Emily Joáchim
@emilyjoachim.bsky.social
Nature Writer | PhD on Little Owls | C-permit bird ringer | UK Little Owl Project | Lights Out for Nature🦉🦇🦡🦊🦔✨🌗
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Emily Joáchim
@emilyjoachim.bsky.social
· Dec 22
Lights Out for Birds ✨🐦⬛
Artificial light at night kills over a billion migratory birds each year. Light pollution is reversible and we can all make a difference now.
Find out more in my article on light pollution and birds in this month’s Birdwatch @birdguides.bsky.social
Artificial light at night kills over a billion migratory birds each year. Light pollution is reversible and we can all make a difference now.
Find out more in my article on light pollution and birds in this month’s Birdwatch @birdguides.bsky.social
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We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. 🦉 Read about BTO’s research tracking Short-eared Owls here ➡️ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch
📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO
📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO
October 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. 🦉 Read about BTO’s research tracking Short-eared Owls here ➡️ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch
📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO
📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO
Tsssseeeep 🎶 ❤️
FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!!
📷 Jo Cartmell
FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!!
📷 Jo Cartmell
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Tsssseeeep 🎶 ❤️
FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!!
📷 Jo Cartmell
FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!!
📷 Jo Cartmell
Foggy full moon; heady ivy flower scented night air; crazy owl calls; rustling hedgehogs; last of the chirping crickets; listening out for Redwings… I love October 🧡🍂🦉
October 10, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Foggy full moon; heady ivy flower scented night air; crazy owl calls; rustling hedgehogs; last of the chirping crickets; listening out for Redwings… I love October 🧡🍂🦉
Autumn arriving at Charmouth 🌬️🌊
August 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Autumn arriving at Charmouth 🌬️🌊
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New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶
August 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶
Midsummer haze 🧡🌾🌞🌻🦗
July 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Midsummer haze 🧡🌾🌞🌻🦗
Poorest breeding season on record for Kestrels and owls in #Wiltshire.
Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉
Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉
July 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Poorest breeding season on record for Kestrels and owls in #Wiltshire.
Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉
Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉
When was the last time you saw a wildflower meadow bursting with so much colour, teeming with 🦋🐝🪲🐛, orchestrated by chirping crickets and breeding birds?
#NationalMeadowsDay
#NationalMeadowsDay
July 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When was the last time you saw a wildflower meadow bursting with so much colour, teeming with 🦋🐝🪲🐛, orchestrated by chirping crickets and breeding birds?
#NationalMeadowsDay
#NationalMeadowsDay
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Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
April 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
Heard this beautiful nightingale singing in a park in Budapest 🎶
A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...
A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...
April 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Heard this beautiful nightingale singing in a park in Budapest 🎶
A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...
A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...
Inquisitive Tawny Owlet 🦉💚
April 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Inquisitive Tawny Owlet 🦉💚
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1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology
April 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology
Heard a Kestrel in Budapest!
Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦⬛
Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦⬛
April 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Heard a Kestrel in Budapest!
Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦⬛
Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦⬛
A privilege to be in Kiskunság National Park in Hungary watching Szabolcs Kókay paint a Black-tailed Godwit. So many beautiful waders here. Curlews calling all around ❤️
March 27, 2025 at 11:47 AM
A privilege to be in Kiskunság National Park in Hungary watching Szabolcs Kókay paint a Black-tailed Godwit. So many beautiful waders here. Curlews calling all around ❤️
Heard my first ever Scops Owl last night! They’ve just arrived back in Catalonia after overwintering in Africa. Five were calling back to our Scops Owl whistle calls! 🦉💚
March 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Heard my first ever Scops Owl last night! They’ve just arrived back in Catalonia after overwintering in Africa. Five were calling back to our Scops Owl whistle calls! 🦉💚
They’re back! (In Catalonia!)
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March 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
They’re back! (In Catalonia!)
