Gavin Thomas

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

#BestLife

@foulshaw2.bsky.social

Injustice indeed mate. We saw a male Kentish Plover at Chalk Bank that day too and some claim that wasn't bird of the day. #waders #shorebirds

Area of cut reed at RSPB Saltholme

Well camouflaged Jack Snipe squatting in cut reeds (bottom right of the image).

Jack Snipe sat in cut reeds

Jack Snipe sat in cut reeds

Cutting reedbeds helps slow succession, diversifies structure & provides better viewing of wildlife. This cut area @rspbengland.bsky.social #Saltholme is currently hosting up to 9 #JackSnipe. Lots of happy #birders enjoying close views of the bobbing camo masters today. #RSPBEcology

Cheers for the call Scabz!

Simply beyond belief. 🤬 #Swifts

What happens when the mud disappears? The Yellow Sea provides important ‘service stations’ for shorebirds on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, especially on their way north to Russian and Alaskan breeding areas. In a thought-provokin…

What happens to shorebirds when the mud disappears?
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#ornithology

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“To be a birder is to fall in love. Obsessively, irrevocably and, perhaps, foolishly. This love, it creeps up on you.”

This bird is owning us! Ace to see you today pal, despite the conspiracy 😂.

Very exciting job opportunity @rspbscience.bsky.social!
Help us track wader chicks & their prey to evaluate & improve interventions to address high levels of wader chick predation.

7 month contract, based @rspbengland.bsky.social Nene Washes.

🛎️Deadline 2nd Nov
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists

Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/

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It's not often #Liverpool Bay is the envy of UK birders, but when everything aligns & #LeachsPetrels are dancing along the beach just feet away, it's a special place to be. Here's @dan-gornall.bsky.social's day being made on Wallasey beach. #StormAmy. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

#StormAmy delivered today with a decent tally of wind-blown #seabirds on the Mersey. 35+ #LeachsPetrel the undoubted highlight. Here's two having a little feed together whilst battling out of the river mouth just beyond the #NewBrighton breakwaters. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

Excellent stuff Paul.

😂 Makes me smile every time I see that scribble.

Record breaking day at #Seaforth with 83 species seen, my highest day total there ever. Highlights were a male Hen Harrier heading stratospherically high SW, the Grey Phalarope showing much better, 5 juv Curlew Sands, juv Little Stint, Spotted Redshank, 2 Ruff & a juv Black Tern. #Lancsbirding

And here's @petekinsella.bsky.social and Phal.

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Our species is a disgrace and doesn't deserve this beautiful, irreplaceable planet.

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💚 #Waders #Shorebirds

Remember, birding is there for you.

Pleased to see this getting discussed. There is a total lack of support in the UK for people with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome suffering Craniocervical Instability.

We've been on this awful journey & fundraised for major neurosurgery in Spain, it saved Liv's life when NHS wouldn't help.

#EDS #CCI

Dreamy stuff.

A simple landscape illustration with a grey-green ocean, a dark grey rocky islet partly covered by orange lichen and a light grey overcast sky. On and around the islet are seabirds of several species, most pictured realistically in colour. The largest bird is a now-extinct great auk, depicted as a semi-translucent white ghost figure.

#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet

Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.

We need your help again.

Coul Links is an extraordinary coastal dune habitat, home to rare and remarkable wildlife.

But it is now threatened for a second time by plans for an 18-hole golf course that would cause irreparable damage.

Your voice could help save it. 👇