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
In Defence of Bird Conservation in a Broken World
When the world feels fractured beyond repair, speaking about bird conservation can sound almost indulgent. Yet in the quiet persistence of those who still care, a truth endures: to protect the living fabric of the Earth is not a luxury. It is an act of survival — and of humanity.
Gyorgy Szimuly
North America’s Bird Declines Reveal a Global Conservation Blind Spot
Common species are the backbone of ecosystems, yet new research shows they are declining at a scale that reshapes the conservation challenge. If familiar birds disappear, the loss will be both ecological and cultural — and it may already be happening faster than we think.
Gyorgy Szimuly