Hannah Frances Ahern
@arborophila.bsky.social
Bird enthusiast and masters student in wildlife biology and conservation. Career in zoos and conservation.
Starting my new career in Vietnam am at the Turtle Rescue Centre in Cuc Phuong so today in nature I saw a bunch of chelonia! First bird heard in Vietnam was the red whiskered bulbul, and first seen was the mountain tailor bird. Here's a lovely mural on a wall of the centre. #turtles
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Starting my new career in Vietnam am at the Turtle Rescue Centre in Cuc Phuong so today in nature I saw a bunch of chelonia! First bird heard in Vietnam was the red whiskered bulbul, and first seen was the mountain tailor bird. Here's a lovely mural on a wall of the centre. #turtles
I have just spent a long time travelling and indoors, but I did appreciate these hills around Hong Kong airport for today in nature.
January 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I have just spent a long time travelling and indoors, but I did appreciate these hills around Hong Kong airport for today in nature.
Not much in seen nature today, spending the day in an airport and then on a flight, however! I will be using all the time to learn how to id freshwater invertebrates using the natural history museum guide. I dont have a clue about these animals so I will learn a lot! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/id...
Guide to identifying common freshwater invertebrate groups
A beginner's guide to the common groups of freshwater invertebrates found in Britain.
www.nhm.ac.uk
January 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Not much in seen nature today, spending the day in an airport and then on a flight, however! I will be using all the time to learn how to id freshwater invertebrates using the natural history museum guide. I dont have a clue about these animals so I will learn a lot! www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/id...
Mine were
1. First time seeing wild eiders
2. Second time seeing wild eiders, but more and closer
3. Meadow and rock pipits and learning the difference between the two in winter
4. Bar backed godwit and curlew by the dozen
5. Good close ups of shags
And an honorary mention to the hunting peregrine
1. First time seeing wild eiders
2. Second time seeing wild eiders, but more and closer
3. Meadow and rock pipits and learning the difference between the two in winter
4. Bar backed godwit and curlew by the dozen
5. Good close ups of shags
And an honorary mention to the hunting peregrine
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - in Victoria, Australia:
1. The antics of a flock of Long-billed Corella
2. Surprise flock of White-winged Chough
3. Brolga towering above shorebirds
4. Lifer Long-toed Stint
& back home in the UK
5. A Rook, Magpie & Woodpigeons
🪶
Mine - in Victoria, Australia:
1. The antics of a flock of Long-billed Corella
2. Surprise flock of White-winged Chough
3. Brolga towering above shorebirds
4. Lifer Long-toed Stint
& back home in the UK
5. A Rook, Magpie & Woodpigeons
🪶
January 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Mine were
1. First time seeing wild eiders
2. Second time seeing wild eiders, but more and closer
3. Meadow and rock pipits and learning the difference between the two in winter
4. Bar backed godwit and curlew by the dozen
5. Good close ups of shags
And an honorary mention to the hunting peregrine
1. First time seeing wild eiders
2. Second time seeing wild eiders, but more and closer
3. Meadow and rock pipits and learning the difference between the two in winter
4. Bar backed godwit and curlew by the dozen
5. Good close ups of shags
And an honorary mention to the hunting peregrine
I spent today packing, cleaning, and on a train to London so not much seen nature wise sadly. Until I got to the hotel in the airport and saw they had actual real plants! So many hotels and restaurants even with food light go for fake plants, it's a very big peeve of mine.
January 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I spent today packing, cleaning, and on a train to London so not much seen nature wise sadly. Until I got to the hotel in the airport and saw they had actual real plants! So many hotels and restaurants even with food light go for fake plants, it's a very big peeve of mine.
Today in nature isn't so much nature and more something to help benefit the animals at my next job. Supplements! All the rest are packed but enough to fill half my suitcase in total!
January 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Today in nature isn't so much nature and more something to help benefit the animals at my next job. Supplements! All the rest are packed but enough to fill half my suitcase in total!
Today in nature is art of an owl I saw in Leeds market. Owls are a symbol of Leeds so motifs of them are found throughout the city. I do like how animals can inspire people and be these strong cultural symbols. #birds
January 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Today in nature is art of an owl I saw in Leeds market. Owls are a symbol of Leeds so motifs of them are found throughout the city. I do like how animals can inspire people and be these strong cultural symbols. #birds
I didn't post this frpm yesterday.. not quite today in nature but yesterday in nature, as an alternative to the aviary post earlier. A pipefish which had been beached. We popped it into a rock pool. I imagine a gull still got it.
January 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I didn't post this frpm yesterday.. not quite today in nature but yesterday in nature, as an alternative to the aviary post earlier. A pipefish which had been beached. We popped it into a rock pool. I imagine a gull still got it.
Not much in nature today as I deal with being back in the office and the immense cold. At work sadly one of the aviaries collapsed in the snow.
January 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Not much in nature today as I deal with being back in the office and the immense cold. At work sadly one of the aviaries collapsed in the snow.
