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.

📣 New paper out now in @conbiology.bsky.social! #Headstarting - hatching eggs and/or rearing chicks in captivity & releasing them back to the wild - has been increasingly used for #wader #conservation. But it can be challenging and expensive. So why do it and when❓ 📷WWT/Bob Ellis #godwit (1/4)

After a 5 day no-show I was chuffed to bits to successfully root this little smasher out of the c20 km of coastline it's been frequenting since October. Initially bobbing about in the surf it swam in to the stream mouth for a good preen before flying off west. #HarlequinDuck #Donegal #IrishBirding

30th November marks Remembrance Day for Lost Species and we are remembering the Slender-billed Curlew. We want to keep the name of the Slender-billed Curlew alive and hold it in our hearts as we learn from the loss. This cannot happen again on our watch. 💔 📷 Chris Gomersall

Last night the Government steamrollered its Planning Bill through, slamming the door on vital protections for nature. They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature. But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.

Here is your late evening Avocet. Night all. xx

Popping back for something important… This is for those of you who knew & loved that golden human, Jamie Normington @movingslowly.bsky.social – and those who never met him but were amused, enlightened, touched by his gift for communication and compassion here and on Twitter.

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

Cutting reedbeds helps slow succession, diversifies structure & provides better viewing of wildlife. This cut area @rspbengland.bsky.social #Saltholme is currently hosting up to 9 #JackSnipe. Lots of happy #birders enjoying close views of the bobbing camo masters today. #RSPBEcology

Simply beyond belief. 🤬 #Swifts

What happens to shorebirds when the mud disappears? wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/w... Blog from 15 Oct 2022 🎂3️⃣ #ornithology

“To be a birder is to fall in love. Obsessively, irrevocably and, perhaps, foolishly. This love, it creeps up on you.”

Very exciting job opportunity @rspbscience.bsky.social! Help us track wader chicks & their prey to evaluate & improve interventions to address high levels of wader chick predation. 7 month contract, based @rspbengland.bsky.social Nene Washes. 🛎️Deadline 2nd Nov #waders #shorebirds #ornithology

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’, say environmentalists Pleased to have signed @campaign4parks.bsky.social's letter urging Ministers to drop plans to remove the Protected Landscapes Duty on public bodies 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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It's not often #Liverpool Bay is the envy of UK birders, but when everything aligns & #LeachsPetrels are dancing along the beach just feet away, it's a special place to be. Here's @dan-gornall.bsky.social's day being made on Wallasey beach. #StormAmy. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

#StormAmy delivered today with a decent tally of wind-blown #seabirds on the Mersey. 35+ #LeachsPetrel the undoubted highlight. Here's two having a little feed together whilst battling out of the river mouth just beyond the #NewBrighton breakwaters. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

Record breaking day at #Seaforth with 83 species seen, my highest day total there ever. Highlights were a male Hen Harrier heading stratospherically high SW, the Grey Phalarope showing much better, 5 juv Curlew Sands, juv Little Stint, Spotted Redshank, 2 Ruff & a juv Black Tern. #Lancsbirding

Our species is a disgrace and doesn't deserve this beautiful, irreplaceable planet.

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Remember, birding is there for you.

Pleased to see this getting discussed. There is a total lack of support in the UK for people with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome suffering Craniocervical Instability. We've been on this awful journey & fundraised for major neurosurgery in Spain, it saved Liv's life when NHS wouldn't help. #EDS #CCI

#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.

We need your help again. Coul Links is an extraordinary coastal dune habitat, home to rare and remarkable wildlife. But it is now threatened for a second time by plans for an 18-hole golf course that would cause irreparable damage. Your voice could help save it. 👇

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🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

Gruesome scenes @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social yesterday where this juvenile female #Sparrowhawk impressively took down a #Magpie near the YWT visitor centre. The event stopped passers by and traffic! Nature can sure be brutal. #raptors #birdsofprey #spurnbirds

I. Love. August. Exquisite juvenile #WoodSandpiper currently gracing #GrimsarghWetlands #Lancashire. #waders #shorebirds #Lancsbirding @wadertales.bsky.social @waderquest.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social

Great to see the inspirational @rspb.bsky.social #HopeFarm featured in #BritishWildlife. It is rammed with wildlife, profitable and produces quality food. It is a no-brainer that farmers should be supported to make this the norm. You can help make that happen... share.google/vskP9EVEsZxn...

Ringed Plovers have been 'sharing' their beaches with tourists for five months. Blog about how visitors affect the breeding distributions of Ringed Plovers and Oystercatchers: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/o... 🎂4️⃣ #ornithology

Just your average day at work... 👀

Looking like a poor season for #Puffins in the #Faroes from local accounts and observations so far - lots of adults still feeding young chicks which should have fledged by this time of year, many dead chicks in the colony and very low numbers in general :( any others finding similar? #seabirds

Remember to keep dogs on lead near breeding seabird colonies!

Working in #Lancaster today. Thanks to the City Council's excellent Grassland Management Strategy, a lunchtime stroll from the office is a delight - flowers and pollinators aplenty. 💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Pesticide-free public spaces are already the norm in Paris, and in Denmark, showing chemicals aren't needed to maintain them Two thirds of the British public would support “schools, parks, playgrounds & other public spaces" being pesticide free Time for a ban www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Redshank ☹️ Huge losses of saltmarsh breeders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/r... They can do well on wet grassland: wadertales.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/h... If you use all the available management tools: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/t... #ConservationScience🌍