Swift populations in Wales have plummeted 76% in Wales since 1995. The petition calling for Swift bricks to be installed in all new buildings in Wales looks set for debate on 1 October. More details to come on how you can help us ensure that more Swifts can return home to Wales in future summers.

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Always nice to come across Vervain (Verbena officinalis). Related to the Porterweeds of the Americas, which are favourites of hummingbirds. Closest I might come to one of those here is the Hummingbird Hawkmoth! #Plant #Wildflower @bsbibotany.bsky.social

This is the driest #RSPBLakenheathFen has ever been www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Led a guided walk around RSPB Lakenheath fen on Sunday morning. Managed good views of Kingfisher, Hobby (Photo), Marsh Harrier, Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret amongst others. Best of all though were 100+ hirundines, House & Sand Martins swooping around just feet above. Happy guests!! #Birds!

Between 2002 and 2015, forest loss in Brazil’s southern Amazon reduced the amount of rainfall during the dry season by more than 5%, a recent study found. Researchers found that a reduction in forest cover reduced evapotranspiration and disrupted regional atmospheric systems.

I watched this tonight and loved it. Highly recommend.

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The Sept 2025 issue of the Malaysian Bird Report is now available & is feature packed. Please feel free to download & share the link to the report: malaysianbird.report/report/vol-3... @mybirdcards.com @ebrrh.bsky.social @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social

The Wryneck at Landguard Bird Observatory was quite confiding within the compound this afternoon #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Will be @ @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social for Migfest this weekend and would like to giveaway my old scope and tripod. If there's any young birders looking for a used but well loved scope that's seen plenty of rare birds please either point them in my direction or come find me over the weekend! #ukbirding

GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏 Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife. We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.

The Stingless Nettle, or Fen Nettle (Urtica dioica subsp. galeopsifolia) from #RSPBLakenheathFen @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great piece today by Simon Barnes, one of last to see a Slender-billed Curlew observer.co.uk/news/science... following research confirming extinction @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

I really like this paper, which models patterns and drivers of occupancy change across GB for 1252 insect species. Especially like Fig 5 which shows the most important negative and positive drivers for each grid square #conservationscience 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jerdon's Courser rediscovered (again) #Ornithology

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Always one to make us go wow at #RSPBLakenheathFen - the Clifden Nonpareil - unrivaled with that underwing palette #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

More than three years have passed since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for gardening, yet official documentation is still to appear and peat extraction continues:

📢Help save Coul Links! Once again, this beautiful place is threatened by plans for a golf course which would do irreparable damage to rare habitats and wildlife. 🌱🦆🐦🦋🪰 Join us in sending a message to Scottish Ministers to stand up for nature. Add your voice: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

The woop that went up when @sophieshrike.bsky.social spotted the first Wasp Spider for our garden, the whole village probably heard! @britishspiders.bsky.social

Despite a federal protection law, Brazil’s Atlantic Forest lost a Washington, D.C.-sized area of mature forest every year between 2010 and 2020, with most of the deforestation occurring illegally on private lands for agriculture.

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. You can register your displeasure even as a non-EU Member. Don't let them destroy the earth's forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

East Africa's only Lesser Flamingo breeding site saved from soda ash extraction www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/E...

Outward survey across the Bay of Biscay. It all kicked off when a pod of Striped Dolphins investigated the bow and a probable Sowerby's Beaked Whale fully breched! @orcaweb.bsky.social

PHENOMENAL! River Little Ouse at @rspbengland.bsky.social's Lakenheath Fen continues to AMAZE; out of the blue y'day twas packed with at least 100 vast Bronze aka Common Bream - some half the size of me! Only once seen such a big Bream - 5 weeks ago at the reach just below this. #Rivers #fish 🧵1/14

At #EOU2025 @eounion.bsky.social conference next week, we'll show new evidence implicating forestry in declines of British Marsh Tits during the era of woodland conversion in 1950/60s-1980s. This was period of steepest decline in Marsh Tits. Why? What was going on back then? #ornithology 1/5

Zitting Cisticola doing his song flight thing from Walberswick NNR, Suffolk, earlier in the week #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Incredible footage of Goshawk predating Hobby chick. Will likely return 😬 - watch live here: www.youtube.com/live/MJaRwj4... #birds #ukbirds #ornithology Web cam by the amazing Wildlife Windows www.wildlifewindows.co.uk

A recent study found only 15% of the sandpiper’s suitable non-breeding habitat is protected, with threats from coastal reclamation, invasive plants and sea-level rise. Scientists call for prioritizing high-threat wintering areas, especially in Thailand and Myanmar.

