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Awarded to David Lindenmeyer at last week's #BOUasm26

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We‘re now moving onto the workshop session. #BOUasm26

Bringing session 4 to a close is Beckie George‘s „Integrating climate risk into spatial planning for climate change-resilient bird conservation“ #BOUasm26 #ornithology

Now joining us online is Radhika Jha with her talk „Global habitat suitability and conservation priorities for vultures under a changing climate“ #BOUasm26 #ornithology

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I'm about #BOUasm26 today discussing how species traits (temperature niche position, habitat selectivity, urban association) shape avian populations.

In my study system in North Carolina, we've been monitoring bird populations with a mini breeding bird survey since 1999.

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We are now joined by Ivara Goulden for their talk „The role of land cover change and species traits in shaping avian populations“ #BOUasm26 #ornithology

We‘re kicking off session 4 with Robert J. Fletcher, keynote „What past surprises tell us about the future of an endangered bird“ #BOUasm26 #ornithology #snailkite

Brennig Hughes presents his talk „Individual identification of Leach's Storm-petrels from their vocalisations“ to bring us to the end of session 3. #BOUasm26 #ornithology #stormpetrels

„Archaeological data reveals fundamental environmental associations of declining UK bird species obscured by anthropogenically-disturbed distributions“ with Bethany Pittard to follow. #BOUasm26 #ornithology

Cracking on with session 3, Stephen Pringle delivers his keynote „Automated insights: transforming the future of bird monitoring“ #BOUasm26 #ornithology

Lunchtime at Avian Futures! #BOUasm26 #ornithology

David Lindenmeyer being presented with the BOU Godman Salvin Prize. #BOUasm26 #ornithology

1/🧵 Today I’m at #BOUasm26, engaging with colleagues on predicting the future of #avian #biodiversity. Recently in my own work I asked, how do we predict the movements of #birds in the world’s ever-growing cities? #ornithology

We‘re progressing session 2 with three LIGHTNING ⚡️ talks from Celestine Adelmant, Sienna Rattigan, and Mark Eddowes. #BOUasm26 #ornithology

We‘ll be moving onto the BOU Godman Salvin Prize presentation shortly.

1/6 #boreal bird communities of the future may not simply have fewer species—they may have different species. We explored how climate change, wildfire & forest harvesting could reorganize bird communities across Québec’s boreal forest by 2100. #BOUasm26 #ornithology #ecology #conservation

#BOUasm26 MJE6/6 But more strikingly, nest spatial distribution shows that arrival constrained #Redstart nest only in cooler areas, in accordance with settlement informed by #phenology. Active territory choice drives localised decline rather than indiscriminate settlement and #trophicmismatch.

#BOUasm26 MJE5/6 Their spatial and temporal first egg date temperature plasticity of ~5 days/°C shows #Redstart have acute sensitivity to local #phenology, just as strong as that shown by resident tits, but with average lay date around a week later.

#BOUasm26 MJE4/6 Next on to my Derbyshire nest box study site where the range of elevations and southerly aspects provides a range of temperatures, measured at the nest site level using i-Button thermochrons - an ideal place to study the latter mechanism at a fine scale for the #Redstart.

#BOUasm26 MJE3/6 Migrant decline is well-covered in the literature - #trophicmismatch proposed as a mechanism in arrival date constrained philopatric migrants. But there is an alternative mechanism – #phenology-related reduced settlement at asynchronous sites and range shift.

#BOUasm26 MJE2/6 Then the county atlas project, showing passerine migrant #birds disappearing from the Cheshire plain but hanging on or expanding in the hills above Macclesfield, best exemplified by Willow Warbler. Range shift at the local level, up the elevational gradient to later springs.