Emma How
@emfhow.bsky.social
32, Bristol, working in wildlife conservation and management, Gooner 🔴☀️✌🏼
Disappointing remark. I want good UK infrastructure as much as anyone, but ‘unremarkable wildlife’ bechsteins bats are not!
Still, I for one am glad we’ve probably robbed future generations of a transformation to our economic geography. Well worth it largely through govt incompetence, saving some unremarkable wildlife and giving very, moneyed, very propertied people endless power to alter the route unnecessarily.
July 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Disappointing remark. I want good UK infrastructure as much as anyone, but ‘unremarkable wildlife’ bechsteins bats are not!
Probably late to the party but I’ve just heard swifts outside my house for first time this year ❤️
May 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Probably late to the party but I’ve just heard swifts outside my house for first time this year ❤️
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Long weekend trying and failing to catch and tag gulls. Team gull was pretty fun though!
April 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Long weekend trying and failing to catch and tag gulls. Team gull was pretty fun though!
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🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney
Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology
🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney
Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology
April 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney
Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology
🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney
Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Back in town with some spectacular new signed prints available
March 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Back in town with some spectacular new signed prints available
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I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests
*If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks*
Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇
#neonicotinods
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
*If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks*
Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇
#neonicotinods
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests
*If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks*
Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇
#neonicotinods
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
*If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks*
Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇
#neonicotinods
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Very proud of my colleagues for all the hard work they have put in to help making this happen!
An historic moment for Nature recovery in England with a new policy setting out plans for the return of wild Beavers. Licenses will be issued by Natural England so that we can harness the power of these keystone animals for the many benefits they bring.
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2025/02/28/b...
Beaver wild release: a milestone for nature recovery in England
By Stuart Otway, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Complex Cases Unit and Delphine Pouget, Principal Officer in Natural England’s Species Recovery & Reintroductions Team After centuries of absen...
naturalengland.blog.gov.uk
February 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Very proud of my colleagues for all the hard work they have put in to help making this happen!
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The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work
The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work
Launched in an era when voyeurism reigned supreme, The Sims was both a curious pleasure and a Lynchian oddity. A new program in Melbourne celebrates its legacy
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Sims at 25: a terrifying facsimile of life, death and the endless cycle of work
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Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Our new paper, free to read in Bird Study, compares bird counts on solar farms and adjacent farmland. For solar farms with infrequently cut/grazed grass and bounded by hedges/trees, both farmland and woodland birds were more abundant than on adjacent arable land www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Enjoying the @btobirds.bsky.social back-cover feature on monitoring Lesser black backed gulls. We have a diet metabarcoding project on large gulls ATM so if you are ringing gull chicks and would be interested in submitting faecal/regurg samples for DNA analysis then get in contact!
February 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Enjoying the @btobirds.bsky.social back-cover feature on monitoring Lesser black backed gulls. We have a diet metabarcoding project on large gulls ATM so if you are ringing gull chicks and would be interested in submitting faecal/regurg samples for DNA analysis then get in contact!
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Sheep Eat Oystercatchers, Curlew & Lapwings!
Extraordinary new case study out in BTO's magazine showing that out of 20 predated nests observed by nest cameras, **30% of predation took place by sheep eating the eggs!**
And we still see sheep as benign...
www.bto.org/sites/defaul... (pages 4-5)
Extraordinary new case study out in BTO's magazine showing that out of 20 predated nests observed by nest cameras, **30% of predation took place by sheep eating the eggs!**
And we still see sheep as benign...
www.bto.org/sites/defaul... (pages 4-5)
January 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Sheep Eat Oystercatchers, Curlew & Lapwings!
