🚀 Guess who’s back? 🛰️🥳💫
ICARUS, our global wildlife-tracking system, returns to orbit aboard the GENA-OT satellite, which launched from Vandenberg SFB today 🎉
This is step one for ICARUS 2.0: full global coverage, smaller sensors, near-real-time.
Congrats @animaltracking.bsky.social + team ICARUS

🐾🛰️ Are you running (or designing) an animal tracking project and are not sure how long to track your animals for? Or how often to collect new locations? Then check out our application published in @MethodsEcolEvol (Early View!) #rstats #rshiny #ecology

It seems there's little one can be sure of nowadays — but you can be sure that we @batumiraptorcount.org are going to be counting 1M+ raptors 🦅 again this autumn. 🪶

Very proud that we can provide financial assistance to make participation as accessible as possible this year. More info👇 #ornithology

📢 Exciting #postdoctoral opportunity to explore interactions between #seabirds 🐧 and #fisheries.

🔎We offer an 8-month contract, until the end of #AMPLIAMAR.

📌 Apply: tinyurl.com/ampliamarub2

📅Deadline: from 13 March to 15 April.

Interested? Contact www.gonzalez-solis.com before 10 April!

ICARUS Projects

ICARUS BIRDS
Where, how, and why do birds die?

We are launching the ICARUS BIRDS project to find out! Join us in tracking common birds across Europe to uncover the factors behind their decline.

Learn more on our website: www.ab.mpg.de/icarus

Heads up animal behavior researchers!

Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15.
Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav...

Bats surf storm fronts during spring migration Long-distance migration, common in passerine birds, is rare and poorly studied in bats. Piloting a 1.2-gram IoT (Internet of Things) tag with onboard processing, we tracked the daily location, tempera...

New paper out @science.org shows that bats surf warm storm fronts to power continental migrations 🌀⛈️🦇🤙
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

By Edward Hurme; Ivan Lenzi; Martin Wikelski; Timm Wild; and Dina Dechmann

Fully funded PhD available: The Impacts of Avian Influenza and Toxicants in Scottish Raptors The University of Edinburgh is seeking applications for a fully-funded PhD scholarship (4 years) on the subject of The Impacts of Avian Influenza and Toxicants in Scottish Raptors. SUMMARY This pro…

An interesting PhD opportunity with 4yrs funding at Edinburgh University. Research results likely to directly influence Govt policy in Scotland on rodenticides, lead ammunition & avian flu.

Closing date for applications Mon 6 Jan 2025.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/02/f...

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I agree with Gustavo!

Can goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so Tracking the behaviour of tagged animals from space could transform the research into a host of natural phenomena

Animals sensing the environment. Knowing your animals can provide whole new perspectives in how we interact with our natural world. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Until the next Animove in 2025, please find all lecture recordings and downloads here.
animove.org/lecture-reco...

A ‘how‐to’ guide for estimating animal diel activity using hierarchical models We illustrate how hierarchical models can be used to estimate animal diel activity whilst accounting for variability in activity levels and sampling effort. These models also allow researchers to mor...

🚨New paper out 🚨

We put together a how-to guide on analyzing diel activity patterns using hierarchical models while accounting for site-to-site variability and sampling effort.

Check out the paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
and tutorial: hms-activity.netlify.app

🏁 Last chance to apply to our PhD positions for 2025 - our call is closing today at midnight 🌛

PhD position: Behavioural and ecological determinants of social strategies in great tits

Hi all, new to Blue Sky, so let me start with sharing a #PhD position @w-u-r.bsky.social that is still open for a few days (2 Dec). Come join our Behavioural Ecology Group! #Birds #Social #Behaviour search.app?link=https%3...

Happy to see the output from part of the fieldwork I conducted during my internship some years ago 😎

Virtual fencing in remote boreal forests: performance of commercially available GPS collars for free-ranging cattle - Animal Biotelemetry Background The use of virtual fencing in cattle farming is beneficial due to its flexibility, not fragmenting the landscape or restricting access like physical fences. Using GPS (Global Positioning Sy...

My second PhD paper got published today 😊😀 animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....