Ecologist, conservationist, and occasional bird ringer. Can sometimes be found wide awake. Looks suspiciously Welsh. Views are my own. #ornithology
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Our new website is up and running!!
ecoexplore.co.uk/
Find out more about our conservation work and training courses.
Here's an owl box we've just installed
#Woodland #RStats #Conservation
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0LF is one of oldest gulls at @Flatholmers (the oldest is 2XF, 2011). You can see that it has its ideas very clear and keeps coming back to the exact same places! Seen only once in Portugal, I wonder if continues to go there? Thanks to all bird watchers!
📸: Annie Sconzani, 2019
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New research in @ConLetters from @AlexJB497, @MarsKlaassen, Richard Kingsford, @rohanclarke01, and I demonstrating the potential for HPAI H5N1 virus transmission via food-theft (kleptoparasitism) in seabirds: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Pic: David Tipling
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Some of our colour ringed chicks seems to be reluctant to leave Wales, while others are already departed and living their best life in warmer habitats. One example is F:E78 ringed by @AnnieBookerArt who is already in Quarteira, Portugal! Good luck little one !
📸: Daniel Santos
A lot of re-sightings for @becky_gibbs_ and I this weekend: we managed to touch base with 4 of our old friends from July on Flatholm. Sponsoring our gull project around Cardiff with the best t-shirts made by Annie and Aurora! Keep your eyes peeled for blue darvic on lessers💙🪶🐥
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Last week saw the reintroduction of Water Voles to the River Thaw in the Vale of Glamorgan thanks to a partnership between @INCCymru @WTSWW SWERT @Thawproject & @NatResWales. The project follows years of habitat restoration and mink control. Huge thank you to the local landowner.
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The gulls from @Flatholmers always bring us surprises. We got this sighting from a neighbour in Caerphilly. This neighbour is 92 and loves his garden and his new addition. He rally wanted to know where it came from so asked help to his son to please find out.
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F:A67 has been seen so so much since ringed in 2022 as a chick! It’s now in Gijón, Spain. Seen only once back to the UK last year, but not near the colony! Let’s hope it comes back for breeding in 2025!
📸: Cesar Fernandez
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Just shy of 500 Storm Petrels have been processed in the Lime Kiln this year, one in 13 of which was already ringed. One from the Channel Islands last night, recently birds from France and Dorset along with some ringed here as chicks. Gothic scenes with magic little seabirds
Black Sexton Beetle* and Elephant Hawk Moth were the highlights from last night's moth trapping.
(*it was wonderful and stinky)
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Two nice jobs on offer with Amgueddfa Cymru: Senior Curator Botany, Senior Curator Entomology:
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The grey skies over Cardiff have one silver lining - fantastic views swifts foraging low over the garden!
Richard Facey retweeted
For example - soil health is awesome for biodiversity & farm productivity
So is grassland biodiversity
Even hedgerows and shelter belts have productivity gain effects
As do field trees in the right place
The idea that is either nature restoration or food security is dumb
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I care greatly about ‘food security’ but it’s being used in really crap and childish arguments that nothing can change on farms
With great design and imagination we can get much more from our landscapes - so simply don’t believe people that say any change is bad news
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It has been a year since my Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife came out with @pelagicpublish. I'm still so proud of it. To everyone who engaged with it, said nice things, and even bought copies - thank you so much!! 🙀📗💚
I'm just ever so excited to announce that today is release day! My book is now officially out!🙀💚
THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland between 1519-1772 CE. I've found some astonishing records!! 🐺🦫🦅🦃🐳🐟🐢🐍🦞🦐
ALT Book cover on a snowy background with eagle faded in: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, by Lee Raye, from Pelagic Publishing. The cover has a wolf on it
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We've just had a volunteer finish mapping out all the Swift boxes we've installed across the Dyfi Biosphere in the last couple of years: 240 boxes and counting! Thanks to the amazing work from @ElfynRhysPugh.
Now to set about monitoring their uptake 🤞
#SwiftAwarenessWeek2024
