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Today, 250.000 people took to the streets of Amsterdam to protest Israel's genocidal violence in Gaza and the cowardly response by the Dutch government. It followed on two earlier protests, one with 150.000 protesters, and the first one with about 100.000. By Dutch standards, these are huge numbers.

‘Realistisch klimaatbeleid’

What an epic return! 🤩🌍🐦

A common snipe tagged in April 2025 near Olomouc is back in Czechia after migrating to the Yamalo-Nenets AO (east of the Urals) – a round trip of over 7,500 km!

#HABITRACK #ornithology #birdmigration #snipe

If you’re near RSPB Titchwell on the 11/12 October in the afternoon pop in and catch my video/photo presentation about RSPB Snettisham, and it’s free😀

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

How Icelanders are grieving the loss of 'dead' and melting glaciers Iceland’s glaciers are disappearing. For locals, it’s a profoundly sad loss.

Iceland is becoming no-ice land.

Deze docu over de banden tussen agro-industrie en extreem-rechts wordt de komende tijd in meerdere steden vertoond.

Gaat dat zien.

www.ngpf.nl/boerocratie-2

1200 agressieve #neonazis 'agenderen' #migratie - waar in alle debatten over gesproken wordt.

250.000 vreedzame demonstranten agenderen #genocide in #Gaza en...

Geen woord, geen vraag. Geen taal, geen teken. Geen teken, geen leven. Zeg iets. #doeopen

Team at station 1

Team at station 2

Black Kite making it's way through the mist - though views, yet so rewarding! Photo by Bart Hoekstra.

Live from the field!

The 1,422,172nd bird — a juvenile Black Kite flying through the misty clouds — crossed our transect line this afternoon, making 2025 the BIGGEST year in BRC history!!

Stay tuned for more!

Een kwart miljoen bezorgde en ongehoorde burgers. De kranten staan de komende twee weken vol met diepte-interviews over wat hen beweegt, toch?

Geld uit klimaatpot niet altijd naar klimaat: 'Doet wat met geloofwaardigheid' Er is meermaals geld uit het Klimaatfonds besteed aan maatregelen die de CO2-uitstoot niet naar beneden brengen. Sommige kunnen zelfs bijdragen aan extra uitstoot.

Puik journalistiek werk van Charlotte Klein van de NOS, die dit onderwerp al eerder agendeerde. Deze opportunistische spenderingen op andere dossiers zijn natuurlijk tekenend voor de nihilistische politieke periode waarin we zijn beland. De WIL om beleid te voeren is zoek...

nos.nl/artikel/2585...

Dit zijn geen onschuldige opmerkingen.

Dit is een doelbewust poging van partijen als BBB en PVV om sluipenderwijs de democratische spelregels en grondrechten te ondermijnen.

Sta je op en laat je je horen? Of kijk je weg als het mis gaat?

Dát is waar deze verkiezingen over gaan.

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Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦
Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology

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Staatsgreep met mestgreep.

Kaartjes #Boerocratie gekocht.

Documentaire over grote BigAgro-belangen achter BBB met medewerking van mijn favoriete Bluesky’ers @pietlekkerkerk.bsky.social @ninazeelen.bsky.social en @georgemonbiot.bsky.social.

(voor de stadjers hier: met een mestgreep schep je mest)

“Even Birds Pay the Price of War” — A Powerful Feature by Asharq Al-Awsat’s Christine Habib In a deeply moving and beautifully written story, journalist Christine Habib sheds light on how wars from Lebanon to Gaza and Sudan are not only destroying human lives — but are also disrupting the skies above us. Published in Asharq Al-Awsat, the feature “Even Birds Pay the Price of War” documents how migratory birds are being killed, displaced, and driven off their routes by conflict and environmental destruction. View this post on Instagram A post shared by صحيفة الشرق الأوسط (@asharqalawsat) From flaming skies over Gaza, where pelicans and cranes were mistaken for drones and shot down,

“Even Birds Pay the Price of War” — A Powerful Feature by Asharq Al-Awsat’s Christine Habib

In a deeply moving and beautifully written story, journalist Christine Habib sheds light on how wars from Lebanon to Gaza and Sudan are not only destroying human lives — but are also disrupting the skies…

Feliz #Diadelasaves 🦢🦆🦩🦅

Fryslân hekelt onhaalbare grutto-doelen in natuurgebieden Een grutto in kruidenrijk grasland. Foto: Neeke Smit

"GS wijst erop dat de provincies verantwoordelijk zijn voor de instandhoudingsdoelen. ,,Dan is het wel van belang dat de doelen haalbaar zijn en er zicht is op financiering. Beide zijn niet het geval”, zo laat GS aan Staatsecretaris Rummenie weten."

#aanvalsplan #grutto
lc.nl/friesland/fr...

Ongeveer 11.000 statushouders krijgen jaarlijks voorrang op een huurwoning en ongeveer 100.000 tot 200.000 expats krijgen voorrang op een huurwoning dankzij de expatregeling, die het leven in de grote steden volstrekt onbetaalbaar heeft gemaakt, maar daar hoor je onze Volendamse nepregent niet over.

Joh…
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A Time and a Place for Everything: Eurasian Spoonbills Divide Spring and Summer Activities Across Different Areas in the Eastern Dutch Wadden Sea Human activities, including resource exploitation, coastal development and tourism, are prominent threats to waterbirds. Ensuring undisturbed habitats thus remains a conservation priority, especially in densely populated areas in Europe. Eurasian Spoonbills Platalea l. leucorodia are emblematic migratory waterbirds that have shown a strong recovery in European protected areas, including the Dutch Wadden Sea that is now the species' main European stronghold. However, this recovery has stalled, and while breeding colonies are strictly protected, visual observations suggest Spoonbills shift space use throughout their summer residency period, notably after breeding, into areas that may not be adequately protected. Focusing on a major breeding area in the eastern Wadden Sea, on the island of Schiermonnikoog, we used GPS-loggers with behavioural sensors to track 31 Eurasian Spoonbills over an 11-year period to describe space use and activity budgets from May to September. Using dynamic Brownian Bridge Movement Models to describe utilization distributions (UD), we delineated four key zones for this population and described substantial changes in their home range (95% UD), vital areas (75% UD) and core areas (50% UD) throughout the breeding and post-breeding periods. Key zones differed in intensity of use and function (based on activity budgets) throughout the summer residency period. Males and females exhibited distinct space use patterns, which converged into one key zone after breeding, namely the intertidal mudflats of Lutjewad, on the coast of the province of Groningen, used for moulting, pre-migratory flight fuelling and potentially as an information and social hub. The attractiveness of Lutjewad for Spoonbills might be linked to low levels of human disturbance at this site, which could be threatened by existing plans for major infrastructure developments. Overall, Spoonbills spent much of their summer residency period outside their strictly protected colonies, in key zones that are protected as N2000-sites, National Park or Natural World Heritage sites. However, additional measures may be needed in these areas to shield Spoonbills from human disturbance for extended periods.

A Time and a Place for Everything: Eurasian Spoonbills Divide Spring and Summer Activities Across Different Areas in the Eastern Dutch Wadden Sea | doi.org/10.5253/arde... | Ardea | #ornithology 🪶

Lovely video.
Where will this juvenile Sanderling spend the next few months? Somewhere between Rye and South Africa.
Wintering conditions will determine if it will migrate north in spring.
Blog about fascinating paper by @jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t...

Reminder!
@jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social appreciates reports of colour-ringed Sanderlings:
submit.cr-birding.org/projects/181/
Counts of adult/juvenile Sanderlings in flocks are great too.
Blog about the Greenland Sanderling project:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t...
📷 @markaeaton.bsky.social

Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...

If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward:
"The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state."
phys.org/news/2025-10...

A little serenity for a very disturbed world - preening Black Turnstone, Cypress Grove, Marshall, CA #birds #shorebirds

‘A remarkable ability to inspire’: global tributes pour in for Jane Goodall Barack Obama, Prince William and Tanzanian president among many to mark death of primatologist at age of 91 Word leaders, friends and former colleagues have been paying tribute to the primatologist Jane Goodall, who died in California on Wednesday aged 91. Goodall devoted her life to studying chimpanzees and other great apes, and became a global champion for primates and for conservation, helping to challenge the idea that the primates were vegetarian and that only humans could use tools. She died in her sleep from natural causes in Los Angeles while on a speaking tour, according to her institute, leading to an outpouring of dedications from around the world. Continue reading...

‘A remarkable ability to inspire’: global tributes pour in for Jane Goodall

The colour-marked Sanderling photographed in Israel, still carrying its radiotransmitter

A vagrant juvenile Sanderling turned up in Israel—likely after a single non-stop flight from the Dutch Wadden Sea. Here’s thread explaining why that’s remarkable and interesting. @wadertales.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social #Birds #Migration

Birds may be going south, those studying their behaviour head north @birdeyes.bsky.social @globalflyway.bsky.social www.birdeyes.org/birdeyes-bri...

YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht Hoe Nederland wordt vormgegeven zonder te wachten op de Haagse politiek | VPRO Tegenlicht

Voor een duurzame en sociale samenleving hoeven we volgens @floormilikowski.bsky.social niet te wachten op Den Haag. De transitie van Nederland is al lang bezig en eigenlijk ook niet meer te stoppen, vertelt ze op ons YouTube-kanaal (abonneren mag):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkl9...

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Esta semana se celebra el The XIth Workshop of the Eurasian Spoonbill International Expert Group, no estaremos presentes, pero nos representara un buen amigo con el trabajo que llevamos realizando durante 20 años de censos realizados sobre la invernada de la Espátula común en España y Portugal