Congress time!!! #ICPSB2025 #steppebirds

A blooming desert 🌸

#Uzbekistan #deserts #steppebirds

🛰️ 🐦‍⬛In recent weeks, we have been capturing and fitting GPS taggs to pin-tailed and black-bellied Sandgrouse in Extremadura, Spain.

➡️ If you would like to learn more about this project, you can read the article our team members contributed to!

wilder.pt/historias/em...

#sandgrouse #steppebirds

After the capture, GPS tagging, and photo documentation for later age determination, comes the best part: the release.

#littlebustard #steppebirds #steppebirdconservation #agriculturallandscapes

¿Te interesa cómo los acelerómetros 📡están revolucionando el estudio del comportamiento animal? Visita nuestro póster📜 en el #26CEO, donde Ángela Villar te explicará todo sobre su aplicación en el estudio del alcaraván 📢No te lo pierdas!! ✨🔎#SteppeBirds #MovementEcology

Palmier is our first GPS-tagged #MontagusHarriers to start migration! The female, tagged in Castro Verde, is now south of Fez, Morocco.

#GPStracking provides year-round information on the ecology of this threatened species, including #migration routes.

Have a safe journey, Palmier!

#steppebirds

Here is one of the first papers from GIAE! 🦅
Western European steppe birds are in crisis, with ~68% of species showing range contractions. This review highlights land-use change and human-induced mortality as key drivers of population decline!
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
#GIAE #SteppeBirds #Conservation

The event brought together nearly 50 participants, including representatives from academia, environmental consultants, and engineers from public electricity companies. ⚡🦅

#Uzbekistan #SteppeBirds #Powerlines

Steppe Birds MOVE – is our group at BIOPOLIS/CIBIO-InBIO, from Uni Porto! Our research focuses on the movement ecology of threatened #grasslandbirds #LittleBustard Pin-tail and Black-bellied #Sandgrouse #MontagusHarrier

Stay tuned for our news!

#steppebirds #ornithology #movementecology

🎓 Yesterday, we carried out our first joint initiative with the Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan: a workshop on power lines and birds, with a special focus on the issue on bustard collision with powerlines.

#Uzbekistan #SteppeBirds #Bustards #Powerlines

New NIOO publication on biased adult sex ratios in #LittleBustard populations functioning as a potential warning signal of unbalanced mortalities. By @SerranoDavies of @AnimalEcol_NIOO ao. #tetraxtetrax #steppebirds #conservation
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959270922000430

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