Just in case you are looking for last minute Christmas presents! www.ukotcf.org.uk/books-for-sa... - this is on offer until 5th January :)

Just published: a cross-system review examining how invasive species spread and why this process is central to effective management and policy, with participation from the GuardIAS project.

Here's our 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 24. Ananas sativas (Pineapple), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708-1770). Did you know… #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum Alt text: an advent calendar revealing an unpicked pineapple.

Another stunning thermal evening survey at Cuckoo Bank, Staffordshire 🌙✨ Despite light pollution at its worst, we ringed 2 Woodcock, 2 Jack Snipe (inc a Jan 2025 retrap tipping the scales @ a whopping 80g!), plus a Common Snipe and a Skylark. Incredible night in the field 🐦🔥

Loudly singing through winter, the robin is a festive favourite. Both genders have the iconic red breast, singing to defend territories. In folklore, a kind robin fans the fire for Mary, catching an ember that turns its chest red. This bright bird symbolizes winter and Christmas. 🎄🐦 📸 Edwyn Anderton

Who can you spot in our final Christmas quiz?! Answers to come next week. Yesterday's answers: A - Puffins, B - Great Skua, C - Great Black-backed Gull, D - Black Guillemot #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

It’s Christmas Eve, so here is a Robin! We hope you have enjoyed our BBS Advent Calendar this year, even if this is the only post that you have seen. Wishing you a peaceful and enjoyable festive season from the BBS Team at BTO HQ. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social

🎄 Celebrating Christmas Eve's #InsectAdvent order: #Strepsiptera, bizarre & brilliant parasites, and RES mascot since 1833. Their morphology & history mean they’re rarely seen. Many entomologists describe them as one of the strangest insect orders. 🔗 buff.ly/U7pmiwX

It's not every day you find a new native species for Scotland! Day 22 of my botanical #adventcalendar is Shiny Glasswort - a nationally rare plant never recorded in Scotland before Growing in a salt pan on the Forth Estuary - branching pattern, colour and flower size the ID clues #wildflowerhour

Good heavens, we've already posted 59 #NewYearPlantHunt Group Hunts & details of more are pinging in every day! From Jersey to Stirlingshire, from Sheringham to Hayle and from Sligo to Sussex... check them out! It's also fine to head out with family & friends or go solo! bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

I love a weird fly..

Awesome talk about the turnover and change in urban weed / street flora of Cambridge #pavementplant #stoepplant m.youtube.com/watch?v=w6fZ...

The Peregrine on the left, shot and left suffering so badly that it had to be euthanised within a few months of leaving the nest. Peregrines aren't easy targets, so whoever shot it was experienced at shooting at birds and knew what they were doing. The usual suspects.

A spectacular little springtail for your feed today — meet Lophognathella choreutes! 📷 doviende on iNaturalist 📍 Canada 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Happy Christmas from NatureBureau - our office is now closed til 5 January but you can still pre-order our #FliesofBritainandIreland - due late Jan/early Feb 2026. Pre-order now bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @gailashton.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @wildlifekate.bsky.social

Snow Bunting! This species is predominantly a winter visitor to Britain & Ireland, with the North Sea coasts from the Tees to Norfolk a popular place to spot them. 📷 Snow Bunting by Allan Drewitt / BTO

📹CamAlien continues its journey in Portugal

The Spawn Survey is open until May 2026, and you can add your sightings here: freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/advice-resou...

Two more records have been added to the 2026 PondNet #SpawnSurvey! 🐸 One in Helston, Cornwall on 12th December and one in a garden pond in St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly on 17th December. 📸 by Lucy Thresher and Carole Cilia.

❄️ Happy holidays from all of us at OneSTOP! ❄️ 🌟 We want to say thank you to all our partners and collaborators who made our work possible this year. 🎀 The best is yet to come, but in the meantime, take a look at our 2025 highlights: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03y...

Different species are hiding in our second Christmas quiz! Let us know who they are in the comments. Answers and our final quiz tomorrow! Yesterday's answers are: A - Fulmar, B - Razorbill, C - Cormorant, D - Common Gull #birds #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

So, what do we do with the #NewYearPlantHunt data that 1000s of #BSBImembers & supporters have collected over the past decade? 1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records. Initial results: bsbi.org/about/news/l...

Sphagnum divinum, austinii and beothuk #moss #bryophyte

🌟 January Nature Highlights 🌟 • Guided wildlife walk – 3 Jan • Nature craft club – 5 Jan • Family work party – 10 Jan • Soil Sampling – 24 Jan • Talks & wildlife sessions throughout the month 🐾 Get involved and discover nature close to home! 🌿 Browse & book here 👉 www.wildlifebcn.org/events

Unless there is some reason why it isn't, mis-identification being a good one, last nights beast of a moth trap invader looks to be Dytiscus dimidiatus (King Diving Beetle) considered "Near Threatened" in the UK! #teammoth #norfolkmoths @norfolknats.bsky.social

Check out this write-up on sound producing Grasshoppers in Europe, and their availability on XC www.researchgate.net/publication/... . #bioacoustics #grasshoppers #orthoptera

📍 Online Lecture 📆 Jan 23, 12:30 -1:30 ✨ Join Simon Pooley as he discusses the okapi, a rainforest giraffid which has become a symbol of scientific curiosity, colonial power, and conservation challenges. Grab your free tickets here: buff.ly/CGq6rfy

This rare plant (Cardamine lojanensis) is only found in Ecuador, and you're potentially looking at the first living photos of the species! 📷 jovany69055 on iNaturalist 📍 Ecuador 🔗: www.inaturalist.org/observations... #ObservationOfTheDay

Birds, etymology, Medieval history and a touch of cartography. All my geeky enthusiasms between two beautifully illustrated covers. Above everything, it's about place: ours and theirs. Bravo, @drmjwarren.bsky.social, so well explained. One day, perhaps someone will do the same for Cymru...

Hopeful male Hazel (Corylus avellana) catkins getting their pollen ready early, in chilly North Leitrim. (Sharing these photos for the sheer unlikeliness of them coming out at all...trembly tree, gale force winds, flappy phone case and the wrong glasses 🤣) @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

A Cambridge-Ely #TheWinter10. Feverfew, Petty spurge, White dead nettle, Groundsel, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet, Common chickweed, Dandelion, Yarrow, Winter heliotrope and Daisy. #WildflowerHour

Happy winter solstice and happy Christmas lovely Louise! 😘

Many thanks to everyone who shared pix of wild & naturalised plants to brighten up the #WinterSolstice! Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, then we have one more #WildFlowerHour before the #NewYearPlantHunt. And then days keep on getting longer until it's Spring! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The next indoor NNNS event has now been confirmed - local naturalist Chris Durdin will be giving a talk based on The Norfolk Cranes' Story, the book that he wrote with John Buxton (see www.norfolkcranes.co.uk for more details). It's on Tues 13th Jan 2026 - free, everyone welcome.

Here is Bombylius major at Oxshott, keeping the engines running after she lands to load up with sand.

We've put together a 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 21. Wild Turkey, John James Audubon (publ.1827-1838). Did you know... #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum Alt text: advent calendar revealing coloured print of a live turkey.

🎄 Today's #InsectAdvent spotlight: #Embioptera 🕸️ Mostly found in warmer regions, #Webspinners illustrate how even small, secretive insects can carve out highly specialised lifestyles. #FunFact: These are the only insects with silk glands in their front legs 🕸️ 🔗 buff.ly/JHeTfEX

We've put together a 25-day #NHMAdventCalendar of Library and Archives art. Enjoy! 20. Iguanodon, Neave Parker (1950s). Did you know… #AdventCalendar2025 #Christmas #SpecialCollections #Art #NaturalHistoryMuseum #PalaeoArt #CrystalPalaceDinosaurs Alt text: a greywash painting of an Iguanodon.

Marine Conservation Officer Sarah's wildlife highlight of 2025 was recording a new fish species to Sussex - the bright orange Variable Blenny, "We will be exploring whether this species is migrating and encouraging divers to keep an eye out for it!" 📸Lindsey Scott

Trying to help Juniper regeneration at Aston Rowant NNR chalk grassland on the Chilterns. Collecting Juniper berries to de-flesh & sow in scrapes & planting out a 3 yr old rooted cutting. Protection needed from rabbits, sheep and deer grazing for any young plants! @rowantnnr.bsky.social

🌺If you're free on 15th January and would like to find out more about our Persian collections, why not sign up for one of our art workshops? More info in the booking links below 👇#KewLA Morning slot: https://ow.ly/x0cl50XMcGy Afternoon slot: https://ow.ly/IvwE50XMcGz

Our planet that is heating up - watch 100 years of September-October-November temperature departures over land areas (where we live) through the year 2025... Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

Ooh! Advance copies of Buzz just arrived. Smug face for the rest of the day. Publication May 2026.

🎄 Last-minute gift idea! Treat a nature-loving friend (or yourself) to the Funding For Conservation online course for just £5! Learn to access funding, spot trends & see real-world case studies. Enrol now 👉 courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/Fund... @simon2ward.bsky.social

🪱 Start 2026 with knowledge under your feet! Explore Earthworms of the UK & Ireland online course: intro to British & Irish earthworm data, 33 species accounts & notes on ecology & conservation. Enrol now 👉 courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/ento...

Before you press “Submit”… are your biological records really ready? Record Cleaner is a FREE tool that checks species names, taxonomy, locations and more—flagging issues before verification. Join our FREE intro webinar on Monday, 2 Feb 2026: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976877829... @ukceh.bsky.social

PhD project on tipping points and natural flood management. Deadline 08/01/2026. Collaboration between @engineering-soton.bsky.social and @ukceh.bsky.social #phd #funding #flood #research www.findaphd.com/phds/project...