Arctic Jaeger or Arctic Skua sitting on ice against soft blue background. Updated population estimate published in new BCI paper. © Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
🧮 How many Arctic Jaegers are there around the world?
📝 An updated global estimate of breeding population size for this migratory seabird: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Research #Arctic #Skua #Jaeger #migration #population
Image of an Arctic Skua with wording at the bottom that reads: New Study. Global population status of the migratory Holarctic species Arctic Skua. www.bto.org/Arctic-Skua-Populations. BTO logo top right.
1/ Arctic Skuas are on the UK Birds of Conservation Concern Red List. But new BTO-led research reveals just how much we don’t know about their numbers globally. Discover more. ⬇️ #Ornithology #Seabirds
📖 www.bto.org/Arctic-Skua-...
I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧
17.08.2025 19:03 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
23.05.2025 09:07 — 👍 324 🔁 26 💬 14 📌 1Getting nest material is hard work, especially if it's windy!
02.05.2025 16:24 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Just the bog standard wildlife sighting from one's house
25.03.2025 19:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back and dorsal fin of a Humpback Whale surfacing the sea
A nice distraction this afternoon with 4 Humpback Whales cruising past the house 💙
25.03.2025 18:21 — 👍 43 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
www.tundraediciones.es
Seabirds 2025 are go!
21.03.2025 17:44 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FIBO's permanent staff back on the Isle and the Observatory refit continues apace. Keep up to date with ornithological updates via our latest sighting page: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house
24.02.2025 17:55 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!
23.02.2025 11:42 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!
22.02.2025 14:15 — 👍 24 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?
12.02.2025 18:00 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
It's been a quiet winter for Short-eared Owls in Orkney, perhaps unsurprising after such poor autumn passage through
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
We found this lovely Common Scoter on the beach yesterday, wet and unable to fly after the storm. After a night of rest and food at home, it was very lively and ready to go this morning, flying out to sea straight away! Can I count it for the house list?
26.01.2025 09:34 — 👍 34 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0And the more usual current situation with Ptarmigan, in Ruadh Stac Mòr, Ceann Loch Iù. White patches of lichen on the rocks providing a bit of camouflage with the lack of snow! #BirdingScotland #highlandbirds
22.01.2025 13:28 — 👍 67 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Watercolour of one of my favourite moments last year watching a Greenish Warbler feeding amongst the sycamores at Valyie, Unst #birds #birdart #BirdingScotland
18.01.2025 18:34 — 👍 58 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Amazing scenes in Aberdeen this morning - Donmouth almost completely frozen over!
12.01.2025 13:33 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of those dreamy winter days. Not a breath of wind, a maximum temperature of -7C°, and great quantities of snow and ice at Glen Tanar today ❄️❄️
11.01.2025 15:34 — 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️
02.01.2025 11:51 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds
28.12.2024 14:43 — 👍 109 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 1
Beavers!
26.12.2024 12:14 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!
24.12.2024 14:13 — 👍 17 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A well-timed visit to the Loons this morning resulted in another brief view of the Bittern that’s currently in residence, as it crept across an open channel in the reeds #OrkneyBirds
17.12.2024 16:44 — 👍 43 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Image of a Redstart alongside the wording: Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data now freely available. This includes over 7 million records! BTO, JNCC and RSPB logo bottom left. BBS logo top middle.
1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
17.12.2024 10:15 — 👍 167 🔁 76 💬 1 📌 11
2024 biodiversity indicators are in... If a wake-up call was needed to show the UK is failing nature, this is it.
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...
For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
11.12.2024 13:42 — 👍 148 🔁 49 💬 3 📌 3
A classic spring scene in Extremadura with a White Stork against the shaded Gredos mountains #birds
07.12.2024 10:15 — 👍 40 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
📢 Exciting PhD opportunity - seabirds & machine learning 🐦💻
Revolutionise how seabird colonies are imaged & counts analysed
Partnership @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
Deadline: 6th Jan - more info👇
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
