Malavika Madhavan

BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship - BirdLife International Are you seeking a career in conservation science and have a particular interest in seabirds or understanding species extinction risk? The BirdLife Emerging Scientist Scholarship could be for you.

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟

⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026
🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybird

Come join our fantastic team!

Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...

Seasonal variation in coprophagic foraging in alpine choughs Pyrrhocorax graculus Coprophagy, defined as the ingestion of faeces sourced from either self (autocoprophagy), conspecific animals (allocoprophagy), or heterospecific animals (heterocoprophagy), is recognized as a physio...

Happy to share that my first paper with #KristinaBeck just got out in @avianbiology.bsky.social! We first documented coprophagic behavior in #Alpinechough, likely linked to a seasonal diet shift and/or nutritional benefits. 💩🦠

doi.org/10.1002/jav....

Foraging sequence:
youtu.be/05O6BjnKQ4g?...

Breeding seasonality in Charadriiformes on the Andean Altiplano is influenced by rain and possibly flood risk The Andean Altiplano in South America represents a remarkable mountain ecosystem with unique wildlife. However, knowledge of breeding ecology for birds inhabiting Andean Altiplano is scarce, relying ...

New paper with @calonectris.bsky.social on Andean shorebirds phenology is out in Ecosphere @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social, where we combined citizen-science and field data to decipher nest timing of understudied species: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #shorebird #bird #PhDstudy

🔊Looking for STUDENT ASSISTANTS or PROFESSIONAL AUDIO ANNOTATORS

Come help us process large audio libraries to understand the evolution of rhythm in a globally distributed songbird genus!

Funds and pubs possible. Straightforward tasks with awesome outcomes!

tinyurl.com/song-anthus

Super cool and important work on the effects of habitat quality and weather on parental provisioning rates in little owls 🦉🐛🐥

#Ornithology
#RaptorResearch

Habitat‐Dependent Provisioning Patterns Are Modulated by Weather Conditions in a Rapidly Declining Farmland Raptor We monitored parental food provisioning of Little Owls in four European countries with contrasting farmland structure using nestbox cameras and demonstrated that across all countries, provisioning ra...

A PhD chapter that I'm very proud of is finally out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!🦉

Using nestbox cameras from 4 countries, we explored interactive effects of habitat quality &weather on provisioning &prey composition 🪱🪲🐀in Little Owls -a rapidly declining farmland raptor.
#RaptorResearch
#Ornithology

This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning species🦉. For more details, check out our new paper 👉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle

We are hiring! One postdoc and two PhD positions to study (i) species invasions along environmental gradients and (ii) zooplankton-cyanobacteria interactions. See bit.ly/4pcWMIV for details. Application deadlines: 31 Jan 2026 for postdoc, 15 Jan 2026 for both PhD positions. Please repost.

Cool post doc opening in the awesome MRI, Białowieża: ibs.bialowieza.pl/en/announcem...

Photo of the coastline of Rota by Asch Nighthawk with inset photo by Lauren Helton of two people banding a Mariana Kingfisher and inset of bander handling a Mariana Fruit-dove for photo documentaion by Kristin Attinger.

🪶🌎🧪 WE'RE HIRING!!! Want to band fabulous birds on a far-flung island in the Western Pacific? We need to fill these 2 positions ASAP. More information here: birdpop.org/docs/job...

📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...

WildBotics - Recruitment We are looking for you!

Interested in a multidisciplinary PhD that integrates robotics, computer vision, ecology and conservation?

We are looking for 12 Doctoral Candidates to join the WildBotics MSCA Doctoral Network!

Positions are fully funded for 36 months!

