Location: Stora salen
Convenors: Masoero, Bize, and Moiron

10:30 Teplisky

Exploring birds responses to climate change: the role of plasticity and microevolution

11:00 Moiron

Phenological responses to a warming planet: evolutionary versus plastic changes

11:15 Boom

Earlier springs increase goose breeding propensity and hatching success at Arctic but not at temperate latitudes

11:30 Perrault

Seasonal effects of tawny owl plumage colouration on camouflage abilities in a changing climate: an experimental approach

11:45 Masoero

Changing body size and shape: exploring a highly-aerial migrant response to the changing climate

Location: Lilla salen
Convenors: Oregeret and Frankish

10:30 Delgado

Linking Dispersal Strategies with Population Dynamics: a case example with the eagle owl

11:00 Schumi

Nestling activity and body condition predict skill development and emigration in golden eagles

11:15 Orgeret

Habitat selection by dispersers: a comparison of prospecting and settlement phases in a long-lived raptor

11:30 Kralj

Regular prospecting of alternative colonies by actively breeding seabirds

11:45 Monti

Factors affecting prospecting behaviour of European rollers Coracias garrulus at breeding grounds

Location: Nya fest
Convenors: Cauchard, Quinn, Serrano, and Doligez

10:30 Chaine

Linking variation in cognition to behavioural flexibility in the face of global changes

11:00 Soravia

High temperatures during early development impact adult cognitive performance and reproductive success in a wild bird population

11:15 Troisi

Stopping behaviour in two gull species: factors influencing how individuals respond to changes in their environment

11:30 Klump

Foraging cognition in the city – how parrots thrive in an urban world

11:45 Cauchard

Exploring the links between cognition and reproductive success in free-living great tits (Parus major)

Location: Kerstins rum
Convenors: Hsu and Fuxjager

10:30 Fuxjager

History of avian androgenic systems and what it means for behavioural evolution

11:00 Jimeno

Glucocorticoids and energy expenditure across avian species: insights from macroecological and comparative approaches

11:15 Hsu

Roles of thyroid hormones in the physiology of avian migration: a phylogenetic comparative analysis

11:30 Lipshutz

Parallel phylotranscriptomics but not testosterone levels underlie the convergent evolution of aggression in cavity-nesting songbirds

11:45 Frankl-Vilches

Evolution of  Avian Hormone Regulatory Systems

Location: Gustafscenen
Convenors: Videvall, Davies, and Bodawatta

10:30 Videvall

Exploring the avian microbiome: A review of the field

11:00 Worsley

Investigating the drivers and fitness consequences of gut microbiome variation in wild birds

11:15 White

Evaluating the dysbiotic impact of urbanisation on the microbiome of birds

11:30 Wlodarzcyk

Variation in gut microbiome composition during autumn migration in Charadrii waders

11:45 Baars

Phylogenetic and environmental factors shaping feather and preen gland bacteriome composition and functional properties

Location: Stora salen
Chair: Susi Jenni-Eiermann

15:30 Somveille

An ecological model of avian migratory connectivity

15:45 Baillie

The Eurasian African Bird Migration Atlas – documenting migration and movements using ringing and tracking data

16:00 Lindström

Detailed observations of the annual migration routine of a bird rarely observed

16:15 Rime

Multi-sensor geolocators unveil global and local movements in an Alpine-breeding long-distance migrant

16:30 Silva

Vegetation greenness and microclimate refugia influence the migration timings of a threatened grassland bird

16:45 Chernetsov

Сrossing the arid plains of central  Eurasia from Europe to India by songbirds

Location: Lilla salen
Chair: Dan Chamberlain

15:30 Linssen

Migratory swans adjust their wintering area to a warming climate

15:45 Rubolini

Impact of climate change on high-elevation birds in the Alps according to ecologically realistic Species Distribution Models

16:00 Schreven

Extreme and rapid range expansion by arctic geese: coping with climate change?

16:15 Ausems

Where have all the petrels gone? 40 years of environmental change and population dynamics of Wilson’s storm-petrels

16:30 Mermillon

Early breeders have greater nest failure rates but better nestling quality in an alpine population of Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe)

16:45 Syposz

Adjustment of an Arctic seabird to the changing environment

Location: Nya fest
Chair: Katarzyna Wojczulanis-Jakubas 

15:30 Aulsebrook

Quantifying shorebird mating behaviour using accelerometry and machine learning

15:45 Tóth

The relationship between mating systems and spermatoza characteristics in shorebirds

16:00 Ferraz

Using GPS and accelerometer data to study the breeding behaviour of two sandgrouse species

16:15 Zhang

Brood parasitism risk drives birds to breed near humans

16:30 Staniewicz

Tropical forest birds differ in acoustic-space competition-avoidance strategies

16:45 Sokołowska

Interspecific competition for acoustic space -– chiffchaff males avoid temporal and spectral masking of their song

Location: Kerstins rum
Chair: Carina Nebel

15:30 Frias Soler

A multiomics approach to the molecular aspects of the migratory phenotype of the Northern Wheatear

15:45 Liukkonen

How season and latitude correlate with the gut microbiome of great tits (Parus major) across the European continent

16:00 –

16:15 Caballero Lopez

Two genetic loci behind migratory direction in willow warblers combining genome analyses with years of geolocator data

16:30 Diez-Méndez

Indirect maternal effects via nest microbiome composition drives gut colonization in altricial chicks

16:45 Song

Conservation genomics of sibling grouse species in boreal forest in Northern Eurasia and the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Location: Gustafscenen
Chair: Crinan Jarrett

15:30 Soriano

Unravelling the scale of illegal online trade of bird species

15:45 Duriez

Can movement ecology help finding mitigation measures to reduce demographic impact of wind turbine mortalities of Lesser kestrels? 

16:00 Brambilla

Bottom-up approaches to bird conservation in vineyards are effective and may enhance ecosystem services

16:15 Izquierdo

Human perception of bird ecosystem services and disservices  in an urban land sharing/land sparing context

16:30 Strubbe

Mechanistic models project bird invasions with accuracy

16:45 Haukka

The iratebirds – citizen science project: A dataset of birds’ visual aesthetic attractiveness to humans

Location: Stora salen
Chair: Zoltan Nemeth

10:30 Thorup

Long-term changes in the movement  patterns of European migrants

10:45 Howard

Explaining and predicting trans-Saharan  bird migration under global change

11:00 Sapir

Bird migration in a changing world: stopover distributions, selectivity of meteorological conditions and a drastic long-term decline studied by a network of radars in the Middle-East

11:15 Mann

Fine-scale environmental drivers of flight altitude in nocturnal migrant birds 'and conflict with terrestrial windfarms: a predictive approach using marine radar

11:30 Beal

Identifying important sites for migratory waterbirds from a connectivity perspective: a case study in the East Atlantic Flyway

11:45 Weisshaupt

Bird migration modelling in Finland using citizen science, population data and weather prediction model

Location: Lilla salen
Chair: Jan-Åke Nilsson

10:30 Mouillec

Effects of parental age on offspring life history trajectories in the Alpine swift

10:45 Wang

The selective effect of winter weather on the morphology of black-throated tits (Aegithalos concinnus) depends on winter conditions and is sex-specific

11:00 Vincente Sastre

Non-breeding carry-over effects on the breeding performance of three long-lived migratory seabirds

11:15 Bucciolini

Colour morph specific variation in survival and reproduction across Europe in the tawny owl Strix aluco

11:30 Krams

Extra-pair paternity explains cooperation  in the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca)

11:45 Almasi

RFID-based weighing units shed light on body mass development after fledging, which affects the timing of natal dispersal and juvenile survival

Location: Nya fest
Chair: Helena Westerdahl

10:30 Penttinen

Natal dispersal behaviour and habitat selection of the white-tailed eagle revealed by molecular genotyping

10:45 Bloch

Combining radio-telemetry and radar measurements to test aerial optimal foraging of an insectivore and its insect prey

11:00 Siddiqi-Davies 

Does Environmental Variability Determine Shearwater Over-Wintering Distribution, Behaviour and Phenology?

11:15 Ma

Can pied flycatcher nestlings distinguish songs from social fathers and strangers?

11:30 Fülöp

Groups with a more diverse personality composition have a more egalitarian social structure

11:45 Acácio

Ageing in nature: examining lifelong changes in movement and social behaviour of griffon vultures

Location: Kerstins rum
Chair: Suvi Ruuskanen

10:30 Mohring

Breeding under predation threat: A long-term study of corticosterone levels and parental investment in incubating female common eiders

10:45 Marton

The oxidative physiology of moult: three experiments on house sparrows

11:00 Minias

Blood oxygen-carrying capacity and foraging behaviour in a colonial gull: an experimental study

11:15 Xiong

Telomere dynamics, heritability and immunity  – a comprehensive case study in zebra finches

11:30 Capilla-Lasheras

Drivers of variation in the gut microbiome of urban blue tits

11:45 Dominoni

The effects of urbanisation on daily rhythms of songbirds: new insights from parallel recording of activity and body temperature around the clock

Location: Gustafscenen
Chair: Bengt Hansson

10:30 O'Connor

Coevolution of cooperative breeding and immunity across the bird tree of life

10:45 Brommer

Variance components of egg pigmentation in the blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus

11:00 Martin

The genomics of avian adaptation and speciation: from oceanic to sky islands

11:15 Bensch

The evolutionary history of “suboptimal” migration routes

11:30 Pap

Phylogenetic relationships of immune function and oxidative physiology with sexual selection and parental effort are sex-specific in birds

11:45 Kraft

Species Recognition and Song Memory in Nestling Flycatchers

Location: Stora salen
Convenors: Sjöberg and Meier

15:30 Meier

More sensors more insight? Recent discoveries and new promises

16:00 Nussbaumer

GeoPressureR: Introduction and case studies

16:15 Norevik

Lunar correlates in bird flight activity and movement ecology

16:30 Becciu

Interplay between internal and external factors in shaping Barn Owl (Tyto alba) movement

16:45 Bontekoe

Combining life-time tracking with experiments to understand factors influencing the development of white stork migration

Location: Lilla salen
Convenors: Arcilla and Strazds

15:30 Arcilla

Not the usual suspects: a global review of unconventional challenges and approaches in bird conservation research

16:00 Strazds

“Green” hydroelectric dams and the plight of Black Storks in Latvia 

16:15 Boissier

The fetish market of Lomé, Togo: An alarming hotspot for the international trade of both common and globally threatened bird species

16:30 Su

Conservation of birds traded in East Asia: the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in citizen science monitoring

16:45 Brown

A major myna problem; invasive predator removal benefits female survival and population growth of a translocated island endemic

Location: Nya fest
Convenors: Burant, Burgess, and Freeman

15:30 Freeman

The importance of precipitation in shaping avian physiology, behaviour, and demography

16:00 Lopez Idiaquez

Temperature and precipitation are associated with plumage colour complexity in the Paridae

16:15 Burant

From first rainfall to future phenological flexibility: early life environmental conditions affect plasticity in the timing of reproduction in hole-nesting passerines

16:30 Burgess

Demographic and environmental drivers of long-term population dynamics of British breeding Pied flycatcher

16:45 Silber

Precipitation timing, elevation, and life history traits mediate relationships between  precipitation and avian reproductive success: A global meta-analysis

Location: Kerstins rum
Convenors: Sepers and Chen

15:30 Sepers

A reflection on the current state of the field of avian ecological epigenetics

16:00 van Oers

The origin of epigenetic variation in birds

16:15 Chen

Variation in DNA methylation in avian nestlings is largely determined by  genetic effects

16:30 Tangili

Epigenetic clocks as biomarkers of ageing in non-model species: past, present, and future

16:45 Piirto

Epigenetic effects of early-life radionuclide stress in natural population of birds

Location: Gustafscenen
Convenors: Strehmann, Chyb, and Matson

15:30 Adelman

Susceptibility, resistance, and tolerance across ecological and evolutionary contexts: the makings of super-spreaders and reservoir species?

16:00 Hegemann

Bacterial, viral and blood parasite infections as modulators of physiology and behaviour

16:15 van Mastrigt

Immune defences trade-off against  growth and reproductive investments

16:30 Strehmann

Blood parasites in forest birds: Half of the birds are infected

16:45 Richardson

Avian malaria (and pox) in Berthelot’s pipit; using divergent island populations to identify genes linked to pathogen infection

Location: Stora salen
Convenors: Sutton, and Mainwaring

10:30 Sutton

Out from the cold: the importance of winter ecology in a changing world

11:00 Nord

Is rest-phase hypothermia in the little bird in winter a blessing or a curse?

