🦇 #BatConservationInternational "UNIQUE INCREDIBLE CREATURES." By @batcon.org youtube.com/shorts/3efNt...

Horden news: Rumours of a hybrid pairing have been quashed as this new trolley arrived on the beach As the first appears to have moved on Also 3 lesser Whitethroat singing between the rain And a pair of recently fledged Stonechat

I've never seen Chaffinch courtship before but on a branch near the feeders at Soldiers Road this male was displaying to a slightly under whelmed female😅 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Perhaps rather than berating reform voters and continuing to increase devision @labouruk.bsky.social and other parties should be asking themselves in most constituencies why >50% couldn’t be arsed to vote 🤔

Our latest Alula Design is a mash-up of our popular bird faces. Can't chose between finches, paridae, woodpeckers or sprites? Get them all in one! aluladesigns.co.uk/s.... #BirdArt

And when things get too much they do like to have a lie down @thekentacorn.bsky.social Smuk up on this one while it had a wee nap 💤

Now do Pheasants.

Magical moment - watching a pair of #Yellowhammers land on the road and start a courtship dance! Never seen that before. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social

Todays ray of hope This Oak fell a few years ago but continues to live and thrive Recumbent for another few hundred years

🦇 Three decades of research are reshaping how scientists monitor bats worldwide… Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) has revolutionised bat research, allowing scientists to study bats non-invasively across vast areas and long time periods. 📖 Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/mam....

#Bats in not so dark and not so quiet night skies 🦇🔉🔦 Caspersen et al. show that Daubenton's bats are vulnerable to #lightpollution and #noisepollution, but they also show the bat's ability to recover within minutes of the stressor being removed. #bioacoustics doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Still plenty of hibernating Brandt’s bats 🦇 above the 500m contour in the Yorkshire Dales. Very little movement so far… #bats #chiroptera #research #conservation #ecology

📣Election Day! Polling stations are open! Your chance to vote for amazing Green councillors who have just 2 vested interests - your local community and your environment. Make hope normal again & Vote Green💚 (& remember to take photo ID to the polling station!)

Sad to find death of a beauty

Some of the garden wildlife from April - pen and watercolour sketches. The tadpoles seem to lose their external gills(?) after a few days. 🐡

Israel is occupying more of Lebanon than Russia is occupying of Ukraine. Israel is destroying every single building, ethnically cleansing the whole place so they can steal it for themselves. Not only is Europe silent on this, it is still sending weapons to make it happen.

The indefatigable Mark Constantine’s new book is out now ! The Sound Approach to Birding , available at soundapproach.co.uk – go get it !

🦇 It's #NationalHedgerowWeek! Hedgerows are an extremely important habitat feature for bats in the UK as they provide food, shelter and corridors to travel through. They are particularly important for bat species that rely or use farmland like the greater horseshoe bat.

Neuroscientists: "How natural should laboratory behavior be?" Pigeons: "fuck you, the world is a Skinner box"

Feels like a great morning to go out and smell the flowers Also had to collect my Audiomoths Last time it was in this wood a Nathusius Pipistrelle flew through

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meet some of the rarest animals on the planet -any why they matter. www.joelsartore.com/photos-videos/ listen here to Joel's story. it is very moving. www.mammalwatching.com/podcasts/

'and will you bring them back?' animalallegories.com.au/allegories/c...

The same individual 14 nights later! youtu.be/yAt5Pn8sJSs?... It's like totally different bird but it's the same one. His song evolved and then he started to hop around between 2 bushes everytime 2am happened #FlackoWeasel #Birds

I imagine the male is thinking EGGS. Don’t eat the eggs EGGS Don’t eat the eggs Fascinating vid

Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.” mondoweiss.net/2026/04/isra...

🇺🇦🦇 Article on the impact of global warming on Eastern European bats by #BatsUkraine's @batsukraine.bsky.social scientific staff 🦇🇺🇦 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

First year of life is tough for any bat. Probably born last June, this one was a tad under 4g when found wedged behind a pipe at ground level. Now she knows that mealworms are food, she will get a second chance to thrive and could live more than 30 years. Remarkable bat. #lovebats #batcare 🦇

Just back from three weeks on Scilly. Highlights included 2 examples of the wetland hoverfly Platycheirus fulviventris, the first confirmed record for Scilly, from Rosehill ponds, St Mary's.

The Global Sumud Flotilla has been forcibly stopped in international waters by the Israeli Navy. We're calling on the Prime Minister to condemn this breach of international law, work to ensure the safety of those still onboard, and extend diplomatic protection to those seized by Israeli forces.

Happy May Day if that’s your thing

Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:

open.spotify.com/episode/6Ebc... Wild Bird Acoustics; An Interview with Dave Boyle on the remarkable seabirds and conservation work being carried out on the Chatham Islands. Now Live! #bioacoustics

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Coleoptera... 2/2. A Black-headed Cardinal Beetle with two Chernes cimicoides pseudoscorpions clinging to its legs; behaviour known as phoresy: they grab onto the beetle to hitch a lift to a new habitat when the one they are in is no longer suitable.

"[Western democracies] claim themselves as these beacons of human rights...and then actively participated in the extermination of Gaza." @mollycrabapple.bsky.social and @simonerzim.bsky.social discuss the link between Western hypocrisy and the Gaza genocide. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hix...

Seems like we have a colony of Gooden's Nomad Bees on school grounds. They are very beautiful but the kids think they are wasps. I've tried to make sure they know they are not wasps and won't sting if they leave them alone. @pratorum2112.bsky.social @dunnock67.bsky.social

Emergence survey season starts next week, but we’ve still got Brandt’s bats 🦇 in deep torpor in their hibernation sites. #bats #chiroptera #hibernation

The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international movement of coordinated, nonviolent action sailing to end Israel's illegal siege on Gaza, confront the complicity that enables occupation, and stand with the Palestinian people.

Wild Bird Acoustics will launch a double feature tomorrow morning. In this interview, Dave Boyle shares some mind blowing audio of some of the world’s rarest seabird species from the Chatham Islands and discusses his work there. #bioacoustics

What do these spicy powdered donuts (𝘓𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘶𝘴), wind turbines, and whales have in common? Read our latest blog post to find out. 👀 🐋 https://www.batcon.org/bats-whales-wind/ 🦇 Hoary bat 📸 Michael Durham, Minden Pictures

seeking views on these images. BTO acoustic pipeline has them both .99 Nathusius 🦇 Horden one not a surprise on the coast Co Durham and presumed migrant. Wildwoods one is from near Stanley Co Durham and a bit of a surprise. Line is at 39kHz in all 4 images.

When a bird report is headed by a 🦇 👏 🌟

Tick Alert – check for bites as outdoor season begins.  theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/29/t...

The *Birds of Budle Bay* is now with the digital printer! Purchase and collection details coming soon. Please repost 🐦 @ntbirdclub.bsky.social @durhambirdclub.bsky.social @teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdsofBudle #NEbirding

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Why are Bewick’s Swans declining? Here, we set out to answer this question by breaking down the reproductive cycle of the rapidly declining Western Palearctic population, using both GPS/ACC and citizen-science data. Click the link below to read the full story! @hanslinssen.bsky.social

Well, these paragraphs from @mollycrabapple.bsky.social’s book fucked me right up.

Come watch me talk about bats living at their thermal limits! 🦇❄️🔥 The talk is available FREE via Zoom on 06 May 2026 at 9 AM Eastern US Time, and will be made available for viewing afterwards on the GBatNet YouTube channel. Register for free here: www.gbatnet.org/events/therm... 🧪🌎

Nature is precious We are not alone #biodiversity