Do you find recognising gulls tricky? 🤔 Join our expert team for our Gull ID training sessions in November ➡️ www.bto.org/training Our two-part, online Gull ID course has been carefully crafted to build your knowledge and confidence and make gull ID easier! #Ornithology

Attended a goat handling course this weekend 🐐. Training covered foot trimming, drenching, and other skills for supporting goat health and welfare- while keeping goats (mostly) cooperative. Thanks to @buttercupsgoats.bsky.social 🐐.

New @theguardian.com article explores how animals handle heatwaves, featuring our research into the mystery of cattle bunching 🐄. Collaborating with @cardiffuni.bsky.social, @angliaruskin.bsky.social, @uniofreading.bsky.social. @universityofessex.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Thought-provoking final talk of the day at @globalbirdfair.bsky.social on using thermal imaging to monitor birds, presented by @westmidlandsrg.bsky.social.🔥📷🐦

Great PhD in #ornithology is opening up as part of the www.grassbirdhabitats.eu project. Hosted by the University of Groningen in close collaboration with the University of Gaston Berger and NDC in Senegal. West African students are especially encouraged to apply! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Important paper on promoting transparency and better standards in biologging research, making sure animal welfare is prioritised.

Chicken handling course in the Cotswolds today! 🐔

Enjoyable sheep handling course today- vaccinated, fly sprayed and even got to bottle feed some lambs 🐑 at @myerscoughcollege.bsky.social

#conferencegoals #ASABSpring2025 What an amazing bunch 🦤

Summary of today’s #ASABSpring2025 talks: 🪲🐘🐦🦐🦍🐠👯‍♀️🪳🐝🦌💻🦍🐝🐦🐄🐟🐸🐗🐦‍⬛ Great job all! 👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌👏🏻🙌

Fantastic talks and posters at #ASABSpring2025 and glad I had the opportunity to give a talk. Thanks to the organisers! 🐮 @asab-spring-2025.bsky.social

PhD AVAILABLE on #Wildlife #harvest and #management policy in the UK - studentship only for Home/UK resident status candidates - Life and social sciences collaboration - deadline 28th May 2025 - get in touch #birds #people #policy tinyurl.com/3vxkzad9

1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology

📣SEMINAR SERIES 2025📣 We are kicking off 2025 with our first seminar. 📆Tuesday 29th April 2025 at 2pm GMT on our Youtube channel: @damienfarine.bsky.social will talk about “The costs of collective behaviour” 🐦 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9z... This event is free, no registration required. 🤗

A male blackbird was ringed and deployed with a GPS tag in my own garden this morning for @gregoryeckhartt.bsky.social 's project monitoring their movements in urban landscapes! Happy to have been part of the process.

Interesting work tagging mallards to monitor their movements in the breeding season- excited to see how this project progresses. 🦆Glad to have joined some of the fieldwork!

New paper out in Frontiers: Mapping activity of grazing cattle using commercial virtual fencing technology. doi.org/10.3389/fvet... Summary 🧵: