Baptiste Schmid

Now at #EOU2023 with a poster on *weather patterns associated with peak migration events* #93 hope to see you there 📡🐥🌜✨🌧️ #aeroecology #ornithology @Vogelwarte_scie

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands. Last year we published (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…) about the massive impact of fireworks on birds. Thread with a damning animation of radar measurements during NYE countdown, below. 👇

NEW Decline of European bird populations continues especially birds of farmland. Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) present updated wild bird indices 1980–2023. Data = 168 bird species from 30 countries⬇️ @RSPBScience @BirdLifeEurope pecbms.info 📉🐦

Intense #nocmig picked up on radar from the Southern Norwegian coast at Lista Bird Observatory last night. A Westerly movement out into the North Sea with birds taking advantage of the slack winds under a flabby low pressure system. Yellow are small birds & Orange medium sized.

📣The suspend hunting from 2021 has allowed a population recovery in Turtle Dove! A paper published in Conservation Letters today shows the population response in terms of breeding numbers after the first two seasons of the moratorium. Read more: pecbms.info/science-based-…

News from down under! Our latest study in @CurrentBiology uses weather radar to uncover Australia’s unique bird migration patterns—smaller in scale but high variable in timing, direction, and magnitude. Link: cell.com/current-biolog…. #ornithology #BirdMigration #Australia

A first for an Irish Robin! A great record of a Robin ringed in Calais in France in mid Sept and found in West Cork two weeks later. This is the first record of a Robin moving between France and Ireland! Thanks to Shona in Cork for contacting us when she found the ring!

If you missed his killer talk at @AmOrnith #AOS24, Ben Tonelli from the @mwtingley lab just brought out his paper in @Ecology_Letters testing the drivers of migratory #phenology for 222 Nearctic #bird species! Temperature and snowpack are most critical! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Congratulations Nihon Hidankyo for this incredibly well deserved #NobelPeacePrize. The hibakusha, the inspirational survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, have worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the catastrophic impacts of nuclear weapons and push for their total elimination.

See this blue blob on radar. These are birds stuck in the eye of Hurricane Helene!

Patricia Homonylo, from Canada, was declared the 2024 Bird Photographer of the Year for her thought-provoking image ‘When Worlds Collide’. The photograph shows birds killed by colliding with windows and other reflective surfaces in urban areas.

I have just arrived at @FundacionMigres in Tarifa, S Spain, for 6 weeks of @Vogelwarte_scie #insectmigration fieldwork as part of @Birgen_Haest's Move in Europe project! We have radars to monitor insects (!!) each side of the Straits of Gibraltar (1 in Ceuta, 1 in Tarifa) as well as insect traps in Tarifa, Gibraltar, and Ceuta to find out the types of insects migrating. Here is the radar in Ceuta looking towards one of the Pillars of Hercules, the Rock of Gibraltar. I'll be sharing loads here of the adventures I'm having. So excited!!

🌏80% of our world's population lives under light-polluted skies. How does that affect wildlife🦉, and what can we do about it? 🌆 #ThinkLandscape Via @GlobalLF

🗓️Hey friends, yesterday marked exactly 1 week until the global week of action against nuclear weapons spending. What do we want? No money for nuclear weapons! It's time the money wasted on nuclear weapons is put into improving lives and our planet. Join➡️ icanw.org/week_of_action

Quasi-live updates from Europe’s largest animal migration! Thousands of #bats are migrating through Pape on the Baltic Sea coast in Latvia. Follow us for insights, and help spread the word by sharing and liking—this natural spectacle deserves attention! 🦇🌍 #Migration #BatCast

This is an incredible honor and I still find myself a bit speechless. Thank you so much for this recognition in Frontiers in Ornithology. Very much looking forward to #BOU2025 - Birds / People / Science a combination I love @IBED_UvA

Problem is that after a few years, most people normalize extreme climate as normal They also normalize disappearance of world Bees insects birds wildlife, marine life, forests wetlands and their replacement with a sterile barren lifeless landscape as normal

Les scientifiques suisses alertent sur la situation de la biodiversité en Suisse: elle est véritablement malmenée et nécessite plus d'actions et de moyens, contrairement à ce que prétend M. Albert Rösti, conseiller fédéral. #Biodiversité. blick.ch/fr/news/suisse…

Origami Corner #Amazing #ice2024 #ice2024kyoto #YoshinoriShintani #not4sale

Wave or stream? @rafnuss and co-authors @CornellBirds found hat seasonal bird migration resembles a stream where bird populations on the ground are continuously replaced by new individuals, thanks to data from radars and @Team_eBird observations. More on doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0…

A new study confirms how the joint application of acoustic and vertical-looking radar data can be used to quantify family-level bird migration, with the case study of the thrush family. Read more on doi.org/10.1002/rse2.3… @baptischmi @Birgen_Haest