🌺 What happens when plants and pollinators team up for millions of years?
🧬 Genomes reveal their long-term interdependence: populations fluctuate in sync and hummingbird foraging shapes plant genetic diversity.

🌺 What happens when plants and pollinators team up for millions of years?
🧬 Genomes reveal their long-term interdependence: populations fluctuate in sync and hummingbird foraging shapes plant genetic diversity.
At Zavodovski Island, chinstrap 🐧 decreased by 63% from 2011 to 2025, while macaroni 🐧 increased.
Declining krill availability linked to ocean warming is the likely driver.
Could this signal a wider Antarctic ecosystem shift? 🌊
LoessBirds blog: Mining the migration. #birds #birding #waterfowl #MOBirds #NEBirds #KSBirds #ornithology
Ideas/advice? A community #climate project (Ileret-Kenya) includes an Indigenous birder who has helped with a field guide & started a local bird conservation club. They lack equipment (laptop, bins etc.) Ideas for support/training for aspiring African ornithologists? #ornithology #birdsky 🪶
Le Manchot papou devrait être divisé en quatre espèces, dont une nouvellement décrite nichant sur les îles Kerguelen et Heard-et-MacDonald ➡️ Cliquez sur ce lien pour en savoir plus : www.ornithomedia.com/magazine/etu... #oiseaux #birds #ornithologie #ornithomedia #ornithology
Bibliography of avian types -- update v.2026.10.09
-new additions including collections and bibliography
-encoding error (hopefully!) fixed
-some de-duplication of references.
>1000 refs to >200 collections now available.
Corrections welcome!
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Past and present processes shape the genetic make-up of Pigeon Guillemot populations
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We've got some great opportunities to join us at BTO! Discover more and apply for our jobs and voluntary roles online at www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology
Good morning! 🪶
Great topic for today #BirdOfTheDay / #Waders from @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
I have a young Black winged Stilt wading gracefully alongside his companions.
#MyClick #birds #BirdPhotography #Ornithology #Poland
Szczudłak zwyczajny (Himantopus himantopus)
On this day last year - Lesser Black Backed Gull on my roof! Birmingham UK - 09-10-25 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography #photograpersofbluesky
Moorhen seen at Hunnington Worcestershire - 04-10-26 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography #photograpersofbluesky
"Good Still Bunting"
♀️ Reed Bunting (Emberiza schoeniclus) in my garden at Grimbister, #Orkney, on Wednesday.
For today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #GardenBirds
#OrkneyBirding #BirdingScotland #BirdsOfBluesky #BirdsSeenIn2026 #birdsoftheworld #ornithology #Bunting 🪶
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
A simple but effective method for identifying incubation in real time for waterfowl with backpack transmitters | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Ilsa A. Griebel et al | #ornithology 🪶
Blog for bird photographers.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m... 🎂
#ornithology