Just published: a cross-taxon synthesis of how #non-native species spread: from dispersal and #invasion fronts to Allee effects, human pathways, and predictive models. Understanding spread is key to management & policy. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #bioinvasions #InvasiveSpecies 🧪🌍🌐

Unbelievable that lead #fishing weights are still driving wildlife declines decades after we understood the threat #Ornithology

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Thanks to Accent Design for the work and BWWC Foundation for the funding, we have a new website. If you care about the birds of the Neotropics, have a look at neotropicalbirdingandconservation.org Join to get our journals and support conservation across the region. #birdsmatter #neotropicalbirding

The Blue-eyed Ground Dove has been confirmed as the only living member of the ancient genus Oxypelia. New genetic evidence reveals its deep evolutionary roots and the urgency of conserving its Cerrado refuge. theornithologist.org/a-lost-dove-... #TheOrnithologist #Ornithology

A grim read - Lesser Kestrels at the 1000-pair colony in Matera, Italy suffering large losses (65%) as a result of climate-induced heatwaves. For every 10 chicks, the heat killed 7. Not sure how they will adapt to that… www.lifefalkon.eu/en/news/the-...

Bachman's Warbler was discovered by the Reverend John Bachman in 1832 on the Edisto River a few miles north of Jacksonborough, South Carolina. In 1833 John J. Audubon painted and named the species after his friend Bachman. The photograph from 1958 is one of the last observations before extinction.

Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.' We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them. Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse. Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Suspect these won't be the last judging by the volume of passage in Europe...

"Look, we all respect the right to protest, but you need to do it in a much more easily ignored and minimally effective way."

An astonishing 20 Clancy’s Rustic in last night’s Norwich garden moth trap, double the previous record set earlier this month (which was remarkable enough to merit a tweet). Here are some of them. #NorfolkMoths

A mild legal proposal to harmonised #forest data collection in the EU could die today if @eppgroup.bsky.social decides to band together with the extreme right. As forests get hammered by climate change & out of control logging, we should at the very least have comparable data on what is going on.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

A delicious win-win: Oyster farming helps sequester carbon, not just because the bivalves lock CO2 in their shells but even more so because the oysters promote primary production and organic carbon sedimentation in the sea around them. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

thanks to @josbarlow.bsky.social for sharing this

In the late 80s the Conservative (!) government brought in stronger clean water rules in the UK. Through the 90s + 00s river health rose. Salmon returned to rivers like the Thames. Then, in 2010, the Cameron government, told regulators to ease up on enforcing environmental rules... 🧵 1/4

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

1/ The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today by Defra! ⬇️ Sadly, the ‘all bird species’ index, comprising the population trends of 130 species, has been in a slow continuous decline in the UK since the 1970s, down by 18% and by 4% in the last five years. 📉 #Ornithology

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream." grist.org/climate/trou... #Arctic #Climate #Heat #Ice #Svalbard #Environment #Geography

Our stand at Avian Odyssey 2025 at @nhm-london.bsky.social Talk this afternoon by @liakajiki.bsky.social on Manakins - the birds, not the shop dummies.

⚠️ First Pinks of the winter alert ⚠️ Nice little flock of 19 in some soggy Humberside stubble. Welcome to the best time of the year 🥳 #humberbirds #ukbirding

If you can make it to London on September 20th, come and hear @liacanjica.bsky.social talk about manakins as part of #avianodyssey2025 at the @nhm-london.bsky.social Tickets still available via www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... Attend in person or via livestream.

All set up at Migfest. Bring on the crowds. Join us, chat, get some books, win a prize. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @colnepointbirder.bsky.social @robertabirder.bsky.social

Yedterday was a mega tanager day. Tamata

It seems that two sp. of Bordered Straw in the same trap this week is not unusual. I got one each of umbra and armigera on Friday to my garden dual actinic along with 4 delicate, 2 Rush Veneer & 3 DSG Colne Point - NE Essex

The #climatecrisis means the UK is losing its avian mountaineers.

Clocking off for the w/e: starting by thumbing through an advance copy of the wonderful debut by @bsbicountries.bsky.social (James Harding-Morris), ENDEMIC, published by @chiffchat.bsky.social, which celebrates Britain's unique fauna/flora & for which I was honoured to provide a back-cover quote.

Our water bill in Devon has just come through today. It's doubled. Our town had the cryptosporidium outbreak. We've had sewage in our beaches and the river. And the CEO of South West water got a £300,000 pay rise as this was all happening, which she told me was a "cost of living increase".

How BirdLife International is making waves for seabird conservation worldwide, inc the S Pacific. My article in the Jul-Sep issue of BirdLife magazine.

Fortunate to witness an astonishing spectacle at the beach tonight: tens of thousands of (mainly Small) white butterflies pouring in over the sea, as far as you could see. Pulses of butterflies swept in-off everywhere, an extraordinary sight. @linnetincley.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social 1/2

At a time of climate and nature collapse, farmers are paid subsidies to maintain all of Ireland's uplands as ecological deadzones. For what? For the production of wool that's then dumped. You could NOT make it up. www.agriland.ie/farming-news...

@migrantmothuk.bsky.social Few presumed migrants last night in my Colne Point garden, the highlight being Silver Barred, also Four-spotted Footman, a few Diamondbacks, Delicate possibly more fridge to be checked later

Another similar example - 1st Brazilian record (pending ratification) of Cape May Warbler (Setophaga tigrina) from Minas Gerais uk.inaturalist.org/observations... 🪶

🦅Hooded Vulture - Critically Endangered, but traded openly in Benin despite protection from national law. 🙏 Conservation implications of this illegal trade for belief-based use: doi.org/10.1017/S095... #BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research #Vulture #HoodedVulture #Benin #Africa

If your dog will jump in the nearest river, pond or lake given half a chance, don't use spot-on treatments for fleas and ticks, say researchers.

Genius. Must watch.

Found this Pipit at Ockle, Ardnamurchan, no calls seen briefly, seems to be a winter plumage Red-throated. Thoughts please.

@naturetrek.bsky.social after much searching we have now seen an otter. Much relief for those who have braved the wet and windy conditions.

Seventeen species of orchid seen around Nonières on the first full day of the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social Vercors trip. Star of the day was a well-hidden grove of Lady’s Slipper orchids, but Lady and Fly were not far behind… #orchids

@naturetrek.bsky.social today we visited Lunga via Staffa (to view Fingal's Cave). A seabird bonanza, where puffins were the star attraction. Both Water Rail and Corncrake were heard. A day with almost no rain. Early morning there was little wind. Allowing the mountains to reflect in the loch.

@naturetrek.bsky.social After a morning visit to Loch Sheil and the general area finding our 7th White-tailed Eagle and dodging some heavy rain showers. We then went to Ariundle (photos) where the weather improved and we found our third Golden Eagle, Wood Warbler, Tree Pipit, Chequered Skipper

A fine days birding on @naturetrek.bsky.social Ardnamurchan finished off with ludicrous views of Pine Marten Add to that close up views of White-tailed Eagle, five seen in total and young Golden Eagle.

@naturetrek.bsky.social first morning of Ardnamurchan week, an early morning visit to Loch edge below our lodge gave us three WT Eagle, two of which flew low overhead of the appreciative group. A good start pre breakfast

The difference just 4 years can make when land is released from overgrazing. Nothing was planted here: all these native trees, wildflowers, etc, came naturally, along with loads of butterflies, birds, + other animal life. THIS is how we reverse nature loss. #Rewilding 🌍

Tool use in insects: Assassin bugs apply resin to their forelegs before a stingless bee hunt. This makes the bees attack the bug in just the right position to be caught! Videos will worth watching www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....