World Shorebirds Day: A Movement Rooted in Science, Community and Legacy
A rarely reported species during World Shorebirds Day – the Great Knot underscores the need for broader survey coverage. © Rui-Yang Ho
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World Shorebirds Day: A Movement Rooted in Science, Community and Legacy

This year’s World Shorebirds Day is dedicated to Dr. Shiloh Schulte – a tireless advocate for shorebirds, whose early support helped shape the global community that now honours his legacy.

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The Art of Recognition: Firefinch Reframes the Path to Becoming an Ornithologist
Unlike photography, illustration allows repeated field impressions to be compressed into a single scene — combining posture, behaviour, habitat, and the way a species is most often remembered by observers in the field. Cotton Pygmy Geese illustrated by Faansie Peacock for Firefinch. © Firefinch / Faansie Peacoc

The Art of Recognition: Firefinch Reframes the Path to Becoming an Ornithologist

Birding apps usually promise speed, certainty, and instant answers. Firefinch moves in another direction entirely – towards attention, illustration, and the slower process of learning how to truly recognise birds.
Fieldwork and Technology
Gyorgy Szimuly

Gyorgy Szimuly
World Curlew Day: The Long Decline of Curlews, Now Fully Understood
Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) occupying a landscape under pressure, mirroring a wider pattern in which curlews endure but rarely recover despite increasing clarity around their decline © Brendan Tucker

World Curlew Day: The Long Decline of Curlews, Now Fully Understood

Curlews are not disappearing unnoticed. The causes of their decline are now well understood, yet across flyways and landscapes, recovery remains limited and uneven — raising a harder question about the scale and persistence of our response.
Conservation
Gyorgy Szimuly

Gyorgy Szimuly
What Do Shearwaters Eat? Uncovering a Mediterranean Food Web
The Mediterranean endemic, Yelkouan Shearwater, relies heavily on small pelagic fish such as anchovies and mackerel, linking its fortunes closely to the region’s marine food web. © Jessica Joachim

What Do Shearwaters Eat? Uncovering a Mediterranean Food Web

DNA metabarcoding and stable isotope analysis reveal how two Mediterranean shearwaters share the same prey — and what that overlap tells us about life in a changing marine ecosystem.
Ecology and Behaviour
Gyorgy Szimuly

Gyorgy Szimuly
Evolution or Plasticity? What the Hermit Thrush Reveals About Climate Change
Long regarded as stable, the Hermit Thrush now reveals how environmental change can leave measurable imprints on form and function. © Mark Daly

Evolution or Plasticity? What the Hermit Thrush Reveals About Climate Change

Over four decades, a familiar North American songbird has grown smaller. But genomic evidence reveals that not all of these changes are evolutionary – some may simply reflect the remarkable plasticity of living organisms in a warming world.
Evolution and Taxonomy
Gyorgy Szimuly

Gyorgy Szimuly