Vote on your favourite butterfly! Peacock butterfly at the top for now. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Happy world migratory bird day! Our local swifts arrived for the breeding season 2026.

Great day for our second field trip to @NWT reserve Sweetbriar Marshes with the 1st year UEA students @ueaenv.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social. Lots of birds today, including swifts and swallows and many others. With @pauldolman.bsky.social @willnash.bsky.social @bibekrajshrestha.bsky.social

UK #Deer populations still increasing rapidly, Fallow trebled, Muntjac >doubled in last 10 years! BBS Report here: www.bto.org/sites/defaul...

We're looking for a Wilder Communities Officer who can connect people with Sussex’s marine and coastal environments. Apply by Tuesday 12 May https://f.mtr.cool/ywoywmqpyg  #GreenJobs #NatureRecovery #Sussex

Nominate now and celebrate the achievements of an inspiring ornithologist, birder, volunteer, young person or group for the BTO & Marsh Awards! 🎉Vote at www.bto.org/awards Nominations close on 31 May! #Ornithology

PROFESSORSHIP VACANCY in Climate & Environment 🌎 Closes 17 May This role represents a strategic investment in advancing + extending climate change research at UEA: a fantastic opportunity for an exceptional candidate. More information here ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/sir-ant...

Excellent day for a field trip with the @ueaenv.bsky.social and @biouea.bsky.social 1st year students to monitor plants, invertebrates and birds @NWT reserve Sweetbriar Marshes @ueaceec.bsky.social with Will Nash and @pauldolman.bsky.social

New paper examining if selection and/or learning drive the use of new anthropogenic resources by a long-lived lived species by @birdsmove.bsky.social team @inescatry.bsky.social @martaacacio.bsky.social #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Another example of #iconicstorknests, here 3 in a row on top of an old building in Silves, Southern Portugal.

@lilyabbiss.bsky.social recording species numbers at landfill sites for her @ueaceec.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social MSc Applied Ecology and Conservation project. Great to see strategies to enable good conditions :-) for data collection. Enjoy!

🚨Deadline 30/04! PhD opportunity: 🐾 Mapping the Manor: How are the lives of meerkats shaped by their sleeping & breeding burrows? 🐾 💡 Big ecological Qs 📡 Geophysics tech + data 🌍 Fieldwork with me, @geophysics-adam.bsky.social & @aldinafranco.bsky.social APPLY NOW: www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Some stats from inaturalist for Norfolk. There are 6999 species recorded. I wonder which species will be the 7000? There are 7089 recorders and more than 200,000 observations. #inaturalist #biodiversity

I love the interesting Gulls Eating Stuff submissions! This one by @robspeirs.bsky.social is an unusual one - a herring gull scavenging on a dead harbour porpoise. Nope, they don't just eat chips... Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul... !

#AFOWOS2026 will feature a hands-on workshop on "Turning Sound Into Discovery," focusing on skills for setting up and using recorders for bioacoustics research. Workshops are free with registration but require a separate sign-up process!

I decided to start a collection of #iconicstorknests here on Bluesky. First nest is on a sign post in the Algarve near Portimão. @ueaceec.bsky.social @birdsmove.bsky.social and @whitestorkproject.bsky.social this is a good challenge for you!

MSc student @lilyabbiss.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social surveying vertebrate species at a landfill site in Southern Portugal. The enclosure (Lily's cage :-) ) protects her from random encounters with feral dogs that visit the site.

