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(by Petra Sumasgutner) Kestrel chicks in urban centres are paler than their brightly yellow-and orange coloured rural conspecifics, and show lower blood levels of antioxidants (circulating carotenoids). Both indicate that urban food webs are poor in carotenoids, starting with plants - caterpillars - birds and rodent prey - and accumulating in kestrels. In intensively farmed areas of Finland, food shortages during a low vole year revealed striking sex differences: females with

(by Petra Sumasgutner, Celiwe Ngcamphalala & Susan Cunningham) Red-winged starlings are a lively part of campus life at the University of Cape Town — bold, vocal, and famously fond of stealing student snacks! These charismatic birds are also the focus of long-term research by the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology and the Konrad Lorenz Research Center, exploring how wildlife adapts to city living. By colour-ringing individuals and even training them to hop onto digi

The University of Vienna is recruiting female candidates in the so-called E-STEEM programme ( https://careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e-steem ), a fellowship specifically supporting outstanding female postdoctoral researchers. I am a registered host for the call ( https://careers.univie.ac.at/.../faculty-of-life-sciences ), and would be offering a 4-year position. From my experience, longer-term postdoc contracts like this are rare and can truly open doors for independent, fu