Today in nature was even more eiders! Many eiders! I was in heaven. There were some grey seals too but they're kinda whatever compared to this Amazing duck. Phenomenal day. When on a boat trip from seahouses and saw the birds all around the farne islands, the pic is from the harbour. #birds
January 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Today in nature was even more eiders! Many eiders! I was in heaven. There were some grey seals too but they're kinda whatever compared to this Amazing duck. Phenomenal day. When on a boat trip from seahouses and saw the birds all around the farne islands, the pic is from the harbour. #birds
Today in nature I went to holy island at Lindisfarne and saw eiders for the first time! Mega. Also saw many other including pale bellied Brent, sanderling, grey plover, curlew, bar tailed godwit, dunlin, redshank, turnstone, starling, and feck load more. Here's an awful pic to commemorate #birds
January 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Today in nature I went to holy island at Lindisfarne and saw eiders for the first time! Mega. Also saw many other including pale bellied Brent, sanderling, grey plover, curlew, bar tailed godwit, dunlin, redshank, turnstone, starling, and feck load more. Here's an awful pic to commemorate #birds
Todays day in nature, been out bird watching in Northumberland! Some highlights of what were seen include: bar tailed godwit, many wigeon, oystercatcher, some sort of sandpiper, pipet, yellowhammer, corn bunting, linnet, brambling, and bullfinch as seen in the pic by a friend! #birds
January 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Todays day in nature, been out bird watching in Northumberland! Some highlights of what were seen include: bar tailed godwit, many wigeon, oystercatcher, some sort of sandpiper, pipet, yellowhammer, corn bunting, linnet, brambling, and bullfinch as seen in the pic by a friend! #birds
I look at everyone's lovely bird posts on here and get jealous. I can take close up photos of zoo birds as they're used to people, but that's about it. All I have is my phone camera!
Though I suppose a bird is a bird regardless of the detail. #birds
Though I suppose a bird is a bird regardless of the detail. #birds
January 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I look at everyone's lovely bird posts on here and get jealous. I can take close up photos of zoo birds as they're used to people, but that's about it. All I have is my phone camera!
Though I suppose a bird is a bird regardless of the detail. #birds
Though I suppose a bird is a bird regardless of the detail. #birds
Reposted by Hannah Frances Ahern
Organisations (inc. ecology/science) still active on X have a social responsibility to withdraw. 'Outreach' and 'audience' are no excuse. There's alternatives. X is based on advertising/engagement for active users. If you're still an active user, you're fuelling this, plain & simple. Be responsible.
Elon Musk, owner of X, tweeted that Home Office Minister Jess Phillips "deserves to be in prison" and labelled her a "rape genocide apologist"
This is the type of radicalised content that socialises people towards violence against Ministers and MPs
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/starmer...
This is the type of radicalised content that socialises people towards violence against Ministers and MPs
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/starmer...
Starmer urged to take action as 'out of control' Musk targets Jess Phillips
Days after calling for X posts to be "more positive", Musk has dubbed Jess Phillips a "rape genocide apologist".
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Organisations (inc. ecology/science) still active on X have a social responsibility to withdraw. 'Outreach' and 'audience' are no excuse. There's alternatives. X is based on advertising/engagement for active users. If you're still an active user, you're fuelling this, plain & simple. Be responsible.
After falling on ice yesterday, I decided I would do feck all today, so here's another pigeon from yesterday - golden heart dove. #birds
January 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
After falling on ice yesterday, I decided I would do feck all today, so here's another pigeon from yesterday - golden heart dove. #birds
Todays day in nature I visited Chester zoo with a friend to meet up with another friend. There were a number of highlights, these emerald doves enjoying the spray from the waterfall being one of them. #birds
January 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Todays day in nature I visited Chester zoo with a friend to meet up with another friend. There were a number of highlights, these emerald doves enjoying the spray from the waterfall being one of them. #birds
You can just about make out in the pic, but today my nature highlight was seeing the flock at work flying over during the sun rise. They usually stick around until a bit later, but perhaps the cold night made them particularly hungry! #birds #birdwatching
January 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You can just about make out in the pic, but today my nature highlight was seeing the flock at work flying over during the sun rise. They usually stick around until a bit later, but perhaps the cold night made them particularly hungry! #birds #birdwatching
Starting the year reminiscent of the highlights over the past few years. In 2023 I got to see Maleo at a nesting ground on a beach in Sulawesi. #birds #birdwatching
January 1, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Starting the year reminiscent of the highlights over the past few years. In 2023 I got to see Maleo at a nesting ground on a beach in Sulawesi. #birds #birdwatching
Going to set myself a challenge. Every day for the whole of 2025 i will try to post an image I have taken of the natural world. Either pics from that day or the past. Starting Wednesday.
December 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Going to set myself a challenge. Every day for the whole of 2025 i will try to post an image I have taken of the natural world. Either pics from that day or the past. Starting Wednesday.
This is great news! Hopefully even more can be found for this really enigmatic species. I was lucky to work with the captive population at Slimbridge for a bit.
The world's smallest transmitter has helped discover a previously unknown breeding ground of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper:
Transmitter reveals new Spoon-billed Sandpiper breeding grounds
The world's smallest transmitter has helped discover a previously unknown breeding ground of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Thanks to the installation of a tiny solar satellite transmitter, a Spoon-billed Sandpiper was tracked in spring 2024 between Thailand and Chukotka in Siberi...
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December 25, 2024 at 6:20 PM
This is great news! Hopefully even more can be found for this really enigmatic species. I was lucky to work with the captive population at Slimbridge for a bit.
Reposted by Hannah Frances Ahern
Lots of new content added to the IUCN-SSC Galliformes Specialist Group website. galliformes.org
GSG - IUCN
Welcome to the Galliformes Specialist Group part of the IUCN Species Survival Commission. Working together to ensure the survival of Galliformes species through research, conservation action, and inte...
galliformes.org
December 16, 2024 at 10:30 PM
Lots of new content added to the IUCN-SSC Galliformes Specialist Group website. galliformes.org
Wonderful sky this morning
December 17, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Wonderful sky this morning
Reposted by Hannah Frances Ahern
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"A species that needs to migrate to keep up with rising temperatures, but is trapped in a forest fragment -- even a very large fragment -- is a species that isn't likely to make it."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Over the last half-billion years, there have been five …
www.goodreads.com
December 8, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Your 'doom quote' for today:
"A species that needs to migrate to keep up with rising temperatures, but is trapped in a forest fragment -- even a very large fragment -- is a species that isn't likely to make it."
www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...