@seanbuzza.bsky.social
Nature Lover, with particular passion for raptors and diving.
Factors Associated with Homing Behavior in Cooper’s Hawks Following Mitigation Translocations from Airports | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2465 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
13.06.2025 07:18 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Hoping to deliver a live streaming Hobby nest camera this year. We have several cameras up on nests/baskets that were used last year; some are looking promising but we won't know for sure until eggs are laid! Average laying date is approx 14th June....🤞
02.06.2025 07:01 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Red kite currently over Wareham Common
14.02.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Come along to the premiere of my upcoming documentary ‘Conservation: the Next Generation’ in collab with @btobirds.bsky.social at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge!
Followed by a Q&A.
Tickets are free here: www.bto.org/community/ev... 😊
Trailer here: youtu.be/Fop-NhoKm-c?...
Two Nuthatch with different lengths bills. Ringed under BTO licence.
Big difference in bill lengths on these #Nuthatch ringed this morning for the @btobirds.bsky.social winter #BirdRinging project. Both males but the longer billed bird was 2+ years old with other a 1st winter. ringed under license @welshlassy.bsky.social @greg-conway.bsky.social @avutarta.bsky.social
19.01.2025 20:39 — 👍 56 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0
Satellite-tracking provides first description of migration in Tasmanian Boobooks Ninox leucopsis | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
13.01.2025 06:00 — 👍 29 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment.
An anemone with many white thin tentacles
A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles
A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.
Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.
Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
Breeding behaviour of Central European Red Kites: parental sex-dependent differences | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
27.11.2024 17:31 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
New paper alert!
Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution!
In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets.
Link to paper here:
dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
a white morph black sparrowhawk held in the hand prior to release
NEW PAPER📝
Plumage polymorphism in the black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is strongly associated with expression level of agouti signalling protein
J. of Heredity. 2nd Chapter from Ed Rodseth's PhD, co-supervised by Rob Ingle
doi.org/10.1093/jher...
#RaptorResearch #ornithology #colsci
Research by Bangor University found that birds, in this case, Eurasian Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), use only the Earth's magnetic inclination and declination to determine their position and direction.
#Ornithology
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
I'd like to join please, Sean
18.11.2024 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please add me.
18.11.2024 11:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Seb gave us a wonderful overview of Wild Woodbury, and took part in very lively Q&A together with our other speakers at the end of the day. Many thanks.
17.11.2024 19:25 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Titbit: Willow Tits & Marsh Tits use their black throat patch like a status badge to intimidate rivals. They change posture to increase/reduce the size of the black patch as needed.
The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit, published 5 Dec 2024: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit...
#ornithology #ukbirding
