Sangeeth Sailas
PhD student @JihoceskaUni studying ecology of raptors 🦉🦅 Mortality - Foraging ecology - Interspecific interactions
Formerly @SACON, India.
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- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasNew wadertales blog on how quickly juvenile godwits learn to feed efficiently through their first winter: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/02/05/l... From new @asab.org paper led by Josh Nightingale: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasWe’re hoping to reach £10,000 this weekend to secure Little Tern wardening at Beacon Ponds in 2026. Every share helps. Thank you. 🔗 gofund.me/31d302f20
- A PhD chapter that I'm very proud of is finally out in @ecol-evol.bsky.social!🦉 Using nestbox cameras from 4 countries, we explored interactive effects of habitat quality &weather on provisioning &prey composition 🪱🪲🐀in Little Owls -a rapidly declining farmland raptor. #RaptorResearch #Ornithology
- From 40 nestboxes and 58 broods, >40,000 prey delivered, we found that across populations, provisioning rates and biomass increased with habitat quality (area of grasslands, gardens and hedges) around the nestbox. We also found that high-quality habitats buffered against adverse weather effects 💨🧊
- To know how Little Owls 🦉 achieve this, through shifts in prey composition 🪲🦗🐁 that are dependent on habitat quality and weather, see the paper! Big thanks to our collaborators from Switzerland @vogelwarte.bsky.social @matthiastschumi.bsky.social, the Netherlands and Slovakia!
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasDiversity=good: “Our results show that editorial diversification is a practical lever for making peer review more inclusive & better aligned w the global distribution of ecological research. These changes make publication process fairer & improve the quality+global impact of the papers published.”
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasGrab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖 Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology ✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasTawny owls normally rely on sound to hunt, but new research being presented today at #BES2025 finds that owls in Glasgow are adapting to noisy roads by using street lights to hunt. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/tawny-owls-a...
- Very, very cool study looking at the effect of local population density on vocal individuality in Little Owls from my colleagues that is finally out! #Ornithology #RaptorResearch
- This one is finally out! We found that local conspecific density does affect vocal individuality in a non-learning species🦉. For more details, check out our new paper 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ornithology #bioacoustics #prattle
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- @malavika-m.bsky.social and I had a very successful birdwatching morning today with my supervisor Martin Šálek, and got great views of hovering Great Gray Shrikes and Rough-legged Buzzards in South Bohemia! 🦅 🐦 Unfortunately the last sunny morning for a while..
- Reposted by Sangeeth Sailas📣 Apply now for the 🌵CaCTüS 3-month fully funded internship in Germany in 2026! Work on ML, theor. neuroscience, computational psychiatry, behavioral experiments or data analysis at a top institution in Tübingen. For students facing barriers in higher education. 👉 cactus-internship.tuebingen.mpg.de
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasHen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries. 18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasThe date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
- Reposted by Sangeeth Sailas🐦Master Thesis Opportunity at Swiss Ornithological Institute @vogelwarte.bsky.social Explore the drivers of natal dispersal timing in birds through a meta-analysis. Ideal for students skilled in R and interested in avian ecology. www.vogelwarte.ch/en/about-us/...
