Kane Brides 🦆

Waterbird Colour-marking Group Visit the post for more.

Thanks, Mark! Best to report to www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org for detailed histories and maps of their movements

Fab, thank you! Now here's to the 4th!! :)

Excellent, thanks Scott!! Did you submit it to the app?

Fab! Thank you Gareth! Will be in touch...

Great! I think these could be Dutch / Russian birds. If you're able to confirm the remaining bird & get any photos and send me the details (location / dates) to colourmarkedwildfowl@wwt.org.uk - I'll sort out accessing details.

As in one bird has two colour-rings, one on each leg?

Nice! Did you get any neck collars? Lovely to see Criffel there too!

Our new paper 👇🏻

Picking a favourite wetland feels a bit like picking a favourite bird, let’s be honest, it's my main study site, the Ouse Washes 🦢💙 Big skies, winter floods, thousands of swans & a landscape that’s never quite the same twice. Chaotic, beautiful, dynamic and endlessly fascinating #WorldWetlandsDay

An Emirati lady overseeing the placement of mist-nets on a tidal creek in Dubai. For bird ringing capacity training

Ras Al Khor wetlands in Dubai.

Perchora Sea, Arctic Russia.

A Chinese fisherman using the Yellow Sea to bring in a catch.

#WorldWetlandsDay is a reminder that wetlands are cultural landscapes as much as ecological ones. The places I’ve worked - urban, farmed and remote - all exist because of generations of knowledge, care and coexistence. Protecting wetlands means valuing the people woven into them.

One day a week a go into the office. My productivity is usually much poorer than when working from home.... mainly because of these outside my desk window 👀 #OfficeVibes

A group of five people including BTO staff are smiling and looking at the camera at the Curlew Action Plan Launch.

1/2 Curlew – wonderfully charismatic, desperately threatened and in need of urgent action if they are to remain part of our landscape. That’s why the launch of the UK Curlew Species Action Plan yesterday in the House of Lords is so important. #Ornithology #Curlew

Honoured to attend the House of Lords today for the launch of a UK Action Plan for the Eurasian Curlew. A vital, evidence-based framework bringing together science, land management and policy to help halt and reverse the decline of one of the UK’s most iconic birds. Lots to be done!!

Working under the cover of darkness, counting snoozing swans 🦢💤 #Ornithology

Good effort 👏 Love Goldeneye!

Thank you to everyone who is out counting swans this weekend for the International Swan Census! I've had a great day in the Cambridgeshire Fens. I'm really looking forward to analysing the data & seeing the overall results! 🦢

Out counting for the International Swan Census this weekend? Look out for colour-ringed swans. Sightings will help us assess the whereabouts of individuals but also to detect whether any major movement has occurred during the census period. Sightings to ring.ac #ornithology

Up early to count the swans before they left their roost. 389 Whooper Swans (59 juvs) and 1 Bewick's Swan. All submitted to the International Swan Census data portal.
Check out vacant sites that need covering this weekend
app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...
#NorfolkBirding

🦢 The International Swan Census is almost here – this weekend!

We still have a few priority sites that need coverage. Please check the map & help us assess how well our Whooper & Bewick’s Swan populations are faring. Every count matters! 🙏 bto.org/gsmp-isc

📸 @tangrigg.bsky.social #Ornithology

Thanks, Tom!!

🦢 The International Swan Census is almost here – this weekend!

We still have a few priority sites that need coverage. Please check the map & help us assess how well our Whooper & Bewick’s Swan populations are faring. Every count matters! 🙏 bto.org/gsmp-isc

📸 @tangrigg.bsky.social #Ornithology

📉Bewick's Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe are declining. Would you like to help us continue to monitor Bewick's (and Whooper Swans) through participating in the International Swan Census this weekend? See more information: www.bto.org/gsmp-isc

The next International Swan Census is almost here (17/18 Jan). Coverage is looking good, but there's a few small gaps. If you're able to help, please check the below map and get in touch with @webs-gsmp.bsky.social
Birders on Mull, Skye, Orkney & Uists are needed in particular! Thank you!!

Pinkies above the chimney pots!

Apologies to all my colleagues who had to endure several mid-meeting pauses today so I could grab photos of migrating Pink-footed Geese from my desk… priorities!

Streams of Pink-footed geese heading west over Manchester today.

Excellent! Nice one. We'll be sure to keep you posted of any sightings 👍🏻

We can confirm these two Bewick's are now at WWT Slimbridge. Known as Clutton & Cameley, they arrived at Slimbridge on Christmas Day / Boxing Day. Clutton is a regular & Cameley is here for the first time @samodonnell25.bsky.social

Nooooo 😭

RSPB seasonal positions @rspbscience.bsky.social are live & we are ready for applications!

🌱🪶🌊⛰️🐣 Huge variety of posts available for 2026: seabirds, veg surveys, visitor questionnaires, upland monitoring, wader chick tracking... all listed on the attachments via the link 👇

Deadline 11th Jan 2026 📆

cr-birding.org/node/3612 👍🏻

Ahh. It's probably a faded lime green ring. One of Allan Brown's