Alan Wilkinson

Great talk - the highlight for me. Fascinating ideas about possible reasons for lekking vs territorial behs of different manakin species.

Ah, I thought it could be that camera/lens but the supporting rig looks excellent!

Great footage. While I know it is not just about the camera and lens, would be interested to know what you are using? Thanks!

Full video of the Soft-plumaged Petrel off Porthgwarra via this link on Mike Mckee’s site. (Rated 18).

michaelmckee.co.uk/videos/SPP_P...

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.
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Has the Nechisar Nightjar Mystery Been Solved? - American Birding Association The authors of a new study believe they have solved one of the world’s great rare bird mysteries: the case of the Nechisar Nightjar, Caprimulgus solala.

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.

Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest We report here on an unexpected attack by a harpy eagle on a 29-year-old woman near a tourist camp in the French Guiana Amazon rainforest.

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/...

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 🪶🧪

YouTube video by Robert Flood Black-capped Petrel, 21 March 2025, Fogo, Cape Verde

The only Black-capped Petrel videod in the Western Palearctic youtu.be/q7qd6BKyyHw?...

YouTube video by Thomas Winward The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary

The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary youtu.be/z7xwv3twYDI?...

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

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

Apparently there is a quicker way - philthompson.me/2024/Countin...

Multi-coloured Tanager, Colombia, Dec 2024

May your 2025 be as fantastic as this Multi-coloured Tanager (Colombia last month)!

yes please, thanks

How To Be A Rarity Finder A recent statistic popped up in my various social media memories.  To date I've been birding on 4 continents, Europe, Asia, Africa and North...

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-...

Balham delivers Waxwings again today. Quite a few suitable berries in the area, so hopefully they stay a while🤞🏻

The world's first translocation of the Aquatic Warbler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tog4eyfCAek&t=227s

Possibly the caterpillar of a Speckled Wood butterfly or a moth of some sort - food for young Chiffchaffs now

A Chiffchaff working quite hard to dispatch this caterpillar on @tootingcommon this afternoon

Lots of slightly worn parents busy with their youngsters on @tootingcommon at the moment - Nuthatch!

This newly arrived Blackcap on #tootingcommon stops singing to watch a hunting Sparrowhawk

A male Tufted Pochard hybrid duck visited #tootingcommon this afternoon. (The female Common Pochard ignored him completely.)

My first Mediterranean Gull (left) of the year on #tootingcommon this afternoon (@SurreyBirdNews, #londonbirdnews)

@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!

Egyptian Goose wash on #tootingcommon today

Ok, well still not a lot of bird migration visible on #tootingcommon so here are some lichens instead .. Cladonia

My new favourite damselfly, Willow Emerald, on #tootingcommon today, starting the next generation

This distant Willow Emerald damselfly today is my first on #tootingcommon. They have spread well into SE England from Europe in less than 15 years.