Rewa MSc student @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social is studying the natural causes of mortality of white storks while at the nests. She deployed camera traps at the nests and will determine which chicks do not make it to fledgling. #Ornithology #birds

Field work has many challenges, here with @anna-thompson.bsky.social we devised a solution for placing camera traps on nests of white storks aiming to determine the drivers of natural mortality of chicks while at the nest. @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Exciting #PhD project opportunity with @domcram.bsky.social mapping the architecture of meerkat burrows and it's consequences. Join us at UEA @ueaceec.bsky.social deadline for applying 30th April. #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #mammals

Our first chicks have hatched! 🐣 Last week we welcomed the first hatchlings of the season. We’re looking forward to following their growth and seeing them fledge in a couple of months! #ornithology #ecology 🌍🧪 Photo: @anna-thompson.bsky.social

📅 The schedule for #CEECRebellion2026 is now live! Two days of ecology, evolution, and conservation research at UEA 🌿 Expect talks, posters, coffee ☕, pizza 🍕, and a pub quiz. 18–19 March | ZICER 2.02, UEA Full programme below 👇 @biouea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Looking forward to the 2026 CEEC Rebellion conference. Fantastic programme ahead. Thanks to all organisers! @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Next up for #CEECRebellion2026: Our Chairs! 🌿 We are thankful to Prof. Aldina Franco and Dr. Gabrielle Davidson for their advice and guidance to the organizing committee. Stay tuned for more 🦋 @aldinafranco.bsky.social @drgdavidson.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Mexico is considering shrinking a protected area in the Gulf of California — home to the critically endangered vaquita, with an estimated 10 individuals left. A draft proposal would reduce the gillnet ban zone and allow vessel traffic in a zero-tolerance area now fully closed to boats.

General Licence restriction imposed in relation to shooting of Golden Eagle 'Merrick'. Raeshaw Estate claims this is "wholly unjustified" & says it will appeal the decision. Statement from estate & commentary from me 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/11/r...

Ready to level up your birdwatching? 😎 Here’s another 10 birds to keep an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch... From colourful Jays to stealthy Sparrowhawks, who have you spotted on your patch before? PS - Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Looking for a PhD project in Movement Ecology or animal migration? This is an exciting project with an experienced team. #migration #Ornithology #GPStracking

Tracking Social Lapwings, to understand hunting pressures on this critically endangered wader: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/01/03/f... (WaderTales blog from 3 Jan 2021) More about tracking waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/m... #ornithology

Conservation Scientist - Island Restoration - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108572-...

We're recruiting! BoPH are looking for a part-time Engagement Assistant to join our team. This role would be well-suited to an enthusiastic ornithologist with great communication skills & good knowledge of British birds. Full details: environmentjob.co.uk/posts/108499... Closes: 30th Jan 2026

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Two funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p... #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

New funded PhD projects with @marius-somveille.bsky.social, myself and collaborators. Examining migratory connectivity for seabirds www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... and and the dynamics of seasonal migration www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK742/p... #ornithology @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon.

A huge thanks to everyone involved in #DucklingWatch this year - we received over 950 brood records from across Britain. See our end of season report at www.essex.ac.uk/research-projects/ducklingwatch for more info. DucklingWatch will return in 2026 - stay tuned!

Early mornings at @kneppwilding.bsky.social Thank you to photographer, Ian Brierley, for this fantastic photo from his recent visit to Knepp! ☀️

“Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved” - Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall's work was inspirational. She was an amazing person and a pioneer in animal behaviour research. Amazing work. Sad to see her go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

One month to go until the UKBMS 50th Anniversary Conference! Are you joining us? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-butterf... #UKBMS50

Excellent article from the FT on the need to consider climate change and biodiversity conservation together and tackle both challenges together. www.ft.com/content/f84d...

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spectacular migration for the UK white storks this year! This stork, born at Knepp this year, is offspring of flightless parents and migrated around the Alps following a Southeastern migration route @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

The UK white storks don't stop surprising us. This year some went around the Alps and are migrating through Italy: wsp.acenature.org/flight2.html

Last week to register to attend the BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting @britishecologicalsociety.org, deadline 27th of August. Come and join us in Norwich @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever. Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

We found that plastic materials left in the environment are carried by white storks to their nests and then cause chick mortality due to entanglements www.theguardian.com/environment/... link to paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social