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Senior Research Officer in the Conservation Evidence team at WWT. Working in wetland species recovery. Global Chair of IUCN Duck Specialist Group π¦ π³οΈβπ All views my own.
A dead Black-headed Gull at a colony in Norfolk, UK, photographed by Dawn Balmer / BTO, and likely a victim of high pathogenicity avian influenza.
22 papers across two issues document the impact of #AvianInfluenza and assess effectiveness of management responses. They show the unprecedented scale of the outbreak, decimating populations across Europe, Africa, North and South America to the South Atlantic.
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Lovely day yesterday catching up with staff. A day of assessing recruitment of Curlews to the Dartmoor breeding population, discussing headstart post release monitoring & of course seeing the 2025 cohort of headstarts! π
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Interesting few days working on behalf of Natural England in advising the UK Great Bustard Group on developing & trialling a protocol to monitor great bustard productivity. The trip also facilitated knowledge transfer between national experts in species monitoring. #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
07.06.2025 08:51 β π 24 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0They are fascinating! I'm looking forward to deploying GPS tags on them in 2026! Makes you wonder whether this bird is actually a usual Strathclyde moulter but potentially postponed its moult migration in 2024 & decamped to Windermere instead....
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Slimbridge Greylags currently starting to appear at Strathclyde Loch and Hogganfield for their annual moult migration, among them, unusually, this one ringed at Windermere
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Rather satisfying loading up to @movebank.bsky.social
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points β¨οΈππ» #Ornithology
Annual paddle in the Lake District for Barnacle Goose nest counting & monitoring. Lots of nests found, GPS'd, colour-marked adults identified & lots of eggs counted, measured, and weighed. Fun day with @cateden91.bsky.social #monitoring
08.05.2025 16:12 β π 21 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Do UK hatched Whooper Swans go to Iceland? These two hatched at WWT Welney last year & today were in Northumberland with other migrating Whoopers. Hopefully, we'll get sightings of them in Iceland π€
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For all their details, if you enter your sightings to www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org (report a bird page) you'll get their histories and a map of movements. Cheers!
30.04.2025 20:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Excellent! Interesting birds these two. They are actually UK hatched Whooper Swan cygnets (from 2024) from WWT Welney in Norfolk. Good to know they are now in the NE and with other Whoopers. It'll be interesting to see if they get to Iceland! @debalmer.bsky.social @lizziebruce.bsky.social
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Obituary in IBIS
Mike Harris (1939 - 2023)
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....
One of the world's best known, most loved and most outstanding seabird biologists
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Lovely day at Matsalu Bay in Estonia watching thousands of Barnacle & White-fronted geese. Decent numbers of Bewick's swans, too. Smaller numbers of Whooper swans & Bean geese. Wildfowl heaven π
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A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.
Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) π¦ππ
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Lovely day in the Severn & Avon Vales for Curlew tagging. Several birds caught and data already being uploaded ππ»
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The 106th time of running out onto the balcony to check for migrating Osprey...
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Several meetings this week regarding new species & habitat restoration projects on/around the Severn estuary! Excited to work on these & happy to call the estuary (& this view) home. Looking forward to deploying species monitoring, capture & tagging skills on WWT's new Saltmarsh Solutions project!
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π§΅1/7 What do massive insect crashes mean for insectivorous birds? And can aquatic habitats help?
Today at #BOU2025 I'm exploring how aquatic habitats might help to buffer declining insectivore populations, using the Spotted Flycatcher as an example.
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Wow! Nice one!!
03.04.2025 15:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Excellent! Many thanks, Chris, for keeping us updated.
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Female mallard with three ducklings
Any day now, ducklings will begin to appear, and we need your help to monitor them. We are asking for records of mallard broods anywhere in the UK this year to help us understand how many ducklings make it to adulthood. Submit your sightings here: citsci.org/projects/ducklingwatch
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^ @tom-clarke.bsky.social - could you possibly help me with this?
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Do any UK sugar beet farmers follow me on here?! Or do you know a sugar beet farmer who'd be up for spending 30 mins or so chatting to me? π
22.03.2025 20:42 β π 8 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0It spent a few days on the Duddon π
22.03.2025 11:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Since crossing back from the Netherlands en route to Iceland & since being picked up by #nocmic by @wheatear9.bsky.social in Suffolk, this bird is now in Dumfries & Galloway. Wonder how many other of our GPS tagged Whoopers have been picked up by #nocmic?! @simongillings.bsky.social
22.03.2025 10:59 β π 28 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Love that not only did GPS tracking allow us to document this Whooper Swan's crossing back from the Netherlands to England, but @wheatear9.bsky.social picked it up by #nocmig just minutes before it's tag took a GPS fix near to his location. #Migration #Bioacoustics #Gold π«
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She'll be home within the hour! That time of year, as Whoopers crisscross the country heading home to Iceland. Always leaves me happy with a hint of sadness! Watching AAF's migration playing out on my laptop, a glimpse into her life, is such a privilege, she's got 30km to go π
17.03.2025 13:32 β π 91 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0
Interesting new report from @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social and partners on the benefits and costs of natural flood management.
"Wildlife Trust natural flood management schemes deliver Β£10 of benefits for every Β£1 invested"
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/new-res...
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Hi Simon. They are clusters of fixes grouped giving date, time & location. As you zoom in, the individual fixes are then shown. Are you in Thetford? We had a tagged bird returning from the Netherlands head over Thetford at 02:01am this morning, I wondered if anyone may have heard them!? π
09.03.2025 11:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Home time for the Whoopers π₯² Beautiful cross country track under the cover of darkness for this one last night! Nene Washes to Keilder Water, Northumberland in 4 hours. #Ornithology
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