Joseph Rowsome
@josephrowsome.bsky.social
17 yo 🇨🇵🇬🇧 Birder living in southern France
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Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban
Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban
Ban in place since 2021 has increased numbers of globally vulnerable pigeon species that is close to extinction in UK
Turtle doves will be allowed to be shot for sport again across Europe, as the EU lifts a ban on hunting that was credited with the species’ tentative recovery.
The EU will allow hunters to shoot 132,000 birds across Spain, France and Italy after a population boom for the threatened bird in western Europe due to a hunting ban that came into effect in 2021. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Turtle doves to be shot for sport again across Europe as EU lifts hunting ban
Tengmalm's Owl (✅296) yesterday somewhere on Mt Ventoux 👀! It has bred in the area in the past but the last confirmed sightings are from 2006 (although the secretive nature of this species mean it may have stayed undected all along), big thanks to the observer who 1st recorded the bird on the 19th!
February 21, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Tengmalm's Owl (✅296) yesterday somewhere on Mt Ventoux 👀! It has bred in the area in the past but the last confirmed sightings are from 2006 (although the secretive nature of this species mean it may have stayed undected all along), big thanks to the observer who 1st recorded the bird on the 19th!
Found the Ring-necked Duck at Piolenc on my 2nd try (almost all the Common Pochards had left so it was easy to spot! The 1st American bird ever in Vaucluse! Also my 1st American bird in France! ✅295
February 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Found the Ring-necked Duck at Piolenc on my 2nd try (almost all the Common Pochards had left so it was easy to spot! The 1st American bird ever in Vaucluse! Also my 1st American bird in France! ✅295
Female Long-tailed Duck in Camargue yesterday! (✅294) in horrible weather conditions (rain and wind all day), I dipped: Indian Silverbill, Rose-coloured Starling, Greater Spotted Eagle, Temminck's Stint, Great Grey Shrike, Pine Bunting and Imperial Eagle 🥲🥲
February 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Female Long-tailed Duck in Camargue yesterday! (✅294) in horrible weather conditions (rain and wind all day), I dipped: Indian Silverbill, Rose-coloured Starling, Greater Spotted Eagle, Temminck's Stint, Great Grey Shrike, Pine Bunting and Imperial Eagle 🥲🥲
Some great bits of birding yesterday! With a lifer, (2) Slavonian Grebes (my 293✅ for France)! Plus a new bird for my Self-found list with a nice adult male Greater Saup (although very distant). Also +2 PACA, with a Parakeet and some Common Gulls and a massive 400 Stock Dove flock!
February 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Some great bits of birding yesterday! With a lifer, (2) Slavonian Grebes (my 293✅ for France)! Plus a new bird for my Self-found list with a nice adult male Greater Saup (although very distant). Also +2 PACA, with a Parakeet and some Common Gulls and a massive 400 Stock Dove flock!
Incredible day twiching France's 2nd ever (and 1st twichable) Moussier's Redstart a beautiful male (apparently 1cy though it has a perfect plumage ^^) ✅291 French tick!
December 28, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Incredible day twiching France's 2nd ever (and 1st twichable) Moussier's Redstart a beautiful male (apparently 1cy though it has a perfect plumage ^^) ✅291 French tick!
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The world's oldest known bird has returned to its breeding colony and is once again nesting:
World's oldest known bird returns to breeding grounds
'Wisdom', a Laysan Albatross aged at least 74, has laid an egg.
bit.ly
December 17, 2024 at 9:56 AM
The world's oldest known bird has returned to its breeding colony and is once again nesting:
My 1st time "Gulling" today at the only local dump (in Vaucluse), misty weather and limited views of the main pile on which gulls were feeding made things difficult! Amongst many Yellow-legged Gulls and Black headed Gulls >2 1cy Lesser Black-backed Gull and 1 Euro Herring/YL Gull (photos below ⬇️)
December 14, 2024 at 8:27 PM
My 1st time "Gulling" today at the only local dump (in Vaucluse), misty weather and limited views of the main pile on which gulls were feeding made things difficult! Amongst many Yellow-legged Gulls and Black headed Gulls >2 1cy Lesser Black-backed Gull and 1 Euro Herring/YL Gull (photos below ⬇️)
Little Bunting recorded migrating over Mt Ventoux with a remote recorder on October 22nd (following the Olive-backed Pipit on the same spot last autumn) quite decent for an inland site!
2nd county record for Vaucluse (last one was in November 2005)
2nd county record for Vaucluse (last one was in November 2005)
December 5, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Little Bunting recorded migrating over Mt Ventoux with a remote recorder on October 22nd (following the Olive-backed Pipit on the same spot last autumn) quite decent for an inland site!
2nd county record for Vaucluse (last one was in November 2005)
2nd county record for Vaucluse (last one was in November 2005)
Sorting through Dotterel photos from August on Mt Ventoux. This year we reached a total of 14 (between the 22nd of August and the 19th of October), down from the record 30 of 2023. This is likely also down to less prospection in September and a lower effort altogether. 🧵
November 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Sorting through Dotterel photos from August on Mt Ventoux. This year we reached a total of 14 (between the 22nd of August and the 19th of October), down from the record 30 of 2023. This is likely also down to less prospection in September and a lower effort altogether. 🧵
Also this nice drake Ferruginous Duck at the Bassin du Réaltor, my 2nd ever!
November 17, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Also this nice drake Ferruginous Duck at the Bassin du Réaltor, my 2nd ever!
Dipped the Blyth's Pipit at Mas Chauvet, Crau this morning but had a nice time with the 10+ Richard Pipits still around!
November 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Dipped the Blyth's Pipit at Mas Chauvet, Crau this morning but had a nice time with the 10+ Richard Pipits still around!