While most black-tailed godwits make at least 1 stop around the Mediterranean on their way south, two youngsters found their way to Senegal in single non-stop flights. W1WCCG really took our breath away. This first-time traveller covered >4700km to Senegal in 50 hrs.
www.birdeyes.org/young-godwit...
Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄
📷 James Wellock
Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
Great talk - the highlight for me. Fascinating ideas about possible reasons for lekking vs territorial behs of different manakin species.
20.09.2025 17:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah, I thought it could be that camera/lens but the supporting rig looks excellent!
05.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great footage. While I know it is not just about the camera and lens, would be interested to know what you are using? Thanks!
05.09.2025 12:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sketches of Little Terns at Seaton Carew, northeast England; adults and fledglings
It’s been traumatic for the Little Terns this summer, with a Kestrel treating the colony as an all-you-can-eat buffet; consequently the survivors have fledged and moved away asap. Some are still very babyish in appearance. Adults still bringing in food for them.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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After decades of mystery, the enigma of the Nechisar Nightjar may finally be solved. Read about the latest discovery in this fascinating saga here: www.aba.org/has-the-nech...
Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.
Big raptors vs humans - - "Here we show the first scientifically documented case of a Harpy Eagle attacking an adult human in the Amazon rainforest" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
28.04.2025 12:17 — 👍 133 🔁 41 💬 8 📌 8
1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology
Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵
#ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
The only Black-capped Petrel videod in the Western Palearctic youtu.be/q7qd6BKyyHw?...
01.04.2025 20:37 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary youtu.be/z7xwv3twYDI?...
14.02.2025 00:06 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last week, 56,000 #btgodwits were counted in the rice fields of the #Tagus estuary, the highest concentration of the species in the EAF. In this rice field alone, 36K godwits were recorded by drone!
#LifeGodwitflyway
Enjoy intimate vid of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, 1 of 10+ wintering Fangchenggang, Guangxi, South China, near Vietnam, feeding on polychaete worms in its typical habitat, pools on upper tidal flats (much of which, across range, destroyed in recent decades) by local Huasheng. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds 1/2
04.02.2025 21:11 — 👍 69 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 2
Here are Huasheng & Prof Aiwu Jiang filming shorebirds that they're lucky enough to have wintering on the tidal flats near their homes in Fangchenggang, SW China. They've built trust with these birds, including Spoon-billed Sandpipers, so the birds approach very close. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds 2/2
04.02.2025 21:11 — 👍 25 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0Apparently there is a quicker way - philthompson.me/2024/Countin...
30.01.2025 23:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Multi-coloured Tanager, Colombia, Dec 2024
May your 2025 be as fantastic as this Multi-coloured Tanager (Colombia last month)!
01.01.2025 19:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0yes please, thanks
16.11.2024 21:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How to be a Rarity Finder. There's a method & way of thinking to be successful. A blog post on it here, with a range of #irishrarebirds 🪶 I've found over the years. helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-...
25.05.2024 08:29 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Balham delivers Waxwings again today. Quite a few suitable berries in the area, so hopefully they stay a while🤞🏻
22.12.2023 18:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The world's first translocation of the Aquatic Warbler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tog4eyfCAek&t=227s
04.08.2023 10:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Possibly the caterpillar of a Speckled Wood butterfly or a moth of some sort - food for young Chiffchaffs now
01.06.2022 16:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Chiffchaff working quite hard to dispatch this caterpillar on @tootingcommon this afternoon
01.06.2022 16:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lots of slightly worn parents busy with their youngsters on @tootingcommon at the moment - Nuthatch!
23.05.2022 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This newly arrived Blackcap on #tootingcommon stops singing to watch a hunting Sparrowhawk
28.03.2022 13:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A male Tufted Pochard hybrid duck visited #tootingcommon this afternoon. (The female Common Pochard ignored him completely.)
27.03.2022 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My first Mediterranean Gull (left) of the year on #tootingcommon this afternoon (@SurreyBirdNews, #londonbirdnews)
24.02.2022 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@birdguides,@RareBirdAlertUK saw this raptor at Swale NNR, Kent, yesterday 1/1 at 12:53 heading SW over salt marsh from pillbox at (51.370784 , 0.94813943). Now think it Rough-legged Buzzard based on plumage and behaviour. What is your expert opinion? Thanks!
02.01.2022 08:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Egyptian Goose wash on #tootingcommon today
11.11.2021 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ok, well still not a lot of bird migration visible on #tootingcommon so here are some lichens instead .. Cladonia
25.10.2021 11:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My new favourite damselfly, Willow Emerald, on #tootingcommon today, starting the next generation
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