Alexander Lees

Always worth sharing!

More commentary on present war crimes
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Make Your Bird Recordings Sound Their Best - eBird A few simple actions can transform your field recording into a resource that helps birders and scientists for years to come. Properly leveled audio offers an easier listening experience for identifica...

#ornithology
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Thanks, just checking

I'm waiting too

Presumably the EGI will have it @sheldonbirds.bsky.social?

museum-publications.australian.museum/media/dd/doc... I found one.... what is the jnl 'Bird Int'?

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Spain is against this disaster. Because we understand that governments are here to improve people's lives, to provide solutions to problems, not to make people's lives worse.

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Measures to protect pelagic megafauna are now "unnecessary regulatory and economic burdens" 🧪🌎

‪Tell me the truth...I'm ready.

New IPBES report finds that $220 billion were directed to conservation & restoration of biodiversity in 2023...

yet $7.3 trillion flowed toward subsidies that directly harm nature.

IPBES Business & Biodiversity Assessment www.ipbes.net/business-imp...
@ipbes.net

This Brazilian frog might be the first pollinating amphibian known to science Nectar-loving tree frog likely moves pollen from flower to flower

It’s the first time a frog—or any amphibian—has been observed pollinating a plant, researchers reported in 2023.

Learn more on #WorldWildlifeDay: https://scim.ag/4riUU1G

The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X - LSE Impact For the first time, more UK universities and associated organisations are inactive on X than active.

💥New post | The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X

✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social

#AcademicSky #X #AcademicSocialMedia

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

"Reporting and writing are two different skill sets and rare - RARE - is the occasion when it's wrapped into one person."

Rare is the occasion when I'm actually speechless but ???? Having both those skills at once is... literally... the job description???

Btw, this info is all down to the @btobirds.bsky.social Atlas projects and the volunteers who collected the data. The new Atlas is starting next year, 2027-2031, and it's well worth taking part to give us updates on the incredible level of information we have in the maps below. #ukbirding

This is figure 1, which shows a risk map of Antarctic ice catchment basins.

The results of a study in Nature Climate Change imply that the Antarctic Ice Sheet does not act as one single tipping element, but rather as several tipping systems interacting across drainage basins. go.nature.com/4rFXQ9q 🧪

The Abberton WTE from this morning unsuccessfully hunting a Herring gull, it caught it twice but it still got away #essexbirding

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months.

ICE dramatically cut its basic training amid a hiring spree meant to speed up the Trump administration’s deportation efforts, records obtained by The Post show, corroborating a whistleblower’s claim.

Más tortugas invasoras que patos, el triste balance de un paseo por un humedal valenciano.
Diría que esta es Pseudemys nelsoni. #EspeciesInvasoras
Marjal de Almenara (Castellón).

I think we should strive to create the political conditions to get them back but also recognise that neither are some silver bullet to fix the biodiversity crisis (witness wildlife trends in Europe). Lynx obviously the most feasible as impacts on other stakeholders will be less serious.

Extraordinary crowds as a mass funeral procession begins in Minab, Iran for the 165 school girls & teachers killed in the US/Israeli school strike on Saturday.

Many outcomes of this war are uncertain. But a renewed generation of hatred towards the West is now baked in.

(🎥 Alireza Akbari)

Lost of reasons why some red tape can be important (as we can see in the present example) and very little evidence that reintroductions will somehow fix the mess as is often claimed. We should put right historical wrongs where appropriate but I don't believe that this is massively time limited...

There's a real need in UK conservation to ensure that reintroductions are realistic and science-led, and not driven by a business model. When businesses, consultants or gurus reject and denigrate independent science that doesn't fit their agenda, we should be wary. #rewilding #ukbirding #ornithology

He does a good line in tub-thumping speeches but also a long history of ignoring evidence that doesn't suit his plans. We need reintroduction practitioners but we also need the practice to be evidence-based.

This change in predation pressure is linked directly to garden bird feeding see e.g. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Ornithology #UKBirding

I commit to reviewing at least two manuscripts for every paper I publish.

The peer review system only works if we all contribute.

NEW on #theBOUblog from Pilar L. Maia Braga

Defining Minimum Sampling Effort to Characterise Understorey Bird Assemblages in Amazonia: A Synthesis Based on Four Decades of Data

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Based on this IBIS paper doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

#ornithology 🪶

‘Destruction is not the same as political success’: US bombing of Iran shows little evidence of endgame strategy As US bombing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya have shown, destruction is not the same as political success.

“Destruction is not the same as political success.”

US air power can kill leaders and destroy infrastructure, but it can't build up a new government. An international relations scholar explains lessons from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Kosovo.

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