Ruud van Beusekom

Minister schoffeert Kamer en creëert woningnood voor vogels Geen neststenen voor de huismus en gierzwaluw in woningen.

Minister Mona Keijzer negeert het vogelvriendelijke plan om neststenen in te metselen bij nieuwbouw en renovaties. Zelfs na de aangenomen kamermotie en de ruim 37.000 keer getekende petitie. Onbegrijpelijk!

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Shown here is an infographic on Antarctica’s land ice and sea ice. (A) AIS thickness changes for 2003–2019 from Ice Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) and ICESat-2 satellite laser altimetry as well as sea ice thickness for January 2020 from ICESat-2. (B) Features associated with processes acting in AIS’s dynamic ice margins on a range of spatial and temporal scales (table at bottom left).

Antarctic ice plays a crucial role in regulating Earth’s climate, global sea levels, ocean circulation, and planetary reflectivity.

Learn more in a new #ScienceReview: https://scim.ag/40UoRKa

Supplementary feeding is a threat to UK Hawfinch populations #Ornithology #UKBirding

Does anyone know what's exactly wrong with this Great Tit? Does it suffer from a great amount of feather lice?

In the most untouched, pristine parts of the Amazon, birds are dying. Scientists may finally know why Populations have been falling for decades, even in tracts of forest undamaged by humans. Experts have spent two decades trying to understand what is going on

Even in the most untouched, pristine parts of the world, birds and insects are dying out, fast. And the cause is climate breakdown. How?

The finely tuned, interconnected timings are all being disrupted. If larvae or chicks emerge when there's no food, they die.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests.
Often overlooked: typically flat, wet, often inaccessible, not always picturesque & all the carbon they hold is hiding below the surface.
80% of the UK bogs are degraded by draining, overgrazing, burning.

As Bird Flu Cases Rise, How Close Is Another Pandemic? The bird flu is driving up egg prices and tearing through dairy farms. Here’s what has changed.

An outbreak of bird flu has been tearing through dairy farms across the U.S. and infecting more and more people. But how close are we to another pandemic? On “The Daily,” our reporter explains how the virus has changed and why our government might be ill-equipped to respond.

A clear and interesting experiment showing the power of social media algorithms.

A dairy worker in Nevada has tested positive for H5N1, on the heels of genotype D1.1 being identified in the state for the first time in dairy cattle. Confirmatory testing pending with CDC.

www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/h...

Garnalenvisser op de Waddenzee bij #Texel, Geoorde Fuut @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social

Toch ontdekt door Texelse vogelaar Tim Schipper

Een Russische Stormmeeuw Larus canus heinei vliegt al een paar weken mee met de veerboot van #Texel

US Government takeover has begun.

Musk is the most dangerous man in the world right now.

Toch nog maar een foto van de Brileider/Spectacled Eider van zondag. Omdat ie zo mooi is... Hier zie je goed de structuur van de kop. Ik zeg: Picasso! #Texel @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social

De Brileider zat ver weg, maar deze 2kj man Topper werkte mooi mee. Interessant kleed, fraai licht aan het einde van de middag @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social #Texel

De #Tuinvogeltelling heb ik natuurlijk al achter de rug, gisteren geteld. De ringmussen die er steeds zaten, waren er nu niet 😬

Vanmorgen zat de Brileider eindelijk even dichtbij! @vogelbeschermingnl.bsky.social #Texelrules

Back to Texel tomorrow for the 3th time this week. Still excited.
#birdwatching #texel #spectacledeider

Photo of the bird is mine...

Prachteiders De ijskoude schoonheid van eiders.

www.vogelbescherming.nl/actueel/beri...

Unprecedented Spectacled Eider sighting in the Netherlands One of the world's most sought-after seaduck species has put in an entirely unexpected appearance in the Netherlands. A drake Spectacled Eider has been found on the sea off Texel in North Holland, representing a first for the Netherlands and one of the most extreme vagrants possible for the wider We...

A drake Spectacled Eider has been found in the Netherlands, representing a first for the country and one of the most extreme vagrants possible for the wider Western Palearctic region:

Picture by Ruud van Beusekom

A thread on quite how incredible the Texel Spectacled Eider record is, given that almost the entire world population (~250K) winters together around 62°00'N, 173°00'W in polynyas - gaps in the sea ice in the Bering Sea, like the ones below👇 🧵#Ornithology 1/

Still around, hundreds of birders from Holland, Belgium, Germany, France and Denmark twitched the bird today

We've seen the legs quite good when it was preening, they are very likely unringed. The wings are undamaged. The bird seems to be in good health and feeds on mussels and starfish. An incredible bird, just a few 100 yds from home...

Brileider/Spectacled Eiderop #Texel! op een paar honderd meter van mijn huis... Wat een rammer! En wat een prachtige vogel.

Vogels beschermen in 2024 Resultaten met impact en nieuwe uitdagingen.

De kerstdagen zijn achter de rug. Dan is het nu tijd voor eindejaarslijstjes! 2024 was een emotionele achtbaan voor iedereen die zich met het beschermen van vogels en natuur bezig houdt.

Lees het artikel van @Arjanberben over de uitdagingen én successen voor #vogelbeschermingnederland dit jaar 🎆

Nationale Tuinvogeltelling Tel op vrijdag 24, zaterdag 25 of zondag 26 januari 2025 één keer een half uur de vogels in jouw tuin of op je balkon. Meedoen is leuk, gemakkelijk en je helpt de vogels.

Zijn jullie al klaar voor de #nationaletuinvogeltelling 2025 in het laatste weekend van januari? Bereid je voor met onze quiz, vogelherkenningscursus of lees ons stappenplan:

A map of wandering Bonelli's Eagle in Europe. It would surely be inevitable they will eventually turn up in the Celtic Isles.