A major new report has shown that large-scale investment in nature recovery could provide a significant boost to the UK economy while helping tackle biodiversity loss, climate change and flooding:

wow - 5 pairs of Roseate Terns in Dublin Port! Fantastic to hear birdwatchireland.ie/roseate-tern...

Ten years on from the UK voting to leave the European Union, The Wildlife Trusts have released a report highlighting the damning impact of Brexit on wildlife:

A very enjoyable June day in 'The Fridge' #Seaforth mostly watching the antics of our #CommonTern colony & reading rings & flags. 2 #RoseateTerns present plus a (still rare here) Cattle Egret and female Garganey. 3 Common Sandpipers signalled that autumn #wader passage has started. 🥳 #LancsBirds

Mediterranean feel to the #AlstonWetland patch lunchtime today with male #LesserEmperor and at least 13 #RedveinedDarters present. #odonata #dragonflies #Lancashire

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Worrying news from Mousa in #Shetland with sightings of rat on the island. #Mousa is home to the largest population of European Storm Petrel in the UK, a sparrow sized ground nesting #seabird particularly vulnerable to invasive predators. @rspbscotland.bsky.social www.shetnews.co.uk/2026/04/30/w...

#Coquet Special Protection Area is the largest breeding Roseate & Common #Tern colony in the UK. Also designated for Arctic & Sandwich Tern, Puffin & Black-headed Gull. There is no public landing on Coquet but #biosecurity risk from work access, passing boats & storm debris washing down River Coquet

With several incursions happening across UK islands now, like the rat incursion on Mousa, it’s more important than ever to ensure you take measures to prevent the spread of invasive non-native predatory mammals. You can find guidance on what you can do on the biosecurity for life website.

Sound up! #StormPetrels just past midnight at #Mousa Broch, #Shetland. A truly special experience. Invasive predators are a big risk to colonies so kudos to @rspbscotland.bsky.social #Shetland & @biosecuritylife.bsky.social teams for the recent rat incursion response. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

Not a plant I can see at home so nice to see quite a few #Oysterplant on #Yell, #Shetland this week. #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

The gov's absurd rhetoric about nature "blocking" development continues when of course wild species are (sometimes illegally) destroyed every day by building work. This latest case is tragic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Catching the people illegally killing Britain's birds of prey - BBC film goes behind the scenes with RSPB Investigations team. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/01/c...

A poem for World Bee Day.

New research by the University of Leeds and the RSPB reveals that moorland burning exposes millions to unsafe air pollution. Find out more: environment.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/news... @universityofleeds.bsky.social

1/ The latest Winter Gull Survey revealed that over the two decades since the last count, the total number of gulls wintering in the UK has decreased from 3.9 million to just under 2.5 million! 📉 #Ornithology #Seabirds 📖 Read the report www.bto.org/WinGSReport#Ornithology#Seabirds

What happens when you travel all the way back home from Africa to find your sweetheart with another bird?! 💔 That’s what happened to poor old Mart this week who returned home only to find his beloved Martha had found a new partner! Keep up with all the drama here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaB...

Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies. We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from. #biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌍🐦   Billions of migratory birds use flyways, like superhighways in the sky, to embark on an important journey to and from their breeding grounds.   Go outside and record the birds you see on eBird! Every bird counts.📱  Read more here 👉 www.birdlife.org/WMBD

Patch gold: city park Woodchat Shrike Jon Greep recounts a truly remarkable discovery at Liverpool's Newsham Park last week:

Concerning news from Mousa, Shetland! 🐀 Follow @biosecuritylife.bsky.social for tips on keeping our seabird islands safe from invasive species 🏝️

Clearly the place to be if you're a hungry #Sanderling fuelling up for a long journey to Arctic breeding grounds. More areas of our coast should be protected for migrating and wintering birds. It can't all be a playground for people and dogs. @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social #waders #shorebirds

David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden

🚀 Incredible movement alert! Our @PulsarWild sponsored CTT-tagged Jack Snipe has just completed an astonishing journey reaching Belgium from Staffordshire in just 7 hours 9 minutes! 🇬🇧➡️🇧🇪 That’s an average speed of 30+ mph for one of our most elusive and secretive species. 🤯

Over a quarter of a million seabirds on Rathlin Island are now safer! 💙 Rathlin Island has been declared ferret-free: a world-first conservation success helping Puffins, Guillemots and more raise their young safely again. Read the full story: www.rspb.org.uk/media-centre...