11:15 Davies

Gut microbiome underlying winter adaptations in wild populations of great tits (Parus major)

11:30 Mainwaring

Energetic savings from roosting inside cavities during winter and summer 

11:45 Morosinotto

Energetics of tawny owl colour morphs  in response to controlled experimental cold conditions

Location: Lilla salen
Convenors: Jarrett, Nwaogu, and Helm

10:30 Nwaogu

Fitting birds’ annual cycle events to seasonal fluctuations in the Afro-tropics

11:00 Pev

Seasonal utilization by birds of secondary forest in an agricultural landscape in West Africa

11:15 Newell

Dynamic response of arthropods to rainfall extremes drives locally asynchronous nesting of tropical insectivores

11:30 Marcacci

Climatic conditions and seasonal variations of the vegetation modulate the positive effects of habitat restoration for birds in Burkina Faso 

11:45 Requena-Moreno

European Turtle-doves wintering in Africa: tracking movements, habitat and conservation

Location: Nya fest
Convenors: Arzel, Ask, and Bottini

10:30 Gabrielsen

Environmental pollution (levels and effects)  in Arctic breeding seabirds

11:00 Campioni

Exposure of an endangered seabird predator to persistent organic pollutants: assessing levels in blood and relationship with hatching success

11:15 Watson

Anticoagulant rodenticides: causes and  consequences of secondary exposure of a predatory bird

11:30 Gray

Measuring exposure of legacy persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in a long-lived migratory bird

11:45 Verreault

Tracking contaminant Levels in Air from the Back of a Gull: The Landfill Effect

Location: Kerstins rum
Convenors: Nilsson and Cohen

10:30 Shamoun-Baranes

How flight generalists utilize the dynamic properties of the boundary layer

11:00 Williams

The challenges of gaining height in soaring flight reduced by social sampling of vertical airflows

11:15 Wayman

Birds over Birmingham: Patterns of airspace use by birds above an urban area

11:30 de Zwaan

Using thermal imaging to assess stratification of the nocturnal migrant community and quantify taxonomic-specific collision risk with terrestrial windfarms

11:45 Roy

Predictive modelling of bird migration flows using weather radars

Location: Gustafscenen
Convenors: Kärkkäinen and Salmon

10:30 Marasco

Unravelling the physiological adaptations for avian migration: lessons from integrative approaches

11:00 Kärkkäinen

Migratory effort, telomeres, and mitochondrial density

11:15 Salmon

An organelle perspective on avian migration: linking mitochondrial number and migratory plasticity

11:30 Vagasi

Oxidative state is associated with migration distance, but not flight-related parameters across European birds

11:45 Jimenez Gallardo

Do blackcaps self-medicate to reduce oxidative stress associated with flight effort and parasites?

Location: Stora salen
Chair: Ivan Maggini

14:00 Brlik

Time dependencies across stages of the annual cycle in migratory birds

14:15 Border

Spatial variation in the phenology of Afro-Palearctic bird migration across Europe

14:30 Dale

Among-species variation in avian migration timing over 60 years: effects of ecology and life-history

14: 45 Ramellini

Spatio-temporal ecological gradients in the Sahelian belt affect non-breeding movements and pre-breeding migration timing of lesser kestrels Falco naumanni

Location: Lilla salen
Chair: Anders Brodin

14:00 van Irsel

Impacts of arbovirus outbreaks on wild bird populations in the Netherlands

14:15 Cresswell

Expanding ranges in sociable species of conservation concern: 30 years of corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) monitoring in Scotland show range decreases which are not regained even as populations recover

14:30 Samotskaya

Using machine learning for automatic detection of three conservation priority bird species in Okinawa

14: 45 Sattler

Acoustic monitoring to improve information on breeding status of secretive species

Location: Nya fest
Chair: Staffan Bensch

14:00 Sumasgutner

Drone impacts on a bird flock: Rapid physiological habituation and behavioural response in greylag geese (Anser anser)

14:15 Özgencil

Factors driving the breeding microhabitat preferences of two endangered ducks in a shallow lake as revealed by a multidisciplinary approach

14:30 Kirby

Patterns and drivers of landscape and local habitat use by UK Hawfinches during the breeding season and late winter

14: 45 Baroni

Movement patterns and habitat selection of breeding pygmy owls differ between the boreal and the alpine forests

Location: Kerstins rum
Chair: Peter Pap

14:00 Emmenegger

The MalAvi database – both a treasure chest and a hard nut to crack

14:15 Ferraguti

Human and time-related impacts on avian malaria infections in native and introduced populations of house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

