Thank you!!

Finally got out to do some #PhD fieldwork last week! Spent Good Friday on the River Tamar taking #eDNA samples to identify fish species using the tidal freshwater zone between Calstock and Gunnislake.

It was such a pleasure! I loved every minute and learnt a great deal from you - thank you! :-)

Big thank you to the team who came out with me and made my first bit of fieldwork a breeze!

@kanebrides.bsky.social
Sarah Davies
Sian Taylor

Lights out, GPS trackers on. 🦢🌙

With the last of our tagged Whooper Swans back in Iceland, another winter of roost analyses is complete. Tracking 70 birds has revealed where they roost, the wetland types used, and whether those sites fall within protected areas or outside our conservation network.

Drought reduces the value of both artificial and natural wetlands for gulls breeding in the Mediterranean region The importance of artificial wetlands for waterbird conservation can be easily overestimated from count data alone. The value of extensive fish ponds as a breeding habitat depends on maintaining the ....

Our new paper shows that when birds breed in artificial wetlands, they can still depend on surrounding natural wetlands. GPS tracking of black-headed gulls in #Doñana @ebdonana.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @seobirdlife.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

screengrab from the survey

MMU #ecology PhD student James Richardson is looking for people to complete a survey comparing different aspects of city green spaces - if you live in the UK (or a familiar with city landscapes) please help by clicking on some photos! 🌍🧪
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Interested in monthly count data from Europe's most important wetland for waterbirds? Now available online! @wetlandsint.bsky.social @ramsar.org @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @tourduvalat.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @ebdonana.bsky.social www.ebd.csic.es/en/outreach/...

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆

Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆

Survey link is in our bio 🔗

If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧

Waterbird Colour-marking Group Visit the post for more.

Thanks, Mark! Best to report to www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org for detailed histories and maps of their movements

Fab, thank you! Now here's to the 4th!! :)

Excellent, thanks Scott!! Did you submit it to the app?

Fab! Thank you Gareth! Will be in touch...

Great! I think these could be Dutch / Russian birds. If you're able to confirm the remaining bird & get any photos and send me the details (location / dates) to colourmarkedwildfowl@wwt.org.uk - I'll sort out accessing details.

As in one bird has two colour-rings, one on each leg?

Nice! Did you get any neck collars? Lovely to see Criffel there too!

Our new paper 👇🏻

Picking a favourite wetland feels a bit like picking a favourite bird, let’s be honest, it's my main study site, the Ouse Washes 🦢💙 Big skies, winter floods, thousands of swans & a landscape that’s never quite the same twice. Chaotic, beautiful, dynamic and endlessly fascinating #WorldWetlandsDay

An Emirati lady overseeing the placement of mist-nets on a tidal creek in Dubai. For bird ringing capacity training

Ras Al Khor wetlands in Dubai.

Perchora Sea, Arctic Russia.

A Chinese fisherman using the Yellow Sea to bring in a catch.

#WorldWetlandsDay is a reminder that wetlands are cultural landscapes as much as ecological ones. The places I’ve worked - urban, farmed and remote - all exist because of generations of knowledge, care and coexistence. Protecting wetlands means valuing the people woven into them.

One day a week a go into the office. My productivity is usually much poorer than when working from home.... mainly because of these outside my desk window 👀 #OfficeVibes

A group of five people including BTO staff are smiling and looking at the camera at the Curlew Action Plan Launch.

1/2 Curlew – wonderfully charismatic, desperately threatened and in need of urgent action if they are to remain part of our landscape. That’s why the launch of the UK Curlew Species Action Plan yesterday in the House of Lords is so important. #Ornithology #Curlew

Honoured to attend the House of Lords today for the launch of a UK Action Plan for the Eurasian Curlew. A vital, evidence-based framework bringing together science, land management and policy to help halt and reverse the decline of one of the UK’s most iconic birds. Lots to be done!!

Working under the cover of darkness, counting snoozing swans 🦢💤 #Ornithology

Good effort 👏 Love Goldeneye!

Thank you to everyone who is out counting swans this weekend for the International Swan Census! I've had a great day in the Cambridgeshire Fens. I'm really looking forward to analysing the data & seeing the overall results! 🦢

Out counting for the International Swan Census this weekend? Look out for colour-ringed swans. Sightings will help us assess the whereabouts of individuals but also to detect whether any major movement has occurred during the census period. Sightings to ring.ac #ornithology

Up early to count the swans before they left their roost. 389 Whooper Swans (59 juvs) and 1 Bewick's Swan. All submitted to the International Swan Census data portal.
Check out vacant sites that need covering this weekend
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#NorfolkBirding

🦢 The International Swan Census is almost here – this weekend!

We still have a few priority sites that need coverage. Please check the map & help us assess how well our Whooper & Bewick’s Swan populations are faring. Every count matters! 🙏 bto.org/gsmp-isc

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Thanks, Tom!!

🦢 The International Swan Census is almost here – this weekend!

We still have a few priority sites that need coverage. Please check the map & help us assess how well our Whooper & Bewick’s Swan populations are faring. Every count matters! 🙏 bto.org/gsmp-isc

📸 @tangrigg.bsky.social #Ornithology