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After 17 years my OCD living nightmare is ended. 😵‍💫 My earliest Stone Curlew was 29th(!) February 2008, but my Excel spreadsheet 📊could not handle it, so I had to have it down as 28th, with a note beside it to explain. All that pain is now gone. Behold! My earliest Stone Curlews (3) today. 28/02/25

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🎵Love is in the air!🎵 Fab flirty dancing - with leaves! - as a pair of #curlew meet up after months apart. 😍 After 20 mins thought I should leave… ☺️ #ornithology #YorkshireDales #waders #ukbirds #ukwildlife

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RSPB looking for new council members. I am one and find it interesting and worthwhile. Join us? www.rspb.org.uk/about-us/how...

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Neat image from new Grey Plover paper in Ecology & Evolution⬇️ Track of bird tagged in Singapore suggests Siberian divide may not be clear cut: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... WaderTales blog about Grey Plovers: wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/06/11/p... #ornithology

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🚨Europe moves towards ending lead poisoning! The EU Commission presented today a proposal to #BanLeadNow in ammunition and fishing weights, but loopholes remain. Find out more in our press release 👉https://www.birdlife.org/news/2025/02/27/press-release-europe-moves-towards-ending-lead-poisoning/

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Old Park in Canterbury is a superb area of acid grassland with a flora including Harebell, Bedstraw (or Clove-scented) Broomrape & Mossy Stonecrop, & loads of Nightingales. The MoD owns it and has put it up for sale. Join the campaign to save this extraordinary site canterburyoldpark.org.uk

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holy smokes, look at this Snowy owl in Michigan. Full story (+ more pics) here: www.mlive.com/environment/... 🦉🌍

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Saturday 1 March is World Seagrass Day! 🌊 🌿 Seagrass meadows store 19.9 gigatons of carbon and a single acre supports 50 million small invertebrates. 🦐 Discover more on the Dugong & Seagrass Hub: www.dugongseagrass.org Learn about the UN's #WorldSeagrassDay here: www.un.org/en/observanc...

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Right now, the UK Government is considering cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget – the biggest pot of funding for nature. Here’s why that would be a disaster for farmers, food security, and wildlife. A thread. 🧵👇

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🌊 Today in @nature.com: Is the AMOC on the brink of collapse? Unlikely before 2100—but the risks are real 🚨 We find Southern Ocean winds keep this vital ocean "heat engine" running, even under extreme #climatechange. But the Pacific holds a surprise… tinyurl.com/yt6u4e7d Let’s explore 🧪👇

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There's a fascinating blog about Curlew from the Mid-Wales Ringing Group. Tracking is such a powerful tool! midwalesringers.blogspot.com/2025/01/trac... More about Curlew longevity here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/06/12/m... #ornithology

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Do you work on the #conservation of #shorebirds in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway? We are keen to learn from your experiences of what has been done and what does and does not work. Please complete this short survey to share your knowledge. Japanese/Chinese/Indonesian versions will follow soon.

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What if we told you vultures save us billions every year? 🦅 Vultures in Southern Africa provide $1.8B in ecosystem services, but populations have dropped 97% due to poisoning, belief-based use, and electrocution. Without them, ecosystems suffer. 💔 🔗 Read more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/02...

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@bbs-birds.bsky.social data shows Turtle Dove to have the fastest rate of decline of any UK breeding bird since 1994. Whilst improving productivity and adult survival are important, this study suggests increasing adult survival could have the greatest benefits. @rspb.bsky.social #ornithology

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TODAY is 30th anniversary of last irrefutable record of a Slender-billed Curlew, 25 Feb 1995, Merja Zerga, Morocco. June is 30th anniversary of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds Agreement @curlewaction.bsky.social @curlewrecovery.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social #ornithology #birds

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The Slender-billed Curlew is now considered extinct—30 years after its last confirmed sighting. Its tragic loss serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need for stronger international conservation efforts for migratory waterbirds. Read the full story here: www.unep-aewa.org/en/news/mark...

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The AEWA Technical Committee, the scientific advisory body, is kicking off it's 20th meeting in Mikulov, Czechia. The committee will focus on new action & management plans, seabird conservation priorities and strengthening the science-policy interface. 🐦 More here: www.unep-aewa.org/en/meeting/2...

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Over on #theBOUblog, science writer Dr Ashleigh Marshall discusses the impact of productivity and adult survival on population growth in European Turtle Doves: bou.org.uk/blog-afm-... From this recent #IBISjournal paper: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... | #ornithology

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Can we halt population decline in European Turtle Doves? bou.org.uk/blog-afm-... On #theBOUblog science writer Dr Ashleigh Marshall discusses the impact of productivity and adult survival on population growth. From this recent #IBISjournal paper: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.... | #ornithology

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South Iceland's breeding waders are in trouble. Black-tailed Godwit numbers are going down (but not as rapidly as 4 other species). wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Blog based on paper by Aldís Pálsdóttir et al #ornithology

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Which species should we prioritise? Here with Daniel Field discussing Evolutionary Distinct Globally Endangered (EDGE) species with the help of Darwin’s famous sketch and a stuffed hoatzin and skeleton. For video and 75 others see www.youtube.com/watch?v=1taU...

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Large-scale loss of Mediterranean coastal marshes under rising sea levels by 2100 www.nature.com/articles/s43... "For Egypt, France, and Algeria, we predict (near) total loss of coastal marshes by 2100..." @claudiawolff.bsky.social @avafeidis.bsky.social

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Today, feeling balmy and spring like around Beachamwell and Shingham, it was all Skylark song and mad Hares getting ready for March - in excess of 20 in some fields. #BrownHares #BrownHare #lepuseuropaeus #Norfolk #Breckland #Brecks #TheBrecks #MyWalk 1/4

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Last w/e, water of the poor River Lark looking grim as flowed past Bury St Edmunds Abbey gardens & all the way down to Temple Bridge (unlike Norfolk #chalkstreams) where informative sign installed near new growth of Celery-leaved Buttercup (thankfully not invasive alien Floating Pennywort). #MyWalk

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Without doubt the photographic highlight of today’s Bird-Photo-Tour to India’s Gujarat State was this Sociable Lapwing, critically endangered and part of a flock of 6-birds wintering on this paddyfield [Bird-Photo-Tours.com, #BirdsSeenIn2025].

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Dunlin is the biggest loser in Southern Lowlands of Iceland. Breeding numbers down 60% in eleven years. Blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper (Aldís Pálsdóttir et al): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... THREAD #ornithology

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Three subspecies of Black-tailed Godwit share non-breeding sites in the world's largest river delta | www.sciencedirect.co... | Avian Research | #ornithology 🪶

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Southern Iceland is the most important area in Europe for breeding Whimbrel. New study measures decline of nearly 50% in twelve years. Blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ConservationScience🌍

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New paper and #wadertales blog on the very worrying declines we're seeing in Iceland's breeding waders:

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All is not well in the Southern Lowlands of Iceland - one of the most important wader breeding areas in Europe. WaderTales blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/i... Paper by Aldís Pálsdóttir et al in 'Bird Study': www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology

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Mark Nason outlining how CIEEM is ensuring that evidence will be embedded into the practice of consultants through guidance, competency frameworks, learning, professional development, advocacy and perhaps a prize for good practice. A visionary revolution.

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On 16 June 2025, we celebrate 30 years of the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA). Originally signed in The Hague, AEWA unites nations to safeguard 255 migratory waterbird species across African-Eurasian Flyways. Learn more: www.unep-aewa.org/en/news/cele...

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The new research published in the journal #BirdStudy, found that – hectare for hectare – #SolarFarms situated in #agricultural ly dominated East Anglia contained a greater number of #bird species and overall number of individuals than surrounding arable land. eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

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Experts are coming together for the 9th Meeting of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG9) to the Raptors MOU 🦅 ☑️ Reviewing proposals for important sites ✅ Discussing strategies for safeguarding migratory birds of prey ☑️ Strengthening collaborative conservation efforts 🔗 www.cms.int/raptors/en/m...

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Banning threatened species trade can incrase trades of non-banned species - evdence from Japan based on the synthetic difference-in-differences approach. Great work!

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my organization has a new CEO coming on board July 01, from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Important job as Volunteer Manager and Administrator River Lark Catchment Partnership in Suffolk working to protect a chalk river. www.environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/104746-...

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🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5

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New paper on population changes in common waders and passerines in Iceland's largest breeding area. Most populations are declining fast. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I love estuaries and find them fascinating. Here I explain why they are so important ecologically and critical for conservation. Filmed from the pier at Southend-on sea. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBoR...

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Great study. But struck by this paragraph in the paper, re Nightingales and deer browsing/habitat change. The wane of the 'deer hypothesis' of browsing driving UK woodland bird declines? A dominant theory 10-15 yr ago, impacting policy, but strong evidence never transpired. #ukbirding #ornithology

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Please support the WWT campaign to ban toxic lead ammunition which is so damaging to our wildlife and especially water birds. Petition >>> act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/... Enjoy the video …. funny but with a serous message >>> x.com/WWTworldwide... #essexbirding

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Have you seen any colour-ringed Twite? A project to record them is being run by Species on the Edge, and they'd be very grateful for your sightings! #CaithnessBirds

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Interested in the news from the Taï Chimpanzee Project? Follow our news blog on the taichimps.org website www.taichimpproject.org/post/new-pap...

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