Fabio Marcolin, PhD
@bibwatching.bsky.social
🦜Research fellow @birdlabtorino | #birdecology | #exoticspecies | #otters 🦦| birdwatching, nature, and fieldwork | @team_ebird Italy
Presented our #BiodivTourAlps work at #SItE2026 in Genoa: PAM at Alpine climbing sites showed that more anthropogenic sound was associated with lower bird species richness and short-term declines in acoustic activity.
@birdlabtorino.bsky.social
#APAM #bird #RecreationEcology #Biodiversity #AudioMoth
@birdlabtorino.bsky.social
#APAM #bird #RecreationEcology #Biodiversity #AudioMoth
September 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Presented our #BiodivTourAlps work at #SItE2026 in Genoa: PAM at Alpine climbing sites showed that more anthropogenic sound was associated with lower bird species richness and short-term declines in acoustic activity.
@birdlabtorino.bsky.social
#APAM #bird #RecreationEcology #Biodiversity #AudioMoth
@birdlabtorino.bsky.social
#APAM #bird #RecreationEcology #Biodiversity #AudioMoth
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🐦 First Ustica Spring School was a success! Our inaugural event brought six researchers together to study #springmigration in real time, thousands of #migratorybirds passed through the island while we observed, learned, and discovered. #Ornithology at its finest in the Mediterranean!
May 10, 2026 at 9:30 AM
🐦 First Ustica Spring School was a success! Our inaugural event brought six researchers together to study #springmigration in real time, thousands of #migratorybirds passed through the island while we observed, learned, and discovered. #Ornithology at its finest in the Mediterranean!
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How Do Introduced Parrots Thrive In Cities?
"Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?"
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
"Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?"
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
April 16, 2026 at 1:59 PM
How Do Introduced Parrots Thrive In Cities?
"Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?"
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
"Are parrots competing with native bird species for essential resources or are they living in unexploited ecological spaces?"
#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social
#ecology #IntroducedSpecies #biodiversity #UrbanBirds www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...
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A recent study has examined whether non-native parrots in European cities compete directly with native birds or occupy ecological roles that are otherwise underrepresented in urban systems:
Parrots establish novel ecological roles in European cities
Research in Italian cities shows that non-native parrot species occupy ecological roles absent from native urban bird communities, rather than simply overtaking them.
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March 22, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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My first article for TheConversationUK #plastics @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-birds-ar...
How birds are spreading plastic pollution
Certain birds ingest more plastic waste, which causes them harm while transporting it to different locations.
theconversation.com
March 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
My first article for TheConversationUK #plastics @ebdonana.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-birds-ar...
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Hello Bluesky! 👋
We’re excited to join the community.
And we’re starting with great news:
📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open!
Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology.
Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr
#ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers
We’re excited to join the community.
And we’re starting with great news:
📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open!
Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology.
Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr
#ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers
New Call for STSM, YRI and ITC Conference Grants Now Open
We are pleased to announce that a new call for Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM), Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI), and ITC Conference Grants is now open within EUFLYNET.These funding opportun...
wix.to
March 8, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Hello Bluesky! 👋
We’re excited to join the community.
And we’re starting with great news:
📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open!
Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology.
Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr
#ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers
We’re excited to join the community.
And we’re starting with great news:
📣 New EUFLYNET funding opportunities are now open!
Grants for researchers working on migratory species and flyway ecology.
Read more and apply ➡️ wix.to/qLupLGr
#ResearchGrants #EarlyCareerResearchers
Reposted by Fabio Marcolin, PhD
3. Cats have worse and shorter lifes if they roam outdoors
The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)
The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)
February 20, 2026 at 12:43 PM
3. Cats have worse and shorter lifes if they roam outdoors
The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)
The domestic cat is one of the most frequently roadkilled mammal worlwide, and by far the first carnivore species in that list (photo commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...)
Reposted by Fabio Marcolin, PhD
2. Outdoor cats exchange diseases with other animals and with people. There you have Toxocara, bird flu or feline leukemia
And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too)
theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...
And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too)
theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...
Toxoplasma: the parasite that takes over our brains
Toxoplasma is a protozoan, a single-celled organism so small that it lodges inside the cells of animals (one in three humans) and modifies their behaviour.
theconversation.com
February 20, 2026 at 12:43 PM
2. Outdoor cats exchange diseases with other animals and with people. There you have Toxocara, bird flu or feline leukemia
And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too)
theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...
And then there is Toxoplasma gondii,a truly huge, though overlooked public health issue (and an important conservation one too)
theconversation.com/toxoplasma-t...
Reposted by Fabio Marcolin, PhD
Today is (another) #Worldcatday
A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons
1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them
There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer
A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons
1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them
There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer
February 20, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Today is (another) #Worldcatday
A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons
1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them
There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer
A good day to remember to keep cats indoors, for 3 main reasons
1. Cats kill a lot of animals. Really, a lot of them
There is plenty of scientific information on that. I am just posting works of great 19th c Swedish painter Bruno Lijefors, an amazing nature observer
Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.
February 2, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Thanks for featuring our work! Across 6 Italian cities (220 point counts; breeding + winter), we find that established parakeets tend to expand the functional trait space of urban bird communities, consistent with filling underused niche space.