Please download these signs, share them on social media and put them up near you to protect your local wintering birds. If you would like A4, laminated copies of these signs please e-mail [email protected], all you need to do is donate for postage. www.curlewaction.org/wintering-wa...

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously! 4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing [email protected] now!WOOP!

Our new paper led by Madson Freitas shows that global demand for Açaí, a dietary staple for Amazonian people, now marketed as a superfood, is driving widespread estuarine forest degradation leading to impoverishment of their bird communities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology 🌎🍴🪶🌴

Whilst some birds were incredibly hard to see at Danum, on the other hand the Whiskered Treeswifts were a delight. #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Utterly damning report from Office for Environmental Protection - the Govt’s not only missing its targets to protect wildlife in England, it’s also failing on *almost all* environmental measures - and in some cases actively destroying the natural world through its obsession with growth at all costs

We found a rare bird (only 4 previous ebird records in Sabah) in the form of a Fairy Pitta at Danum! Worth slogging the leech-infested trails in the dark 🎉 #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Finished up 5 days in the Danum Valley. Some of the toughest but most rewarding birding I've known. Giant Pitta and Bornean Ground-cuckoo both seen (!) but far too elusive for photos #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Gould's Frogmouth giving the death stare along the Kinabatangan River last night #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Another day, another Pitta! This time a Western Hooded Pitta along the Kinabatangan River. #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Black-crowned Pitta was a star from our time at Sepilok. What a dapper fella! #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/... As falconry has become a multimillion-dollar international industry atretching around the world, an investigation by Guardian and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism shows it is fed by a shadow industry of the smuggling and illegal capture of wild birds.”

The colours on this Black-and-Yellow Broadbill are really quite something! It landed nearby for a split second before melting into the greenery at Sepilok RDC. #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Bornean Peacock-pheasant today. Words don't do it justice! #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

A selection of passerines from Mount Kinabalu (names in alt text). We're now moving on to the steamy lowlands and a whole new set of species awaits! #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Happy New Year! Started off 2026 with a rather special sunrise. Went on a trek for Friendly Bush-Warbler but it remained distinctly unfriendly! Sundaic Island Thrush and Besra were good compensation though. #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Lots of rain on Mount Kinabalu but it didn't stop the highland endemic Whitehead's Trogon showing well - this is the female. #BorneoBirding @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Up there with my most wanted birds in #Borneo, the amazing Whitehead's Broadbill from Mount Kinabalu! @sophieshrike.bsky.social

The endemics are rolling in now in Malaysian #Borneo, with few more eye-catching than the Bornean Green-magpie #BorneoBirding

I have returned to Bluesky to post that we have just seen Marbled Cat in Malaysian Borneo and I am very very happy. Thank you for your attention to this matter. @hcbirding.bsky.social

Scenes! #BorneanBandedPitta @sophieshrike.bsky.social

Found the immense Rajah Brooke's Birdwing (Trogonoptera brookiana) in the Crocker Range, #Borneo, today. Butterfly highlight right there! #Butterfly #Lepidoptera

A steady start to birding in Borneo today with Java Sparrow, Blue-naped Parrot, Common Iora and Chestnut Munia seen amongst others. Brown-backed Needletails harassing a Peregrine was amazing to watch but far too fast to capture on camera!

Tufted Duck shortly after dawn from my local park lake

🚨 CODE RED FOR NATURE 🚨 We are worried that Gov will weaken Biodiversity Net Gain — or remove small sites entirely! Gutting BNG would: ❌ collapse investment ❌ stall nature recovery ❌ send a catastrophic signal to markets This cannot happen.

⚠️ The UK’s smallest and rarest woodpecker, the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker is a shy and elusive bird. It’s rapidly becoming one of our scarcest breeding birds, with substantial declines since the 1980s. 🧵⬇️ #bioacoustics #ornithology

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat. Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'. Get on with it already! Sign the petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

An important read for anyone who cares about nature in the UK!

Rook flying to roost at #RSPBLakenheathFen

Poll after poll shows people care deeply about wildlife and want it protected. Instead, we’ve had months of nature-blaming rhetoric and pushes to sidestep environmental law. This flies in the face not only of what the public wants...but the Government’s own manifesto.

Last night the Government steamrollered its Planning Bill through, slamming the door on vital protections for nature. They said it would be a ‘win-win’ for the economy and nature. But in reality, they’ve pushed nature into last place.

Last night the Government pulled the rug out from under what little nature remains in the UK. Please tell your MP that this is not OK! #Planning&InfrastructureBill #P&IBill action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

A million mile Manxie...? I will never not be in awe of the ocean distances travelled by a bird weighing the same as three large bananas. News from #Uruguay, @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social and other parts of #NorthWales in @northwaleslive.bsky.social. #BirdingWales www.birdnotes.wales/blog/travell...

Planning and Infrastructure Bill - sadly about to clear its final hurdle. With disastrous implications for our already nature-depleted land #Biodiversity #Planning

SUFFOLK BIRD GROUP November 27th Indoor Talk #SuffolkBirds

Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one? RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #ornithology #conservationscience 🌍

The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This Pallas's Warbler at Landguard Bird Observatory showed inside the compound the other day. #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding 🪶

Pirri-Pirri Bur, Pampas grass, Wireweed: all plants from the S Hemisphere that are establishing in the UK. Can we explain current and predict future invasions by S Hemisphere plants? Apply for this NERC ACCE+ PhD project to find out: tinyurl.com/374ty2b7 Please Repost! @acce-dla.bsky.social

Amendment 130 is the best chance to reduce the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s risks to bat conservation. You can read more here: buff.ly/ACYQzDY Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE

Staggeringly beautiful colours from the Silver Birches during the golden hour at #RSPBLakenheathFen

Hoopoes bred in Leicestershire & Rutland in 2023, the first confirmed breeding record in the UK since 1996. Here’s the family - parents and three offspring. Can you see them all? Read more about rare breeding birds in 2023 at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... 📸 Carl Baggott

This is absolutely appalling. "The UK will not contribute to a flagship fund for the world’s remaining tropical forests, in a bitter blow to the Brazilian hosts on the eve of the Cop30 climate summit." Absolutely pathetic. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A Red-legged Partridge from #RSPBLakenheathFen yesterday. Not a regular bird on the reserve. #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding

👉 Last chance to influence the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Yes, I know, you may be sick of reading about this or feel you’ve already written to your MP several times or are running out of energy on this long running saga - BUT - please, for nature’s sake, write one more time. 1/3

The eBird taxonomic reshuffle is still underway, but Lagopus has been processed, and Red Grouse is now a UK species-level endemic #UKBirding macaulaylibrary.org/asset/609783...

Cetti's Warblers never perch up in the open! #UKBirding

Whilst unloading the moth trap at #RSPBLakenheathFen I was thoroughly distracted by this Ichnuemon Wasp, which I think is Eutanyacra picta, with only 1 confirmed UK record on the NBN atlas! #PSL #PanSpeciesListing

The Planning Bill is back in the Lords today - and it still falls short of the win-win for nature the Government says it wants. We’re grateful to the Peers that have stepped up with vital fixes. But today’s votes help decide whether this Bill truly delivers for nature & people. 👇