Adult Audouin's Gull
Back home from a superb tour to Mallorca where AUDOUIN'S GULLS were just one of the highlights. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #spain #birds #birding #gulls @britishnatureguide.bsky.social @tonyrinaud.bsky.social
🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺
Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland.
👇 Read all about it here 👇
seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2
A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.
1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay
1908 map of Barcelona from the Baedeker guide to Spain and Portugal.
When fiction becomes reality. "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". Stanley Kubrick youtu.be/J67wKhddWu4?...
#worldcurlewday
... though the Bush Stone-Curlew isn't a proper Curlew, it's still one of my favourite birds.
Figure 1. Hypothesised drivers and movements of Nearctic landbirds associated with the passage of Hurricane Lee in autumn 2023. NAO, North Atlantic Oscillation. Image credits: Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) used with permission from Lucas Benaiche, wildfires and solar eruption by Gerd Altmann/geralt (Pixabay), Blackpoll Warbler (Setophaga striata) by Lucas Lombardo, Wilson’s Warbler (Cardellina pusilla) by Ian Davies, and Magnolia Warbler (Setophaga magnolia) by Sam Viles.
New paper on the pattern, process and implications of trans-Atlantic vagrancy for ecology and evolutionary biology, written with @pauldufour80.bsky.social and Andrew Farnsworth read free at: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mzPI3QW8S... #Ornithology #Ecology #UKBirding 🪶🦋🌱🌎🌍🧪
Sanidad certifica que la homeopatía es placebo y que puede constituir un riesgo para la salud.
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🌳 Orchard meadows are becoming increasingly fragmented each year, and with them, we lose one of Europe’s most species-rich habitats for birds, insects, and wildflowers.
This Friday, April 24th, join us in celebrating #EuropeanOrchardDay and explore these vital landscapes!
Streaked Spider-hunter in Malaysia. #birdsoftheworld
Free Spain!, 1938-58, Albert Camus,
'... since the fall of Barcelona, there has existed in the most intimate part of us an absence, a void, a waiting. In a world that calls itself liberated, we turn our gaze to that country, because it speaks to us of injustices and regrets (1946)
Did you know?
There was a big increase in GB winter Curlew numbers after hunting stopped in 1982.
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Blog from 21 April 2022 to mark World Curlew Day 🎂4️⃣
Sadly, numbers have dropped in last 25 years.
#ornithology
The irony has been picked up by the media, who sought BirdLife Malta’s reaction. @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
www.independent.com.mt/articles/202...
Far Eastern Curlew (Numenius madagascariensis) on tidal mudflats in Cairns, Queensland, Australia - large brown bird with long curved beak walking right against background of blue water and mud © Jukka Jantunen/Shutterstock
📅 It's #WorldCurlewDay!
🎉 Celebrate these extraordinary wading birds often found passing through wetlands and coastal habitats with our special collection: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Conservation #Research #Curlews #BirdBehaviour #Shorebirds #Marine #Birders
It’s #WorldCurlewDay !💧
Curlews are wading birds often found passing through wetlands and coastal habitats.🌊
Their curved beaks are one of their most distinguishable features capable of foraging deep into sand and soil for invertebrates.🪱
Read more👉 datazone.birdlife.org/search?searc...
1 #seabird, a whole selection of names given to them around Britain & Ireland where 96% of the world population of Manx #Shearwater breed. They have no natural defence against invasive predators & have already disappeared from many islands when rats invaded - #biosecurity helps protect them.
Calima en aumento en las próximas horas en la Península.
➡️ La calima reduce la visibilidad y deja los cielos turbios; también se relaciona con un empeoramiento de la calidad del aire.
➡️ Además, el martes y miércoles puede haber tormentas fuertes en el tercio norte peninsular.
Buenos días, soles,
El ojo progresa adecuadamente. 🥳
Siguiendo los consejos de @palmsea.aldea.social, un poquito + de CC cream, iluminador y un mechón bien colocado, y arreglado. El ibu ayuda. Hoy ha bajado bastante la inflamación y lo noto bajo el ojo, en la parte de la.ojera y en la mejilla.
Rosario Sánchez Mora, "La Dinamitera" (1919-2008) miliciana española de la Guerra Civil, nació un 21 de abril.
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69 años tenía cuando se fue.
🧪🌏🦑🦉 Meet the Cassin’s Auklet! These #seabirds spend most of their lives at sea but return to the #FarallonIslands to breed. We spotted the first Cassin’s eggs on 3/29, and peak lay has occurred over the last 10 days–a surprise given concerns about marine heatwaves and El Niño conditions!
Bad news for the Raccoon, but this is a good example of the efficiency of the APHA rapid removal process for animals on the 'Species Alerts' list, to prevent those forming the greatest ecological/economic threats from getting established.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Lovely poster. "Health and social assistance". The old world of charity fading in the background.
By Valencian artist Vicente Ballester Marco for the CNT, 1937
Ya ha empezado la temporada de cría de las gaviotas patiamarillas en #Malaga. Durante algunos días más seguirán incubando los huevos, tres por lo general. Aunque también habrá muchos fracasos debido a la poco idónea ubicación de los nidos #gulls #birds #Teamgull
Spring has never been this quiet.
In Europe, we lost 19% of our birds in 40 years, 60% for farmland birds.
Yet EU laws protecting wildlife, clean air and water are being weakened.
We can’t trade health and nature for profit of a few. Sign now: www.birdlife.org/news/2026/02...
#HandsOffNature
The graphic displays four images of Puffins showcasing the different recording units for them on SMP surveys. These are IND (individuals on land at the colony), AOB (apparently occupied burrows), SEA (individuals on the sea adjacent to the colony), and AIR (individuals flying over the colony).
Puffin colony count surveys are recommended from April 30th. Multiple survey methods and recording units can be used to monitor them. Take a look at the graphic below to visualise the different units! ⬇️ #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Your daily Avian Hybrids story!
Puffin population structure: There is more than meets the eye
avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/p...
#ornithology
Mohring @bertillemohring.bsky.social et al. Environmental Variability Shapes Life‐History Trade‐Offs Within and Between Populations of a Long‐Lived Seabird onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds
Flying Pink-footed shearwater over the water. Photo: Chris Wood.
🚨 New paper: Predicting suitable marine habitat for Pink-footed shearwaters (Ardenna creatopus) in the waters along the Pacific coast of Canada, by Sonya A. Pastran et al.
#seabirdfs #OpenAccess
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
