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Fledgling great horned owl learning to fly — or at least flutter — here in the Arkansas Valley, surveilled by a protective parent.

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Okay, so I'm going to be writing a lightly reported piece for @therevelator.org about this. Ornithologist friends, I'll probably be hitting some of you up for comments about how important the BBL and BBS are.

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Incredibly, there were only two Dunlin reported in Halifax in 2024! TWO! In the whole year! Fortunately, 2025 has been a fantastic return to form, and it was delightful to spend my morning on the moors being serenaded by at least three singing individuals! #UKBirding

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Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

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Out this week: a short review co-authored with @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social on same-sex partnerships in birds! 🐦🌈 Borne out of a shared frustration: why are these partnerships often ignored or actively removed from our datasets? 1/n doi.org/10.1002/jav....

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Great PhD in #ornithology is opening up as part of the www.grassbirdhabitats.eu project. Hosted by the University of Groningen in close collaboration with the University of Gaston Berger and NDC in Senegal. West African students are especially encouraged to apply! www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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Red crossbills! Parents still feed the young until they learn to open pinecones which can take several weeks. I watched one hold a cone in its beak for ages until it gave up and a nice pre-digested cone arrived by means of regurgitation. :D #redcrossbill #pikkukäpylintu #bird #lowcarbonbirding

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Ooo, found a Franklin's Gull in Pismo Beach! The first I've found on my own. A nice rare bird for my area. I don't think one was around last year. 🪶

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🚨 Paper Alert 🚨 Second PhD paper is out in Movement Ecology! Exploring the behavioral responses of female #brownbears 🐻 to adult males! Females accompanied by dependent offspring, irrespective of age, perceive adult males as risk and use spatiotemporal avoidance tactics! #phd Here: rdcu.be/emKnG

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Seemingly a team effort by several county birders to track down Red-footed Falcon in Oxfordshire over the past week - and apparently two birds involved (an adult and 2cy female). All came good this morning after a frustrating week following the reports from Ireland #ukbirding

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This is going to be a very neat project for a talented postdoc. Based in a great group and building on a large collaborative research effort under the www.waakvogels.nl project. Check out the vacancy below! #ornithology #movementecology

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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

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DUCKS: by this time of spring most ducks will have settled at potential breeding sites. So all records of scarce & rare breeding ducks, including Shoveler, Wigeon, Garganey, Pintail, Pochard and Red-breasted Merganser, should be submitted, with breeding evidence, to the relevant county recorder

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A fantastic morning on the patch, this crippling male Red backed shrike hopped out in front of me on fox hill down, Langdon cliffs. Later whilst watching it with a small crowd, a female Red foot came over low and continued North,picked up by Paul Holt. #kentbirding #ukrarebirds

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New research into the fossil record of Macaronesia has uncovered a formerly rich diversity of gadfly petrel species that have mostly disappeared from the North Atlantic:

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10 years of daily walks through Northbay plantation thinking one day this will produce a mega, well, today is that day! Found an Eastern Bonelli's Warbler singing and chipping away in the sunny glade at the far end of the pathway. First record for Barra. #BirdingScotland

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This gorgeous Red-throated Pipit found by @alex-penn.bsky.social this morning showed very well this afternoon! After a failed attempt to relocate it late morning, it was a relief to stumble across it within a few minutes on attempt number two! @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social

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Good morning from the lawn leveret #salopobs #haretoday

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You’ve got to hand it to Tupperware. So versatile. National Trust rangers do this year’s puffin weigh-in on the Farne Islands

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For @defector.com, I wrote about the impoverishment of "Abundance," a book with no interest in conservation and whose disciples are in desperate need of a land ethic.

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We did it! Just about recovered from 24hrs of birding, 52,000 steps, 450miles drove and 157 species recorded, a new record! Donations towards @ldvnnr.bsky.social @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social Jack Snipe project really appreciated! 'Trip' report by @ollie333.bsky.social here ebird.org/tripreport/3...

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Okay so now y'all can understand why I almost burst into tears when this Blackburnian landed right in front of me today in my backyard park and let me get this shot: #birds

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Savannah Sparrow showing very well at Skaw on Unst to a 'crowd' of 3 appreciative birders. Another amazing find by Dave Cooper. #YellBirding #RareBirdsUK #Shetland #Birdguides

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Definitely Bluethroat week this week @ottenby

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Highlight of the spring

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I wrote about one of my favourite assignments from Binoculars to Binomials, and some of the delighful things people have created in response: www.jerthorp.me/post/the-lit... 🪶📊

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Though very common around Shetland, this smart looking Red-throated Diver is the only leucistic individual I've ever encountered. #SuperSeabirdSunday #YellBirding #Shetland

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Just uploaded to @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social 'Genetic and morphological analysis shows the Nechisar Nightjar is a hybrid' with Thom Shannon and Hein van Grouw www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/3

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The Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis), recently better known as pope gull (Larus urbietorbicum 😁), has now a chromosome-scale sequenced reference genome! Our first publication from the #LarOmics project, congrats @eksramos.bsky.social et al., see: wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-...

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A little ray of Scilly sunshine… Male citrine wagtail on Bryher this evening. A top spring find by John O’Sullivan earlier in the day! Amazingly my first male citrine wagtail ever, anywhere! 🙌 #ScillyBirds

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Our PhD level course Ecology of Animal Migration at @biologylu.bsky.social is now open for applications! The course will run this November (3-14th) and cover various theoretical and practical aspects of migration ecology. See: www.biology.lu.se/phd-studies/...

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Just over a week left to join the summer cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials. Cultivate a mindful birding practice, learn new creative coding skills for the web, and transform the way you look at birds and data. All in the company of a group of other curious learners! www.jerthorp.me/learning 📊🪶

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Another birding paper! 🐦Where do the Nearctic landbirds that show up in Europe each autumn come from? We usually assume they come from NE populations, pushed off course by bad weather - but is that the whole story? #ornithology 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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This Subalpine Warbler that I found at Kynance Garm, Lizard on Friday seems most likely to be nominate Eastern Subalpine, although the submission is going to be challenging! @CBWPS1

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Finally managed to salvage this abysmal spring - Temminck's Stint was a nice find at Northern Cross Valley Way this morning. Not a regular bird in the county, with the last record 2023 and prior to that 2018 #ukbirding

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If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully. You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers. Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

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Calling all European #Odanata experts. I found this Coenagrion yesterday in a mountain spring pool which looks remarkably similar to hastulatum however it’s in Armenia and miles from the known range. Eyes are green based, spear head mark plus separates side stripe. Comments welcome 🙏

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An amazing sight and sound this evening whilst walking to a restaurant in Penzance with the Mrs. A min. count of 51 Purple Sandpipers (and 1 Dunlin), chattering away on rocks below us, by Jubilee Pool. Can’t remember ever seeing so many in one big flock anywhere previously. #CornwallBirding #Birds

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Checklist Media is now live! ebird.org/news/new-che...

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If you needed another good reason to leave Barclays, this is it www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Quick trip to Wales this morning before work. Broad-billed Sandpiper is a bird I've always wanted to see in Britain - lucky to connect with it as everything was flushed by a Merlin a few minutes after I arrived #ukbirding

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Woke up to a Black-throated Green Warbler singing in the yard, rushed to get ready in time to start my #TenMinMerlin but he was too far away to detect by then. Did get two new migrant detections (Yellow Warbler and Northern House Wren) and photos of the yard Black-throated Green a bit later:

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Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Oh My Gosh! The complicated taxonomy of the Northern Goshawk superspecies avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/o... #ornithology #RaptorResearch

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Gotta love work meetings where everyone's agreeing on the key importance of getting people into the office more often... when my WFH days make nursery pickup/dropoff infinitely easier. Hybrid working removes a lot of the pain from childcare

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REVEALED: only 5% of Forestry Commission grants for woodland creation have been spent on the natural regeneration of trees, while the remaining 95% is spent on tree planting. The government needs to change the rules. My FOI request & comment in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Write-up and photo gallery of last Wednesday's excellent day of inland passage at Farmoor #ukbirding tmbirding.blogspot.com/2025/04/good...

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Eastern US let's fucking goooooo We've got hundreds of millions of precious migrants pouring overhead tonight and in the next few weeks. Get those overnight lights off, cats inside, and windows treated (to prevent collisions) to keep my bird friends alive. Get ready for spectacular birding!

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New Article: Flood, R. L. 2025. Melanistic Cory’s Shearwater off Scilly in August 2024 and notes on confusion species. British Birds 118: 208–213. #seabirds www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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