Waiting to see Lenny again! Miss dancing with him!

#Dogs #Pups #Dancing #DogLife

Family Birding time!!

#Birding in South India is never boring. When Maia and I are busy figuring out a brown-coloured #migratory #warbler within a reed. Mum and dad spent time checking out the #temple.

#SouthIndia #CentralAsianFlyway #MigratoryBirds #Wildlife #Lakes

Lucky to be hosted by the Rajika and Samanthi at their home at the #TeaResearchInstitute in #SriLanka for our work on #MigratoryBirds

#CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS

The sediment core with nonglacial sediment (dark brown and white, left) deposited above glaciolacustrine silty clay (blue-gray, right). CREDIT: Carl Regnéll

Brown bear DNA recovered from 9,600 year-old lake sediment captures information about a single male bear living in what is now northern Sweden. Surprisingly, the bear had genetic signatures associated with southern Swedish bears . In PNAS: https://ow.ly/FcnG50YMPP8

We're hiring an Assistant Professor of Ecology! Come and join me and a great group of colleagues at University of Windsor in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
Our job ad: efhc.fa.ca2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Message me if you have questions. @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social @uwindsor.bsky.social

Is that a bird?

Two people - one goal - two motivations!!

#Birds #Cats #COMPASS #SriLanka #FieldTales

More like longing for #simplicity and #privacy

Cannot decide what we like more: Mountains or Oceans. I guess we will always be #migrating between them.

#SriLanka has easy access to both!

#ornithology #FieldTales #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS

True Inner Peace!!

#COMPASS #FieldTales #SriLanka

Bird hunting in Cambodia driven by poverty and lax enforcement Conservationists are raising the alarm on an overlooked crisis across the country and Southeast Asia

Hunting birds is rampant throughout Cambodia. w/ Vutha Srey, we joined hunters catching birds at night and dug into the reasons behind the trade for @dialogueearth.bsky.social

With support from @anticorruption.bsky.social Cambodia

dialogue.earth/en/nature/bi... #birds 🌏

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds have increased tremendously over the past decades - and that #UAV monitoring can reveal the full extent of these colonies: buff.ly/ocefm59

Woah!!! This is so cool!

Exactly my situation right now 😭 and my mum is South Asian so I am also getting fat!

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation Some lives seem to belong less to a nation or a profession than to a disposition. George B. Schaller’s was one of them. He belonged, above all, to animals—gorillas, lions, tigers, snow leopards, panda...

The field biologist who helped redefine conservation.

A new biography of WCS’s George Schaller “raises questions about how knowledge is made, what is worth protecting, and what it means to belong to a world shared with others,” writes @mongabay.com.

🌏 news.mongabay.com/2026/04/geor...

After a long time in the Mountains, we are longing to sail into the blue!

#sail_for_flyway #sail_for_wildlife
#sail_for_conservation #NeeruNaayi

Lion and Mango: Sri Lanka in two drinks!

#FieldTales #COMPASS #SriLanka

#FieldTales

Gamage Family - Entire research team in search of #MigratoryBirds: Kashmir Flycatcher, Forest Wagtail, Pied Thrush and Indian Blue Robins

#COMPASS #SriLanka #DaleMountain #CentralAsianFlyway #Mitsubishi #KashmirFlycatchers

#FieldTales

Home-cooked Sri Lankan friedrice is the best!

#CentralAsianFlyway #BirdMigration #COMPASS #SriLanka

How to feed your garden birds without spreading disease Summer feeding should be paused because this is a time when natural food sources such as caterpillars, bugs and flies, are much more abundant.

How to feed your garden birds without spreading disease
theconversation.com/how-to-feed-...
@rspbscience.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @uclcber.bsky.social 🐦

#Firebending

#FieldworkTales

Searching for migratory birds at Lahiru's farm! It was just amazing to discuss about #bird & #wildlifeconservation, while walking in an heavenly valley!

#BirdLifeAsia @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social #MigratoryBirds #WinteringHabitats #COMPASS #SriLanka

Spring is here in the Northern Hemisphere and the world of insects will explode!!!
Part of our initiative at @bhrc.bsky.social with #CaterpillarsCount.

A fantastic global initiative that is now in South Asia due to our work through COMPASS

#birdfood #birdmigration #winter #summer #spring

An ode to joy: remembering Ajith Kumar [Obituary] Leading wildlife biologist and educator whose career spanned four decades, Ajith Kumar, died on March 1 while on a field trip.

Remembering Dr. Ajith Kumar (By Divya Karnad for Mongabay India)
india.mongabay.com/2025/03/an-o...

Deadline approaching for this exciting opportunity to join our @bou.org.uk team and help to deliver IBIS journal, conferences and much more

As Thailand joins the global AI race, a #Mongabay investigation reveals roughly 20 new data centers under construction.

Local communities warn they are being kept in the dark about threats to water, land, and livelihoods.

A report by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social and Andy Ball.
👉️ mongabay.cc/4IKbuH

#FieldworkTales

Not a migratory bird, but just a male Sri Lanka #WhistlingThrush 😍🥰 carrying nesting material, next to a #TreeFern

#RareBird #EndemicBird #CoolBirds #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS #CentralHighlands #SholaForest @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands - Inside Climate News An Interior Department proposal would cancel BLM grazing leases for American Prairie's buffalo in Montana, but it could affect tribal and private herds across the West.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0504202...

#FieldworkTales

Call them #ThreeWheelers #TukTuks or #AutoRickshaw, they were ideal field vehicles ;)

#DunsinaneEstate #birdmigration #CentralAsianFlyway #COMPASS

Opportunities Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

I am super excited to share that Yolanda Morbey and I at the centre for @animalsonthemove.bsky.social are recruiting for a postdoc with expertise in analysis of #Motus data! Please help us get the word out! Deets here:

www.uwo.ca/cam/research...

Playback surveys at #wintering habitats for migratory #landbirds and #passerines! #SouthAsia

#CentralAsianFlyway #BirdMigration #COMPASS #birds #Highlands #Sholas #TeaPlantations

Photo: Maia E Persche