Arjun Amar

AI helps discover rare lesser spotted woodpecker’s call in Sussex Artificial intelligence helped process more than 30,000 hours of recordings to track down the birds.

Passive acoustic monitoring and AI
surveys reveal far more threatened Sussex Lesser spotted Woodpeckers than we thought.
Much bigger @lesserspotnet.bsky.social and @sussexornitholo.bsky.social underway this spring should give a fuller picture. Exciting times!
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New paper just out in Bird Cons Int:
'Bird monitoring in Africa: present state and future prospects', ably led by Phil Atkinson of
@btobirds.bsky.social

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Thanks!
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Help put a stop to the illegal killing of birds of prey | RSPB YouTube video by RSPB

Please watch this and consider writing to your MP about licensing Grouse Moors. A skydancing #HenHarrier is a wonderful sight that sadly very few people ever get to see. @friendsofthedales.bsky.uk
#raptorpersecution
#Skydancer

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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Achieving UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, says CCC:

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New paper just out in: 'Bird monitoring in Africa: present state and future prospects', ably led by Phil Atkinson of @btobirds.bsky.social

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Book Review Click on the article title to read more.

The first book review section of my time as book reviews editor for Ibis @bou.org.uk is out; thank you to all the reviewers for these excellent reviews. Books received & contact details are at the bottom of the section for any potential reviewers #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Environmental correlates of spatio-temporal patterns of colour variation in a bird of prey: The common buzzard (Buteo buteo) | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Kaspar Delhey, Elena F. Kappers, Mihai Valcu, Christiaan Both, Bart Kempenaers | #ornithology 🪶

@mpiforbi.bsky.social

Really great opportunity here!

UK Government confirms ban on sale & use of toxic lead ammunition for ‘live quarry shooting’ from 1st April 2029 Following the announcement from Defra in July 2025 that the Government aimed to introduce legislation by the summer of 2026 to ban the sale and use of toxic lead ammunition for ‘live quarry s…

UK Government confirms ban on sale and use of toxic lead ammunition for live quarry shooting from 1st April 2029.

Good news for the environment & wildlife (especially raptors!)

New blog ⬇️

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Acabamos de publicar uno de los artículos que mas bonitos nos han quedao analizando algunas causas y consecuencias de de la migración parcial de los juveniles de buitre leonado.... #RaptorResearch #Ornithology @bou.org.uk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Rise of the Eagle Owl population due to rat-rich refuse dump sites and fall when closing them: a large-scale long-term “supplementary feeding experiment” Food-supplementation experiments conducted on terrestrial vertebrates have usually shown the importance of food as an agent in increasing reproductive success. However, to date, the number of large-sc...

New article published in Ornis Fennica! Tornberg et al. Rise of the Eagle Owl population due to rat-rich refuse dump sites and fall when closing them: a large-scale long-term “supplementary feeding experiment” ornisfennica.journal.fi/article/view... #ornithology #OpenAccess #RaptorResearch

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Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...

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🚨Our March issue is now live!
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🐝 Our amazing cover image depicts the special relationship between wild honeyguides and the humans they guide to wild bees’ nests. Read more about these honeyguides here
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Letter to the editor concerning the paper “Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches' populations” published by Marazuela Pinela et al. in Ecological Indicators, 171, ...

New 'letter to the editor' criticising a previous paper published in Ecological Indicators is well worth a read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Includes this quote 'At least two of them (Marazuela Pinela and López Espí) are self-proclaimed silvestristas—the Spanish term for songbird trappers'

Birds of South Africa take the lead role in this Cape Flats birder's stories - This Mitchell’s Plain birder talks about the birds of South Africa from a very unique angle Ornithologist Miqkayla Stofberg grew up in biodiversity-poor Mitchell’s Plain, so even a common sparrow deli...

Cool interview with former Fitz PhD student Miqkayla Stofberg: travelosophy.co.za/birds-of-sou...

Our latest paper on Golden Eagle research in Scotland, using DNA from moulted feathers to assess apparent survival in territorial adults. As ever, data collection from Scottish Raptor Study Group @scottishraptorsg.bsky.social was vital.

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Humans use local dialects to communicate with honeyguides People in northern Mozambique use distinct local “dialects” when cooperating with wild honeyguide birds to locate and access wild bees' nests, revealing a striking parallel to the way ...

Humans use local dialects to communicate with honeyguides | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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RSPB 'shuts down' X account in 'foreseeable future' update The charity felt it had no choice but to protect its supporters and volunteers

Good news - I suspect many other respectable organisations will follow soon....
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Golden Eagles in the West appear stable, but Nevada tells a different story Golden Eagles (Aquila chrysaetos) have been protected in North America since 1962 and their populations in the West are considered stable. However, a new study published in the Journal of Raptor Resea...

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Don't miss the Welsh Raptor Convention! Just £10 a ticket, with FREE places for under 25s! Book a space at www.bto.org/RaptorConvention2026 #RaptorResearch

New Publication! 📰

A new publication in Journal of Raptor Research summarizes the current status and future priorities for island raptor conservation: https://bit.ly/IslandRaptors

@consciglobal.bsky.social @hawkmountain.bsky.social #RaptorResearch #ornithology
Ridgway's Hawks 📷 Thomas Hayes

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EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Climate, habitat availability and human activity shape the wintering distribution of an increasing migratory piscivorous raptor within the Mediterranean basin | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Jorge García-Macía et al | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Twenty-Two Years of Shrub Encroachment and Its Effects on Bird Communities in an African Savanna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Artificial incubation gives Colombia’s threatened Andean condor a new lifeline In an isolated backroom of a nature reserve near Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, Wayra, a recently hatched condor chick, is a symbol of hope for Fernando Castro, a wildlife specialist. Castro, 33, says he...

Some welcome good news for the Andean condor, the world's largest bird of prey. Captive rearing in Colombia is adding to the small wild condor population, in partnership with the sheepherders who once killed them.

#birds #vultures #Colombia

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