More info & apply @ www.wildbotics.eu/recruitment

🧪👩‍🔬🌍

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

A new species of jewel-babbler (Cinclosomatidae: Ptilorrhoa) from the Southern Fold Mountains of Papua New Guinea | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Iain A. Woxvold, Banak G. Gamui, Leo Legra, Samson Yama, Bonny Koane, Salape Tulai | #ornithology 🪶

We had a new paper out yesterday in @royalsocietypublishing.org Biology Letters. About how the cranial feathers of male Golden and Lady Amherst’s Pheasants affect their visual fields. Nice to see it picked up The New York Times and Science. Paper link below.

🔊Negative valence overrides identity information in ungulate vocalisations.
Happy to share new work by @ebriefer.bsky.social Romain Lefèvre & myself
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

🦅🌱Secondary seed dispersal by migrant harriers in India

📷 © Sankar Subramanian

vist.ly/4cfkr

#Diploendozoochory #Grasslands #OpenNaturalEcosystems #Raptor

Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Genetic and Acoustic Diversity in an Invasive Parrot at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com

Looking for a PhD? 🦜
Interested in ornithology, animal behaviour, bioacoustics?

I am advertising a PhD on vocal communication in ring-necked parakeets tinyurl.com/44a3hcnz

Eligible candidates are encouraged to apply for University of Salford Widening Participation Scholarships tinyurl.com/4wtzzh3z

🚨Job alert! CMST are hiring an offshore fieldwork specialist to maintain our acoustic equipment, design and build moorings, manage field deployments, and join in data analysis, publication, presentation, and student support. Closing 21 Nov. staff.curtin.edu.au/job-vacancie...

#bioacoustics

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I am looking for a postdoc to work in our long-term system of food-caching mountain chickadees in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The expected start is April 2026. Please see details here: chickadeecognition.com/positions
If interested and qualified, please contact me directly (email on the website).

This ‘extra credit’ also awards people who put themselves first instead of eg promoting the careers of their students and junior collaborators. 🧪

What a cool finding! Eurasian Scops owls bring live worm snakes to the nest, and snakes feed on insect parasites in the nest, therefore increasing owl hatchling success! 🐍↔️🦉
#ornithology

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival In this study, we combine high-resolution vegetation structural metrics derived from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery with on-field wader nest survival monitoring. We show that the immediate veg...

📢New Paper: UAVs unveil the role of small scale vegetation structure on wader nest survival 🛸🌿🪺

Excited to share the result of an incredible collaborative experience. Together with Miguel Villoslada, we combine UAV (drones) remote sensing with traditional wader nest survival surveys #scicomm 1/6

Three common wall lizards basking next to each other on a stone wall in an urban habitat in Croatia.

📢 City lizards are more social !
Thrilled to share the first paper from my PhD, out now in #BiologyLetters @royalsocietypublishing.org !

We show that urban lizards are more social than their non-urban counterparts 🦎🏙️🌳🧪

doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

@behavecobie.bsky.social

Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts The next time you watch your dog visit the same places around your yard or notice that your cat seems to explore a new area every time it ventures outside, consider this: You might be witnessing an an...

2025. Study reveals wild canids favor structured travel routes, unlike their feline counterparts phys.org/news/2025-09...

Career Development Fellowship | Royal Society This scheme provides the most talented early career scientists from underrepresented groups in STEM with research funding and high-quality training opportunities to build a strong base for a successfu...

Fancy joining us?
Check out this excellent @royalsociety.org Career Development Fellowship:
royalsociety.org/grants/caree...
If you're eligible & are interested in social behaviour, vocal communication or anthropogenic impacts on wildlife, feel free to DM or email me.
@bristolbiosci.bsky.social

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below!

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

MSc project MSc thesis projects in animal communication Laws of brevity across pipit (Anthus) species Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent word...

🔊 This the season! Looking or two MSc students to tackle
1. vocal efficiency across pipit species
and, surpsingly,
2. vocal tract anatomy of the great cormorant (bonus: I also have the heads to model hearing!)

Drop me a line! I love people! :)

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Individuality obscures geographical song variation in two passerine sister species with contrasting distributions and movement ecology | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Javier Oñate-Casado et al | #ornithology 🪶