Alan Wilkinson
@alanwilkinson.bsky.social
Long running nature lover
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Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄
📷 James Wellock
Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
📷 James Wellock
Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄
📷 James Wellock
Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
📷 James Wellock
Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows
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It’s been traumatic for the Little Terns this summer, with a Kestrel treating the colony as an all-you-can-eat buffet; consequently the survivors have fledged and moved away asap. Some are still very babyish in appearance. Adults still bringing in food for them.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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#SuperSeabirdSunday
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July 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It’s been traumatic for the Little Terns this summer, with a Kestrel treating the colony as an all-you-can-eat buffet; consequently the survivors have fledged and moved away asap. Some are still very babyish in appearance. Adults still bringing in food for them.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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#SuperSeabirdSunday
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After decades of mystery, the enigma of the Nechisar Nightjar may finally be solved. Read about the latest discovery in this fascinating saga here: www.aba.org/has-the-nech...
Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.
Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.
Has the Nechisar Nightjar Mystery Been Solved? - American Birding Association
The authors of a new study believe they have solved one of the world’s great rare bird mysteries: the case of the Nechisar Nightjar, Caprimulgus solala.
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May 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
After decades of mystery, the enigma of the Nechisar Nightjar may finally be solved. Read about the latest discovery in this fascinating saga here: www.aba.org/has-the-nech...
Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.
Special thanks to Mathieu Wald for sharing the preprint referenced in the article with the author.
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Big raptors vs humans - - "Here we show the first scientifically documented case of a Harpy Eagle attacking an adult human in the Amazon rainforest" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest
We report here on an unexpected attack by a harpy eagle on a 29-year-old woman near a tourist camp in the French Guiana Amazon rainforest.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Big raptors vs humans - - "Here we show the first scientifically documented case of a Harpy Eagle attacking an adult human in the Amazon rainforest" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology
Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵
#ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵
#ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
1/ We are delighted to have @judyshamounb.bsky.social deliver the Alfred Newton Lecture at #BOU2025 Frontiers in Ornithology
Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵
#ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
Judy's research focuses on understanding movement ecology in birds 🧵
#ornithology #migrationresearch #movementecology 🪶🧪
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The only Black-capped Petrel videod in the Western Palearctic youtu.be/q7qd6BKyyHw?...
Black-capped Petrel, 21 March 2025, Fogo, Cape Verde
YouTube video by Robert Flood
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April 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The only Black-capped Petrel videod in the Western Palearctic youtu.be/q7qd6BKyyHw?...
The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary youtu.be/z7xwv3twYDI?...
The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary
YouTube video by Thomas Winward
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February 14, 2025 at 12:06 AM
The Birdwatchers - award-winning nature documentary youtu.be/z7xwv3twYDI?...
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Last week, 56,000 #btgodwits were counted in the rice fields of the #Tagus estuary, the highest concentration of the species in the EAF. In this rice field alone, 36K godwits were recorded by drone!
#LifeGodwitflyway
#LifeGodwitflyway
February 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Last week, 56,000 #btgodwits were counted in the rice fields of the #Tagus estuary, the highest concentration of the species in the EAF. In this rice field alone, 36K godwits were recorded by drone!
#LifeGodwitflyway
#LifeGodwitflyway
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Enjoy intimate vid of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, 1 of 10+ wintering Fangchenggang, Guangxi, South China, near Vietnam, feeding on polychaete worms in its typical habitat, pools on upper tidal flats (much of which, across range, destroyed in recent decades) by local Huasheng. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds 1/2
February 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Enjoy intimate vid of Spoon-billed Sandpiper, 1 of 10+ wintering Fangchenggang, Guangxi, South China, near Vietnam, feeding on polychaete worms in its typical habitat, pools on upper tidal flats (much of which, across range, destroyed in recent decades) by local Huasheng. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds 1/2
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Here are Huasheng & Prof Aiwu Jiang filming shorebirds that they're lucky enough to have wintering on the tidal flats near their homes in Fangchenggang, SW China. They've built trust with these birds, including Spoon-billed Sandpipers, so the birds approach very close. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds 2/2
February 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Here are Huasheng & Prof Aiwu Jiang filming shorebirds that they're lucky enough to have wintering on the tidal flats near their homes in Fangchenggang, SW China. They've built trust with these birds, including Spoon-billed Sandpipers, so the birds approach very close. #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds 2/2
May your 2025 be as fantastic as this Multi-coloured Tanager (Colombia last month)!
