Allan Mee
@kerryeaglemee.bsky.social
Works on birds, reintroduction, eagles, vultures, threatened species, ❤️ all things nature, earth justice, human rights🇵🇸
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Allan Mee
@kerryeaglemee.bsky.social
· Feb 11
My ornithological journey began in Scotland nearly 40 years ago, volling in the Highlands in '84, then paid jobs (seabirds on Farnes 85, Orkney 86 etc) but the Highlands kept drawing me back. In 90/91 monitoring rare breeders inc Golden Eagle, divers, grebes, in Strathspey for @rspb.bsky.social 🦉
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“The US government is now, like Russia and Saudi Arabia, a petrostate under Trump and Republican rule…
…It is therefore entirely unsurprising that NASA administrators are attempting to bury findings of its own agency that conflict with its climate denial agenda.”
…It is therefore entirely unsurprising that NASA administrators are attempting to bury findings of its own agency that conflict with its climate denial agenda.”
"NASA acknowledges record heat but avoids referencing climate change" via @afp.com: insiderpaper.com/nasa-acknowl...
NASA acknowledges record heat but avoids referencing climate change
Don't say the c-word. Global temperatures soared in 2025, but a NASA statement published Wednesday alongside its latest benchmark annual report makes no
insiderpaper.com
January 15, 2026 at 10:45 AM
“The US government is now, like Russia and Saudi Arabia, a petrostate under Trump and Republican rule…
…It is therefore entirely unsurprising that NASA administrators are attempting to bury findings of its own agency that conflict with its climate denial agenda.”
…It is therefore entirely unsurprising that NASA administrators are attempting to bury findings of its own agency that conflict with its climate denial agenda.”
Although some bird species are adapted to fire and benefit from low to moderately severe blazes, megafires in California are becoming more frequent.
Megafires are unlikely to benefit most bird species and harm those that depend on old-growth forests. 🌎 🪶
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
Megafires are unlikely to benefit most bird species and harm those that depend on old-growth forests. 🌎 🪶
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
How are California's birds faring amid ever more frequent wildfires?
In the forests of the Sierra Nevada, the black-backed woodpecker is without parallel. The bird appears almost born of fire, thriving on the flames that flicker through California’s coniferous forests ...
news.mongabay.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Although some bird species are adapted to fire and benefit from low to moderately severe blazes, megafires in California are becoming more frequent.
Megafires are unlikely to benefit most bird species and harm those that depend on old-growth forests. 🌎 🪶
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
Megafires are unlikely to benefit most bird species and harm those that depend on old-growth forests. 🌎 🪶
news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-...
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📢 Would you like to be a voice for nature? We are looking for a passionate nature advocate to join our team and help us advocate for the protection and restoration of nature in Ireland.
Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026.
🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...
Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026.
🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...
January 2, 2026 at 3:53 PM
📢 Would you like to be a voice for nature? We are looking for a passionate nature advocate to join our team and help us advocate for the protection and restoration of nature in Ireland.
Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026.
🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...
Apply before 18:00 on 26th January 2026.
🔗 iwt.ie/nature-advoc...
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Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with a journalist to discuss the challenges facing plant biodiversity. Seed banking is one tool that we need to prevent extinction, but must be part of wider conservation and restoration action.
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
Noah’s Ark for plants: The man in charge of logging every native seed in Ireland
Conservation ecologist Darren Reidy has been researching, gathering and banking native seeds across Ireland since his appointment in 2022.
www.thejournal.ie
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with a journalist to discuss the challenges facing plant biodiversity. Seed banking is one tool that we need to prevent extinction, but must be part of wider conservation and restoration action.
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
www.thejournal.ie/the-man-in-c...
His ideas are like pollen on the legs of a bee. Or shit from a birds arse that grows into a tree...
The brilliant Blindboy on the life and death of the utterly unique Manchán Magan, have a listen. In a world of charlatans and narcissists, this is food for the soul
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
The brilliant Blindboy on the life and death of the utterly unique Manchán Magan, have a listen. In a world of charlatans and narcissists, this is food for the soul
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
In memory of Manchán Magan
open.spotify.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
His ideas are like pollen on the legs of a bee. Or shit from a birds arse that grows into a tree...
The brilliant Blindboy on the life and death of the utterly unique Manchán Magan, have a listen. In a world of charlatans and narcissists, this is food for the soul
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
The brilliant Blindboy on the life and death of the utterly unique Manchán Magan, have a listen. In a world of charlatans and narcissists, this is food for the soul
open.spotify.com/episode/1BxM...
Protected areas expanding fast but failing to halt nature loss, studies warn
Headline conservation targets are masking weak protection on the ground, with conservation success being measured by area, not outcomes
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www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...
Headline conservation targets are masking weak protection on the ground, with conservation success being measured by area, not outcomes
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www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...
Protected areas expanding fast but failing to halt nature loss, studies warn
Despite rapid expansion, protected areas are failing to halt biodiversity loss, with climate change and invasive species undermining efforts. Studies call for a shift in conservation funding and manag...
www.downtoearth.org.in
December 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Protected areas expanding fast but failing to halt nature loss, studies warn
Headline conservation targets are masking weak protection on the ground, with conservation success being measured by area, not outcomes
🌎
www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...
