Diagram showing hypothesized life history and ecological relationships of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx.
Review of the ecology of Archaeopteryx: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷NICE PaleoVisLab studio & Samantha Clark)
A Curlew walks on grassy ground, showing a yellow leg flag and orange ring on its leg. Wording below reads: Please report sightings of Curlew with yellow leg flags. Image credit reads: Rob Robinson.
1/ Spotted a yellow leg flag on a Curlew? Please share the sighting with us, as this could be one of our headstarted birds. 😀 Report via bit.ly/ReportACurlew #Ornithology #WorldCurlewDay
Was good to attend at yesterday's meeting. Various matters were considered. It is great if we can have encouragement from a range of quayside businesses, property owners, etc ... and the public of course. Our Tyneside kittiwakes have many supporters. Living in harmony!
@kittiwakegirl.bsky.social
One week in, 149 birds have been registered. Among them is 25-yr-old Roy, currently the oldest bird of the population, after most other elderly terns died during the HPAI outbreaks of 2022 and 2023.
🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺
Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland.
👇 Read all about it here 👇
seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2
Horrendous
If biocide usage and non-native plants mean that your garden is bereft of colourful Lepidoptera then capitalism has your back @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - seen at a garden centre today
#ExtremeCivilisation
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Basic risk assessment practice involves a) how likely is it and b) how bad is it if it happens? We’re not focusing enough on b) when it comes to #ClimateChange
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
he case is updated throughout the trading day. Oil stocks are helping to lift the Oslo Stock Exchange on Monday. The main index is up 0.94 percent at 10:30 a.m. Equinor is up 4.3 percent Aker BP is up 3.8 percent Vår Energi is up 4.4 percent Oil prices are rising after the blockade and attacks in Hormuz. When the markets closed on Friday evening, the price of oil was at $91.5 a barrel. Now a barrel of North Sea oil (Brent spot) is trading for $95.6, an increase of 4.6 percent.
Very insensitive of those in Asian countries to be complaining about fuel rationing and long queues at petrol stations; have some respect for the happiness being felt around Norwegian oil company share prices please
e24.no/boers-og-fin...
Graphic produced by Climate Central showing daily global sea surface temperatures in °C for all years since 1982 with the long-term mean and 2026 annotated.
Global ocean sea surface temperatures have surged to the highest on record for this time of year!
Join me in our monthly webinar next week to discuss these recent global climate extremes, as well as reviewing the historic March heatwave.
➡️ Register here: climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is a really good and important point
Nice afternoon colour-ring reading gulls at South Walney yesterday. Six colour-ringed birds which was less than I was expecting, but grass covered tarsus of most birds so probably missed a few! @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social
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@adriftlab.bsky.social has never had government funding. What we have had - for nearly two decades - is a small group of deeply committed people, long-term datasets, and a community who makes it possible.
Our website now celebrates that out loud. 🔗 adriftlab.org
Currently playing out on the slopes of Lord Howe Is. Made famous by Attenborough’s filming of ‘birds falling from the sky’. Providence petrels in courtship clashes. #SuperSeabirdSunday.
A pair of displaying Gannets at Bempton Cliffs this week, for #SuperSeabirdSunday. Male on the left, female on the right, as became clear a short time later.
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten timelines. Here are two Puffins ‘billing’ a behaviour which is seen at this time of year to strengthen pair bonds #SuperSeabirdSunday
#birdoftheday #birds #birdphotography #photography #seabirds #blackguillemot #ABCD
Black guillemot jumping into the #Irish #sea.
Two young people are outside looking into the distance with binoculars. Wording below reads: BTO Work Experience. 29 June - 03 July 2026. www.bto.org/jobs. The BTO Youth logo is top right of the image.
Last chance to apply for work experience at BTO➡️ bit.ly/WorkExp2026
This is for young people currently studying for their GCSEs or A-levels, aged 14 to 18. We're also delighted to be able to provide local group accommodation & travel bursaries.
📆Application deadline: Sunday 26 April 2026.
A miner bee covered with pollen tap dances on a dandelion blossom
#HaikuSaturday is upon us again. How did the week buzz by so fast?
Whistles while working,
Hymenoptera worker
mines for floral gold.
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for qualitative research. We hold the position that analytic approaches such as reflexive thematic analysis are human research practices requiring a subjective, positioned, and reflexive researcher and therefore the use of GenAI in such approaches is not methodologically congruent. We additionally reject GenAI for reflexive qualitative approaches on the grounds of social and environmental justice.
I did not sign this but I 100% would if I could
"We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
With wader flocks on the move, do you ask yourself questions like:
"How does an individual bird decide which flock to join?"
Insights from tracking Curlew:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/25/t...
#ornithology
Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.
🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...
Sarnie Terns on Brownsea, crowded on one of the new Islands on Brownsea 💚 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social
We made it through another week, fellow bird enthusiasts! Be sure to get outside and enjoy those spring migrants this weekend. 🐦️
I was lucky enough to witness these Pardosa wolf spiders yesterday, engaged in a very cautious and lengthy courtship dance. They both ultimately disappeared into the grass, so I’ll never know the outcome. But I’m told the females very rarely eat the males, so🤞🕷️
