Kane Brides 🦆
@kanebrides.bsky.social
Senior Research Officer in the Conservation Evidence team at WWT. Working in wetland species recovery. Global Chair of IUCN Duck Specialist Group 🦆
🏳️🌈 All views my own.
🏳️🌈 All views my own.
Arrived in Dongying at the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Birdwatching Season. I also enjoyed giving a Western perspective on swan monitoring & conservation at the 2nd International Symposium for Swan Conservation to delegates from China, Japan & Mongolia. #Ornithology
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Arrived in Dongying at the opening ceremony of the 3rd International Birdwatching Season. I also enjoyed giving a Western perspective on swan monitoring & conservation at the 2nd International Symposium for Swan Conservation to delegates from China, Japan & Mongolia. #Ornithology
Tonight I'll be sleeping soundly knowing a Grey Heron is watching over me...
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Tonight I'll be sleeping soundly knowing a Grey Heron is watching over me...
✈️ On my way to Shanghai! Excited to work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences — giving lectures and developing new collaborative studies. Then to the 2nd International Symposium on Swan Conservation, sharing our latest results and connecting researchers across the East Asian–Australasian Flyway
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
✈️ On my way to Shanghai! Excited to work with the Chinese Academy of Sciences — giving lectures and developing new collaborative studies. Then to the 2nd International Symposium on Swan Conservation, sharing our latest results and connecting researchers across the East Asian–Australasian Flyway
We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.
🦢 What a swan’s 570km U-turn could tell us about water, wetlands, and a changing climate.... www.linkedin.com/posts/kane-b...
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🦢 What a swan’s 570km U-turn could tell us about water, wetlands, and a changing climate.... www.linkedin.com/posts/kane-b...
A pretty depressing day counting sick & dead Whooper Swans. Avian influenza is within the population. Please report all dead birds for possible collection & testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 this is Defra
gov.uk/guidance/repor…
Reporting to @birdtrack.bsky.social also helps with monitoring.
gov.uk/guidance/repor…
Reporting to @birdtrack.bsky.social also helps with monitoring.
November 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A pretty depressing day counting sick & dead Whooper Swans. Avian influenza is within the population. Please report all dead birds for possible collection & testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 this is Defra
gov.uk/guidance/repor…
Reporting to @birdtrack.bsky.social also helps with monitoring.
gov.uk/guidance/repor…
Reporting to @birdtrack.bsky.social also helps with monitoring.
I've been updating our collaborative #CootStudy database. I started the study 17 years ago & thanks to a network of bird ringers across Britain & Ireland we've now colour-marked 4,400 Coot & received over 13,000 re-sightings. Pretty cool for a bird you hardly see in flight! #Ornithology #BirdRinging
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I've been updating our collaborative #CootStudy database. I started the study 17 years ago & thanks to a network of bird ringers across Britain & Ireland we've now colour-marked 4,400 Coot & received over 13,000 re-sightings. Pretty cool for a bird you hardly see in flight! #Ornithology #BirdRinging
A week on from #StormAmy 🌬️ data from our tagged Whooper Swans show both storm assistance & storm displacement. Some birds made rapid migrations, others battled the elements – some out at sea for 55 hrs! As North Atlantic storms grow more frequent, understanding their impact is vital. 🦢 #Ornithology
October 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A week on from #StormAmy 🌬️ data from our tagged Whooper Swans show both storm assistance & storm displacement. Some birds made rapid migrations, others battled the elements – some out at sea for 55 hrs! As North Atlantic storms grow more frequent, understanding their impact is vital. 🦢 #Ornithology
A successful few days deploying GPS tags on Whooper Swans in the highlands of Iceland to check whether the wetlands they depend on in Britain & Ireland are still doing the job in a changing climate.
#Iceland #Wetlands #ProtectedSites #Ornithology
#Iceland #Wetlands #ProtectedSites #Ornithology
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A successful few days deploying GPS tags on Whooper Swans in the highlands of Iceland to check whether the wetlands they depend on in Britain & Ireland are still doing the job in a changing climate.
#Iceland #Wetlands #ProtectedSites #Ornithology
#Iceland #Wetlands #ProtectedSites #Ornithology
Lovely day yesterday catching up with staff. A day of assessing recruitment of Curlews to the Dartmoor breeding population, discussing headstart post release monitoring & of course seeing the 2025 cohort of headstarts! 😊
June 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Lovely day yesterday catching up with staff. A day of assessing recruitment of Curlews to the Dartmoor breeding population, discussing headstart post release monitoring & of course seeing the 2025 cohort of headstarts! 😊
Interesting few days working on behalf of Natural England in advising the UK Great Bustard Group on developing & trialling a protocol to monitor great bustard productivity. The trip also facilitated knowledge transfer between national experts in species monitoring. #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
June 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Interesting few days working on behalf of Natural England in advising the UK Great Bustard Group on developing & trialling a protocol to monitor great bustard productivity. The trip also facilitated knowledge transfer between national experts in species monitoring. #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme
Rather satisfying loading up to @movebank.bsky.social
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points ✨️👌🏻 #Ornithology
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points ✨️👌🏻 #Ornithology
May 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Rather satisfying loading up to @movebank.bsky.social
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points ✨️👌🏻 #Ornithology
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points ✨️👌🏻 #Ornithology
Annual paddle in the Lake District for Barnacle Goose nest counting & monitoring. Lots of nests found, GPS'd, colour-marked adults identified & lots of eggs counted, measured, and weighed. Fun day with @cateden91.bsky.social #monitoring
May 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Annual paddle in the Lake District for Barnacle Goose nest counting & monitoring. Lots of nests found, GPS'd, colour-marked adults identified & lots of eggs counted, measured, and weighed. Fun day with @cateden91.bsky.social #monitoring
Lovely day at Matsalu Bay in Estonia watching thousands of Barnacle & White-fronted geese. Decent numbers of Bewick's swans, too. Smaller numbers of Whooper swans & Bean geese. Wildfowl heaven 😍
April 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lovely day at Matsalu Bay in Estonia watching thousands of Barnacle & White-fronted geese. Decent numbers of Bewick's swans, too. Smaller numbers of Whooper swans & Bean geese. Wildfowl heaven 😍
Lovely day in the Severn & Avon Vales for Curlew tagging. Several birds caught and data already being uploaded 👌🏻
April 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Lovely day in the Severn & Avon Vales for Curlew tagging. Several birds caught and data already being uploaded 👌🏻
The 106th time of running out onto the balcony to check for migrating Osprey...