14:30 van Toor

What makes a host a vector? A comparison of movement, habitat use, and exposure to sources of antimicrobial resistant bacteria of gull species

14: 45 Klumpp

Sex makes the difference: High immune function predicts both high and low local survival probability in Common Blackbirds (Turdus merula)

Location: Gustafscenen
Chair: Caroline Isaksson

14:00 Costa

Long-term monitoring in Metal Pollution: Using Bird Feathers as Indicator

14:15 Saulnier

Assessing the effects of different metal cocktails on avian physiology

14:30 Ziegler

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate  oxidative stress response to air pollution and immune challenge

14: 45 Raab

Investigating the main mortality reasons of the European Red Kite population by high-resolution GPS telemetry tracking

Location: Stora salen
Chair: Andreas Nord

15:30 Briedis

Advancing spring phenology: the overlooked importance of spring duration and variability for populations dynamics of birds

15:45 Halupka

Changing offspring production in a warming world: a case study of reed warblers

16:00 Bosco

Increasing winter temperatures explain declines in body size of boreal birds

16:15 Both

Trophic mismatches in pied flycatchers? Long-term data on food-dynamics, diets and fitness

16:30 Gallego Rubalcaba

Mechanistic modeling of the impacts of climate change on avian energetics

16:45 Corregidor-Castro

Heatwaves impair reproduction in a Mediterranean raptor

Location: Lilla salen
Chair: Susanne Åkesson 

15:30 Gatt

Ecological conditions experienced during reproduction do not affect individual differences  in migratory behaviour in a long-lived bird

15:45 Lamers

The determinants of migratory connectivity: a pied flycatcher common garden experiment & range-wide tracking

16:00 Raj Pant

Individual variation in the migratory  strategies of a long-lived seabird

16:15 Nolet

Sentinel swans to guard the weak link in their chain of migratory stopovers

16:30 Ilieva

Inherited differences of migratory phenotypes in two Acrocephalus warblers in relation to geomagnetic field parameters

16:45 Pavlinec

Different foraging activities of the Common Tern along the eastern and western flyways

Location: Nya fest
Chair: Susanne Åkesson

15:30 Alba

Avalanche create unique habitats for birds in the Alps

15:45 Westerduin

DNA metabarcoding reveals the complexity and flexibility of boreal bird-insect food webs

16:00 Marcolin

Alien bird species decrease taxonomic and functional but not phylogenetic, diversity of invaded bird communities

16:15 Ausprey

Functional Mechanisms for Disturbance Sensitivity of Avian Communities in the Alps and Andes

16:30 Väli

Efficiency of raptors as biodiversity indicators: is multispecies movement ecology the key?

16:45 Berlusconi

Multi-scale determinants of intra-guild competition between lesser kestrels and red-footed falcons breeding in the intensive farmland habitats of Northern Italy

Location: Kerstins rum
Chair: Kevin Matson 

15:30 Malkoc

Inferring whole-organism metabolic rate from red blood cells in birds

15:45 Pacioni

Seasonal variation in thermoregulatory capacity of three closely related Afrotropical Estrildid finches introduced to Europe

16:00 Broggi

Consequences of short-term individual variation in the cost of living: an experimental study in wild great tits

16:15 Correia

Developmental temperature affects mitochondrial respiration and morphology in Japanese quail

16:30 Engert

Using metabolic data to uncover  the ontogeny of endothermy in altricial birds

16:45 Anand

Individual variation in extreme phenotypes in Snow Bunting, an Arctic cold specialist

Location: Gustafscenen
Chair: Caroline Isaksson

15:30 Reid

Does urbanisation lead to poor health? A global meta-analysis on birds

15:45 Urhan

Behavioural and cognitive differences between rural and urban great tits – A common garden study

16:00 Regaiolo

Aridity and demography drive the Luxury Effect: Influences on bird diversity patterns in cities

16:15 Pitt

Pitt: Environmental constraints can explain clutch size differences between urban and forest blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus): insights from an egg removal experiment 

16:30 Passarotto

Lowered capacity of a nocturnal predator (Strix aluco) to detect prey under experimental noise and light pollution

16:45 Jiménez-Peñuela

Effects of urbanization and malaria infection on the oxidative status of wild birds