Tamara Volkmer

PhD student at Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior | Partecke Lab | Blackbirds! | partial migration, juvenile dispersal and sensory ecology

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

Such beautiful Data! Our Blackbirds have some hidden gems in their migration behaviour

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending the winter in warm climates. https://t.co/KxFUCpM4tY

[GiselaKopp | giselakopp.bsky.social @gisela_kopp]

"...female postdocs with caring responsibilities stand out from other subgroup analyses. We find that mothers are most unhappy, depressed, anxious, stressed by care work and their work as postdocs. They report more personal conflicts ...and are most socially isolated."

[Kristaps Sokolovskis @k_sokolovskis]

Team "Willow Warbler" proudly presents:
Two loci that both follow dominant inheritance and interact via epistasis explain 74% of variation in migration direction in willow warblers!

@VioJagger @johnsas_k @StaffanBensch @Susanne_Akesson

https://t.co/M7b5LbnIJ6

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

@chorlnev @UniKonstanz Congrats Dr. Lina!!!

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

@lazaroillustrat it’s a female moth :) i don’t now the species exactly, but something like this: Lycia alpina https://t.co/owJurb4E0U

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

More from our Blackbird migration research 📡 Which cues 🌬❄️🌧🌫☀️ influence the start of migration across Europe

[Nils Linek @nilslinek]

Our newest publication is online! We show how populations of a small songbird with different overwintering strategies decide when to start their migration and which environmental cues influence this decision-making process #birdmigration @MPI_animalbehav
https://t.co/4EzOU3cbJ7

[Dr Lucy A Hawkes @DrLucyHawkes]

OUT TODAY: 'Measuring physiology in free living animals' read about the cutting edge of tech development & what studying animal physiology can teach us: https://t.co/8tlaPOF4Gq (and yes, there's a Part 2 in 2 wks!) #physiology #biologging (1/3)

[Nils Linek @nilslinek]

I’m proud to present our first results on the #energetics in free-living Eurasian #blackbirds – a field study of physiology and brand new insights into how small #songbirds deal with a seasonal world.
#animaltracking #biologging
https://t.co/voaV3jbdgr @RSocPublishing
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[Petr Procházka @rytikerttunen.bsky.social @rytikerttunen]

Isn't the intraspecific variation in migration strategies amazing? – This Czech Blackbird stayed within the borders of a small town for the last 6 months. Meanwhile, another Blackbird travelled from Belarus to Albania and back... | #ICARUSInitiative #birdmigration #ornithology

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

Very nice blog post by @chorlnev & @RohrVroni about our recent paper on neoptile feathers! Check it out!

[Clemens Kuepper @chorlnev]

Tiny feathers help to conceal chicks. First paper by @RohrVroni suggests previously unknown function of neoptile feathers https://t.co/UcH3Ulshgy

Blog post: https://t.co/695xefeK2X

#ornithology #shorebirds #SnowyPlover #camouflage

[VroniRohr @RohrVroni]

Great news!!
My first paper was just published 🎉
I'm really happy the my Master thesis project on the camouflage of the pretty little snowy plover chicks has found such a nice end.
https://t.co/SVxbItf0s4
#ornithology #shorebirds #SnowyPlover #camouflage

[Clemens Kuepper @chorlnev]

New insights into brood desertion by female #SnowyPlovers from #Ceuta published today in @BehavEcol https://t.co/WgXYZgHEEm #ornithology #shorebirds #parentalcare

[Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano @GomezSerrano_MA]

Can leisure and birds coexist on beaches?
Dog walking on beaches is one of the human activities that has the greatest impact on the breeding of coastal birds. Open thread 1⃣/1⃣2⃣:
https://t.co/LXXBy1tBxs; https://t.co/dvAkjCXvK5
@WaderStudy @nature_org @_BTO @britishbirds

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

The star of the show: Our blackbirds, equipped with the amazing ICARUS Tags! Go blackbirds, fly and teach us how your world looks like!

[Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior @animaltracking]

Songbirds get a voice: they report how they perceive life. What they like, where they die. ICARUS is starting its 1st global project. https://t.co/tju9VO8qNo @CONTEXTFILM @unikonstanz @maxplanckpress @CBehav @RolandKays @Kasper_Thorup @DLR_en @SpaceTechSTI

[Patrick Earith @ArthriticPeak]

Nowt like a bit of help putting the gazebo away, eh.... #blackbird #notaworm #Springwatch2020 @BBCSpringwatch

[Russ McSpadden @PeccaryNotPig]

A coyote and a badger use a culvert as a wildlife crossing to pass under a busy California highway together. Coyotes and badgers are known to hunt together.

🎥Peninsula Open Space Trust

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Hours of daylight as a function of day of the year and latitude. Took me a second to read this chart. Totally worth the second of effort. A marvellous animation. Source: https://t.co/pJk5c4vM2z

[Yachang Cheng @YachangC]

First paper out in @Ecol_Evol ! Check it out when and where white stork juveniles die? Only 15.79% of storks went to Sub-Saharan Africa for first winter and had lowest survival.
https://t.co/XDxEiu484s

[Tamara Volkmer @tamara_volkmer]

A week of catching and radio-tagging juvenile Blackbirds in France together with 15 enthusiastic #youngscientists is sadly over now. The kids were amazing, although getting up so early! Next time, we will use #ICARUS Tags! #Outreach #MaxCine @animaltracking