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Recording and research Automated identification of individual birds by song (Nature Methods, 2026) AI that recognises individual ovenbirds from their song across four years of recordings. Artportalen Sweden’s species observation system. xeno-canto Wildlife sound recordings shared by recordists around the world. EuroBirdPortal Live maps of bird movements across Europe, built from birders’ records. Movebank Animal tracking data from studies around the world. Spotted nutcracker seed caching data (Dryad) Where nutcrackers cache Swiss stone pine seeds in the Alps, with canopy openness and soil moisture at each site. Neuschulz et al., Journal of Animal Ecology. Spotted nutcracker GPS tracks by age (Zenodo) Hourly GPS of 72 nutcrackers near Davos, 2017–2023, juveniles and adults: young birds range three times wider and cache higher. Graf et al. 2025, Proc. R. Soc. B. Stone pine seedlings at nutcracker caching sites (Zenodo) Seedlings, saplings, soil moisture and canopy cover at 22 caching sites near Davos. Trabold, Graf & Neuschulz 2026, Alpine Botany. ICARUS Tracking animals from space, at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. BTO Cuckoo Tracking Satellite-tagged cuckoos followed on migration to Africa and back. BTO British Trust for Ornithology. Portland Bird Observatory Ringing and sightings from Portland Bill, Dorset. openVertebrate (oVert) 3D scans of museum vertebrate specimens, free to use. Earth Species Project Research into animal communication. BirdLife Sverige Sweden’s bird conservation organisation. All About Birds News and guides from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Featherbase A reference collection of photographed feathers, searchable by species. Light Pollution Map Satellite light-pollution layers and dark-sky ratings for anywhere. Sámi reindeer herding areas Map of the Sámi herding villages and their land across Sweden. Nordregio. Reading Seed dispersal by scatter-hoarding corvids Mario Pesendorfer on jays, nutcrackers and the oaks and pines they plant. BOU blog, 2016. Scatter-hoarding birds disperse seeds to sites unfavourable for plant regeneration Sorensen and others followed nutcrackers caching Swiss stone pine seeds around Davos. Movement Ecology, 2022. Jays and Crows Act as Ecosystem Engineers How forgotten caches turn into forests. Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Flying Trees Trees that spend their lives growing on other trees, usually rowan in alder, from seeds left by birds. Woodland Trust. Rowan tree mythology and folklore Trees for Life. Inside the Bizarre, Secretive World of Obsessive Egg Thieves Emma Bryce on egg collectors who still raid nests. Audubon, 2016. Sweden’s Green Veneer Hides Unsustainable Logging Practices Erik Hoffner on clear-cutting behind Sweden’s green image. Yale Environment 360. How light pollution disrupts plants’ senses Ally Hirschlag. BBC Future, 2023. In medieval England, leprosy bounced between humans and squirrels Red squirrel bones from Winchester carry leprosy closely related to the strain in people buried there. Science, 2024. Israeli forces demolish seed multiplication unit of UAWC’s seed bank On the loss of Palestine’s seed bank in Hebron. La Via Campesina, 2025. Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 2012. The Things Peter Watts retells The Thing from the creature’s side. Clarkesworld, 2010. We Need to Rewild the Internet Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon on taking the internet back from big tech, borrowing ideas from ecology. Noema, 2024. Apocalypse Now and Then Arundhati Roy on AI as a new kind of colonisation and capitalism’s final destination. Equator, 2026. A familiar garden bird in an unfamiliar world Barbara Mizumo Tomotani on great tits settling into Arctic light and cold on Tromsøya, Norway. ArcticToday, 2026. Books Speak, Bird, Speak Again Palestinian folktales collected by Ibrahim Muhawi and Sharif Kanaana. Ways of Being James Bridle on animal, plant and machine intelligence, 2022. The Mushroom at the End of the World Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing on matsutake, pine forests and life in ruined landscapes, 2015. Staying with the Trouble Donna Haraway on making kin across species, 2016. Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake on fungi, 2020. Natura Urbana Matthew Gandy on the wild ecologies of cities, 2022. The Right to Be Cold Sheila Watt-Cloutier on the Arctic, climate and Inuit rights, 2015. Flatland Edwin A. Abbott’s 1884 story of a world in two dimensions. Free on Project Gutenberg. © Darren Banks. Photographs and text. Umeå, Sweden
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