Caitlin Dagg

Comparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be? There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

The dream dplyr update for my data cleaning pipelines 😍

filter_out() is going to be SO nice, no longer will I need to wrangle with annoying is.na() conditions

replace_values() and recode_values() also going to be a dream too, go read the post!

#rstats

As you probably know, this is "line editing" and it's what yields the "red pen blood bath" most writers dread. Though it's almost irresistible, line editing isn’t actually helpful for most developing writers and all but the most polished drafts. 2/

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Are you a scientist that uses cameras, acoustics or drones to monitor wildlife? Are you using satellite imagery to assess forests? Join the Biodiversity Monitoring starter pack and let the world know! Reply below and point me to your research to be added. ECRs and PhDs welcome😊

go.bsky.app/eFMQQX

i like to start the new year as i intend to go on so i headed out in the rain to manly dam and saw these lovely dapper fellows (variegated fairy-wrens) #birding

i'm at the point of writing up a methods section for my current draft and i just realised that due to a typo i've been running all my analyses on ebird data from before 2020 instead of after 🥲

i'm getting some very interesting results from this analysis
...... unfortunately i do not understand what those results mean but they sure are interesting

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

a chubby cat sleeps blissfully on a sofa

my main takeaway from @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social’s plenary is that if my cat was a orange-bellied parrot juvenile, she’d definitely survive her first migration #AOC #AOC2025 #difficultbirds

Busting all our assumptions about sexual dimorphism, bird colour and song, Kristal Cain gets #AOC2025 off to a rollicking start!

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

my parents are visiting and we spent a few days up in the blue mountains where we could barely turn a corner without tripping over lyrebirds and crimson rosellas!

A photo of a dense garden bed with mulch, groundcover plants, native grasses, shrubs of different heights, and a couple of young eucalyptus trees. In the background, you can see a couple of two storey houses and a bright blue sky.

Melbourne’s native bird community is becoming progressively simplified, or homogenised, with greater urban development. In my recent paper, I demonstrate that more developed suburbs are home to fewer individual birds and a reduced diversity of bird species. 1/5

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Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears Officials at Sequoia Park Zoo have no idea how the young bear got into the zoo and went “nose-to-nose” with the three bears there.

An employee at Sequoia Park Zoo in Northern California found a black bear who came in from the wild, introduced itself to the zoo’s bears and played with their toys, before being shown the exit.

Acoustic recognition of individuals in closed and open bird populations Passive acoustic monitoring is firmly established as an effective non-invasive technique for wildlife monitoring. The analysis of animal vocalizations…

I'm excited to share our new (in press) paper on vocal individuality and acoustic recognition. We looked at Red-tailed Black-Cockatoos, Little Penguins, Little Owls, Tree Pipits and Chiffchaffs, with promising results. #bioacoustics #vocalindividuality www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An infographic summarizing the key findings of the paper and showing cats with birds in their mouth. T

Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!

In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
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u kiss it on the nose next question please

World’s first known butt-drag fossil trace was left by a rock hyrax in South Africa 126,000 years ago The first hyrax fossil tracks and traces ever to be discovered were identified on South Africa’s coast.

god i love science theconversation.com/worlds-first...

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

Totally not shocked

Press Release: Staggering Recovery of Plants and Seabirds on Marshallese Islands Just One Year After Rat Removal - Island Conservation Astonishing results from our work to restore sites in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, boosting climate resilience and ocean health!

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic. A colony of 2000 Sooty Terns, where there was previously none, were feeding hundreds of chicks. We also counted 1000’s of native Pisonia grandis tree seedlings across just 60 12m monitored plots on the forest floor—in 2024 we found zero." 🌏

this is something that's been bothering me for ages! Decades of agricultural intensification had already occurred by the 1970s in many developed countries

I had some time to explore before #SER2025 started and was lucky enough to get to join a bird banding session at Barr Lake state park yesterday! So cool to see different warblers up close and see valuable data being collected

We've just recorded a Rare Earth on animal migration & this app is amazing. It's called Animal Tracker (www.icarus.mpg.de/29... ), and it's real time data on 100s of animals - birds, foxes, bison & more. Their tracks are fascinating, taking clear routes with intent. More to come next wk on the air!

NSW councils call for cat curfews to protect native wildlife Local Government NSW president Phyllis Miller says making owners lock their cats in at night should be a "no-brainer" decision, but animal welfare organisations disagree.

Keeping cats contained is safer for them and safer for the environment. This is a massive issue in Australia 🧪 The #biodiversity crisis is existential for humanity.
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Predawn song of a Pied Butcherbird in early spring. Before sunrise at this time of year the song of butcherbirds (and Australian Magpies) is often made up of simpler, more repetitive phrases than the typical full song heard later in the morning - but it's still sublime!

#wildoz

PhD opportunity available at @westsyduhie.bsky.social with the brillant Dr Laura Williams - hyperspectral data and process-based modelling of tree diversity 🌳🌲 please share with your networks tinyurl.com/ms6mjz8y

i am loving these bird etymologies

Cormorant is just bastardized latin for corvus marinus (sea raven)