It’s the time of year to be out finding, recording and enjoying rare breeding birds, but it’s vital to put their welfare first. Here’s some advice from @markaeaton.bsky.social, and there’s a blog here tinyurl.com/RBBPsafe [1/2] youtu.be/5xXc9Dl7vwk?...

With terns (and other birds) still being reported to be affected by #HPAI in their wintering areas, and the disease not having left the breeding areas either, we cannot rest assured that we won’t be facing further outbreaks in the upcoming breeding season.

PhD opportunity: I am looking for someone with a passion for the natural environment and an interest in developing applied research collaboratively with the RSPB. ONly two weeks left to apply! #phd #ecology #rewilding #naturerecovery #bird #plant #invertebrates #biodiveristy #research #teesside

The Prime Minister is backing recommendations that could strip away vital nature protections and leave some of our most important wild places exposed to damaging development. Speak up and help stop this rollback before it starts 👇 action.rspb.org.uk/page/186397/...

I eagerly await her return each year & this morning, there she was! 🥰 #Curlew CJ6 ringed as a chick in central #Finland in 2012, this is her 13th spring staging on the #AlstonWetland patch. 3-4 weeks fattening up on #Lancashire's finest earthworms then she'll be off once again. #waders #shorebirds

Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield. It is devastating to see. These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure. Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...

Another 2 #RussianWhitefrontedGeese have joined the family party of 6 at #AlstonWetland #Lancashire. Lovely close views this afternoon through gaps in the hedge along Pinfold Lane. Always nice to get in on national influxes of any species on the local patch. #Lancsbirds #birding #geese

Not only have storms been hampering our plans to get to #islands recently, they've also been causing difficulties for #seabirds foraging on their wintering grounds at sea. We can help seabirds when they come to land, ensuring nest sites are free of invasive predators www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🚨 We’re recruiting! We’re looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect the Beacon Ponds Little Tern colony at Spurn. 👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case. Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Spring comes early when you're #wader #shorebird nut. 🙌

£8,282 raised — thank you 💙 Next milestone: £9,000 Weekend goal: £10,000 Every share helps: 👉 gofund.me/31d302f20

The RSPB reports six of its satellite-tagged Hen Harriers 'disappeared' on or close to grouse moors in England in 2025, and another one was illegally poisoned. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/20/r...

The Little Tern colony @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social is one of the most productive in the UK. A funding shortfall means eggs & chicks could be lost to disturbance & predation in 2026. Please donate and spread the word to keep our #LittleTerns safe. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds gofund.me/45a4b0054

Six roles with @rspbcymru.bsky.social to survey breeding waders in #Wales in March/April, with a particular focus on #Curlews. Closing date is 25 January. #ConservationJobs app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Packed house at Oxford Farming Conference today - and no wonder. Farmers shared powerful, real‑world stories of nature‑restoring agriculture delivering hope, resilience and better livelihoods. Proof that farming working with nature just makes sense.

The freeze has livened things up a bit locally with a redhead (1stW drake?) #Smew on the River Lune in urban #Lancaster this morning. Thanks to Jennifer who alerted us to a chiffchaff feeing along the road verge which turned out to be a stunning #SiberianChiffchaff! #UKBirding #Lancsbirding #birds

New review! In the Dec. 2025 issue of Birding, Julian Hough reviews "Listers," a documentary on extreme birding that appeared on YouTube in a surprise appearance earlier this year. "Listers" was met with immediate acclaim in the birding community. Read here: www.aba.org/brothers-and...

Police and wildlife authorities are investigating the disappearance of White-tailed Eagles at several sites across the UK, amid concerns that the birds may have fallen victim to poisoning or other deliberate acts:

This is really great news. #Hoylake beach is a remarkable place and these dynamic green beach habitats are so so rare around our constrained and over-managed coastline. A big win for #nature. Well done @joshual951.bsky.social and all involved 💚

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This Government once vowed to be “the most nature-positive [we have] ever had”. Months of blaming wildlife and stripping back protections have already made a mockery of that promise. And if the rumoured cuts to BNG go ahead, it will deal yet another devastating blow to nature.