🚨Field assistant job in South Africa working with sociable weavers 🚨
🔌Experienced in electronics?
🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology?
🪶Like working with birds?
Find more information below!
Applications close on 08/06/2025
sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/...
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🔌Experienced in electronics?
🏷️Enjoy working with RFID technology?
🪶Like working with birds?
Find more information below!
Applications close on 08/06/2025
sociableweaverproject.com/recruitment/...
#fieldwork #ornithology
Feeding station and breeding monitoring assistant
applications arE OPEN estimated closing date : 2025-06-08 The Sociable Weaver Project uses several automatic feeding stations to collect data on social network associations. These feeding stations …
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May 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
FitzPatrick Institute PhD student Michelle Risi is using long-term datasets on Northern and Southern Giant Petrels to understand how seabirds breeding on sub-Antarctic islands are responding to environmental change.
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September 23, 2026 at 5:18 AM
FitzPatrick Institute PhD student Michelle Risi is using long-term datasets on Northern and Southern Giant Petrels to understand how seabirds breeding on sub-Antarctic islands are responding to environmental change.
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The European Roller isn’t just a European migrant. One tagged bird reached China – far beyond expected routes. With each flight tracked, its true journey is unfolding.
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#BirdMigration #EuropeanRoller #Ornithology #SatelliteTracking #TheOrnithologist
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From Kruger to Xinjiang: Tracking the European Roller’s Epic Journey
The European Roller has long been seen as a European migrant, but satellite tracking tells a more intricate tale. One tagged bird ended up in China, far from expected paths. With each flight logged, t...
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August 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
In the LATEST ISSUE of IBIS
Migration and stopover use by GPS-tracked adult Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) from Germany | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg, Daniel Holte | #ornithology 🪶
Migration and stopover use by GPS-tracked adult Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) from Germany | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Bernd-Ulrich Meyburg, Daniel Holte | #ornithology 🪶
June 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🧪 BEARDED VULTURE stomach acid is so strong (pH ~1) that it dissolves bone completely, extracting fat and calcium. This adaptation allows them to survive on resources inaccessible to almost any other animal.
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#AfricanOrnithology #beardedvulturerecoveryprogramme
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September 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧪 BEARDED VULTURE stomach acid is so strong (pH ~1) that it dissolves bone completely, extracting fat and calcium. This adaptation allows them to survive on resources inaccessible to almost any other animal.
www.projectvulture.org.za
#AfricanOrnithology #beardedvulturerecoveryprogramme
www.projectvulture.org.za
#AfricanOrnithology #beardedvulturerecoveryprogramme
Exciting news🗞️ - The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology 🎓 has joined BlueSky 👍 and has set up the 'African Ornithology' feed - please follow @africanornithology.bsky.social and please tag your papers 📝 or other relevant posts with #AfricanOrnithology to appear in that feed.
May 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Exciting news🗞️ - The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology 🎓 has joined BlueSky 👍 and has set up the 'African Ornithology' feed - please follow @africanornithology.bsky.social and please tag your papers 📝 or other relevant posts with #AfricanOrnithology to appear in that feed.
🦅 Bird of the Month: BEARDED VULTURE
Ahead of International Vulture Day, we’re spotlighting one of the world’s most remarkable scavengers.
@vultureday
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#AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture #VultureDay #BeardedVultureRecoveryProgramme #ProjectVulture
Ahead of International Vulture Day, we’re spotlighting one of the world’s most remarkable scavengers.
@vultureday
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#AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture #VultureDay #BeardedVultureRecoveryProgramme #ProjectVulture
September 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🦅 Bird of the Month: BEARDED VULTURE
Ahead of International Vulture Day, we’re spotlighting one of the world’s most remarkable scavengers.
@vultureday
projectvulture.org.za
#AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture #VultureDay #BeardedVultureRecoveryProgramme #ProjectVulture
Ahead of International Vulture Day, we’re spotlighting one of the world’s most remarkable scavengers.
@vultureday
projectvulture.org.za
#AfricanOrnithology #BeardedVulture #VultureDay #BeardedVultureRecoveryProgramme #ProjectVulture
In the LATEST ISSUE of IBIS
Cooperative and plural breeding by the precocial Vulturine Guineafowl | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Brendah Nyaguthii, Tobit Dehnen, James A. Klarevas-Irby, Danai Papageorgiou, Joseph Kosgey, Damien R. Farine | #ornithology
Cooperative and plural breeding by the precocial Vulturine Guineafowl | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Brendah Nyaguthii, Tobit Dehnen, James A. Klarevas-Irby, Danai Papageorgiou, Joseph Kosgey, Damien R. Farine | #ornithology
June 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
These long-distance migrants have separate breeding and non-breeding ranges. Males travel across Africa before returning to breeding grounds with their spectacular elongated flight feathers. #AfricanOrnithology
September 25, 2026 at 4:30 PM
These long-distance migrants have separate breeding and non-breeding ranges. Males travel across Africa before returning to breeding grounds with their spectacular elongated flight feathers. #AfricanOrnithology
Using social media to document the persistence of the Peregrine Falcon and the Lanner Falcon across South Africa | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Using social media to document the persistence of the Peregrine Falcon and the Lanner Falcon across South Africa
Journal of Ornithology - Social media and networking platforms are growing in their usefulness in research through citizen science. We used diverse online data sources and methods to generate...
