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

We recently tagged @whitestorkproject.bsky.social juveniles to enable us to determine their movements and migration. These are offspring of flightless white storks that build ground nests @kneppwilding.bsky.social. Looking forward to following their movements whitestorkproject.org/our-storks/.

An initial look at butterfly numbers for this spring show an upturn compared to a very poor 2024. Orange tip are up 29.5% & Swallowtail 22.6%. We will be crunching the full numbers at the end of year. #savebutterflies

Final week to submit your abstract to the 2025 BES Movement Ecology SIG. @britishecologicalsociety.org the meeting will be held in Norwich 2-3 September @ueaenv.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

White stork nests can host several other species. In this case only Spanish sparrows-Passer hispaniolensis. More than 10 nests are visible. Also spotless starlings and common sparrows can use white stork nests @birdsmove.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

How do birds cope with extreme weather? When temperatures are high (e.g 39C last week) white stork parents stay at the nest and shade their young. @ueaceec.bsky.social @birdsmove.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Save the date! The next BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting is taking place on the 2nd-3rd of September 2025 in Norwich. More details to come in the new year! 🌍🧪👩‍🔬 @britishecolsoc.bsky.social

The next BES Movement Ecology SIG annual meeting is taking place on the 2nd-3rd of September 2025 in Norwich. Come and discuss your results or data with movecologists! www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/move... @britishecolsoc.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social

Celebrating the 25 years of LPN's Environmental Education Centre-Castro Verde SPA. So proud to have secured funding for this amazing Centre and to see the work done #birdconservation

Conservation efforts could more effectively identify bird species at greatest risk from climate change by better understanding the range of conditions they need to thrive, says a new UEA-led study.🐦🌦️ Read more: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a... #UEAResearch #Birddeclines #ClimateChange

Bird species with narrower climatic niches are more likely to be declining, already accounting for species range size. The extent of the climatic niche may be a good metric to assess species vulnerability to environmental change. doi.org/10.1111/jbi.... @kazalews.bsky.social @ueaceec.bsky.social

Mechanisms underlying the loss of migratory behaviour in a long-lived bird | J Animal Ecology @britishecologicalsociety.org | besjournals.onlineli... | #ornithology 🪶🧪 #animalmigration

Another 10 days to apply for a 2-year fixed term Lecturership in Conservation Ecology @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social join us @ueaenv.bsky.social and @ueaenv.bsky.social

A large proportion of the white storks in southern Europe no longer migrate. Our new paper examined the mechanims behind the loss in migratory behavious with several methods including tracking data besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #whitestorks #animalmigration

Session 2 @bou.org.uk Frontiers in #Ornithology conference focuses on passive acoustic monitoring 🔊 @simongillings.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social gives a great overview on how PAM can complement traditional methods, but there are challenges & more to do when it comes to data analysis. #BOU2025

If you encounter mallard broods and ducklings this season consider reporting your sightings to help @hannahecoburn.bsky.social 's PhD research aiming to determine how many ducklings make it to adulthood #ornithology

Another fantastic @bou.org.uk event! A full day at the museum combined with BSky conference. #BOUasm25 Don't miss the abstract deadline for oral presentations - it's coming up on 15 April! BSky-only abstracts have a bit more time - due late July. Find out more: bou.org.uk/event/a-day-...

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

Great start to the #steppebirds2025 conference in Ciudad Real, Spain. Strong participation from @steppebirdsmove.bsky.social

New lectureship in conservation biology (fixed term), come and join our group of ecologists and conservation biologists at UEA @ueaenv.bsky.social and @ueaceec.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ517/l...

The first European stork village in the UK is in west Sussex, what a great title for Storrington @patrickbarkham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Plastic pollution effects on seabirds. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A discussion on whether we might ever believe experiments that haven’t been replicated. Considers grazing experiments in Breckland and Einstein’s theory of relativity. youtu.be/Php8urkm_Lk?...

JOB OPPORTUNITY: come be my peer at @wcs.org as the new Regional Director of the Sudano-Sahel Region, overseeing conservation programs in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Nigeria, reporting to a regional office based in Kigali, Rwanda. 🌍🧪 More here: shorturl.at/O2c41

Happy to share we have a new postdoc position in "Biogeography of genetic diversity changes or Macrogenetics" at @utu.fi to work on large-scale patterns of genetic diversity using Lepidoptera= moths and butterflies 🦋🦋 Applications are open until March 10! ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkij...

6 butterfly sightings have been reported to us so far in 2025 making the most of winters sunny days. 4 Brimstones, 1 Red Admiral & a hibernating Peacock. We are delighted to say you can now also follow us on Bluesky @norfolkbutterflies.bsky.social We would love you to join us there.

Job vacancy! 📢 Join BTO as Farmland Research Manager➡️ www.bto.org.uk/jobs This role sits in the Terrestrial #Ecology Team and manages farmland-focused field survey, review and analytical projects. 📝Closing date: 5 January 2025. #ConservationJobs #ConservationCareers #Ornithology

Thousands of storks at this landfill site in Morocco, including many with rings from several EU contries. Landfill sites, just like bird feeders or vulture feeding stations provide resources for several bird species (e.g. white storks, several gull species and egrets). @ueaceec.bsky.social

Excellent PhD thesis by Dr. Rachel Dobson @universityofleeds.bsky.social on development and use of SDMs and IBMs to manage populations of the most abundant wild bird on earth- the red-billed quelea

New paper looking at avian migration in flocks and how it influences their non-breeding range shifts. See thread. @ueaceec.bsky.social

1. From morning EST to evening PST, I receive an email roughly once every three minutes. Overnight the pace slows, but not all that much. If I did nothing but read email and reply 12 hours a day I could probably keep up. A once-wonderful productivity technology is killing any hope of productivity.

8th Jan -deadline for fully funded PhD project examining individual variability in movement strategies of birds using tracking data. Please retweet.

To keep up with news on the most important sites for nature, follow @keybiodiversity.bsky.social

We will soon be launching DucklingWatch, which will allow anyone in the UK to record mallard ducklings. We’re particularly interested in repeat records of individual broods. No matter your expertise, please get involved! You can find more info at www.essex.ac.uk/research-pro... #BES2024 6/6

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

Amazing migration of one of the UK white storks. It migrated in December!! and crossed from Plymouth to France, taking app 1h40min. @ueaceec.bsky.social