Alan Knox
@alanknox.bsky.social
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Aberdeenshire; mainly birds, mammals, herps & selected inverts; often sidetracked ...
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Alan Knox
British Dragonfly Society
1 day ago
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates
bit.ly/4b1Pu50
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Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers
Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.
https://bit.ly/4b1Pu50
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Does not bring much credit to the journal or their refereeing of the original paper.
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It will be useful to see how widespread they are on the hills there and how numerous.
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6 days ago
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You need to get a poo sampleβ¦ π©π
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18 days ago
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Field
#Mouse
doing what mice do.
@nesmammals.bsky.social
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19 days ago
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Or, rather, not distinguishing the subspecies!
tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art...
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26 days ago
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Excellent advice here. It is much harder to get a good audio recording than a good photograph, although Alan makes it seem easy.
#bioacoustics
#ornithology
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29 days ago
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As if anyone in
#Aberdeen
needed confirmation that it's been wet recently. Grim if you wanted to go birding, and no sign of it letting up.
#climatechange
#birdingscotland
about 1 month ago
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Field
#Mouse
and Bank
#Voles
in the garden in Aberdeen today. First voles seen here for many years. Dull day, and photographed through the window ...
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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Orkney waders! Leah Gray talking about her work to help understand & conserve waders on the islands. Tonight @ 7:30 in University Library (top floor), Bedford Road All welcome.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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And I should add that
#farmers
and any other landowners who try to prevent this happening should also be liable for consequential problems. They have no grounds to moan when
#Beavers
disagree with their actions.
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about 2 months ago
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A useful reminder to
#PropertyDevelopers
that this is what
#floodplains
are actually for. River Dee at
#Cults
this afternoon. You should be held liable in perpetuity for consequential problems.
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about 2 months ago
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New
#ladybird
for me, from the garden this evening - 10-spot, black variety. Cute little beast.
#buglife
about 2 months ago
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Snow's gone - time to get out! Six short talks tonight about local bird ringing by Grampian Ringing Group, for anyone interested. 7:30pm, Monday 12 Jan, top floor University Library, Bedford Road All welcome
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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A bit soggy, but the squirrels are back now the snow is going.
@scotsquirrels.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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News from
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
/ Tay Ringing Group Motus project! First Rock Pipits tagged & 1st foreign bird picked up by the Fife receivers! Great news. Looking forward to further results.
@btoscotland.bsky.social
#birdingscotland
www.birdguides.com/news/pioneer...
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Pioneering Rock Pipit study launches in Scotland
The Motus Wildlife Tracking System is now being used in Fife, Scotland, to study Rock Pipit migration. Additionally, the system recently picked up the migratory movements of a Blackbird from Norway.
https://www.birdguides.com/news/pioneering-rock-pipit-study-launches-in-scotland/
2 months ago
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Emerging from the heavy snow today. Great to see a bit of colour.
#ChristmasCheer
#rhododendron
2 months ago
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Turned colder last night - though only just on freezing & calm with a bit of snow. Wow! Let's party! 110 Soprano Pipistrelle clips, 38 Commons and 1 Nathusius' on night of 1-2 Jan in Aberdeen. Happy New Year everyone!
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@batconservation.bsky.social
2 months ago
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#bat
closing scores in Aberdeen: Soprano Pip 16 Dec nights, last on 30th Common Pip 11 nights, last 31st Nathusius' Pip 8 nights, last 23rd (only a couple of prev Dec recs in NE Scotland) Last Daubenton's: 18 Oct; Brown Long-eared: 31 Oct
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@batconservation.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Alan Knox
Mark Lewis
3 months ago
Christmas can be an expensive time of year, so how about something for free? The
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
and Scottish Birds Records Committee are hosting a FREE online conference over the evenings of February 24th to the 26th. Three talks per night and some real belters among them.
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Alan Knox
Nick Littlewood
3 months ago
How do we tackle the substantial and growing threat to sensitive habitats from Sitka Spruce? Useful commentary on key issues...
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Alan Knox
The Scottish Ornithologists' Club
3 months ago
Research and Survey Grant applications The Endowment Fund supports amateur research projects which further the knowledge of the birds of Scotland. The deadline to submit your application is 31st January. For more details and to apply, please visit:
www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/resear...
#ornithology
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Alan Knox
3 months ago
Iβve AviListed the North-east Scotland checklist, available as a free Excel download (v10 January 2026) from the SOC site below. Donβt shoot the messenger (!)
#birdingscotland
www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/local-...
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North-East Scotland
The SOC
https://www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/local-recorders-network-area/north-east-scotland
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Still getting Nathusius' Pipistrelle
#bats
in the garden - the latest ever here in NE Scotland. Several last night.