Extraordinary new case study out in BTO's magazine showing that out of 20 predated nests observed by nest cameras, **30% of predation took place by sheep eating the eggs!**
And we still see sheep as benign...
www.bto.org/sites/defaul... (pages 4-5)
Extraordinary new case study out in BTO's magazine showing that out of 20 predated nests observed by nest cameras, **30% of predation took place by sheep eating the eggs!**
And we still see sheep as benign...
www.bto.org/sites/defaul... (pages 4-5)
Just make sure you can look back on your 20s and say ‘yeah I had a bloody good time’
people over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
January 30, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Just make sure you can look back on your 20s and say ‘yeah I had a bloody good time’
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And so they are gone...never to return.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
January 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
And so they are gone...never to return.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
Everyday nature, so easily overlooked, then swept away.
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Tonight is Clean Air Night. Let's make every night like this. Can we all stop using log burners please?
I've been on a rant again....
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
I've been on a rant again....
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Let's stop this log burner madness please
My neighbours lighting their fires every night is worse for me than the busy main road nearby
www.bristolpost.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Tonight is Clean Air Night. Let's make every night like this. Can we all stop using log burners please?
I've been on a rant again....
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
I've been on a rant again....
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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To the best of my knowledge, we broke the 🚨 world longevity record 🚨 for Mediterranean Gull on Saturday, with this bird re-trapped at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Ringed at Folkestone, Kent, as an adult in February 2001, it’s now in at least its 28th calendar year, with no sightings since 2001! (🧵 1/2)
January 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To the best of my knowledge, we broke the 🚨 world longevity record 🚨 for Mediterranean Gull on Saturday, with this bird re-trapped at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Ringed at Folkestone, Kent, as an adult in February 2001, it’s now in at least its 28th calendar year, with no sightings since 2001! (🧵 1/2)
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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We've crossed a very, very dangerous threshold. The combined forces of ignorance, disinformation, hate, and extreme wealth have seized power and are twisting the global agenda.
Decent people need to step up and counter it all, or things are simply going to descend into the pit of hell.
Decent people need to step up and counter it all, or things are simply going to descend into the pit of hell.
January 8, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We've crossed a very, very dangerous threshold. The combined forces of ignorance, disinformation, hate, and extreme wealth have seized power and are twisting the global agenda.
Decent people need to step up and counter it all, or things are simply going to descend into the pit of hell.
Decent people need to step up and counter it all, or things are simply going to descend into the pit of hell.
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RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease
RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease
Feeding birds from flat surfaces such as tables could be contributing to spread of finch trichomonosis, says charity
The RSPB has withdrawn flat bird feeders from sale on its website amid warnings they could be spreading deadly diseases to finches.
The…
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
RSPB stops selling flat bird feeders owing to deadly finch disease
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These endless electoral polls in the UK is exhausting. Journalists seeking constant Westminster drama is exhausting. Let governments govern, the election isn’t for another 4.5 years!
December 29, 2024 at 12:15 PM
These endless electoral polls in the UK is exhausting. Journalists seeking constant Westminster drama is exhausting. Let governments govern, the election isn’t for another 4.5 years!
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The last thing Fantastic Mr Fox sees
December 2, 2024 at 1:33 PM
The last thing Fantastic Mr Fox sees
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I won’t debate assisted dying on socials but I will be writing this week’s column on it.
In the meantime, here’s the last piece I wrote. And an important note for any reply suggesting acknowledging disabled people’s fears means ignoring terminally ill suffering. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In the meantime, here’s the last piece I wrote. And an important note for any reply suggesting acknowledging disabled people’s fears means ignoring terminally ill suffering. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 25, 2024 at 11:44 AM
I won’t debate assisted dying on socials but I will be writing this week’s column on it.
In the meantime, here’s the last piece I wrote. And an important note for any reply suggesting acknowledging disabled people’s fears means ignoring terminally ill suffering. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In the meantime, here’s the last piece I wrote. And an important note for any reply suggesting acknowledging disabled people’s fears means ignoring terminally ill suffering. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When he started doing Ronaldo Saudi PR posts that was the day
Is this a safe space to say I have no time for Fabrizio Romano for a whole host of reasons, one being he comes across as a PR agent for various unsavoury players/clubs more than anything else these days?
November 25, 2024 at 11:31 PM
When he started doing Ronaldo Saudi PR posts that was the day