited to share a new vision to standardize and preserve #biologging #biodiversity #data! rdcu.be/d5ril
Together with @biologging @BirdLifeMarine @duke_mgel #euromammals #wram @usioosgov @INBOVlaanderen @BirdsCanada @OceanTracking @atlaslivingaust @IMOS_AUS and more
ALT Map of studies from 8 community bio-logging data platforms. Most are at risk of becoming inaccessible in coming years.
Our December issue is now live! nature.com/natecolevol/volum…
Feat. research on plant responses to climate change, obstetric selection, aDNA of Tibetan Plateau populations, and a Perspective on tracking progress on the KMGBF
Cover image from Hoffman et al. nature.com/articles/s41559-0…
ALT Cover image of the December issue of Nature Ecology and Evolution, showing a male northern elephant seal bellowing
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Explore the Midcontinent Flyway StoryMap to follow the epic migration of a female Black-bellied Plover while tuning in to the music and sounds she might encounter along the way–
English: arcg.is/f9af4
Spanish: arcg.is/ev8vm0
Portuguese: arcg.is/j9KS4
ALT A female Black-bellied Plover flying over water.
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DeSimone and Cohen of UMCES Appalachian Lab published paper in PNAS today showing consistent social relationships among songbird species during migration. Study could usher in a new field of research -- the community ecology of migration -- check it out! umces.edu/news/migratory-bir…
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Check out the impact of opting to #DrinkBirdFriendly in real time! This Summer Tanager was tagged by the Bird Friendly team on a coffee farm in Colombia in February and was just spotted earlier this month by a birder at Taylorsville Lake State Park in Kentucky! (1/2)
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Does conservation work? Our paper by @rewild shows that it does: a global analysis of 665 trials (incl. several by @RSPBScience) found that conservation improved the state of biodiversity or slowed declines in two-thirds of cases @BirdLife_Sci science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Tracked migratory birds are documenting their own deaths along the African-Eurasian flyway.
Energy infrastructure, illegal killing & poisoning to blame, outstripping natural mortality causes in tracked raptors, storks & cranes. #Ornithology
doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.202…
ALT Graphical abstract showing 2 figures from the paper
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Reposition of #sample #metadata has the potential to boost scientific impact across #biology disciplines.
Right now @Nature: nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Our initiative was first introduced in @IBIS_jounal along with the @AviSampleNet metadata repository. #ornithology
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🦈 We have two exciting job opportunities available @TheSimsLab to work on #shark biologging movements, behaviour & distributions under #ClimateChange as part of the OCEAN DEOXYFISH project:
🌊 Project Technical Officer
🔬 Postdoctoral Research Scientist
buff.ly/44FsDse
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The biggest hummingbird in the world is a new species.
Now out in @PNASNews and 8 years in the making, here's how we figured it out with mini tracking devices, genomics, and a century and a half of museum specimens.👇
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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The power of collaboration - check out this new paper which describes the inshore and offshore marine migration pathways of Atlantic salmon post-smolts from multiple rivers in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland, and Ireland doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15760
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Spring migration is heating up across the country!
3-Day BirdCast Predictions:
🌒Tonight (4/29) - 361 million birds
🌒Tomorrow (4/30) - 337 million birds
🌒Wednesday (5/1) - 401 million birds
#MigrationMonday #LightsOutforBirds #MigratoryBirds
🗺️@CornellLab @ColoradoStateU
ALT BirdCast forecast for night of April 29, 2024: 361 million birds predicted
ALT BirdCast forecast for night of April 30, 2024: 337 million birds predicted
ALT BirdCast forecast for night of May 1, 2024: 401 million birds predicted
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New paper in @PNASNews by Ellen Robertson!
Using #eBird data we show that most migrating #Birds track average (not current) #Plant green-up conditions, leading to decoupling of spring #Migration from earlier spring green-up caused by #ClimateChange
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Good news animals: all that teenage dare-devilry pays off...at least in migration.
Adolescent exploration helps storks to learn straighter + shorter migration routes✈️
Paper @PNASNews by Ellen Aikens @UWyonews @anflack and the team @CBehav @UniKonstanz 1/2
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Welcome back, #BirdCast! 🤩 We are so excited for another season of spring #BirdMigration! Already 23 MILLION #MigratoryBirds are predicted to travel across the continental U.S. this evening. Don't forget to #DimtheLights for birds at night 🗺️ @CornellBirds & @ColoradoStateU
ALT BirdCast map forecasting 23 million birds predicted to migrate across the continental U.S. on the night of March 4, 2024.
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Michael Brooke & @tommyturtleclay reveal spectacular 55,000 km migrations for tiny Stejneger’s Petrels & explain how this was managed with COVID-19 restrictions: seabirdtracking.org/spectacu…
@Mar_Biology paper: rb.gy/xqlavn
ALT Map of migration from island west of Chile to ocean east of Japan, and photo of Stejneger's petrel, a small grey and white bird.
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Check out this movement modeling competition for #animaltracking from @BES_Move_SIG!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉
Let's kickstart the year by announcing our new competition #MoveModel2024!
Using an aldabra giant tortoise dataset, showcase your skills by taking part in 4 challenges:
1. Points of interest
2. Behaviors
3. Model
4. Prediction
➡️wordpress.com/post/besmovesi…
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Springing forward: Migrating songbirds catch up with the start of spring in North America
doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14…
@cenemes
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Studying migratory connectivity? We have an R package for that, MigConnectivity, and it's now available on CRAN! Why not download and check it out today? @MTHallworth @clarkrushing @MigConnectivity