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@batconservation.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Picked up an unwelcome passenger today. A
#tick
while outdoors in the suburbs. Even in December. There doesn't seem to be any 'safe' time of the year any more. With so much more
#LymeDisease
around, a constant need for vigilance.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
@btoscotland.bsky.social
#birdingscotland
3 months ago
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Alan Knox
Nick Littlewood
3 months ago
One week remaining. Applications need to include two references, so don't leave it too late to apply for this
@srucnews.bsky.social
CASE partnership with
@ptes-org.bsky.social
. Details:
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Want to hear about
#Aberdeenshire's
newest/largest nature reserve on the outskirts of the city? Talk by David Hunter for the SOC
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
on Monday 8 Dec @ 7:30, top floor, Abdn Univ Library, Bedford Road. Free car park. All welcome.
@btoscotland.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Alan Knox
Peter Stronach
3 months ago
Extraordinary record of Willow Tit from Moray!! - 250km-ish from nearest breeders or 550km from Scandinavia!
@richardkbroughton.bsky.social
birdsinmorayandnairn.org/bird-recordi...
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Recent records β Birds in Moray and Nairn
https://birdsinmorayandnairn.org/bird-recording/recent-records/
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Alan Knox
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
3 months ago
Thereβs so much we can learn about birds by listening to them. Acoustic Monitoring involves the placement of small programmable recorders to capture the sounds of birds and other wildlife, particularly in remote places. Find out more & donateβ‘οΈ
www.bto.org/support-us/a...
#bioacoustics
#ornithology
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Alan Knox
Martin Stervander π³οΈβππΈπͺπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏποΈπ¦π¦€πͺΆ
3 months ago
#Thanksgiving
π¦ with our amazing volunteers in the bird collections of National Museums Scotland π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ! π Do you live nearby and would like to join? We're capturing data from all our
#birds
. Well, now's your chance! Don't wait...
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/800113
#museum
#ornithology
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To all users of
#BirdNET
: you can do better by tweaking the default settings!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@blackdogbirder.bsky.social
#bioacoustics
#ornithology
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Optimization of passive acoustic bird surveys: a global assessment of BirdNET settings
BirdNET is a popular machine learning tool for automated recognition of bird sounds. However, evidence on how to optimize its settings for accurate bird monitoring remains limited. Here, we evaluate ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ibi.70013
3 months ago
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Well deserved, Joe!
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4 months ago
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Alan Knox
Fair Isle Bird Observatory
4 months ago
The new FIBO library has arrived at the Obs. With a huge effort from John & Marian Ginnever and the generosity of many donors, 80 boxes of books now replace and expand the library lost in the 2019 fire. Huge thanks go to DHL, Streamline and the crew of the Good Shepherd for their generosity and help
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Alan Knox
Xeno-canto
4 months ago
... & while you're at perhaps also support the platform & community sharing the sounds used to kickstart and train most of all that passive monitoring wizardry. Which platform? You guessed it:
xeno-canto.org/donate
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Single Nathusius' and Soprano Pipistrelle
#bats
out in the snow here in Aberdeen last night. Brave.
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@batconservation.bsky.social
4 months ago
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This is grim. Do you know the reasons?
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4 months ago
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The
#Slow-worm
has very restricted distribution in NE Scotland (2023 & 2024 maps here); welcome info of one @
#Methlick
(blue star) in August from Tom Bodey. There are historic records @ nearby Gight but none recent so great news they are still in the area. Where else?
@argroupsuk.bsky.social
4 months ago
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You can read the BB paper proposing this split here
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#UKbirding
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4 months ago
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A few different species but otherwise little change since several articles I wrote on this 30 yr ago! Some grim video & surprising species @ Stafford Bird Show this month:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=byga...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C70i...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJLd...
#UKBirding
#UKrarebirds
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4 months ago
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After more or less abandoning us over the last few weeks, the
#squirrels
are back at the feeders again!
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@scotsquirrels.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Ugh. End of season and awful weather. First night since 17 March with no
#bats
.
@batconservation.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Well. Really? There's a surprise! π
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
@btobirds.bsky.social
#birdingscotland
#bioacoustics
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5 months ago
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Another
#muirburn
. They're at it again. Apparently legal at this time of year. Deeside yesterday.
@raptorpersuk.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Beautiful day up Deeside yesterday.
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5 months ago
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Two of 3 male Crossbills on the sea wall at Musselburgh today.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
#birdingscotland
5 months ago
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Gosh! More
#bat
- bird action, this time as Noctule evicts Great-spotted Woodpecker (& sees off Grey Squirrel).
fb.watch/CNKMmf6pVB/
@batconservation.bsky.social
@btobirds.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Wow! This week: spectacular videos of rats preying on bats. Last week: bats catching & eating birds in the air while on migration. So much we are still discovering.
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5 months ago
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Ridiculous that this should still happen
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5 months ago
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More hazards for migrating birds
@birdguides.bsky.social
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
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5 months ago
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Ring-necked Duck at Loch of Ayre just now.
#birdingscotland
#orkneybirds
#orkneybirding
5 months ago
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