The Greater flamingo at Kowloon Park

The East Asian Porcupine aka Malayan Porcupine at Ngong Ping, Ma on Shan, HK

Daurian Redstart female

HK's largest laughingthrush!

The Trust's Early Career Fellowships offer a three-year salaried post for researchers at the beginning of their academic career to undertake a significant piece of research. Interested? Apply here: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career... Closing date: 19 February 2026, 4pm

🚨 PhD offer (please share) Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species Deadline: 20 Feb 2026 Starting: June 2026 Supervision: Martins Briedis & me Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶

Submit your application by 30 November 2025📆

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: [email protected]

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: [email protected]

Join us (November 26th 4 PM Hong Kong Time) for our final project meeting (online) about the Hong Kong feral water buffalo 🐃 project. Check out www.hkbuffaloresearch.org/research-hig... for free registration or scan QR code on the poster. We welcome everyone!! @amcell.bsky.social

🐃🐦 Interested in how feral buffalo & cattle affect bird communities in Hong Kong? Join our research team (@amcell.bsky.social, Prof. Kate Flay & me) at CityU HK through the DAAD RISE Paid Internship for German students. Apply: shorturl.at/LvDe3 | Ref: HK_BI_0704| |📧: [email protected]

Face to face with the landowner. Rent is due 😂🐃 📍Shap Long, Hong Kong

2025. Veterinary college sheds light on lives of Lantau’s water buffalo - cc @debottam1991.bsky.social croucher.org.hk/en/news/vete...

RIP Jane Goodall… ethology will always remember you

@ghodgson.bsky.social and I will present our PhD research on October 23rd, 4 to 5.30pm HK time Zoom is open for all and in-person attendance is available for staff and students of City University of Hong Kong. Scan the QR code or use the following link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Did you know? Grebes can compress their feathers to reduce buoyancy, helping them dive easily. 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

Our latest feral cattle paper “Seasonal changes in coat colour and sexual size dimorphism in a subtropical ungulate” is out today in open access @royalsociety.org Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, @ghodgson.bsky.social & @amcell.bsky.social

We present the first evidence of seasonal coat colour changes in cattle, with paler individuals in the wet season and darker ones in the dry season, suggesting plastic phenotypes. The main driver of seasonal coat colour appears to be thermoregulation, supporting the thermal melanism hypothesis.

You can find out more about HK feral cattle phenotypes in our paper royalsocietypublishing-org/doi/10.1098/..., and learn more about this unique populations on our website hkcattleresearch.org And let us know your thought about our findings 😀

Nature’s resilience in the shadow of progress 🌱 🪶 📍Mai Po Nature Reserve

Water buffalo by birth, supermodel by attitude😅🐃

new In Press from us - "Adaptive behavioural strategies to seasonal challenges by a semi-urban feral ungulate" [water buffalo, Bubalus bubalis]. in Animal Behaviour. very well done @debottam1991.bsky.social & rest of the team! www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Back in Hong Kong after attending #Behaviour2025 in Kolkata and very glad we got to see some of the city's wildlife before our return - some lovely langurs and striped palm squirrels!

This was fun, even if my knees were shaking the whole time! And if anyone at #Behaviour2025 wants to know more about the feral cattle, check out Tania Perroux's talk at 11:19 today in Hall 7 👀 Last day today!

🌿 Native to tropical coastlines, the Sea Mango (Cerbera manghas) thrives where few plants can tolerate salt, heat, and shifting sands. But beneath its fragrant flowers and mango-like fruit lies a potent danger: cerberin, a toxic cardiac glycoside that has caused fatal poisonings across Asia.

Male fiddler crabs show sexual dimorphism, with one claw much larger than the other. This oversized claw helps attract mates, defend territory, and even cool the crab down by releasing body heat while it's active on hot tidal flats

Well, Mai Po Nature Reserve has its toughest security guard, and he's even got wings🪶

Mai Po Nature Reserve (Hong Kong) Wins Global Gold Star Award for Excellence in Wetland Conservation www.wwf.org.hk/en/w4n/?2646... 🐃🐃🐃

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Very happy to share some news! 🎉🎉 I'll be speaking at Behaviour 2025: XXXVIII International Ethological Congress on Aug 25 - 30, 2025. "Using Behaviour and Cognition Research to Advance Animal Welfare Impact" #behaviour2025 - via #Whova tinyurl.com/2y49dfr2 & @behaviour2025.bsky.social

From the paddies of Long Valley🌱🪶

Shek Sheung welcomed me with these beauties! 🦋

Just a few favorites from Ma On Shan today

Spotted a large Carpenter bee visiting Kandelia obovata flowers of Tai O mangroves🐝🥀

Hong Kong feral buffalo 😀🐃 - photos by @christinagrace98.bsky.social

All of these photos tell a story: a pair of Black-collared Starlings walking together, then one flies off and returns with a thread-like material, possibly presenting it to the other, both birds call loudly together before taking flight. 📍Ma on Shan

Peek-a-moo, I see you! 😆🐮 📍Tap mun, HK

Tap Mun version of traffic jam: sharing the path with the real locals 🐄🐖

Congratulations Dr. Hodgson! @ghodgson.bsky.social 🎉🥰

The Vampire Finch Is Out for Blood aspasiasbissas.com/2025/03/29/t... #vampires #Galapagos #vampirefinch

How can magellanic #penguins navigate tidal currents while balancing #EnergyEfficiency & foraging opportunities? This study reveals how they adaptively make S-shaped return paths to their colony, optimizing travel in complex oceanic flows @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/40nKyD4

Just a tailorbird going through its morning rituals 💚 📍Pui O, Lantau

"Allogrooming duration increased with bystander number, suggesting that cattle potentially advertise relationships and status to peers." I absolutey love that cattle are showing off their friendships in front of others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Very excited to announce that our latest feral cattle paper “Strategic third-party interventions in feral ungulate affiliation” is out today in @royalsociety.org Proceedings of the Royal Society B royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... by myself, Kate Flay, Tania Perroux & @amcell.bsky.social

This indicates that cattle pay attention to their social surroundings, and selectively interrupt bonding behaviour. These nuanced social relationships and third-party effects are often only associated with non-human primates, and not usually with livestock such as cattle.

Understanding how ungulates maintain #socialbonds is important for #positiveanimalwelfare and highlights the complex social lives and cognitive abilities of cattle. To learn more about the study, visit royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... or our website hkcattleresearch.org 🐂

Stronger early-life bonds between father and daughter baboons are linked to increased female lifespan, highlighting the potential benefits of paternal involvement in social mammals. doi.org/g9sfpv

Public attitudes and values regarding a semi-urban feral ungulate scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/publicati... Photo Credit (buffalo resting on beach, Pui O, Hong Kong): @libertyruth.bsky.social

2025. #DEI - "Special feature: The other 1%: Showcasing science and scientists from the Global South and indigenous communities" royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rspb/202... via @royalsocietypublishing.org