Good to see a few Bewick's Swans back @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social for the Winter months today. #ukbirds #ukbirding

A Northern Hawk-owl contemplating what's for supper tonight... #Birds #owls #NaturePhotography #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦉🇫🇮

🌊Marine ecosystems have long been impacted by human activities, causing biodiversity losses 🐦How have coastal bird communities in Europe fared over the last seven decades? 🌍Our new study offer some encouraging insights @globalchangebio.bsky.social @sgn.one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This morning was officially this young ladies feather organisation day a lovely and quite rare glimpse of her fully extended fantail 🥰 #birds #photography #wildlife #nature #nikonZ8

Wrote about how climate change is bad www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...

1/14 Evidence of visual awareness in insects Some have argued that insects behave like small robots without consciousness. In this article (mostly focusing on bees), evidence is gathered to show that they have subjective experience. (paper) www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Elsie found a Snow Bunting at lunchtime whilst we sat on the beach at Gwithian drinking coffee it popped out into view @ljcolli.bsky.social @cbwps.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social #🪶 #birdphotography #🦅 #ukbirding #cornwallbirding

Green woodpecker(f) on Bodmin moor yesterday morning. #birds #birding #birdphotography #Cornwalllbirding.

Another photo of the Pygmy Owl. What a silly name 🙄 In Finnish, varpuspöllö, Sparrow Owl, much better, I'd say. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography #owls

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Yesterday I went to Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive with the main target being the Peregrine Falcon. Luckily I found it not too long after sunrise. I watched for a while and eventually it took off and I got some decent flight shots. 🪶

A reminder to anyone interested in #brains #birds or behaviour, our new book is available for FREE as an ebook in addition to print copies. #neuroethology #neuroskyence #ornithology 🧪🧠🪶 direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

While rebuilding a log pile at #AshlawncuttingLNR There was a bright flash and loud hissing as these 2 Peacock butterflies showed their alarm reflex. Log was replaced carefully and the pilke rebuilt around and over it.

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

Fieldfare on Bodmin moor today. #birds #birding #Cornwallbirding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Wildlifephotography

As winter is setting finally, probably a good idea for this Hoopoe to start heading south. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

A Crested Lark getting a bit territorial, it seems. A rare visitor in Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶 Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...

There are currently 7 species of gar, all of them in eastern North America, Central America, the Caribbean, or Cuba. But in the past, they were found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. The largest is the alligator gar, and the biggest ever recorded was over 8 feet long! 2/8

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention. THE most critical tasks of our time are: • Protect what remains of wild ecosystems • Mass rewilding where damaged or lost www.earth.com/news/africas...

A long way from home. Ever so elusive Hume's Leaf Warbler, in Finnish literally Kashmir oven bird. A sort of influx of them in double digits this autumn. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography

Up up & away #BirdOfTheDay #Takeoff #EastCoastKin #HolidayRobin #Birds #BirdsInFlight

Nuthatch on the Somerset levels #birds

Barred owls are an invasive species in western North America. Their westward spread was fueled by fire suppression, tree planting, and settlement, not by “natural expansion.” (Livezey 2009) 1/4

Overall, not a great harvest of rowanberries this year, it seems. Fieldfares did find a good spot, though. 🪶🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

1/11 Play in cold-blooded animals Review of evidence of play in fish, reptiles, and amphibians. It is less common than in mammals, but it does exist. Here are some examples and descriptions of how the authors explain it. (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Appropriately for #halloween the tiny murder birb, a Eurasian Pygmy Owl arrives to cheer us up. #BirdsSeenIn2025 Finland 🪶🦉 #owls #NaturePhotographyq

The aptly named Hermit Thrush, a shy, Uncommon bird, emerges from its bushy hiding place just long enough for me to make a portrait. #birds_matter #birds

Looking for people who feel the same magic in nature photos as I do. Let’s connect. 🌄💚 #owls #autumnvibes #birdphotography #nature #birdlife #birding #birds @birdnote.bsky.social @mybirdcards.com @abcbirds.bsky.social @bci-journal.bsky.social

Great #birding at #HankoBirdObservatory! 400 ringed birds inc #HumesLeafWarbler #Firecrest #waxwing etc. Most abundant migrants chaffinch 1200, great tit 895, brambling 638 and bullfinch 568. Caspian Gull also spotted. #rengastus @nathist.bsky.social

Barred Owl with an autumn backdrop. #birds #owls #barredowl #wildlife #photography #nature #fallcolours 🪶

A migrating Rough-legged Buzzard. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦅🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography

A Tawny owl playing hide and seek. Unfortunately, panicking Blackbirds gave him/her away. 🪶🦉🇫🇮 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #owls #NaturePhotography

#Bahrain #Birds Turkestan Shrike, always confiding when approached cautiously. A wintering species with seasonal peaks during migration passages

Death's-head Hawk from the Obs moth-traps this morning

Not sure if my image qualifies for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme of #Vertical today but this gorgeous Long-eared Owl does have some #black feathers for #BirdOfTheDay !🦉 📷 🌿 Hope everyone has a good weekend 🕊️👋 #Photography #Birds #UKWildlife #Nature #Owls #EastCoastKin

🦎THREAD: We just published something wild in @asn-amnat.bsky.social - lizards missing entire limbs not only survive, but some appear to actually thrive in the wild?! Let me tell you about the "three-legged pirate" lizards 🏴‍☠️ [Paper: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... ] (1/n)

A Black Redstart still lingering on, thanks to very mild autumn weather. Southern Finland #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

Little Owl at Marsden Quarry today. I was trying to find a Yellow-browed Warbler that had been seen there earlier when I realised that I was myself a target of intense surveillance. #NEbirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social @teesbirds.bsky.social 🪶

Young Honey Buzzard right above me, southern Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🦅🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography #BirdsOfPrey

Conditions were too good tonight, with clear skies and a late moonrise, to not chase the Milky Way. It was definitiely worth the trip. Pigeon Point Light Station State Historic Park, 10/11/2025. (Tech notes: Nikon D850, 22mm, f3.2, iso 800, single 20 sec exposure)

Like a canary in coal mine…

A Nuthatch at Pepper Wood near Bromsgrove Worcestershire UK - 06-10-25 #birds #ukbirding #uknature #ukwildlife #nature #ornithology #photography #birdphotography #canon #naturephotography

A Pied Wheatear taking off, a pretty rare visitor in Finland. 🪶🐦 #BirdsSeenIn2025 #NaturePhotography

Blink and you'll miss it. A migrating Peregrine Falcon speeding by. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🦅 #NaturePhotography

Big Doughnutty News. Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh la la, Lullula arborea. Or a migrating Woodlark. Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🇫🇮🪶🐦 #NaturePhotography #bluesky

A Cetti's Warbler Cettia cetti on a branch of the storm-felled Horse Chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum in a small London park this morning. Since this tree was toppled by Storm Henk on 2nd January 2024, I have photographed 30 species of #birds on its branches.

A migrating Sparrowhawk looking for a quick takeaway meal, Finland. #BirdsSeenIn2025 🪶🇫🇮 #NaturePhotography