Want to see our conservation scientists in action? Join them on an expedition to North Rona and the Flannan Isles where this summer they were surveying Leach's Petrel populations 🧪🌍🪶 Watch the film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

📢 Fantastic job opportunity! Interested in equipment used for nature conservation research? @rspbscience.bsky.social are looking for someone to design, develop, assemble, procure, and maintain equipment to support science work at the RSPB. DEADLINE - 21 Nov 💻🐦🎧🌳📸🦅🔋📹🐾

We're hiring 🧪🌍 Two amazing senior science opportunities in Northern Ireland Seabird Scientist: Tagging, tracking and monitoring to inform marine policy in NI tinyurl.com/yeuw5znd Conservation Scientist: Restoration of key habitats and priority species tinyurl.com/4rj43dfp

📣You really couldn't make this up! On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Productivity 🐣 of gannets that have survived #avianflu does not differ from those that have never been infected - BUT productivity since the 2022 HPAI outbreak is worryingly low. New paper in IBIS @bou.org.uk 👇 #seabirds #hpai #wildlifedisease @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Very pleased to be a part of this research contribution into the ongoing impact of HPAI on seabirds; led by @sue-lewis.bsky.social alongside fellow authors from @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

New technology may aid seabird monitoring in difficult to access populations but managing high volumes of data output is essential 🪶 Read the new paper here: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

The 2024 Bass Rock Gannet Count is complete✅ A high-resolution drone survey - carried out in partnership with @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social School of Geosciences, @ukceh.bsky.social & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social in July 2024 - provided a detailed new look at the Bass Rock gannet colony. 📷©️G Macvean

Public consultation closes this Sunday (25 May 2025) at 11.59pm. There are only 10 relevant questions & Wild Justice has provided an easy-to-follow guide for each one. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/22/h...

#Bass looking good Quite a few eggs seen at due date. All the behaviour we expect Gaping bowing jabbing bonding, nest building and thieving! Looking.good It will take years to recover from HPAI but exciting to watch new birds take to sites @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

The @wildjustice.bsky.social petition to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 97,000 signatures thanks to you. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Even I am fairly confident that we'll get 100,000 signatures, triggering a Westminster parliament debate, by 22 May. 22 April would be even better!

#Bass. 1000's of Gannets retuned this wkend on live cam @seabird web. Wonderful to see them settling bowing, bill fencing and that gannet jabbing ! Poor photo (off cam) This was a dense beeding area.It will take time to recover(HPAI) Exciting to monitor, but look at that sea! No landing today😔

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Breaking: gamekeeper guilty of poison and trap-related offences, ordered to pay £7,449 in total. Three poisoned birds of prey sparked a police investigation in Lincolnshire. Full story: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... Something has to change – time to license gamebird shooting.

Special Issue of #BirdStudy is now published: The impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on birds: part 1 10 papers (5 #OpenAccess) plus Editorial on the impacts of #birdflu #HPAI outbreak in Europe, Canada, Antarctica: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7... #ornithology #ukbirding #seabirds

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Absence of negative effect of GPS-tags on survival and breeding success in a long-lived territorial raptor | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Lise Viollat, Roger Pradel, Cécile Ponchon, Alain Ravayrol, Alexandre Millon, Aurélien Besnard | #ornithology 🪶

Happy St.Cuthbert’s Day everyone. The northern saint died on Inner Farne, Farne Islands on this day in 687. During his life it was believed that he offered protection to nesting Eider ducks on the islands, the first protection they’d received.

You asked, we delivered! We've hooked up a second cam at Foulshaw Moss so that you'll be able to watch the ospreys in their perching tree 🙌🌳 For those who don't know, the #FoulshawOspreys like to get a bit of a breather from the nest by flying over to another tree. Here's Kez to explain more!

Releasing helium balloons is pretty much just fancy & expensive littering (except you can get fined for littering). They all end up somewhere, & are sometimes eaten by wildlife. #dontletgo www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/problem-ball... @envleeds.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

The Isle of May breeding season is officially underway.We have our first shag on eggs!A clutch of three was seen putting first egg date back a week.This is the joint third earliest on record and 28 days earlier than the long term average (& 39 days earlier than last year).They have had a good winter

Someone has quit by now. We don’t know who, we don’t know where, we don’t know why. But for sure someone has quit. We’ll find out who/when/why when they get back to camp. #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

This is the grim story of Asta , a young satellite-tagged hen harrier . Wildlife is just collateral when it comes to driven grouse shooting – it must be banned . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Excellent work @wwtworldwide.bsky.social 👏👏👏 "The Toxic Restaurant" - spoof video highlighting toxic lead ammunition sends BASC into meltdown raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/11/t...

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Hi everyone. We're currently at £230 of our £1000 target for the tree nursery. Thanks to all who have donated, it would be great if we could get to £500 by the end of the week. Anything you can afford is a big help. Thanks. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social gofund.me/9671d159

Wolf reintroduction to Scotland could support native woodland expansion and carbon sequestration. @domspracklen.bsky.social's new study is out today! 🌳🐺🧪 doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Swifts spend almost their entire lives in the air, only touching down to nest. ☀️ They need high-up, deep boxes with plenty of space to swoop straight in! And once they’ve found a home, they’re loyal to it... meaning you could see them return year after year. (3/4)

And pin 916 is home safe. She added a little extra time as she escorted an injured competitor while they waited for support crew to arrive. Amazing effort. I am in awe. @heyjooode.bsky.social #winterspine #spinerace Remember she’s supporting cave rescue- www.justgiving.com/page/cro-win...

PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (Image: Richard Crossley)

Happy New Year! We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #ornithology

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Immature Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) increase colony attendance following highly pathogenic avian influenza | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Madeline P. Sceviour, Christopher R. E. Ward, Sabina I. Wilhelm | #ornithology #seabirds #ukbirds 🪶

Lovely weather for a morning filming at Hardknott with Mark from Forestry England and Neil of @lakedistrictfilms.bsky.social who is filming a documentary about our project. Follow him for more info, and to see his videos about walks in the #lakedistrict. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

Very good to see Labour will strengthen the mandate of National Parks & National Landscapes to "recover nature". This will require primary legislation, and was something the Glover Review proposed way back in 2019 - but the Tories never did it. 1/ defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/16/7...

Great PhD opportunity combining computer science and #seabirds! 🤩

Morning welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here are the northern Gannets of the Bass rock. Enjoy. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

📢 Exciting PhD opportunity - seabirds & machine learning 🐦💻 Revolutionise how seabird colonies are imaged & counts analysed Partnership @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social Deadline: 6th Jan - more info👇 e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

We need grouse moor licensing in England now. It's time for new legislation to make it happen.

Do you like #petrels, islands and data analysis? Well the RSPB’s Conservation Scientist role could be the one for you! Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️ Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...