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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 🪶🧪

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

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...

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...

6/ We can combine bio-logging, field measurements, environmental and energetic modelling to study individuals in depth to understand their ecology and energy expenditure in migrations. E.g. we can understand how birds respond to weather during migration link.springer.com/article/10.1...

7/ Using accelerometer measurements and GPS tracking, soaring flight can be identified and analysed with respect to orographic lift. Gulls seem to have advanced knowledge of their aerial surroundings to optimise their flights #seabirds www.nature.com/articles/s41...