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Why is there no person or team at Defra working specifically on grasslands, when they cover at least 40% of England?🚨 In an open letter, we're calling on the UK Gov to urgently address this & fully realise the value of grasslands now🌱 Learn more 👉 www.plantlife.org.uk/our-work/the...

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🦇 Volunteer recruitment is now open for the Volunteer Bat Care Helpline! To find out how to get involved click here: buff.ly/3ubLKs0

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Instead of sending flowers – which are often grown abroad, packaged in plastic, have a high carbon footprint, and last just a couple of weeks – send herbs! Many herbs have nectar-rich blooms that attract bees and butterflies too 🐝 More eco gift ideas: bit.ly/3F0eWv2

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Delighted! Thank you @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlig...

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Two gannets about to enter the water. They can dive at 60mph. linktr.ee/vickyouten... 🪶🦉 #birds #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #photography #ThePhotoHour #gannets Thanks for your support!

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As the next 8 days are looking overcast with occasional rain, I decided to get out to #ElHondo for the first time this year. I certainly managed to get my fill of waterfowl and was delighted to also see Barn Swallows, House & Crag Martins, speeding around the skies! #birds

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I don't whether bird flu, this season, will cause serious problems for humans or not. But the notion that we should ditch efforts to be prepared, in case it does, is mind-boggling. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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My favourite post this week! @iand777.bsky.social 's Bluesky feed is an absolute delight. Ian is SO worth a follow 👇 #nature #wildlife #birds

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Incredibly, bottom trawl fishing is not banned in all or even most UK Marine "Protected" Areas - nor is oil or gas drilling. And yet, look what happens when marine creatures are given places where they're properly protected from these destructive practices 👇🏾 🐬🐳 @oceanauk.bsky.social

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Let’s help @wildjustice.bsky.social get to 100 000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting now. Beth am helpu Wild Justice i gyrraedd 100 000 o enwau a gwahardd saethu grugiar nawr. Sign / Arwyddwch 👇 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Thank you, Rob. I just looked up the Common Swift, a bird which, for me, not only "stitches the world together", but also people in their love and appreciation of it @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @levparikian.bsky.social @norfolkbea.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social

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I’m so excited to announce that my new book THE BIRDING DICTIONARY is available for preorder! It's a humorous dictionary of real birding terms and goofy definitions, plus a ton of silly illustrations. It's out May 6 but you can preorder it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...

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Time for a little blast of summer #ukwildlife #uknature

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Autumn tones and atmosphere in a much loved local woodland. #woodland #photography #photo #natyre

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Our peatlands are special places. They need restoring not destroying. Let’s get to is petition up to 4,000 this weekend. #ForPeat #Rewild petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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🌳 A veteran oak standing proud at Rushbeds Wood. Do you ever wonder what stories our trees would tell? 📷 Phil Townsend

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A report published by the Newt Conservation Partnership has revealed that 84% of pond sites created through a pioneering scheme that replaces habitat lost to development are colonised by great crested newts after three or more years. Read more 👇 www.arc-trust.org/news/newts-a...

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#Birds #BirdArt #UKBirding

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Sadly, this fantastic Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f/4 IS PRO lens has to go. For further details, please visit www.richardlewington.co.uk Repost appreciated

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I visited the Oregon Coast a couple days ago, and encountered this Red-breasted Merganser. This appears to be a female (immature males look similar, but not this time of year). They will head to the arctic to breed in the summer. #bird #birdphotography #redbreastedmerganser #naturephotography

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Can any #Lichen experts help? Alyxoria growing on dead Ash bark with Trentepohlia but I can't find any spores. Can it be taken to species?

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The forest is where I go to think and make serious decisions. An answer can always be found. The trees can hear your thoughts. #EppingForest #MistAndFog #Photography #Sepia #Mindfulness #PhotoHour #Landscape #Nature

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Looking almost like an inorganic object, like twisting green plastic emerging from the earth, this mutated green earth tongue, Microglossum viride, is probably the most unique earth tongue I've discovered. Green earth tongues alone are super cool to find, but this one takes the cake! 🍄📷 📸🎞 🌿🌱 🟢 🍄 📷

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A Gannet and that distinctive eye.. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

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The tiny endangered spider that has hit headlines in @telegraphnews.bsky.social by necessitating modification of plans for housing developments at Ebbsfleet, Kent, thanks @naturalengland.bsky.social's 2021 SSSI designation to protect it and other threatened species of this #brownfield site. #spiders

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Useful to see from @rspb.bsky.social & the University of Cambridge: well-managed solar farms can make an important contribution to nature as well as "provide relief from the effects of agricultural intensification". www.bbc.com/news/article...

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We’re here and excited to join the #birding community. 🐦 #BirdTrack is a free online and in-field tool for your bird sightings. You can keep up to date with what others are seeing, view the latest trends, and contribute your data to #BTOScience ➡️ www.birdtrack.net #UKBirding #Ornithology

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If I’ve learned anything at all in life it would be to never turn down an opportunity to draw an alligator in a jaunty hat.

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A pair of masked marauders, aka Cedar Waxwings, stripping a madrone tree of its berries. 🌎 Northern California Happy #twosday ! #birds #photography #birdphotography

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Seen a bird with a ring? 🤔 Report it via the Euring portal ➡️ https://bit.ly/_euring You can report rings and tags found on live or dead birds. Doing this contributes valuable data to our research, helping researchers determine bird population trends. #Winterwatch #UKBirding

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🦋 A new study by JNCC & @ukceh.bsky.social reveals how atmospheric #NitrogenPollution is affecting butterfly & moth populations across the UK 🔗 bit.ly/JNCCreport775 The data underpinning the study was taken from long-term monitoring schemes such as @ukbms.bsky.social, highlighting their importance.

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Save the Date ! Saturday 5th April is our Spring meeting. An opportunity to hear about the efforts of the branch and updates from the past 12 months. Find out more information, see our events page on the website butterfly-conservation.org/events...

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📣 New publication: Birdwatching in Cyprus: Where to go and what to look out for Featuring 10+6 #birdwatching locations across the island & the species one might see there, as well as a comprehensive checklist of the #birds of Cyprus. Available for sale: shop.birdlifecyprus.org/en/product/b...

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An American Crow that was playing in the snow on the boardwalk. Several Crows have been hanging out in the area, often looking for any fallen foodstuffs.

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This jay seems to be looking a little bashful for #ThursJay - or maybe it's just looking for food 🤣 Cumbria, UK #UKwildlife #birds

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Love this from @edyong209.bsky.social 👇 A new study that looks at uncredited contributions of #WomeninSTEM to genetics research was inspired by the film "Hidden Figures". How scientists are portrayed in society matters; the stories we tell matter. #WomeninScience #scicomm #movies 🧪

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Work with us. The Museum of Natural History is looking for a part-time Naturalist Interpreter. jobs.novascotia.ca/job/HALIFAX-... Applications are due February 5th.

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This Barn Owl has just spotted prey. Next thing it dived and caught a vole but got robbed of its meal by a kestrel watching and waiting in the wings. This is common and seems to increase in frequency through winter. Maybe because foods getting harder to find. #birds #owls #nature #nature #hunting

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#Redsquirrels in Notth Yorks. Hopefully soon in #Derbyshire too! #WoodlandCreation #Rewilding #LandscapeRecovery www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/R...

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'A Regional Train passes a Railroad Crossing between Flooded Fields, Nidderau-Eichen, Germany' Photo Michael Probst

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Eiders off Coquet Island - colour linocut by Suffolk artist, Penny Berry Paterson (1941-2021) I love this one... #CuddyDucks #birds #art #seaducks

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An orchid uses a finger-like appendage to pollinate itself www.newscientist.com/article/2465...

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@judywebb.bsky.social Thanks for the follow-back. Looking forward to spring already!

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A little bit of wave beauty today - glassy waves taken on the Isle of Harris in Scotland. #wave #waves #seascape #longexposure

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SPURN WILDLIFE 2023 - Hitting the door steps shortly, large thrush movements in 2023 so I decided to paint that, rather than a single bird for this issue, watercolour on block. #ukbirding #birds

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Save Our #Suffolk Swifts offer free surveys and advice, today’s survey was at a pub rebuild in Wickham Mkt. We have offered the pub a free Swift Community Set as the prominent location is adjacent to an existing substantial colony. @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

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With everything so seemingly terrible these days & no sign of anything remotely hopeful in the near future, I thought you might need this photo of a baby giraffe.

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