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Great talk on Little Owl diet and the trial use of AI to analyse insect remains in video files in the 🇳🇱. A whole weekend on Little Owls at the International Symposium in Spain🦉
March 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Great talk on Little Owl diet and the trial use of AI to analyse insect remains in video files in the 🇳🇱. A whole weekend on Little Owls at the International Symposium in Spain🦉
@btobirds.bsky.social Spring 25 edition of their member’s magazine is wonderful. I especially loved @willrose.bsky.social artwork, Annie Brooker’s illustrated article ‘Healed by Birds’ & Cudyll Cymru on raptor monitoring in Wales 🦅
March 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
@btobirds.bsky.social Spring 25 edition of their member’s magazine is wonderful. I especially loved @willrose.bsky.social artwork, Annie Brooker’s illustrated article ‘Healed by Birds’ & Cudyll Cymru on raptor monitoring in Wales 🦅
Wonderful to watch this Water Rail foraging along the banks of the River Chew. Winter is the best season to spot this secretive bird.
February 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Wonderful to watch this Water Rail foraging along the banks of the River Chew. Winter is the best season to spot this secretive bird.
Heard my first Song Thrush of the year 🎶 Magical to hear glorious birdsong again #SignsOfSpring 💚
January 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Heard my first Song Thrush of the year 🎶 Magical to hear glorious birdsong again #SignsOfSpring 💚
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Did you know that Tawny Owls are less vocal on cloudy nights and when it is raining, but more active on nights when the moon is fuller? 🌕 🌧️ This was discovered from data collected for the BTO Tawny Owl Calling Survey. #Winterwatch #Ornithology #Birds
January 22, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Did you know that Tawny Owls are less vocal on cloudy nights and when it is raining, but more active on nights when the moon is fuller? 🌕 🌧️ This was discovered from data collected for the BTO Tawny Owl Calling Survey. #Winterwatch #Ornithology #Birds
Heard my first singing Blackbird of 2025. It joined in with the Robins in the dusk chorus. 🎶🎶🐦⬛
Welcome back. Your fluting melodic notes filled my heart ❤️
📷 Roger Wilmshurst
Welcome back. Your fluting melodic notes filled my heart ❤️
📷 Roger Wilmshurst
January 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Heard my first singing Blackbird of 2025. It joined in with the Robins in the dusk chorus. 🎶🎶🐦⬛
Welcome back. Your fluting melodic notes filled my heart ❤️
📷 Roger Wilmshurst
Welcome back. Your fluting melodic notes filled my heart ❤️
📷 Roger Wilmshurst
Golden sunset waves at The Cobb in Lyme Regis. I love it here especially in winter. Turnstones, Rock Pipets and wagtails meander along the harbour wall, stopping now and again to look out to sea.
January 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Golden sunset waves at The Cobb in Lyme Regis. I love it here especially in winter. Turnstones, Rock Pipets and wagtails meander along the harbour wall, stopping now and again to look out to sea.
I love midwinter. The warming sun, unfurling daylight, displaying Buzzards, clattering Jackdaws, emerging snowdrops, frosty cheeks, tree silhouettes at sunset, hooting owls, barking foxes, twinkly starry skies, and Orion ✨
January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I love midwinter. The warming sun, unfurling daylight, displaying Buzzards, clattering Jackdaws, emerging snowdrops, frosty cheeks, tree silhouettes at sunset, hooting owls, barking foxes, twinkly starry skies, and Orion ✨
Tawny Owls are quiet tonight as the snow falls in #Bath. The trees in my local park look beautiful with their shadowy branches backlit by the snowy sky. I felt like I was the only one there until I could smell a fox sitting under a hedgerow 🤍🦊
January 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tawny Owls are quiet tonight as the snow falls in #Bath. The trees in my local park look beautiful with their shadowy branches backlit by the snowy sky. I felt like I was the only one there until I could smell a fox sitting under a hedgerow 🤍🦊