@liamlangley1.bsky.social
Seabird Ecologist interested in movement, foraging ecology, navigation and anthropogenic impacts. Based in Cornwall, UK. Spend an unreasonable amount of time sat on a cliff waiting for birds to fly past. He/Him.
Yep agree it’s a complicated picture and certainly climate effects seem to be playing a big role. Also wonder about whether extreme tidiness in woodland management reducing availability of dead limbs and trees might have contributed (potentially also a role for this in Willow Tit declines?)
Declines in S Sweden (though diff ssp.) maybe suggest issues with climate warming there too. Either way, I guess increasing woodland habitat extent/connectivity might not do much at this point as core areas in S England particularly vulnerable to climate effects?
I agree climate is deffo involved (v. wet springs reducing prey and productivity another mechanism?), but I wonder about the role of lag effects of woodland fragmentation and then stochastic extinction of small pops in isolated woods with no hope of recolonisation? @richardkbroughton.bsky.social
Yesterday's seminar added to our YouTube page - worth a watch if you missed
TENGMALM'S OWL at Ollaberry, Shetland this afternoon. Discovered yesterday by local residents myself and Logan Johnson decided to try and relocate it and after a bit of searching, a shape in a tree revealed itself to be this beauty!
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #UKWildlife #Birds
📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography
Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1
Please share widely, informal email enquiries welcome
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
New paper out! Great tits face distinct challenges from extreme weather during development, based on 60 years data from >83k nestlings in Wytham Woods 🐣 Cold snaps & heavy rain can stunt growth, but earlier breeding may help buffer this! By @devisatarkar.bsky.social et al.
doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70794
This month's Free Access Editorial Team Choice: Canada Warbler in Pembrokeshire!
Magnolia Warbler at St Govan’s Head, Pembrokeshire, found by Toby Phelps was then added to with the discovery of Britain’s first Canada Warbler.
Read more:
📸 Canada Warbler by Graham Jepson
✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social
Common Crane
Old Womans Lane, Cley
March 11 2026
A little bit of patch gold on a breezy early, early spring afternoon.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#norfolkbirding
#cleybirds
Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity from @camglamresearch.bsky.social on the entomology of East Anglia and the associated archival records.
Bugs'n'books.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
An atmospheric clip of the Black-winged Kite, late afternoon at Ludham Bridge. We'd been along the footpath, no joy, but saw it distantly from the noisy road bridge. Curiously reminiscent of a gliding Leach's Storm-petrel at times.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#norfolkbirding
#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk
The Port Meadow Ring-billed Gull blog post is now out, photos will be replaced in due course with better versions as I don't currently have the computer I usually use for image processing with me. Some identification pointers inside #ukbirding
tmbirding.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-da...
Hanging out the washing this morning when a migrant Coal Tit started singing in the neighbour's tree. Washing dropped, bins and camera grabbed and our house list increased by one! Coal Tits are less than annual on Barra. House list now stands at 154 species. #birdingscotland
Serin just pitched in a tree top at the Obs
Some nice birds locally and out around Pembs over the last week or so as spring slowly starts going. On the local patch, a Marsh Harrier east over Skrinkle and a Goshawk over Manorbier in the week. Yesterday 2 Velvet Scoter off Telpyn Pt and today a Black Redstart at Martin's Haven! #birdingWales
Couldn't resist direct train to Poole to reacquaint myself with the Forster's Tern! Great to see on the deck after the fleeting views past patch 3 years ago. Maybe it'll return? 🙏 #LowCarbonBirding #DorsetBirds
This is terrific. Writing is a way to think; waiting to write until you've worked everything out is counterproductive. On the discomfort of thinking through writing, from @patthomson.bsky.social
Ad. Bonaparte’s Gull today at Copperhouse, Cornwall (8th March ‘26). One of at least three birds in the county, plus same or another 1w at R. Plym yesterday.
#cornwallbirding #birding #ukbirding
Adult Kittiwake Woodhead Res @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social 0850-0904 when headed E @birdguides.bsky.social #UKBirding
Naff boc shots, but the Willet on Boa Vista showed nicely today. All gearing up nicely for the pelagics off Fogo next week, hopefully some quality sea-birding here on Cape Verde to come...
Amazing find for the meadow, great work and thoroughly deserved!
Apparently patch birding does all come good in the end. 1w Ring-billed Gull this evening and glad some people managed to connect after my rather garbled attempt at putting news out. Blog post to follow #ukbirding
New paper in @britornitholclub.bsky.social - Paige Langle and I highlight (and confirm the identity!) of the only North American record of the now-extinct Slender-billed Curlew (1/4) bioone.org/journals/bul... #ornithology
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Cheers Reuben, clearly some proper potential here with Pacific Diver, Pallid Swift and Laughing Gull in the last year away from the seawatch!
A cracking couple of days on patch and buzzing to get some quality self-find points for @patchbirding.bsky.social #UKBirding
Absolute scenes! at St Ives Island with @jonesgareth.bsky.social & @liamlangley1.bsky.social with 3 megas in 12 hours. Last night a roosting Curlew Sand. This morning - a Magpie! - followed by a Pacific Diver drifting W on dropping tide. Maybe it will return …
#cornwallbirding #birdsseenin2026
Sad but not surprising to see Derek Gow throwing his toys out of the pram after being blocked from releasing Twite of a different non-native subspecies (and even in some places it didn't occur historically). A reminder of why this would fail 🧵#Ornithology #UKBirding 1/