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasExperimental Exposure to Noise Affects Hunting Behavior Already From a Young Age in a Nocturnal Acoustic Predator | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasWe're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasNEW PAPER: Parental anti-predator investment in red kites shifts with food conditions, reflecting both offspring vulnerability and reproductive value, with their relative importance changing across nestling age. ➡️ vist.ly/45uxb #ornithology #birds #RaptorResearch @vogelwarte.bsky.social
- Reposted by Sangeeth Sailas📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Special issue: FROM CHIRPS TO INSIGHTS: PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING FOR APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY More info: vist.ly/43vfp Guest editors: Jan O. Engler, Jenn Foote, @silvereyedom.bsky.social Simon Thorn #ornithology #birds 🪶🧪
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasThe new book State of the World’s Raptors, led by Executive Vice President of Science and Conservation Christopher McClure, PhD, provides an original approach to setting priorities for the conservation of raptors across the globe. Pre-order now: bit.ly/SotWR25 #RaptorResearch #Ornithology
- Was super excited to present our global analysis of raptor🦉🦅 mortality, effects of spec traits and Human footprint @eounion.bsky.social #EOU2025 in Bangor this week. Attended so many interesting talks and I'm thankful to all the new friends and connections made in the bird world :) #RaptorResearch
- Amazing poster of @sangeeth-sailas.bsky.social from JCU South Bohemia presenting one of his PHD chapter: global analysis of raptor, which raptors suffer from intentional mortality and deserve more protection measures at #EOU2025
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasSmelly birds at #EOU2025 🐦
- @dillensegerg.bsky.social gives a very interesting talk at #EOU2025 @eounion.bsky.social on the effect of rainfall on breeding phenology in Andean shorebirds! 🐣☔
- Reposted by Sangeeth Sailas[Please RT] Our collaborative project #BDBORS exploring the link between nesting phenology and substrate property, is still ongoing, with collected data in Asia and America. You monitor ground-nesting birds in tropics? Then consider joining us! Contact me :) #ornithology #birds #tropicalecology
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasCompetitive interactions among Gymnogyps californianus (California Condor) and other avian scavengers in southern Utah | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
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- We had a surprise visitor - a Eurasian Eagle owl (Bubo bubo) during one of our behavioural experiments with Tawny owls! In the spectrogram, you see the resident Tawny and the Eagle owl calling during the same time! #RaptorResearch #Ornithology #Behavior #Ecology
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasLooking for your first quantitative ecology post-doc? Then get in touch. I will be co-supervising a post-doc with Lourens Swanepoel (based in SA: @Univenofficial). You will have access to many awesome data sets and the focus will be on applying hierarchical models.
- This spring, we're collecting data for the 2nd year, looking at how territory quality influences aggression in Tawny owls in South Bohemia. Observing owls with a thermal scope changes the game and lets us capture really cool moments of individuals and pairs during the night🦉🤩 #RaptorResearch #Birds
- The pair! 🦉🦉
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasFledgling Sex Ratio Is Determined by Egg Loss, Hatching Order, Nestling Mortality, and Inter-Annual Food Fluctuations for Boreal Owls, Aegolius funereus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasEARLY VIEW in IBIS Foraging niche partitioning within a recently established guild of falcons | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Alessandro Berlusconi et al | #RaptorResearch #ornithology 🪶
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasWe hear lots of news about golden eagle mortality by wind turbines. However, this is not the largest source of mortality in the western US. Any guesses? Illegal shooting... Needless and disgusting! (Katzner et al. 2020, Millsap et al. 2022) #birdsofprey #raptorResearch #conservation #Birds
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasFor my first post here, i can't help but repost how I'm still collecting data for this project! If you have a digital camera and works with breeding shorebirds, please contact me! (Even here) Otherwise, repost please!
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasRaptor Poisoning in Europe Between 1996 and 2016: A Continental Assessment of the Most Affected Species and the Most Used Poisons | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2373 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
- Sounds like a very cool project! 🦉
- Short-eared #owl = our new study species on #Galapagos. We want to understand how movement, activity and predation patterns change when compared before & after eradication of #invasivespecies on #floreanaisland 📸 @BirdLabFlinders @KLF_UniVienna #birdwatching #researchinprogress
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasMoonlight predicts the timing and duration of parental behavior across latitudes in a diurnal songbird | link.springer.com/ar... | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | #ornithology 🪶
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasIf and when we get some clear, sunny days, February and March provide the best opportunity to record breeding Goshawks as they display over territories - here’s some encouragement from RBBP Secretary @markaeaton.bsky.social #ukbirding #ornithology youtu.be/hVgl6jYOX6A?...
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasJoin us NEXT WEEK on Thursday 2/20 for our Integrative Taxonomy Discovery webinar! At 12PM ET, Professor of Ornithology Per Alström will discuss how integrative taxonomy has replaced traditional morphology-based approaches & led to an increase in recognized species. Register below. buff.ly/42PNrOL
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasCourtship behavior of a secretive forest tinamou, Tinamus major (Great Tinamou) | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasPrioritizing conservation of threatened raptor species using synergistic distribution modeling of high potential areas in foothills of Eastern Himalayas, India | journals.sagepub.com... | Avian Biology Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
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- Reposted by Sangeeth SailasUpdated starter pack for Raptor Researchers and associated organisations. Also please follow the #RaptorResearch feed and don't forget to tag your research-related posts with that hashtag to appear in that feed go.bsky.app/5Z6YCspat://did:plc:3yywugexf2r2jkji6cljssfk/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lat5eljiuw26
