Scotland fans celebrating was measured as an earthquake 🤣 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great to hear @LizKendall @teamlabouruk.bsky.social #BackBritish #Science - this also means higher fruit - such as, but not limited to, these areas

The NERC review process makes its ‘no resubmissions’ policy particularly egregious If a grant scores low, it is rejected with no opportunity to address reviews We’ve just had that; the reviews would have been easy to address As a result, we can’t submit a revised version to any research council 😢

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Can hunting truly support conservation? Does fortress conservation offer a sustainable solution for protecting wildlife in the long term? And how do we balance the needs of impoverished communities with the preservation of fragile ecosystems? The latest episode is up! 🌍🦤 ➡️ pod.fo/e/350640

Did you know that the two Light-bellied Brent Goose populations – from Canada and Svalbard – largely winter on Strangford Lough and Lindisfarne respectively, while the birds wintering elsewhere in Britain come from the Russian Dark-bellied population? 📷 Philip Croft / BTO

Finally seeing some teal in the duck traps #ringing #ducks #banding #science #volunteering #nature #birds #wildlife

Source: The Daily Galaxy search.app/Qm77E

Last week to apply to be a BTO Youth Rep ➡️ bit.ly/YouthRep25 We're looking for volunteers aged 16-24 to share their passion for nature!🐦🌿Training and support are provided, and expenses will be paid. 📝 Closing date: Sunday 9th November 2025.

Perhaps read in conjunction with www.researchgate.net/publication/... and www.ecos.org.uk/book-review-...

Grey-backed Thrush is one of the commoner Asian passerines in captivity in the UK, many appear to be unringed #UKBirding

With HPAI bird flu resurging in UK and Western Europe, here's the link to the 2 recent special issues of #BirdStudy on avian influenza: 20 papers on impacts, mitigation, patterns and control. Part 1/2: #ornithology #seabirds #raptors #birdflu

Coming up soon (9 am today) an opportunity to hear this classic episode of In Our Time on Bird Migration featuring Tim Guilford of @biology.ox.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Human disturbance threshold for apex predator-prey relationships - they do their job even in fragmented landscapes #ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Interesting(!) that these captive-bred ducks for sale in East Yorkshire seem to be unringed in very many cases. Baikal, Blue-winged, Green-winged Teals, plus Garganeys. Dread to think how many end up in the wild and in local bird reports... #ukbirding

#PhD Studentship - Marine Heat Waves & shellfish fisheries - informing future #marine policy. Join our team at the University of Essex, School of Life Sciences. All the details available here: www.essex.ac.uk/Postgraduate... START JANUARY 2026 - APPLY BY 14 NOVEMBER 2025

North America, USA too, has amazing public National Parks for #wildlife and #people - don't take them for granted www.themeateater.com/conservation...

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Wild East goes National #wilding #farming ‘Next great leap’: grassroots movement to wild East Anglia goes national | Rewilding | The Guardian share.google/oQBfRUkmDiDy...

There is a lot of momentum in @greenparty.org.uk - as I have said before - if they could shift their position on utilitarianism to more like the #Swedish green party - i think their movement could grow further - particularly on farming, fishing and other #animal use

I have never been brilliant at maths..but... I am good at geography and waterfowl and I am fairly sure this is wrong... still close enough i suppose @parliamentarygoose.bsky.social

Loved the #Leeds #Yorkshire #community investing in Swifts on #HamzaHiddenWildIsles

My bias is towards sharing effects of #pets and disturbance on #wildlife - but 1 Billion #birds a year killed by #building collisions, #roads and transport by far biggest killer or terrestrial (wild) vertebrates in Europe - we could deal with them

So lovely to meet our new cohort of marine biology and ecology undergraduates @universityofessex.bsky.social. What a lovely bunch! And deff winning the highest jump there Michael Steinke!!

Response on the captive Turtle Dove releases from Operation Turtle Dove #conservation operationturtledove.org/captive-rele...

UK rice fields - I aired this idea for diversification a decade ago - with alternative motives 🦆https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgeq702dyo.amp

Great article in Harvard Business Review on the emergence of 'AI-generated workslop'. Marking student work, reviewing grants, papers etc now takes much longer as I can no longer assume that cited references a) exist or b) are relevant to a potentially spurious case study share.google/GVKpoOVe48Rb...

