Der neue Jahresbericht des Instituts für Vogelforschung ist da! ifv-vogelwarte.de/das-institut/p… Institute of Avian Research "Vogelwarte Helgoland"

Out now & free to read for the next 50 days: doi.org/10.1016/j.scit…, where the wonderful Justine Bertram shows how #mercury #contamination in the Banter See common terns is substantial and varies with sex, age and #phenology. #ternscience

Spread the word: we're #hiring We offer two short-term #fellowships for master's degree holders and PhD-candidates (6-12 months) to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research within one dedicated project of our CRC sfb1372.de/jobs

Arrival is very slow this year, after the colony was hit by #avianinfluenza two years in a row. As of this morning, we have 66 registered birds, vs 132 this day last year vs 337 this day in 2022. #phenology #ternscience #ornithology #H5N1

Save the Date! The Waterbird Society and PacificSeabirdGroup will meet jointly in San Jose, Costa Rica, in early 2025. Mark your calendars for January 6-9! bit.ly/4499PS3

172 registered birds is not something to gush about (so few!), so let me gush about the artistic talents of our lovely PhD student Justine by putting up this picture. Thanks so much for the stickers that will make an ugly laptop look pretty, Justine! 🥰

The first Banter See common tern egg of 2024 is a fact. The first two eggs, actually, because the fourth island had its first nest and egg as well. #phenology #ternscience #ornithology

This is the 33rd year in which we mark the eggs of the Banter See common terns according to their laying order and it seems like at least one of the birds has caught on to it. :-) #longtermstudy #seabirds #ornithology #fieldwork #ternscience

In other lovely news: the first chick of 2024 hatched yesterday. We're hopeful for a big baby-boom to make up for the #HPAI induced losses of the last two years. #longtermstudy #seabirds #ornithology #fieldwork #ternscience

And as a last update for today: 317 birds have now been registered by our antenna system, compared to 401 and 860 on the same day in 2022 and 2023, respectively. So it looks like #avianinfluenza has taken out 63% of birds. #HPAI #H5N1 #ternscience #seabirds #ornithology

Across 6 years, we marked common tern family members to study their provisioning behaviour & energy acquisition. The resulting paper, showing that both parents and offspring vary in quality, reflected in their feeding rate, is out now in Animal Behaviour: doi.org/10.1016/j.anbe…

⭐️JOB ALERT⭐️ We are looking for a migration ecologist to strengthen our #birdmigration tracking team Vogelwarte_Science Apply by 20 Sep my.jobalino.ch/de/jobpreview/…

New postdoc opening with SEATRACK project in #seabird & #spatial #ecology. Don't hesitate to apply if interested or share to potential candidates More info here: jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Do you know which bird I tried to draw here? If you do, apply for one of the postdoc positions we are offering... and if you don't, perhaps apply for the other one! We are looking for life history/theory-ecoevo expertise in birds and "in general". evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

What happens when terns & quail meet life history theory? If that sounds like an intriguing question, have a look at Hanna Kokko's advert for a 3-yr postdoc position - deadline for application 15/10/2024: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldir/…

Very happy to have passed my viva on Thursday!! Thanks so much to Sandra Common Tern Project and Tim Prof Tim Coulson for assessing me, as well as the immeasurable support & guidance from Ben Sheldon Ella Cole Josh Firth and the whole group Wytham Tit Study EGI_Oxford over the years🌳