@sarahdalgulls.bsky.social
Seabirder and gull fan in north-east England, my posts here are entirely my own also active at @sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social on mastodon https://sarahdal.github.io/
A black-eyed gannet.
πͺΉ | Seabirds that survived recent bird flu outbreaks have continued to reproduce, although overall breeding performance remains notably low, according to a new study.
The study has looked at breeding success in Northern Gannets at two locations during 2023.
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πΈ Dave Pressland
Facebook video of Whitby RNLI respond to a "seagull in difficulty" - actually a turnstone in fishing line
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Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal.
China & India lead the race for renewable energy.
The US increased reliance on fossil fuels.
With corporate donations Trump wants more fossil fuels. Farage and Tories promising the same. Banks pouring money.
βWe must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale. [β¦] We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.β
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You realise that when David Attenborough sadly leaves us, the absolute ghouls in will keep making nature documentaries but AI his narration in
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Everybody makes money out of academic authors except the authors...News.
Wiley is the latest academic publisher to reach a multi-million deal to allow access to its content to AI developers, with no opt out, let alone payment, for the authors who created that content.
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrowβs budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me πWeβre just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. Itβs been a roaring success. For every β¬1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got β¬1.46 back. Canβt argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
Damn. This is amazing. Β£325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
why do charities only seem to do Christmas card sets
what about birthdays / thank you / new house etc etc.
just do pretty cards with no words on them. I spend so much money on cards every year that could go to a charity. argh
#speirghorm #speirgorm anyone know charity doing this?
A collection of about 1,000 telephones from the 1930's onwards from the collection of Rev. John Charles Baines sell for Β£5,572 at auction. Some bids were by phone by prior request. π
BBC News - Lichfield auction sees 1,000 vintage phones go under the hammer - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
Terrible news from Wales π
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Monitor and control of invasive mosquitos in the UK - I thought this was a really interesting post from UHSA
ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/03/h...
We have vacancies available on our committee! ποΈπ¨βπ¨βπ§π©βπ©βπ¦
We are recruiting for 5 roles:
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Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) π₯
Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...
06.10.2025 07:27 β π 117 π 37 π¬ 8 π 11Absolutely maddening that this isn't a bigger news story outside of NI tbh. Loyalists are literally threatening to burn shit down over dual language signage, but Palestine Action are the big scary terrorists that we all need to be talking about, right?
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Camera traps have been crucial for monitoring the released wildcats πΈ
Over 100 cameras, provided by @naturespy.bsky.social, are distributed across the project area. Not only do the images further our understanding of wildcat ecology, they give us deeper insight into other species too πΎ
News | National Trust cuts 500 full-time posts
Charity says a third of job losses will come from compulsory redundancies.
Caledonia Sleeper will run a service from Birmingham from next year
www.thenational.scot/news/2550740...
a field vole Microtus agrestis
For 101 years, ecologists have sought to explain the 3-4 years multi-annual cycles of voles and lemmings. In our paper, doi.org/10.1073/pnas..., we find that Density-dependent recruitment, but not survival drives cyclic dynamics in a field vole population, overturning accepted wisdom.
05.10.2025 15:26 β π 22 π 11 π¬ 1 π 0Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.
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"There are currently one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every day ... Soon, McDowell told us, there will be up to 5 satellite reentries per day." π³
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Gutting to see our regular group of 100+ spoonbill have all been flushed by kite surfers out of bounds in the harbour this afternoon and haven't returned. Really hoping they decide to come back tomorrow #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
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100 volunteers worked for 36 hours to rescue 3 experienced cavers stuck in Dow Cave, North Yorkshire. They'd already been there for 18 hours before the rescue began, and then it took teams 5 and a half hours to find them.
uk.news.yahoo.com/cavers-saved...
ukcaving.com/board/index....
So these are the "drones" that closed Vilnius Airport, it seems balloons have a tendency to be reported as drones.
05.10.2025 18:33 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This happened last night and I hadn't heard about it until this post, so went to the BBC News homepage. You have to go all the way down the page, below recipes for 30 minute meals, and you find it as a text link in 'politics'.
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No, you're not going crazy. You did read this and also read about the PSNI arresting people in London for being members of a proscribed organization.
05.10.2025 08:32 β π 279 π 125 π¬ 8 π 8Weekend bump!
#Railway200 #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory
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photo of a car thatβs being processed in photoshop. The bumper (fender) is within a crop marquee.
Looks like itβs going to be a bumper crop
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Lapwing. Photo credit: Max Wright
Badger predating a lapwing nest: Photo credit: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust
Fig. 2 from the article: Relationship between the overall probability of badger predation on a lapwing clutch at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland, and (a) 7-day temperature, (b) earthworm abundance together with implications for the overall probabilities of other fates.
Fig. 3 from the article: Annual 7-day temperature (Β°C) (immediately prior to lapwing nest outcome) across 2018β2023 at Auchnerran farm, northeast Scotland.
NEW PAPER: Badgers, weather, and waders: badger predation on lapwing nests rise in cold conditions (below 4Β°C) and with high earthworm availability. Cold years see heavy losses, suggesting weather forecasts could guide management to protect waders
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#ornithology #birds πͺΆπ§ͺ
Doing some book research into the mid-90s internet - this is a glossary from The Internet For Beginners, Usborne, 1997. It has made me feel very nostalgic
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