1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️ Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

New issue of #BirdStudy out today! Birds on solar farms Numbers of released Pheasants & Partridges Woodlarks & Meadow Pipits in Central Europe Hawfinch supplementary feeding Black-billed Cuckoo diet Serengeti Secretarybirds Tracking Lesser Flamingos www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c... #ornithology

Is male aggression good or bad for populations under heatwaves? Find out in our recently published article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@neelamporwal.bsky.social has just published this work on interacting eco-evo feedbacks between heatwaves and sensual selection on population dynamics - first output from an exciting project with a team inc @jacek-radwan.bsky.social @robknell.bsky.social #ecology #evolution

A tad early to not be out in the field, but I have #book company, off to @anglianwater.bsky.social #partnerships day #water #wildlife #people #wetlands

Today was my last Abberton visit until 10th October & it wasn't bad despite a bit of a clear-out. Glossy Ibis, albeit distant, in Wigborough bay was new and also on site today 8 Curlew Sands, 13 Spot Reds, 3 Dunlin, 31 Spoonbill, 26 Ruff, 3 Hobby, 2 LR Plover & all the usual wildfowl #essexbirding

Calling all nature enthusiasts! 🐦 Sign up to our newsletter for #Birds in Greenspaces, our exciting new project that launches next Spring and focuses on publicly accessible greenspaces! 😀 Sign up to our newsletter for the latest updates and resources ➡️ www.bto.org/get-involved... #Ornithology

How freakosystems are becoming the norm #ecology #nature theweek.com/environment/...

Aberdeen Becomes UK’s First City to Welcome Back Red Squirrels — Conservation Efforts Pay Off thescottishfeed.substack.com/p/aberdeen-b...

Started this a few weeks back, loved the way concepts and examples are outlined, will post some excerpts as I tread along 🤗🤗

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

@neelamporwal.bsky.social ‘s talk about estimating extinction risks under sexual selection using simulations, at PEC2025 won the first prize for the best student talk. So, should animals swipe right for survival?🐧

There wasn't much new at Abberton today, but still plenty to see. Wigborough Church had 2 Spot Flies and at the reservoir 35 Curlew Sand, 5 Little Stint, 45 Ruff, 26 Spoonbill, LR Plover, 400 Sand Martin, Hobby, Peregrine & all the expected wildfowl #essexbirding

The @conservatives.bsky.social have a new #Nature and #Environment #policy strategy - "Paradise Regained" - all-party support is required for Nature recovery so this is welcome - the title might play to nationalism trends - but paragraph 5 of the intro is not helpful www.cen.uk.com/paradise-reg...

Unexplained pivot from INNS to rewilding but ... Introduced large herbivores more negative than positive on native biodiversity #ecology www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The day paradise put up a parking lot This local semi-wild riverside meadow being despoiled with artificial surfaces Apparently to help people walk & cycle through nature

Conservation is not a simple solution to climate change “ecological benefits of rewetting drained boreal peatland forests come at a climate cost restoration is unlikely to mitigate climate change” Stopping emissions is the only failsafe solution link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It was rough at Abberton today to say the least, but with persistence there were some good birds to see, including a very distant Grey Phalarope in hide bay. Also 50 Spoonbill, 38 Curlew Sandpiper, 7 Little Stint, 7 Greenshank, 32 Ruff, Spotted Redshank, Dunlin, 2 Hobby, 95 Common Tern & Raven.

More evidence of the scale of human impacts: new study documents 220 extinctions (incl. 27 birds) on Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira, Canaries, Cape Verde etc). Post-human colonisation extinction rate >12 times higher. Paper doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf215. Story: www.birdguides.com/articles/ext...

Well done Mary for bringing the issues in your books mainstream - but note Foxes are culled extensively and those protecting Curlew suggest better effort management, and considering special licence for badgers may be needed #ecology #conservation #predation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russian drones violated Polish airspace on the night of Sept 9/10 in what NATO & European officials have suggested was an intentional Russian incursion.The large number of Russian drones that violated Polish airspace suggests that this was likely an intentional Russian effort. understandingwar.org

#BirdStudy welcomes submissions on all aspects of #ornithology, eg. distribution/abundance patterns; movements/dispersal; habitat effects; census, marking & tracking, behaviour; conservation. Main focus Europe, Atlantic, Afro-Palearctic Flyway, N Africa, but useful papers considered from any region.