January 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
May your 2025 be as fantastic as this Multi-coloured Tanager (Colombia last month)!
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How to be a Rarity Finder. There's a method & way of thinking to be successful. A blog post on it here, with a range of #irishrarebirds 🪶 I've found over the years. helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-...
How To Be A Rarity Finder
A recent statistic popped up in my various social media memories. To date I've been birding on 4 continents, Europe, Asia, Africa and North...
helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com
May 25, 2024 at 8:29 AM
How to be a Rarity Finder. There's a method & way of thinking to be successful. A blog post on it here, with a range of #irishrarebirds 🪶 I've found over the years. helhathnobirdies.blogspot.com/2023/06/how-...
Balham delivers Waxwings again today. Quite a few suitable berries in the area, so hopefully they stay a while🤞🏻
November 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Balham delivers Waxwings again today. Quite a few suitable berries in the area, so hopefully they stay a while🤞🏻
The world's first translocation of the Aquatic Warbler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tog4eyfCAek&t=227s
November 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM
The world's first translocation of the Aquatic Warbler - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tog4eyfCAek&t=227s
A Chiffchaff working quite hard to dispatch this caterpillar on @tootingcommon this afternoon
November 16, 2024 at 9:23 AM
A Chiffchaff working quite hard to dispatch this caterpillar on @tootingcommon this afternoon
Lots of slightly worn parents busy with their youngsters on @tootingcommon at the moment - Nuthatch!
November 16, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Lots of slightly worn parents busy with their youngsters on @tootingcommon at the moment - Nuthatch!
This newly arrived Blackcap on #tootingcommon stops singing to watch a hunting Sparrowhawk
November 16, 2024 at 9:38 AM
This newly arrived Blackcap on #tootingcommon stops singing to watch a hunting Sparrowhawk
A male Tufted Pochard hybrid duck visited #tootingcommon this afternoon. (The female Common Pochard ignored him completely.)
November 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM
A male Tufted Pochard hybrid duck visited #tootingcommon this afternoon. (The female Common Pochard ignored him completely.)
My first Mediterranean Gull (left) of the year on #tootingcommon this afternoon (@SurreyBirdNews, #londonbirdnews)
November 16, 2024 at 10:04 AM
My first Mediterranean Gull (left) of the year on #tootingcommon this afternoon (@SurreyBirdNews, #londonbirdnews)
@birdguides,@RareBirdAlertUK saw this raptor at Swale NNR, Kent, yesterday 1/1 at 12:53 heading SW over salt marsh from pillbox at (51.370784 , 0.94813943). Now think it Rough-legged Buzzard based on plumage and behaviour. What is your expert opinion? Thanks!
November 16, 2024 at 10:04 AM
@birdguides,@RareBirdAlertUK saw this raptor at Swale NNR, Kent, yesterday 1/1 at 12:53 heading SW over salt marsh from pillbox at (51.370784 , 0.94813943). Now think it Rough-legged Buzzard based on plumage and behaviour. What is your expert opinion? Thanks!
Egyptian Goose wash on #tootingcommon today
November 16, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Egyptian Goose wash on #tootingcommon today
Ok, well still not a lot of bird migration visible on #tootingcommon so here are some lichens instead .. Cladonia
November 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Ok, well still not a lot of bird migration visible on #tootingcommon so here are some lichens instead .. Cladonia
My new favourite damselfly, Willow Emerald, on #tootingcommon today, starting the next generation
November 16, 2024 at 10:20 AM
My new favourite damselfly, Willow Emerald, on #tootingcommon today, starting the next generation
This distant Willow Emerald damselfly today is my first on #tootingcommon. They have spread well into SE England from Europe in less than 15 years.
November 16, 2024 at 10:28 AM
This distant Willow Emerald damselfly today is my first on #tootingcommon. They have spread well into SE England from Europe in less than 15 years.
This Willow Emerald dragonfly at Beddington Farmlands in S. London/Surrey this afternoon - a recent range extension west from the continent apparently
November 16, 2024 at 10:36 AM
This Willow Emerald dragonfly at Beddington Farmlands in S. London/Surrey this afternoon - a recent range extension west from the continent apparently