Ben Porter
@bardseyben.bsky.social
Passionate Welsh naturalist & photographer fighting for a wilder World.
PhD student studying #seabirds
Often found running in the mountains ⛰️ 👣
https://www.benporterwildlife.co.uk
#StubbornOptimist | #GenerationRestoration
PhD student studying #seabirds
Often found running in the mountains ⛰️ 👣
https://www.benporterwildlife.co.uk
#StubbornOptimist | #GenerationRestoration
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Ben Porter
@bardseyben.bsky.social
· Nov 30
Shwmae pawb! 👋
Pecyn cychwynnol ar gyfer ecoleg, bywyd gwyllt a chadwraeth yng Nghymru! // A starter pack for ecology, wildlife, conservation and more in Wales 🌿🏴🐧⛰️
Please let me know if you'd like to be included on this list, or suggestions for others to include. Diolch! 🐌
go.bsky.app/MeJG8QH
Pecyn cychwynnol ar gyfer ecoleg, bywyd gwyllt a chadwraeth yng Nghymru! // A starter pack for ecology, wildlife, conservation and more in Wales 🌿🏴🐧⛰️
Please let me know if you'd like to be included on this list, or suggestions for others to include. Diolch! 🐌
go.bsky.app/MeJG8QH
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Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
The date is set for the next EOU Fledglings Meeting 🐥 in Gdansk, Poland! Share the news with your peers! 🦆
November 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Early-career ornithologists take note!! The next EOU Fledglings meeting will take place in Gdansk in March 2026. Please RT! #ornithology
This is good to see. Thanks for sharing!
September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
This is good to see. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot for the grant! Looking forward to addressing this questions in the #Faroes this season with Feliksa Żurawska. Will report back 😄 🌊
August 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Thanks a lot for the grant! Looking forward to addressing this questions in the #Faroes this season with Feliksa Żurawska. Will report back 😄 🌊
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We funded 4 research projects this season 🏦 Here's a little more detail on our recent research grant awardees... (1/2)
Izzy Burns @izzyburns.bsky.social is looking at nest microclimate in kittiwakes 🐣
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social is asking whether storm petrels make good parents 👨👩👧
Izzy Burns @izzyburns.bsky.social is looking at nest microclimate in kittiwakes 🐣
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social is asking whether storm petrels make good parents 👨👩👧
August 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We funded 4 research projects this season 🏦 Here's a little more detail on our recent research grant awardees... (1/2)
Izzy Burns @izzyburns.bsky.social is looking at nest microclimate in kittiwakes 🐣
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social is asking whether storm petrels make good parents 👨👩👧
Izzy Burns @izzyburns.bsky.social is looking at nest microclimate in kittiwakes 🐣
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social is asking whether storm petrels make good parents 👨👩👧
Thanks Alex. That's useful to know - seems to be that the Irish Sea colonies of many species are doing a lot better than their northern cousins...
August 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Thanks Alex. That's useful to know - seems to be that the Irish Sea colonies of many species are doing a lot better than their northern cousins...
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Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
August 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Our not-a- #stormpetrel chick is getting suspicious of us. #puffin @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
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Very excited to visit the west Wales village of Nantycaws this afternoon (the name can arguably be translated as “stream [of] the cheese”), and was delighted to discover that the name of the village chapel (established in 1809) is “Philadelphia”.
August 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Very excited to visit the west Wales village of Nantycaws this afternoon (the name can arguably be translated as “stream [of] the cheese”), and was delighted to discover that the name of the village chapel (established in 1809) is “Philadelphia”.
Week three of #fieldwork in the Føroyar…a summary of activities amidst classic Faroese weather, as the Storm Petrel season advances and the snowstorm of Fulmars begins along the basalt cliffs.
bardseyben.substack.com/p/week-three...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/week-three...
Week three of fieldwork in Føroyar
Wrestling with nest cams, low fat Puffins and how to (try) surveying a Storm-petrel colony
bardseyben.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Week three of #fieldwork in the Føroyar…a summary of activities amidst classic Faroese weather, as the Storm Petrel season advances and the snowstorm of Fulmars begins along the basalt cliffs.
bardseyben.substack.com/p/week-three...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/week-three...
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🌊 Proposal deadline for WSC4 extended to Aug 15 🐦
Help shape seabird science at “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate”
📍 Hobart, TAS | 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026
📝 Submit: WSCScience@worldseabirdunion.org
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience
Help shape seabird science at “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate”
📍 Hobart, TAS | 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026
📝 Submit: WSCScience@worldseabirdunion.org
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience
August 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🌊 Proposal deadline for WSC4 extended to Aug 15 🐦
Help shape seabird science at “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate”
📍 Hobart, TAS | 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026
📝 Submit: WSCScience@worldseabirdunion.org
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience
Help shape seabird science at “Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate”
📍 Hobart, TAS | 📅 Sept 7–11, 2026
📝 Submit: WSCScience@worldseabirdunion.org
🔗 bit.ly/4e6wQdc
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience
Yeah, that would seem to align with the trend from previous years related to SST and food availability...😔
August 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Yeah, that would seem to align with the trend from previous years related to SST and food availability...😔
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It's important to have a mentor. Let's make the #seabirds community a better one.
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Early career researcher who'd love a mentor? Or mid-career (onwards) looking to give back AS a mentor?
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
Sign up below for the new round of Guillemates 🥰🐧
Mentees👉 forms.gle/cdktNREkhUDb...
Mentors👉 forms.gle/uwA9X9giUPnA...
Such a great learning (or supporting!) opportunity 👩👩👦👦
Pls share! #seabirds
August 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
It's important to have a mentor. Let's make the #seabirds community a better one.
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Interesting. Seems also to be mirrored by very poor productivity in Arctic skua colonies here this year & kittiwakes/arctic terns etc :(
August 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Interesting. Seems also to be mirrored by very poor productivity in Arctic skua colonies here this year & kittiwakes/arctic terns etc :(
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The reality of the UK government's despicable Palestine-related policies
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ella Baron on Palestine action, proscribed and approved – cartoon
Israeli officials say Benjamin Netanyahu is planning an offensive to fully occupy Gaza, but there are splits in the government
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The reality of the UK government's despicable Palestine-related policies
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Yes, that would seem to be the case - a sporadic and insufficient supply of target food source (sand eels). Difficult to say at present if this is linked to the extreme marine heatwaves that have been experienced across the N Atlantic this year (and last year)
August 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Yes, that would seem to be the case - a sporadic and insufficient supply of target food source (sand eels). Difficult to say at present if this is linked to the extreme marine heatwaves that have been experienced across the N Atlantic this year (and last year)
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🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
August 4, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🐝 Our latest Special Feature, "Network Ecology in the Anthropocene", is now accepting proposals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
📝 The Special Feature will be accepting submissions to all 7 of our British Ecological Society journals.
Looking like a poor season for #Puffins in the #Faroes from local accounts and observations so far - lots of adults still feeding young chicks which should have fledged by this time of year, many dead chicks in the colony and very low numbers in general :( any others finding similar? #seabirds
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Our Scottish and Irish tagged Cuckoos have made it across the Sahara Desert in Africa! 😀 Follow their migrations at www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🌍 🪶
August 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our Scottish and Irish tagged Cuckoos have made it across the Sahara Desert in Africa! 😀 Follow their migrations at www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology 🌍 🪶
The #marineheatwave update for this week from @mercatorocean.bsky.social shows some pretty intense conditions off the Norwegian coast, and sustained abnormal #SST around the UK and Bay of Biscay. I wonder how such an extreme year in the #NorthAtlantic will affect #seabird productivity this year...
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The #marineheatwave update for this week from @mercatorocean.bsky.social shows some pretty intense conditions off the Norwegian coast, and sustained abnormal #SST around the UK and Bay of Biscay. I wonder how such an extreme year in the #NorthAtlantic will affect #seabird productivity this year...
New #substack! Week two of #fieldwork in the Faroes for this year's Storm-petrel research season. Transects in vertical boulder scree, night-time ringing activities and some updates from the nestbox monitoring as the incubation gets underway...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/like-a-fai...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/like-a-fai...
Like a fairy being sick
Week two of Storm-petrel fieldwork in the Faroe Islands is underway, as summer's grasp begins to ebb and the nights draw in
bardseyben.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
New #substack! Week two of #fieldwork in the Faroes for this year's Storm-petrel research season. Transects in vertical boulder scree, night-time ringing activities and some updates from the nestbox monitoring as the incubation gets underway...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/like-a-fai...
bardseyben.substack.com/p/like-a-fai...
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Great to see some climate realism that follows the science from Mr Corbyn.
Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣
Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣
August 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Great to see some climate realism that follows the science from Mr Corbyn.
Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣
Compare it with Starmer’s offsetting emissions against research nonsense today. 🤣
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📢#StopRosebank Info Call: Aug 6, 7pm📢
On Sep 6, people across the UK will take action to stop the disastrous Rosebank oil field.
Join us for an info call next week to hear from people planning actions in their area and learn how you can get stuck in 💪.
actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
On Sep 6, people across the UK will take action to stop the disastrous Rosebank oil field.
Join us for an info call next week to hear from people planning actions in their area and learn how you can get stuck in 💪.
actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
Stop Rosebank Day of Action: Info Call
📣 I’ve just signed up to the Stop Rosebank information call about the September 6 Day of Action! This is a key moment in the fight to stop Rosebank. Let's show the government that people across the U...
actionnetwork.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📢#StopRosebank Info Call: Aug 6, 7pm📢
On Sep 6, people across the UK will take action to stop the disastrous Rosebank oil field.
Join us for an info call next week to hear from people planning actions in their area and learn how you can get stuck in 💪.
actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
On Sep 6, people across the UK will take action to stop the disastrous Rosebank oil field.
Join us for an info call next week to hear from people planning actions in their area and learn how you can get stuck in 💪.
actionnetwork.org/events/stop-...
It's certainly a busy place to do any ringing - tapes are never used here! Makes for a much more peaceful night too 😆
August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
It's certainly a busy place to do any ringing - tapes are never used here! Makes for a much more peaceful night too 😆
Such awesome #seabirds - one of ~430 Storm-petrels ringed in the Nólsoy colony last night w/ @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @anneausems.bsky.social, plus one UK-ringed bird. No tapes used, just one 18-metre mist net - the colony is quite dense!
August 1, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Such awesome #seabirds - one of ~430 Storm-petrels ringed in the Nólsoy colony last night w/ @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @anneausems.bsky.social, plus one UK-ringed bird. No tapes used, just one 18-metre mist net - the colony is quite dense!
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Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
July 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great news: the High Court has granted permission for a full judicial review of the government's order proscribing Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
Let's hope he government's idiotic and draconian order is overturned.
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Our local not-a-storm-petrel chick decided to store some of its food for later. That or someone needs to sew this #puffin youngster a bib. #FaroeIslands @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our local not-a-storm-petrel chick decided to store some of its food for later. That or someone needs to sew this #puffin youngster a bib. #FaroeIslands @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @bardseyben.bsky.social