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NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

The use of citizen science data (common bird monitoring and online portal) to investigate the impact of Usutu virus on bird populations in Belgium. In 31 of the 60 species, annual changes were >20% worse inside affected areas than outside (11 species were >50% worse). More:https://shorturl.at/teoFW

All businesses depend on and impact nature.📈🤝🌳 IPBES recently launched the Business and Biodiversity Assessment - a first-of-its-kind report which sheds a light on actions to better understand and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3c8wcct5

If you're interested in the science covered in the article, here's 3 papers... 1. The paper documenting the spread of HPAI in Gannets and the weird black eyes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Summarised beautifully by @heyjooode.bsky.social in this @bou.org.uk blog: bou.org.uk/blog-lane-ga...

A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social #ornithology

Vuoden lintulaskija on @paivisirkia.bsky.social! Tänään vietetään kansainvälistä naisten ja tyttöjen tiedepäivää. Lintulaskennat ovat osa kansalaistiedettä, ja naisten osuus laskennoissa on ilahduttavasti kasvanut 2000-luvulla. www.birdlife.fi/tiedote-2026... @birdlifesuomi.bsky.social @helsinki.fi

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience meet just six of the inspiring women in our Conservation Science department and hear about some of their most memorable moments at the RSPB 🧪 Read the full story here: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland. We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

OUT NOW! The IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment Report Summary for Policymakers is available now! Explore this first of it’s kind report highlighting methods and actions to measure and respond to business impacts and dependencies on nature. 🔗 https://bit.ly/IPBES12Media

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Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem ⬇️ Yet the main causes of biodiversity loss are well known & well understood. As Sandra Díaz says “The existing evidence pointing to where to start is massive; what is lacking is the will to act on its basis.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Welcome to Manchester! Yesterday morning @ipbes.net ES, Dr. Luthando Dziba and UK’s special representative for Nature, Ruth Davis, welcomed stakeholders to #IPBES12 Stakeholder Day. They were followed by introductions from ONet and the #BizBiodiversity chairs.

ASPT is launching a free 5-part webinar series, “Taxonomy: What is it good for?” on the real-world impacts of systematics. Join us Feb 6 for @sandyknapp.bsky.social's “Of course taxonomy matters! The story of the mega-genus Solanum (Solanaceae).” Register and share! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The global population of Black-faced Spoonbill has exceeded 7,000 individuals for the first time, according to results from the 2025 International Black-faced Spoonbill Census:

This IPBES Business and Biodiversity Assessment makes a vital contribution to exposing and explaining how business, economies and development ambitions depend on biodiversity. — Alexander De Croo, UNDP Administrator #BizBiodiversity report set for approval at #IPBES12: http://ipbes.canto.de/b/HJAGG

Amazing new tool from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social - Birds of the World, The Cornell Lab - to help explore bird phylogenies ⬇️ @rspbscience.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🐦

The UK Government remains off track to meet its environmental commitments, says the latest progress report by the Office for Environmental Protection:

⚠️ Editorial Expression of Concern for the Report : Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances 🪲 DOI:10.1126/science.aax9931 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌐🧪🌍🦤

On the subject of penguins and madness, did you know that 9 King Penguins were released in 1936 in Arctic Norway by the Norwegian Nature Protection Society? At least a couple possibly survived until 1944. So for a brief period Polar Bears and penguins could in theory have met. #biologicalinvasions

Damp start to #BGBW this morning - but great list 15 species - male & female blackcap the stars with this lovely stock dove 🐦@rspbscience.bsky.social @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social

For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat. Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder. Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?

🔴 El quebrantahuesos "Centenario", liberado en 2017 en #PicosDeEuropa, ha muerto envenenado, informó hoy la Fundación para la Conservación del Quebrantahuesos (FCQ). 👉 lifeprobv.quebrantahuesos.org/la-fundacion... 📸 Cadáver de "Centenario", con el emisor que portaba visible (foto: FCQ).

The Big Garden Birdwatch is taking place THIS WEEKEND! Who's in? Sign up here: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Ready for Big Garden Birdwatch on Friday? 📙 RSPB Everyday Guide to British Birds is a friendly, photo‑packed intro to 80 common UK species, with fun facts and tips to attract birds to your garden. Get 25% off RSPB books with code BGB26 on the Bloomsbury website until 31 Jan!

This new #RSOS study demonstrates a modelling framework that allows for the separation of the observation error from the underlying biological process of population change that is constrained to be biologically realistic for an endangered Hawaiian honeycreeper: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

It is so sad that we lost a major player in our field, actively interested involved until his last days, Gerard Boere. Many thanks, Gerard, for so many years of great support to migratory waterbirds around the world and to people who care. RIP. eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Thinking of monitoring butterflies in your local area or setting up a monitoring project? We have new guidance to help navigate the various monitoring methods and choose the best option for your project. buff.ly/fvThSQq

Join our Marine Team on an expedition to track the Leach's Petrel 🪶 These birds can travel over 2000km during a single foraging trip, but are only the size of a starling! Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrXB... All birds were caught and handled under licence by RSPB staff

It’s not adding up. Nature in England is in freefall, yet today’s Office for Environmental Protection report warns the Government is at serious risk of missing its legally binding targets to restore it. That must be a wake-up call. ‼️ (1/2)

Government’s wildlife targets will be missed in England, watchdog says Seven out of 10 targets have little likelihood of being met by 2030, Office for Environmental Protection says www.theguardian.com/environment/... @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Who is the most trusted source of information on climate change? Great news - for your family and friends, it's pretty much YOU! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Increasing habitat suitability for the critically endangered Sociable Lapwing over the past 30 years - across its range! Paper by Tejas Bhagwat out in the Journal of Ornithology: doi.org/10.1007/s103... @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @consbiogoe.bsky.social #Conservation #MigratoryBirds

Six roles with @rspbcymru.bsky.social to survey breeding waders in #Wales in March/April, with a particular focus on #Curlews. Closing date is 25 January. #ConservationJobs app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

A new report from Natural Resources Wales has found that almost 3,000 species are at risk of disappearing from Wales. Steve Ormerod said the climate emergency and agricultural intensification were key pressures in the crisis. Read more from Steven Morris in The Guardian : https://ow.ly/xjF550XJyuv

Farmers are flocking to Oxford for two farming conferences, and we’re joining them! As we step into the new year, we’re sowing the seeds for a future where nature and farming go hand in hand. Keep an eye out here for live updates. #OFC26 #ORFC26

The Convention on Biological Diversity has opened its official Reporting Tool to actors beyond national governments, allowing communities, cities, organisations & businesses to submit information on their #biodiversity actions www.cbd.int/article/2025...

Heddiw, mae Cymdeithas Adaryddol Cymru yn mabwysiadu’r tacsonomeg adar fyd-eang unedig, Avilist, gan amlinellu Rhestr Adar Cymru â’r safon rhyngwladol. Rhestr Adar Cymru 2026 tair iaith ar gael i’w lawrlwytho: 🔗 birdsin.wales/the-welsh-bi... 📸 Credyd: @mikepnature.bsky.social

Here is a link around the paywall for my latest commentary in One Earth titled " A decade of bright spots in conservation and ecology: Lessons, limits, and future directions" authors.elsevier.com/a/1mIX89C%7E...

**New** pdf: The State of Europe’s Wild Birds 2025. Latest update on trends in common & widespread birds in Europe from the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) ⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @ebcc.info @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social 🐦 pecbms.info/wp-content/u...

"These results highlight the local importance of small areas of open forest for threatened arboreal mammals in the Kimberley." connectsci.au/pc/article/3...

The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme has published 2025 update on indices and trends! Unfortunately, it still shows an overall decline in common birds breeding in Europe, with the most pronounced decline among farmland species. Read more about the new update: pecbms.info/what-is-new-...

***New** Latest wild bird trends in Europe: Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) indicators 1980–2024. Data = 168 bird species, 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ebcc.info 🐦@rspbscience.bsky.social pecbms.info/european-wil... pecbms.info/trends-and-i...

We're hiring! Seasonal Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant positions for 2026 🪶 Deadline: 11th Jan 26 Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Time to get the erasers ✏️ out. The new BOURC report is out. It’s a good job I already ripped that particular plaster off some months ago, my pain is subsiding already. #rarebirdsuk onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Is all wildlife #conservation good? In this Perspective, Tien Ming Lee &co discuss whether it is possible to over-conserve charismatic species and call for greater focus on whole ecosystems in conservation measures of success. #wildlife #WorldWildlifeConservationDay 🧪 plos.io/4nQ0Ygo

1/ The UK Biodiversity Indicators, some using BTO data, have been updated by Defra and @jncc.bsky.social ➡️ jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-... Here’s how BTO contributes to these indicators, which show the state of #biodiversity, its pressures and conservation responses. ⬇️