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1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵 #ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪

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1 Apr 2025

2/ Judy begins by introducing the movement ecology paradigm that unifies movement research www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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1 Apr 2025

3/ Tracking technology is now at the centre of movement ecology, which has been made possible by huge advances over the past 2 decades Only in 2013, Judy and colleagues published the paper describing a GPS tracking system for tracking bird movements link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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4/ In a matter of years, the technology has advanced hugely allowing us to monitor animal movement in much more detail and in complex systems www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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5/ We have then started using weather surveillance radar networks. These gave great potential for long-term low-cost monitoring of bird migrations journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

journals.plos.orgInnovative Visualizations Shed Light on Avian Nocturnal MigrationGlobally, billions of flying animals undergo seasonal migrations, many of which occur at night. The temporal and spatial scales at which migrations occur and our inability to directly observe these no...