New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions!
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas
@sosbangor.bsky.social
15.01.2025 10:29 — 👍 83 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 2
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
Good morning!
This @wildjustice.bsky.social petition on driven grouse shooting is 2nd most-signed petition in last hour.
We approach 6k signatures. I'd love to reach 10k before 3:30pm (ie first 24hrs). It'll be tough but let's send a strong message to Defra.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
23.11.2024 07:58 — 👍 98 🔁 62 💬 8 📌 10
Enjoyable seawatch this morning with @owenbeaumont.bsky.social at Mablethorpe with 3 Little Auk, 3 Scaup, 9 Goldeneye. Great to also see a Snipe and Woodcock in with Dunlin flocks low over the sea heading north #UKBirding
20.11.2024 18:34 — 👍 24 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Daryll, yes please that sounds great 👍
10.10.2024 08:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Cheers Liam, that'd be exciting! Hope you're having a good time out there.
09.10.2024 18:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice surprise the other morning having a Little Gull go through at RSPB Buckenham Marshes, but didn't realise until looking back at photos it looks to be tagged! Could be a Motus tag ? #UKbirding #Norfolkbirding
09.10.2024 18:35 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Dungeness Bird Observatory has been monitoring birds on the Kent coast since 1952, with hostel style accommodation available to all. Follow for info on the obs and sightings from the local area. More info on our website: http://www.dungenessbirdobs.org.uk
Norwich-based birder, scientist (computational biologist), and football fan (Stoke City). Birding patches are Waxham, Potter Heigham Marshes, and Heigham Waterworks. Frequent Shetland and N. America visitor. BOU 512, BOU self-found 315, ABA 688. OM1 user.
Norfolk Birder. Expect posts of bird news from Happisburgh Obs, the Yare Valley and further afield including foreign trips (plus a bit of mothing!)
The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. 🦋
https://butterfly-conservation.org/
Cover photo 📷: Small Copper - Paul Henson
Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing
Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit, Willow Tit & Wood Warbler research. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
North Yorks wildlife/landscape artist. Gilling East studio. Writer. Naturalist. Swift conservation, author of On Crescent Wings. Birdscapes Art for Conservation award 2023. House Martin Conservation UK-IE. Website
https://jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com/
🦤🦜 Obsessed 19 year old birder/twitcher/wildlife photographer, currently volunteering at Spurn Bird Observatory - BOU: 3️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ - IOC: 3️⃣8️⃣4️⃣
Chief Scientist at BirdLife International, the world’s largest partnership of nature conservation organisations.
Birder • Ringer (BTO trainer) • Ecologist • MSc graduate • Sharing the wildlife I see on my travels!
All photos are my own and not AI.
I am a filmmaker and photographer based in Olympia, WA, and Bijagua, Costa Rica @casabentbill.bsky.social but I spend as much time as I can in hot, humid, tropical forests. Because that's where the birds are!
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Norfolk birder usually found patching or volunteering in the Mid-Yare Valley (TG40). Views are my own.
Ecologist with broad interests studying gulls, pathogens, and microbiomes. Love and teach R. Dangerously close to becoming microbiologist. Gulls Eating Stuff citizen science project. https://alicerisely.weebly.com/
BRC is devoted to study and help protect the migration of over 1 million raptors along the Georgian Black Sea coast | batumiraptorcount.org
23 | Birder | Ornithologist | Notts | Uni of Manchester | Chemical Engineering |.
Birds and birding in Cornwall! Ornithologist & Ecologist ( director of Crecca Ecology ) , County Recorder for Cornwall Birds and C Permit ringer with North Cornwall Ringing Group .
Birding between Ramsgate and Sandwich Bay 📍
Following migration 🐦⬛ Ecologist | Long-term Volunteer for: Spurn, Bardsey & Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