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September 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Exploring the use of the South African nest record scheme to detect changes in phenology: a case study using four well represented species | doi.org/10.1002/jav.... | Journal of Avian Biology | #ornithology 🪶
May 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
🚨Our March issue is now live!
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🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here
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🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here
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March 4, 2026 at 10:04 AM
NEW PAPER: using South African nest records, the authors explore phenological shifts due to climate change in the understudied Southern Hemisphere. Three of four selected bird species shifted to later laying from 1950–1999, likely linked to rainfall.
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#ornithology #birds
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July 28, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Sahara Desert conquered by two more Cuckoos! 🙌 Follow their migrations ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology
July 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
PhD opportunity #AfricanOrnithology
PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal
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PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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May 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
PhD opportunity #AfricanOrnithology
PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal
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PhD in Spatial-temporal dynamics of Black-tailed Godwit habitat use and foraging ecology in Senegal
www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Evaluating the impact of climate change on mountaintop endemic bird species in the Ethiopian highlands: insights from moorland francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema) | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶
Evaluating the impact of climate change on mountaintop endemic bird species in the Ethiopian highlands: insights from moorland francolin (Scleroptila psilolaema)
Ornithology Research - Anthropogenic climate change poses a profound threat to global biodiversity, particularly to the unique flora and fauna of highland ecosystems within biodiversity hotspots....
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July 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New🗒️ just out - A review of bird monitoring in Africa: present state and future prospects, led by Phil Atkinson of
@btobirds.bsky.social
#Ornithology
#AfricanOrnithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social 🐦
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March 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
New🗒️ just out - A review of bird monitoring in Africa: present state and future prospects, led by Phil Atkinson of
@btobirds.bsky.social
#Ornithology
#AfricanOrnithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social 🐦
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@btobirds.bsky.social
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Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me.
South African Citizen or have a valid work visa.
science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
#Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
South African Citizen or have a valid work visa.
science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
#Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
Applications open for Quantitative Raptor Biologist postdoc at FitzPatrick Institute
Call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in quantitative raptor biology; deadline 15 May 2026
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April 21, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Post-doc opportunity in raptor conservation at The FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology in Cape Town, South Africa - with @megmurg.bsky.social and me.
South African Citizen or have a valid work visa.
science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
#Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
South African Citizen or have a valid work visa.
science.uct.ac.za/fitzpatrick/...
#Ornithology #RaptorResearch #AfricanOrnithology
🐜🐟🐦🐬👩🔬 What does it take for completely different species to work together?
A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour.
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A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
#AfricanOrnithology
June 19, 2026 at 9:56 AM
🐜🐟🐦🐬👩🔬 What does it take for completely different species to work together?
A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
#AfricanOrnithology
A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour.
📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
#AfricanOrnithology
Spatial Distribution of the Critically Endangered Hooded Vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) in the Cape Coast Metropolis, Southern Ghana | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2453 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
May 9, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Artificial nesting sites (nestboxes) can boost breeding opportunities for the Southern Ground-Hornbill. In South Africa, nestboxes increased the number of breeding groups, revealing their value as a conservation tool where natural nest sites are scarce.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
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July 22, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Artificial nesting sites (nestboxes) can boost breeding opportunities for the Southern Ground-Hornbill. In South Africa, nestboxes increased the number of breeding groups, revealing their value as a conservation tool where natural nest sites are scarce.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#AfricanOrnithology
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We are looking for two field managers‼️Starting end of August South Africa 🌍 If you have fieldwork experience and want a job with added responsibility of overseeing the field activities, see below for more information. 🐣 Deadline 15/06/2026
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June 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
New paper just out - where we describe the 'Breeding Home Range of the Pygmy Falcon: The Smallest GPS-Tracked Diurnal Raptor'
#RaptorResearch
#AfricanOrnithology
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#RaptorResearch
#AfricanOrnithology
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June 24, 2026 at 12:19 PM
New paper just out - where we describe the 'Breeding Home Range of the Pygmy Falcon: The Smallest GPS-Tracked Diurnal Raptor'
#RaptorResearch
#AfricanOrnithology
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#RaptorResearch
#AfricanOrnithology
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Trends and population size of White-necked Rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus within the Nyamibe Bepo Forest Reserve in Ghana | www.tandfonline.com/... | Ostrich | #ornithology
May 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM