Our paper on the female song in Galápagos yellow warblers is now published in Animal Behavior: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... To celebrate, here is the first ever video I recorded back in 2023 of the female BzHz singing!

Totally worth waking up at 3:00 AM 🌊🪶
Watching thousands of waders twist and turn in perfect harmony as the tide rolls in, they really know how to put on a show.
@rspbengland.bsky.social @clairetsui.bsky.social @ursulascuderi.bsky.social
#Snettisham #WaderSpectacle #RSPB #NatureMoments

📢 Job Alert: Monitoring officer

I am looking for an experienced ornithological fieldworker to join the team this spring to lead on the monitoring of Black tailed godwits at WWT Welney.

Closing date: 6 March 2026

Apply ➡️

vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77...

beautiful!

We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch

Off-lead dogs damage Little Tern colony A colony of rare Little Terns on Norfolk's east coast has suffered after off-lead dogs attacked the birds, killing at least four chicks. The RSPB and Norfolk Police have issued urgent pleas to dog owners, warning of potential prosecution as the breeding season reaches its most critical stage.

Wardens and police have issued an urgent plea to dog owners after uncontrolled pets attacked a colony of Little Terns on the Norfolk coast, killing at least four chicks and endangering dozens more:

And a ringing tick for me 🦆 #drake #eclipsing #mallard

Nice to see many strong juveniles, some looking after their younger “siblings” (chicks born from a more recent clutch)

On #WorldOceanDay, let us all take a moment to contemplate and admire the Best Oceanic Bird In The World*, the European Storm-Petrel.

* I will not be taking questions at this time.

‘Redefining rogue state’: Outrage over Israel's bombing of aid ship bound for Gaza Social media users condemned Israel's drone strike on the vessel and demanded international action

Israel has used drones to bomb a humanitarian aid ship in international waters off Malta, with Greta Thunberg among those on board, but the BBC has forgotten to report it. www.middleeasteye.net/trending/fre...

A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛

(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)

#Seabirds #IrishSea

EDEC SA works for #CaboVerde govern and changed Brava street & port lights from yellow to strong white LED. A few days later >150 Cape Verde, Leach and WF #StormPetrels & Boyd's #shearwaters collisioned and died. Despite #ProjectoVito warned DNA, 3d later lights are on m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

🐦Naturschutz auf den Galápagos-Inseln: Die Rückkehr der Darwinfinken YouTube video by Universität Wien

youtu.be/UzrUTmM0Z4s?...

Small storm-petrel in-hand at night. Exposed legs showing colour tape around metal band on one leg and Global Light Sensing logger attached to a band on the other leg

Image of South Pacific with Australian land mass on far left and a series of red dots indicating the movements of a tracked seabird

The White-bellied Storm-petrel trip also gave up one of two deployed GLS loggers. 1st ever track. Aust. to Chile (10K km) and down towards the Antarctica coast. Unprecedented?! So hard to access remote colonies with over 80 island-days available (2009-2025) but only 8 landings possible.#Seabirds 🪶

Another fantastic ‘Poyser’ monograph, by @robthomasbirds.bsky.social.

My favourite fact so far? Storm-petrel chicks are each weighed in their own individual cupcake holder to minimise the risk of disease transmission. Excellent!

North Sea latest: Tanker and cargo ship collide in North Sea - with reports of both vessels on fire A coastguard helicopter is on the scene in the North Sea after reports of a tanker colliding with a cargo vessel. There are reports a number of people have abandoned the vessels, which are said to be ...

What a nightmare…and given spring migration also the worst timing too 😞 news.sky.com/story/north-...

Great day yesterday birding with @phelpstoby.bsky.social, Jalal and @becky-gibbs.bsky.social: managed to twitch the Black scoter down Holylake and we also got a great view of the little owl at Burton marshes 🦉

Harrowing paper in the latest @britishbirds.bsky.social on marine heatwave impacts on European Storm-petrels #Ornithology 🪶🌍 britishbirds.co.uk/volume-118/i...

Seabird Team's Field Update

Exciting news from last Friday's fieldwork! The first egg of the 2025 season has been discovered at the Yelkouan Shearwater colonies! A promising start for this year's breeding season.

#SeabirdConservation #YelkouanShearwater #LifePanPuffinus #BirdLifeMalta

H23 & H24 Moorhens I colour ringed last year showing well in Grovesnor Park, Chester this morning. These are the dominant pair Unfortunately the 3 unringed birds didn’t want to get caught! @ursulascuderi.bsky.social
#birdringing #cheshirebirding

Join! Ymunwch!
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And a new ringing tick for me as well ☺️ if you see a ringed moorhen around the UK and the RI please report it here: waterbirdcolourmarking.org

A reminder that Dr Rob Thomas will be presenting a talk concerning Storm Petrels in Wales and Beyond on Wednesday 5th February 2025 – 7.30 pm to 9pm.
The talk will be co-hosted between GOS and the Gwent Wildlife Trust @ Chepstow Leisure Center.NP16 5LR.
www.gwentbirds.org.uk/2025/02/02/i...

A Waxwing feeding

Welsh Bird Report 2023 is on its way to members!
2023 finished with an influx of Waxwings, the largest in Wales since 2016/17

Mae Adroddiad Adar Cymru 2023 ar ei ffordd!
Daeth 2023 i ben gyda dylifiad o Gynffon Sidan - y mwyaf yng Nghymru ers 2016/17

✍🏻 @penrhynbirder.bsky.social
📸 Stik Davies

NEW PAPER in #ornithology examines the effect of winter storms on #seabirds, and suggests that #puffins are less affected by storminess than other auks: https://buff.ly/3Wo400p

First lifer of 2025: a nice male smew (Mergellus albellus) by Crosby Marine lake. Very pleased ☺️

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP
The Storm-Petrels: The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species. For more information, please visit: https://bit.ly/4g6Ihkl

The Gower Ringing Group ringing year 2024 - a summary of our projects, controls and totals is here: www.gowerbirds.org.uk/the-ringing-...
Great effort and achievements everyone 🤍🪶

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sherpa in the Himalayas carrying a super large and heavy handmade backpack.

PI: Should we add field assistants as co-authors?

Co-PI: mmm... They did not write anything... You know that writing is the hardest part!

PI: OK!

Field assistants 👇🏿