Running on Empty: How a Dunlin Crossed Europe Without Reserves
A Dunlin, colour-marked in northwest Hungary, with “zero fat, zero muscle” was photographed in Spain just 13 days later. The journey isn’t record-breaking – but the physiology that makes it possible is.
Engineering Elegance: The Paradise Riflebird As Nature’s Most Theatrical Engineer
With a wave of his wings and the snap of a feather, the Paradise Riflebird transforms the rainforest floor into a stage. Recent research reveals that this avian dancer doesn’t just display beauty – it performs biomechanics at its evolutionary peak.
The Ornithologist
Upstream of Science: The Role of Bird Art in Understanding — An Interview with Szabolcs Kókay
Ornithology begins not with numbers, but with looking. This conversation with Szabolcs Kókay examines how bird art operates upstream from science – shaping what we notice, understand, and value.
Gyorgy Szimuly
The Ornithologist Launches ‘Conceptual Notes’: Exploring the Unanswered Questions in Ornithology
The Ornithologist has launched a new editorial series titled Conceptual Notes, designed to give space to questions, uncertainties, and unresolved patterns that sit just beyond the boundaries of conventional scientific publishing. The series responds to a familiar tension in ornithology and ecology: while journals excel at reporting methods, results, and conclusions, there is far less room to discuss the moments before hypotheses solidify, or the ambiguities that persist even after d
Gyorgy Szimuly