April 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The 106th time of running out onto the balcony to check for migrating Osprey...
Several meetings this week regarding new species & habitat restoration projects on/around the Severn estuary! Excited to work on these & happy to call the estuary (& this view) home. Looking forward to deploying species monitoring, capture & tagging skills on WWT's new Saltmarsh Solutions project!
April 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Several meetings this week regarding new species & habitat restoration projects on/around the Severn estuary! Excited to work on these & happy to call the estuary (& this view) home. Looking forward to deploying species monitoring, capture & tagging skills on WWT's new Saltmarsh Solutions project!
Do any UK sugar beet farmers follow me on here?! Or do you know a sugar beet farmer who'd be up for spending 30 mins or so chatting to me? 😊
March 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Do any UK sugar beet farmers follow me on here?! Or do you know a sugar beet farmer who'd be up for spending 30 mins or so chatting to me? 😊
Since crossing back from the Netherlands en route to Iceland & since being picked up by #nocmic by @wheatear9.bsky.social in Suffolk, this bird is now in Dumfries & Galloway. Wonder how many other of our GPS tagged Whoopers have been picked up by #nocmic?! @simongillings.bsky.social
March 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Since crossing back from the Netherlands en route to Iceland & since being picked up by #nocmic by @wheatear9.bsky.social in Suffolk, this bird is now in Dumfries & Galloway. Wonder how many other of our GPS tagged Whoopers have been picked up by #nocmic?! @simongillings.bsky.social
Love that not only did GPS tracking allow us to document this Whooper Swan's crossing back from the Netherlands to England, but @wheatear9.bsky.social picked it up by #nocmig just minutes before it's tag took a GPS fix near to his location. #Migration #Bioacoustics #Gold 💫
March 17, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Love that not only did GPS tracking allow us to document this Whooper Swan's crossing back from the Netherlands to England, but @wheatear9.bsky.social picked it up by #nocmig just minutes before it's tag took a GPS fix near to his location. #Migration #Bioacoustics #Gold 💫
She'll be home within the hour! That time of year, as Whoopers crisscross the country heading home to Iceland. Always leaves me happy with a hint of sadness! Watching AAF's migration playing out on my laptop, a glimpse into her life, is such a privilege, she's got 30km to go 💛
March 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
She'll be home within the hour! That time of year, as Whoopers crisscross the country heading home to Iceland. Always leaves me happy with a hint of sadness! Watching AAF's migration playing out on my laptop, a glimpse into her life, is such a privilege, she's got 30km to go 💛
Home time for the Whoopers 🥲 Beautiful cross country track under the cover of darkness for this one last night! Nene Washes to Keilder Water, Northumberland in 4 hours. #Ornithology
March 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Home time for the Whoopers 🥲 Beautiful cross country track under the cover of darkness for this one last night! Nene Washes to Keilder Water, Northumberland in 4 hours. #Ornithology
Back home in Manchester for #BTOConference25, yesterday. Was such a privilege to speak about @waterbirdcm.bsky.social & to meet/chat to so many people! Best talk was John Callion's on his work on Dotterel in Cumbria - totally inspirational & such a lovely man. Thx you John & @btobirds.bsky.social !
March 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Back home in Manchester for #BTOConference25, yesterday. Was such a privilege to speak about @waterbirdcm.bsky.social & to meet/chat to so many people! Best talk was John Callion's on his work on Dotterel in Cumbria - totally inspirational & such a lovely man. Thx you John & @btobirds.bsky.social !
Starting to hear reports of Avian Influenza hitting Whooper Swans. Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 contact DefraGovUK, in N Ireland Daera & in Republic of Ireland Dept of agriculture. Please also report to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring
February 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Starting to hear reports of Avian Influenza hitting Whooper Swans. Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 contact DefraGovUK, in N Ireland Daera & in Republic of Ireland Dept of agriculture. Please also report to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring
Finally, we thank everyone who has participated in our work to date. From helping with the census, counting goslings/adults, assisting with our catch effort & to those reading colour-marks - your help has allowed us to progress our understanding of this population of geese 7/7
February 17, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Finally, we thank everyone who has participated in our work to date. From helping with the census, counting goslings/adults, assisting with our catch effort & to those reading colour-marks - your help has allowed us to progress our understanding of this population of geese 7/7