A dire winter for Bewick's Swan saw only 87 birds recorded at Slimbridge WWT, the charity has said:

Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions | doi.org/10.1098/rstb... | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | #ornithology 🪶

Birders in Jersey have called for restrictions on beaches to allow migratory waders to forage without disturbance:

All is not well in the Southern Lowlands of Iceland - one of the most important wader breeding areas in Europe. WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper by Aldís Pálsdóttir et al in 'Bird Study': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

UK Hen Harriers are at last showing signs of recovery, especially on upland moorland... but not the moorland near upland forestry or managed for grouse-shooting, where they're still declining. @markavery.bsky.social @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social #ornithology #ukbirding

New research has shown that worsening conditions in Doñana NP, one of Europe's key wetlands, have international consequences for bird populations:

Spanish Imperial Eagle, one of the world's most localised raptor species, has enjoyed a population increase across its Iberian Peninsula range:

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