IBIS – Best ECR paper of 2024
Our Associate Editors considered 38 IBIS papers, published in 2024, whose first or corresponding author was an Early Career Researcher (ECR), nominating their favourites. The top-ranking papers are now being put to a public vote to select the Best ECR IBIS Paper of 2024.
We are extremely grateful to Leica Camera (UK) for their continued support of this award.
Check out the nominees below and then vote for your favourite.
Voting closes: 21 March 2025
The nominees are….
(ECR author in bold type)
Differential impact of anthropogenic noise during the acoustic development of begging calls in Blue Tits (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Javier Sierro, Selvino R. de Kort, Ian R. Hartley
Estimating sampling biases in citizen science datasets
Louis J. Backstrom, Corey T. Callaghan, Hannah Worthington, Richard A. Fuller, Alison Johnston
When slow explorers are fast: Personality‐related differences in timing of migration in Red Knots (Calidris canutus)
Selin Ersoy, Ton G. G. Groothuis, Theunis Piersma, Allert I. Bijleveld
Using citizen science image analysis to measure seabird phenology
Alice J. Edney, Jóhannis Danielsen, Sébastien Descamps, Jón Einar Jónsson, Ellie Owen, Flemming Merkel, Róbert A. Stefánsson, Matt J. Wood, Mark J. Jessopp, Tom Hart
Image credits
Blue Tit nest | Richard Waller CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons
Crested Pigeon | JJ Harrison CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons
Red Knot | Dick Daniels CC BY-SA 3.0 Wikimedia Commons
Black-legged Kittiwake | Gregory “Slobirdr” Smith CC BY-SA 2.0 Wikimedia Commons
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