David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!
“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”
Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry
#SecretGarden
Sadly it wasn't the Black Lark 😅
Pleased to contribute one find to this list 🤘
Common Crane enjoyed a record breeding season in the UK in 2025, with 87 pairs raising 37 chicks and bringing the total population to some 250 individuals:
Awesome!
View of the River Little Ouse and Hockwold Washes with a big blue sky
Spring is in full flow at #RSPBLakenheathFen with the first Grasshopper Warbler back this morning, alongside a plethora of other migrants
A female Hooded Merganser, a dark brown diving duck with funky crest, swimming on a lake with a fringe of grasses and sedges.
On my 5th attempt, managed to finally see a Hooded Merganser in the UK, a female at Alvecote Pools, Warwickshire. 🥳
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A Goldcrest perched facing front on on a small branch. It has tilted its head forwards showing off its yellow crown stripe flanked with two black crown stripes.
Can't remember the last time a Goldcrest perched nicely for the camera. I'll take it! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
This is excellent opportunity for 14(!) young birders to visit Lundy, boat and board included -- lundybirdobs.org.uk/news-and-sig...
Additional funding for young people to get out to a bird obs. through the BTO here -- www.bto.org/our-work/you...
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It's not easy!
Sat at my desk at #RSPBLakenheathFen and can hear Curlews bubbling, Peacock butterflies floating past the window, Long-tailed Tits are nest-building and Marsh Tits are singing. Love Spring!
In 2024, nearly half of the world’s migratory species were in decline. Just two years later, new data shows the crisis is accelerating.
An interim report from @cms.int reveals that 49% of CMS-listed species are now imperiled.
Learn more in this story by @gloriadickie.bsky.social for #Mongabay.
Hear, hear!
“Development poses a severe threat to biodiversity [&] regulations are insufficient & poorly enforced
As one of the most nature-depleted nations globally, we need a huge amount more spent on conservation & the profits reported by many developers suggest they could spare some change to help”
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My letter in the Guardian countering an article by a pro-growth lobbyist from Britain Remade attacking environmental legislation
“Ecologists & conservationists would be surprised by his claim that the UK doesn’t & never will build enough to drive nature loss”
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A Fieldfare stands facing the camera on a short ward grassland.
Hundreds of Fieldfares in a roving flock this afternoon at my brecks site. A nice hurrah before they leave for Scandinavia #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
BirdWatch Ireland CEO Andrew Kelly & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting at a table outside smiling as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
RSPB Chief Executive Beccy Speight & BTO CEO Juliet Vickery are sitting together at a table in the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Scottish Ornithologists Club President Ruth Briggs are sitting at a table smiling and holding pens ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31.
BTO CEO Juliet Vickery & Welsh Ornithological Society Chair Anne Brenchley are sitting at a table together looking down and holding pens as they get ready to sign a partnership agreement for the Bird Atlas 2027–31. Wildlife and nature themed artwork hangs on the wall behind them.
1/ Five leading charities forge partnership for bird conservation for the Bird Atlas 2027–31! 🐦 But what is the Bird Atlas? ⬇️🧵 #Ornithology
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I've taken action for our wild places!
The UK Government is proposing changes to the National Planning Policy Framework. Help it work for nature.
action.rspb.org.uk/page/187254/...
Shockingly bad decision
Immature Dolphin Gull I think
Please download these signs, share them on social media and put them up near you to protect your local wintering birds.
If you would like A4, laminated copies of these signs please e-mail charlie@curlewaction.org, all you need to do is donate for postage.
www.curlewaction.org/wintering-wa...
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
Blackish-grey Antshrike (Thamnophilus nigrocinereus) a specialist negatively impacted by acai densification (Alex Lees)
açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) density is being rapidly increased by removing other tree species (Alex Lees)
berries of the açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) in situ (Alex Lees)
Our new paper led by Madson Freitas shows that global demand for Açaí, a dietary staple for Amazonian people, now marketed as a superfood, is driving widespread estuarine forest degradation leading to impoverishment of their bird communities
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #ornithology 🌎🍴🪶🌴
A close up of a Whiskered Treeswifts facing left. It has brown underparts, blue wings, a deep blue hood, white 'whiskers' above and below the eye which project behind the head.
Whilst some birds were incredibly hard to see at Danum, on the other hand the Whiskered Treeswifts were a delight.
#BorneoBirding
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Utterly damning report from Office for Environmental Protection - the Govt’s not only missing its targets to protect wildlife in England, it’s also failing on *almost all* environmental measures - and in some cases actively destroying the natural world through its obsession with growth at all costs
A bird perched on a vine with green back, red bum and a black face mask. The distinguishing features from other similar pittas include chestnut crown stripe and narrow supercillium.
We found a rare bird (only 4 previous ebird records in Sabah) in the form of a Fairy Pitta at Danum! Worth slogging the leech-infested trails in the dark 🎉
#BorneoBirding
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A view of the Danum Valley rainforest in lowland Sabah with a river in the foreground. Trees reaching 100m tall grow here.
Finished up 5 days in the Danum Valley. Some of the toughest but most rewarding birding I've known. Giant Pitta and Bornean Ground-cuckoo both seen (!) but far too elusive for photos
#BorneoBirding
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