Highlight of yesterday's seawatch from Sandsend Quarries with @chrisgomersall1.bsky.social was the appearance of large mixed flocks of Little Gull and Kittiwake once the wind eased a bit. #birding #ukbirding

Sandsend Quarries, second quarry. 3 Yellow-browed Warblers in the half dozen trees you can get to, god knows what else is lurking in there. 3 of 11 YBW in Whitby area today.

Clearest views I've ever managed up the coast from Kettleness, but not sure how far im seeing...are the tower blocks Sunderland or Hartlepool? And if so where is the final headland? Any Durham birders help me out?

Labour promised to restore nature. ❌ Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it. We offered solutions. We’re done waiting. Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species. Without significant change, it must be scrapped.

BIG thanks to all the Yorkshire birders who helped out with supplying information on birds in their area, we wouldn't have been able to do it otherwise! Too many to list here but, THANK YOU!

We did it! Just about recovered from 24hrs of birding, 52,000 steps, 450miles drove and 157 species recorded, a new record! Donations towards @ldvnnr.bsky.social @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social Jack Snipe project really appreciated! 'Trip' report by @ollie333.bsky.social here ebird.org/tripreport/3...

Yesterday, we took on the 24 hour Yorkshire Bird Race. Despite few migrant species, we managed to finish on 157 species, breaking the previous record by 1! You can view our route and list here (sens sp hidden). Pls sponsor us to track wintering Jack Snipe (link below). ebird.org/tripreport/3 #birds

21 species at Spurn in quick succession and after a slow afternoon our race is back on and looking like an exciting finish. Off to Flamborough at dusk still needing a heap of seabirds. #birds #Yorkshirebirding

Stop 1 of Yorkshire 24 hr Bird Race. 00:30 and 15 species. Highlights include Bittern, Cetti's, Barnacle Goose and Badger. Donate here to support @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @ldvnnr.bsky.social Jack Snipe project www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Excited to be doing the Yorkshire Big Day on Saturday with our Dirty Habicht team @grafhamwbirder.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social and Dunc Poyser. We'll be trying to beat the record we set in 2019 of 156 bird species in 24 hours. We'll be donating to the Jack Snipe tracking project too.

#birding #ukbirding #ornithology #yorkshirebirding

🔊After years of Kevin Darras's et al's hard work, we are very happy to have this one out: Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re going to be doing a 24hr bird race around Yorkshire next Saturday 10th May, trying to see as many species as we can to raise money for our MOTUS Jack Snipe project www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... @ollie333.bsky.social @jabbirdart.bsky.social

First visit of the year to the coastal patch at Whitby. Lovely weather and plenty of migrants with a stunning male Ring Ouzel, 3 male White Wagtails, a Yellow Wagtail, 24 Wheatear and a steady trickle of hirundines. #UKbirding #Yorkshirebirding #birds

Brave decision by the BTO. Great to see them taking a stand.

NEW: Official advisers CCC say UK shld cut emissions 87% by 2040 ⚖️Net cost of net-zero 73% less than thought 💷Total cost to 2050 = £108bn (~£4bn/yr, 0.2% GDP) 🏡🚗H’hold energy/fuel bills to fall £1,400 🔌Electrification is key THREAD + charts www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/10

📰 NEW PAPER! Really pleased to see this published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social - a summary of the main sources of bias in ecoacoustic surveys, with recommendations on how best to control for these. 🎙️🐦🐸 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Calling all #ukbirding County Recorders interested in cleaning and extracting data from eBird. I have updated the app I developed with @ollie333.bsky.social, and moved it over to a new hosting platform. You can now find it here: dbradnum-ebirdcountyrecordcleaner.share.connect.posit.cloud

"All of the red grouse carcasses we obtained in 2024 (the last shooting season of the intended five-year voluntary transition from lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition) from which pellets were recovered had been shot using lead shotgun ammunition." #Ornithology 🌍 #UKBirding

Mist and ice have made for a tricky weeks birding in the @ldvnnr.bsky.social, but still managed drk Smew, Scaup, WF Geese, and some atmospheric scenery.

Hint of the aurora over Wheldrake for New Year's Day. Not really visible to the naked eye over all the Christmas light pollution, but came out OK on the phone.

Any recommendations for a good tripod for Swarovski ATS 80HD? I'm 5'11 so guess most would work height wise. I have a gitzo travel head I like but open to replacing both. Mid-range budget. #BirdingGear

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Really great to see this large and important dataset being made publicly available

Our new paper led by @ollie333.bsky.social finds that acoustic indices are good predictors of acoustic abundance in synthesised soil soundscapes #EcoAcoustics 🌎

“we report the rapid mortality of approximately half of Alaska’s common murre (Uria aalge) population in response to an extreme marine heatwave… We calculated a loss of 4 million common murres, the largest documented wildlife mortality event in the modern era.” 🌎 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our research group has a !NEW PAPER! out on soil ecoacoustics - The efficacy of acoustic indices for monitoring abundance and diversity in soil soundscapes in Ecological Indicators. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... A 🧵 on soil ecoacoustics... #science #ecology #ecoacoustics #bioacoustics

Brilliant evening ringing in the @ldvnnr.bsky.social to understand connectivity between reserves and surrounding farmland.

Black Redstart on @yorkminster.bsky.social puts my York area year list on 175, 1 more than the decade old record 🥳. @yorkbirding.bsky.social #birding

The @uniofexeter.bsky.social convened a panel to advise the university on how to use carbon offsets in its ambitious net zero target. Our conclusion is that all offsets should be ditched. We very much hope other universities will do likewise. theconversation.com/we-have-offi...

Honeymoon trip to Canada pt2: Vancouver Island, lots of boat trips, lots of marine wildlife.

I was delighted to play my part in these adverts. Who needs Black Friday consumerism adverts when you can fill that space with bird song instead?

By way of a hello to Bluesky I thought I'd post some wildlife pics from this year. I haven't flown on holiday for a few years now, but made an exception to go on honeymoon to Vancouver and the Rockies. First stop, cheap motel in Kamloops to see Lazuli Bunting at dawn of 1st morning.

Cold morning on patch waiting for some wildfowl to start moving.

An incredible day to start 'proper' autumn birding at Whitby with Chris Gomersall. Birds arriving and moving through all day, highlights of Greenish Warbler, flyover Dotterel, Long-tailed Skua, long overdue Whitby tick of Casp Gull, 5 Pied Fly, Redstart, etc etc. Pics by Chris. #birding #ukbirding