Bec Jones
banner
jbfarthing.bsky.social
Bec Jones
@jbfarthing.bsky.social
Seabird ecologist and conservationist. Biophile worried about climate change and biodiversity loss. Migrant. Views my own.
Reposted by Bec Jones
Purple Sandpipers on the Northumberland coast. #nebirding @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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,...
link.springer.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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.
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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...
November 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
#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
In case anyone’s wondering what to get me for Christmas 😍
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
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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.

3/4
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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... 😁🌿🍁🍂
November 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
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.
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Reposted by Bec Jones
"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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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
Reposted by Bec Jones
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...
doi.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM