Study Finds Increased Offspring Mortality in Pesticide-Laden Bird’s Nests - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog Birds, such as blue and great tits, use fur to line their nests, exposing their offspring to pesticides used in veterinary treatments.

Researchers, including @beyondpesticides.org 2023 Forum speaker @davegoulson.bsky.social, PhD, test 100+ blue tit & great tit #nests for #pesticide residues in comparison with the number of dead offspring & unhatched eggs! #fipronil #imidacloprid #permethrin #biodiversity Blog: ow.ly/aElO50UXVX0

Sam Henry playing music on a field trip

Tuesday 11th February 7.30 to 9pm On zoom (register@bnfc.org.uk if not a BNFC member)
Sam Henry, Field Naturalist and Song Collector
Sarah Calvin, from the Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services, talks about the folklorist and BNFC member who was born in Coleraine in 1878

Looking forward to this.

The Most DISGUSTING BEACH In Northern Ireland (Hidden for 50 years) YouTube video by Stephen J Reid

The ecological disaster facing Belfast Lough and a possible solution. Another excellent video from Stephen J Reid: youtu.be/zf4UMqTHERI?...

Important wake up call for those that use and love #Belfastlough #Belfast. The lough is under threat. #storyofbelfastlough published by the #LWWP #paddybrow
www.niwater.com/siteFiles/re.... #sharetheshore. @dannydonnelly1.bsky.social @andrewmuirni.bsky.social

Shifting baseline syndrome explains how we normalise the continual visceration of once unimaginably rich ecosystems.

Rewilding – our minds, lands, and seas – is the solution. 🌏

Plants of Strangford Lough (Belfast Naturalists' Field Club winter talk 12/11/2024) YouTube video by Jake Dalzell

The Belfast Naturalists' Field Club kindly invited me to speak about my work on the flora of Strangford Lough yesterday. You can watch a recording of the talk here:
youtu.be/ECC3uP3cdPA