Headline conservation targets are masking weak protection on the ground, with conservation success being measured by area, not outcomes
🌎
www.downtoearth.org.in/environment/...
Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK 🌎 🪶
| Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/mj926UbdJNKD...
| Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/mj926UbdJNKD...
Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK
Conservationists appeal to public for help after rare birds disappear in suspicious circumstances
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December 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Police investigate after white-tailed eagles go missing across UK 🌎 🪶
| Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/mj926UbdJNKD...
| Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/mj926UbdJNKD...
Trends of wild birds in Europe, 2025 update 🌎 🪶
pecbms.info/trends-of-wi...
pecbms.info/trends-of-wi...
Trends of wild birds in Europe, 2025 update | PECBMS
This report presents updated population trends and indices for 170 wild bird species in Europe for the period 1980–2024, produced by the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in 2025. Th...
pecbms.info
December 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Trends of wild birds in Europe, 2025 update 🌎 🪶
pecbms.info/trends-of-wi...
pecbms.info/trends-of-wi...
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds 🌎 🪶
Source: The Guardian
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Source: The Guardian
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
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December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds 🌎 🪶
Source: The Guardian
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Source: The Guardian
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🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines 🌎 🪶
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines
Citril Finch has nearly disappeared from Germany’s Black Forest, with numbers plunging by over 97%. Across Europe, habitat loss and climatic change threaten this mountain specialist, prompting urgent ...
www.birdguides.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines 🌎 🪶
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago 🌍
www.westernpeople.ie/archaeologis...
www.westernpeople.ie/archaeologis...
Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago - Homepage - Western People
The earliest directly dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) ever found in Ireland has been identified
www.westernpeople.ie
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago 🌍
www.westernpeople.ie/archaeologis...
www.westernpeople.ie/archaeologis...
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Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Who'd have thunk it?
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Who'd have thunk it?
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
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Andrew Jackson really cooked Collison here.
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
elajucd.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Andrew Jackson really cooked Collison here.
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
The Icelandic gyrfalcon population has been hit hard by the ongoing wave of avian influenza in recent years. Once numbering around 2,000 birds, the population has now collapsed to roughly 500 individu...
icelandmonitor.mbl.is
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
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Are Bearded Vultures in Trouble?🦅 In the Maloti-Drakensberg, breeding territories have declined by up to 51% over 50 years, with birds now confined to a smaller range. Protecting them is more urgent than ever. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
Trends in territory occupancy, distribution and density of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis in southern Africa | Bird Conservation International | Cambridge Core
Trends in territory occupancy, distribution and density of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis in southern Africa - Volume 24 Issue 2
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Are Bearded Vultures in Trouble?🦅 In the Maloti-Drakensberg, breeding territories have declined by up to 51% over 50 years, with birds now confined to a smaller range. Protecting them is more urgent than ever. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
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Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
Avian flu “real disaster” as over 1K cranes found dead at key German roosting spot: experts
YouTube video by Global News
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October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
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Cerro Rico de Potosí, hollowed out to fuel colonial Spain’s immense wealth, now stands on the brink of collapse. A profound metaphor for the toll that humanity’s greed has taken on nature and Indigenous peoples.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing
At about 4,800 meters, or nearly 15,800 feet, above sea level, Cerro Rico towers over the city of Potosí, in Bolivia’s southern highlands. Famous for its vast silver reserves, Cerro Rico — whose name ...
news.mongabay.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cerro Rico de Potosí, hollowed out to fuel colonial Spain’s immense wealth, now stands on the brink of collapse. A profound metaphor for the toll that humanity’s greed has taken on nature and Indigenous peoples.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
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Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
A new analysis challenges one of the most publicized claims about Yellowstone's wolves. In a detailed comment published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Utah State University and C...
phys.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
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phys.org/news/2025-10...
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Almost all of my posts are some evidence or illustration of what @camwalker.bsky.social is describing in this thread. We are in the midst of a massive, rapid ecological breakdown that is all around us -- but most don't recognize it or care. But eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. 🌎
If you pay attention, ecological collapse is happening everywhere, in real time.
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine
An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west
orionmagazine.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Almost all of my posts are some evidence or illustration of what @camwalker.bsky.social is describing in this thread. We are in the midst of a massive, rapid ecological breakdown that is all around us -- but most don't recognize it or care. But eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. 🌎
Another returning Irish White-tailed Eagle, 2024 release female 51, back on home soil after 6 months exploring Scotland, from Kintyre and north to Hoy, Orkney in late April. Also unusual was this bird never visited the west coast islands (esp Mull). She's back in Donegal safely! Beir bua:-)
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October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Another returning Irish White-tailed Eagle, 2024 release female 51, back on home soil after 6 months exploring Scotland, from Kintyre and north to Hoy, Orkney in late April. Also unusual was this bird never visited the west coast islands (esp Mull). She's back in Donegal safely! Beir bua:-)
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