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Bec Jones
@jbfarthing.bsky.social
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Seabird ecologist and conservationist. Biophile worried about climate change and biodiversity loss. Migrant. Views my own.
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Purple Sandpipers on the Northumberland coast. #nebirding @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. This is my contribution; a family of Razorbills on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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btobirds.bsky.social
Want a FREE resource pack with an ID guide to 30 species you’re likely to see in your local greenspace? 🐦🌳 Sign up to our Birds in #Greenspaces newsletter to receive one! ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces #Ornithology 🪶

Illustrations by @willrose.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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commonternproject.bsky.social
There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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tfinch.bsky.social
Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one?
RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026:
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...
#ornithology #conservationscience 🌍
Postgraduate opportunities
The RSPB is offering a variety of exciting research projects for postgraduate students in 2026.
www.rspb.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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bou.org.uk
Behavioural responses of the Little Tern (Sternula albifrons) to different human disturbances | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Behavioural responses of the Little Tern (Sternula albifrons) to different human disturbances
Journal of Ornithology - Human disturbances can have large impacts on wildlife and their behaviour. The extent of the effects of different kind of disturbances during different seasons is, however,...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Pairing weather radars with eBird data for large-scale monitoring of swallow and martin communal roosts | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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bethsawin.bsky.social
If destroying our life support system were human nature there would be no need to corrupt governments, deny science, and weaken media to keep the fossil fuel industry going.
swingingstorm.bsky.social Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 5d
If war were just human nature, it would not be so deeply long-term traumatizing to participate in war.

If war were just human nature, military training would not amount to psychological torture.

If war were just human nature, there would be no need to pump literal billions into pro-war propaganda.
November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are.

Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...
Three curves (carbon dioxide, temperature and sea level) showing historical climate changes covering the last 2000 years.
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of plastic revealed

#Environment #Pollution #MarineLife #PlasticPollution #Study #DeathToll #Seabirds #MarineMammals #BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of plastic revealed
A new study pinpoints the deadly thresholds of plastic ingestion for marine life.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
jbfarthing.bsky.social
In case anyone’s wondering what to get me for Christmas 😍
maudeuxcreations.bsky.social Maudeux.creations 🎨🐦 @maudeuxcreations.bsky.social · 6d
I love painting jaeger chicks.
Reason 1: they’re ridiculously cute!
2: Skuas often get a bad reputation because they steal food from other seabirds or sometimes prey on their 🐥. But… they do it to feed their own adorable baby 💛!
#sciart #birdart #watercolor #seabirds #natureillustration #wildlifeart
Jaeger (or Skua) painted with watercolor. They’re seabirds that rely on animal protein: just like murres catch fish, skuas also hunt other birds. It’s natural—and it has been this way forever. No need to pity a bird preyed upon more than a fish preyed upon… that’s how nature works !🌿🌀 ✨ This illustration is part of my Arctic seabird posters, available on my Redbubble store (link in bio).
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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bou.org.uk
NEW on #theBOUblog from Anya Shackleton-Jones

A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland

bou.org.uk/blog-shac...

#ornithology 🪶
November 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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doctorvive.bsky.social
This is why I advise in The Language of Climate Politics that saying we’re better off now than we were before the Paris Agreement only lowers urgency & helps fossil fuel interests: the IMPACTS of lower levels of heating are proving to be so much worse than we thought even just ten years ago.

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of this heat in the climate system —what are blandly known as the "impacts" of climate change-should also be considered. And what the extreme weather already emerging across the globe, as well as the latest research, suggests is something quite frightening: the way our climate system is responding even to low levels of warming indicates that a 3°C world might look very much like the 4°C or 5°C world it had seemed like we had avoided. This is not to say that scientists have failed to predict what is happening in some way-their projections of how much the planet will warm at rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have been entirely accurate-it is only to say that the extremes caused by warming are emerging on the worse side of the range of possible outcomes. As water cycle."103 Over the next decades Europe would cool substantially —England would end up looking like northern Canada, but stormier-and the heat that would no longer be transported to the North Atlantic would end up staying in the trop-ics, turning densely populated cities into saunas where people simply could not live.104 Global food supply would be severely threatened because Europe would dry out and the tropical rain belt would move south, weakening the African and Asian monsoons.105 Meanwhile, sea level rise would accelerate over the East Coast of the United States, potentially stranding many billions in real-estate value.106 As one author of the Danish study put it: "The implications would be devastating in terms of our ability to carry on living the way we do now,
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
jbfarthing.bsky.social
Yes
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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nzpom.com
THIS IS THE WAY
‘We’re proud to be pioneers’: inside Spain’s community energy revolution
From Taradell to Galicia, cooperatives are supplying cheap, clean electricity to homes and helping tackle fuel poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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vickihird.bsky.social
PSA! leaf litter on your lawn can house thousands of babies🧐 - some hoverfly babies (larvae) i spotted earlier today. (plus old hoverfly pic for info)
Don't put leaf litter in the bin- it's a precious, nutrient-filled habitat..Pile it up, compost it or just leave it... 😁🌿🍁🍂
Hoverfly larvae on leaf litter Hoverfly
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are some fearless Arctic Terns attacking as I move through their colony #SuperSeabirdSunday
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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#ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A focus on females can improve science and conservation
As a field, ecology has historically misunderstood or overlooked female organisms, or assumed that they are ‘similar enough’ to males. The typical unit of study for ecology research stops at the spec....
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November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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climatenews.bsky.social
Excellent video - watch!

Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.
Former U.S. VP Al Gore Reveals Shocking Data on Global Warming and Extreme Climate Events | AC1N
YouTube video by DRM News
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November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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ferrisjabr.bsky.social
Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.
Sponge biodiversity and morphotypes at the lip the wall site in 60 feet of water. Included are the yellow tube sponge, Aplysina fistularis, the pink vase sponge, Niphates digitalis, the red encrusting sponge, Spiratrella coccinea, and the gray rope sponge, Callyspongia sp. Caribbean Sea, Cayman Islands. Date 23 May 2007 Source NOAA Photo Library: reef3859 Xestospongia testudinaria is a species of barrel sponge in the family Petrosiidae Nederlands: Vaassponzen (xestospongia testudinaria) Date 2 May 2007 (original upload date) Source Transferred from nl.wikipedia to Commons. Author Albert Kok at Dutch Wikipedia This series of photographs represents the biodiversity found off the coast of Roscanvel, in the Fiistère, including several species of encrusting sponges, whose colours vary from whitish to orange. Date 2 December 2020 (upload date) Source Diverses éponges encroûtantes Author Olivier Dugornay The freshwater sponge, Spongilla lacustris, in the Hanford Reach of the Columbia River in Washington State, USA. 15 August 2008 Author: Kirt L. Onthank
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"while a handful of puffins on a tiny island may seem small, this moment is huge – it proves that seabird restoration works"

A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim!

www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
‘Myth is becoming a reality’: Puffins make a comeback at Isle of Muck after 25 years
Recovery project at Co Antrim reserve saw removal of invasive brown rats, the biggest threat to seabird eggs and chicks
www.irishtimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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steffopp.bsky.social
NEW PAPER in #ornithology and #conservation reviews the marine threats to #seabirds and other marine #megafauna and confirms that #fisheries are a severe problem: buff.ly/5SXNdqr
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶
From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna
In our study, we processed and analyzed data collected from 2014 to 2015 by a radar located in Manaus, AM, in the Amazon Rainforest, comparing it to a similar dataset from the Great Lakes region in N...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM