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Research interests

Theunis Piersma is the founder and scientific director of the RUG newly created interdisciplinary BirdEyes - Centre for Global Ecological Change at the Faculties of Science & Engineering and Campus Fryslân. BirdEyes is an experimental science and creative centre that views the world through the eyes of birds. More and more birds are flying around with tiny transmitters, loggers and other high technology on their backs and legs. This generates an unimaginable amount of information. By cleverly combining such data with other sources of information, and by using new ways to tell stories and share the insights with, BirdEyes strives to open up a new knowledge network. The centre aims to be an innovative part of the University of Groningen, with empirical and inspirational roots in the farthest corners of the world.

Publications

An allometric approach to seasonal changes in intake rates of migratory shorebirds in the Bijagós Archipelago, Guinea-Bissau

Biometric variability and sexual size dimorphism in the Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris

Black-tailed Godwits (Limosa limosa limosa) in France (Vendée & Charente Maritime) during spring migration: Habitat descriptions and finding colour marked birds from 6 – 15 March 2024

De geest in het beest. Het zijn van Charles Foster

Does early spring arrival lead to early nesting in a migratory shorebird? Insights from remote tracking

Flyways Beyond Migratory Pathways: The Case of Waterbird Conservation

Global temperature homogenization can obliterate temporal isolation in migratory animals with potential loss of population structure

Grutto Landschap Project Jaarverslag 2023: De staat van ons landschap: Biomonitoring van duurzame landbouw innovaties

High dispersal ability versus migratory traditions: Fine-scale population structure and post-glacial colonisation in bar-tailed godwits

Icelandic Whimbrel first migration: Non-stop until West Africa, yet later departure and slower travel than adults

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Press/media

Kabinet riskeert miljoenenboetes van Brussel als het niet meer doet om de grutto te redden

Het leven van een gruttokuiken

Gratis app maakt vogels kijken in Waddengebied gemakkelijk

Waakvogels - Herauten van verandering op de Wadden

Mysterie van de reuzenkolibrie opgelost: het is niet één soort, het zijn twee soorten

Environmental researchers are watching the world end: 'It got so dark, so empty and quiet'

Lezing van Theunis Piersma: 'Seizoenstrek van dieren, of hoe trekvogels ons de weg kunnen wijzen'

Hoe grutto Sarilhos via Ierland toch in de Nederlandse polder belandde

Wetenschappers aan kabinet: natuur is geen luxe-dingetje, stem vóór de natuurherstelwet

Oudste ooievaar kent de kortste route

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