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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...

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/...

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...

8/ We can combine laboratory and field measurements to calculate the energetic costs of movement and to quantify the annual energy expenditure in relation to migration distance. This allows us to compare different migration strategies www.nature.com/articles/s41...

9/ Radar allows us to monitor migration movements, allowing us to assess bird migration traffic. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a... Using military radars allows us to predict where high fluxes of birds may be to prevent accidents with aircraft besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

10/ We can use this technology to understand and forecast migration impacts for wind energy developments E.g. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...