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill puts nature up for sale, handing power to developers and silencing communities. It’s a direct threat to our wild places. Don’t let them sell out what belongs to us all. Sign the petition now 👇 protectthewild.org.uk/planningbill...

Nice of this European Beewolf to rest in front of me in the dunes at Dunwich, Suffolk, today @suffolkbis.bsky.social #TeamEnto

As a true climate opportunist the Short-tailed Blue (C argiades, staartblauwtje), which arrived in NL in 2009, profits from hot and dry summers caused by climate change. Numbers on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects now higher than ever.

Found a flock of 10 Woodlarks in stubble whilst botanising in the Brecks this morning, including lots of juveniles! @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkbis.bsky.social #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding

Well done to John Turner, with the 700th Swift box he has made for us - Save our Suffolk Swifts. It has been delivered to Northgate Secondary School as part of a Swift Community Set of 8 boxes and a call system. @sosswifts.bsky.social #SuffolkBirds

A vivid purple moth from the #RSPBLakenheathFen trap - Tawny Wave. They don't come much fresher than this. A bit of an East Anglian speciality! #UKMoths #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

Seven pesticides in a single monarch. Pyrethroids, PFAS, runoff cocktails. If this is what we find in the most-monitored butterfly on Earth, imagine what’s happening to the insects no one tracks or names. This isn’t decline. It’s erasure. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

55 million non-native pheasants/partridge released each year into our countryside and causing all types of harm just so a few can shoot. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/01/s... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/01/s...

Conservationists are trying to save rare Hawaiian birds from extinction through the use of drones and mosquitos:

Early this morning #Whimbrel POTSKAR landed in Guinea, W Africa, after flying 7000+km from St-Petersburg, Russia. It took POTSKAR 5.5 days of NON-STOP flight, varying altitude from 10s of meters over the Baltic and the Med, to >5km over land. #ornithology www.globalflywaynetwork.org/tracks/speci...

Little terns dead after dog attacks at Norfolk beach | Eastern Daily Press share.google/ryighi5PKWGC...

An extraordinary ichnuemon wasp from the Norfolk #Brecks the other day - Amblyjoppa fuscipennis aka the Small Elephant-botherer. Presumably the English name is a reference to parasitising Small Elephant Hawkmoths, rather than actual Elephants! #TeamEnto

Montagu's Harriers nest successfully in England for first time in 6 years markavery.info/2025/07/29/r...

Maiden Pink (Dianthus deltoides) from a hurl around the Norfolk and Suffolk brecks today - one of my favourite flowers

Some of our Kingfishers are starting to show quite regularly again at #RSPBLakenheathFen. This one was from just 5 minutes spent in Mere Hide one afternoon. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding 🪶

Hemp-nettle Leaf Beetle is worth seeking out if you have the plant nearby - those colours are crazy! Seen at #RSPBLakenheathFen #TeamEnto #Beetle #Coleoptera

Yesterday’s amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill are a small step in the right direction but there are fundamental flaws at its heart, which still amount to environmental regression and #CashToTrash www.hiwwt.org.uk/blog/debbie-...

Wetlands are in global decline! Since 1970, an estimated 411 million hectares of wetlands, approximately 22% of the global total have been lost, with an ongoing annual decline of 0.52%. Read more: www.global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 #GWO2025

Love those rare occasions when a Treecreeper descends to near ground level. How do they keep their underparts so white whilst hugging mossy trunks?! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding 🪶