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
Why Wait to Grow Up? Shorebirds' Delayed Maturity Tied to Coastal Living
Shorebirds that winter along dynamic coastlines delay their first return to breed, a strategy linked not to body size, but to the behavioural demands of tidal habitats — revealing new insights into how environment shapes avian life-history timing.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Shorebirds, one year on: what we won, what we lost, and what must come next
A year of mixed signals for shorebirds: vital site protections and clever science on one side; drying wetlands, development pressure and rising extinction risk on the other. Here’s what moved the needle — and where we urgently need to act.
Gyorgy Szimuly