Arctic Jaeger or Arctic Skua sitting on ice against soft blue background. Updated population estimate published in new BCI paper. © Ondrej Prosicky/Shutterstock
🧮 How many Arctic Jaegers are there around the world?
📝 An updated global estimate of breeding population size for this migratory seabird: doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#BirdConservation #Ornithology #Research #Arctic #Skua #Jaeger #migration #population
Image of an Arctic Skua with wording at the bottom that reads: New Study. Global population status of the migratory Holarctic species Arctic Skua. www.bto.org/Arctic-Skua-Populations. BTO logo top right.
1/ Arctic Skuas are on the UK Birds of Conservation Concern Red List. But new BTO-led research reveals just how much we don’t know about their numbers globally. Discover more. ⬇️ #Ornithology #Seabirds
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I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧
Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
Getting nest material is hard work, especially if it's windy!
Just the bog standard wildlife sighting from one's house
Back and dorsal fin of a Humpback Whale surfacing the sea
A nice distraction this afternoon with 4 Humpback Whales cruising past the house 💙
Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
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Seabirds 2025 are go!
FIBO's permanent staff back on the Isle and the Observatory refit continues apace. Keep up to date with ornithological updates via our latest sighting page: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house
Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!
A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!
Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?
It's been a quiet winter for Short-eared Owls in Orkney, perhaps unsurprising after such poor autumn passage through
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
We found this lovely Common Scoter on the beach yesterday, wet and unable to fly after the storm. After a night of rest and food at home, it was very lively and ready to go this morning, flying out to sea straight away! Can I count it for the house list?
And the more usual current situation with Ptarmigan, in Ruadh Stac Mòr, Ceann Loch Iù. White patches of lichen on the rocks providing a bit of camouflage with the lack of snow! #BirdingScotland #highlandbirds
Watercolour of one of my favourite moments last year watching a Greenish Warbler feeding amongst the sycamores at Valyie, Unst #birds #birdart #BirdingScotland
Amazing scenes in Aberdeen this morning - Donmouth almost completely frozen over!
One of those dreamy winter days. Not a breath of wind, a maximum temperature of -7C°, and great quantities of snow and ice at Glen Tanar today ❄️❄️
A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️
Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds
Beavers!
Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!
A well-timed visit to the Loons this morning resulted in another brief view of the Bittern that’s currently in residence, as it crept across an open channel in the reeds #OrkneyBirds
Image of a Redstart alongside the wording: Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data now freely available. This includes over 7 million records! BTO, JNCC and RSPB logo bottom left. BBS logo top middle.
1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
2024 biodiversity indicators are in... If a wake-up call was needed to show the UK is failing nature, this is it.
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
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For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
A classic spring scene in Extremadura with a White Stork against the shaded Gredos mountains #birds
📢 Exciting PhD opportunity - seabirds & machine learning 🐦💻
Revolutionise how seabird colonies are imaged & counts analysed
Partnership @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social @seabirdcentre.bsky.social
Deadline: 6th Jan - more info👇
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...
