Sam Langlois
@naturalistsam.bsky.social
Seabird ecologist at BTO
Birding | Wildlife photography | Bird ringing
He/Him. Aberdeen, Scotland.
Views are my own
Birding | Wildlife photography | Bird ringing
He/Him. Aberdeen, Scotland.
Views are my own
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I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧
August 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧
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Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
May 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
Getting nest material is hard work, especially if it's windy!
May 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Getting nest material is hard work, especially if it's windy!
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A nice distraction this afternoon with 4 Humpback Whales cruising past the house 💙
March 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A nice distraction this afternoon with 4 Humpback Whales cruising past the house 💙
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Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
www.tundraediciones.es
www.tundraediciones.es
March 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social
www.tundraediciones.es
www.tundraediciones.es
Seabirds 2025 are go!
Yesterday the Puffin army returned, creeping closer and closer which allowed us to do a whole-island count. A staggering 13,174 were counted rafting, the highest number since 1934! Today, they made their first 2025 landfall, two days earlier than the 2013-2024 first birds ashore mean. Welcome home!
March 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Seabirds 2025 are go!
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FIBO's permanent staff back on the Isle and the Observatory refit continues apace. Keep up to date with ornithological updates via our latest sighting page: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
March 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
FIBO's permanent staff back on the Isle and the Observatory refit continues apace. Keep up to date with ornithological updates via our latest sighting page: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories
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An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house
Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!
February 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house
Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!
February 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!
A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!
February 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!
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Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?
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It's been a quiet winter for Short-eared Owls in Orkney, perhaps unsurprising after such poor autumn passage through
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
February 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's been a quiet winter for Short-eared Owls in Orkney, perhaps unsurprising after such poor autumn passage through
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier
We found this lovely Common Scoter on the beach yesterday, wet and unable to fly after the storm. After a night of rest and food at home, it was very lively and ready to go this morning, flying out to sea straight away! Can I count it for the house list?
January 26, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We found this lovely Common Scoter on the beach yesterday, wet and unable to fly after the storm. After a night of rest and food at home, it was very lively and ready to go this morning, flying out to sea straight away! Can I count it for the house list?
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And the more usual current situation with Ptarmigan, in Ruadh Stac Mòr, Ceann Loch Iù. White patches of lichen on the rocks providing a bit of camouflage with the lack of snow! #BirdingScotland #highlandbirds
January 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And the more usual current situation with Ptarmigan, in Ruadh Stac Mòr, Ceann Loch Iù. White patches of lichen on the rocks providing a bit of camouflage with the lack of snow! #BirdingScotland #highlandbirds
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Watercolour of one of my favourite moments last year watching a Greenish Warbler feeding amongst the sycamores at Valyie, Unst #birds #birdart #BirdingScotland
January 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Watercolour of one of my favourite moments last year watching a Greenish Warbler feeding amongst the sycamores at Valyie, Unst #birds #birdart #BirdingScotland
Amazing scenes in Aberdeen this morning - Donmouth almost completely frozen over!
January 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Amazing scenes in Aberdeen this morning - Donmouth almost completely frozen over!
One of those dreamy winter days. Not a breath of wind, a maximum temperature of -7C°, and great quantities of snow and ice at Glen Tanar today ❄️❄️
January 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
One of those dreamy winter days. Not a breath of wind, a maximum temperature of -7C°, and great quantities of snow and ice at Glen Tanar today ❄️❄️
A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️
January 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️
Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds
December 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds
Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!
December 24, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!
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A well-timed visit to the Loons this morning resulted in another brief view of the Bittern that’s currently in residence, as it crept across an open channel in the reeds #OrkneyBirds
December 17, 2024 at 4:44 PM
A well-timed visit to the Loons this morning resulted in another brief view of the Bittern that’s currently in residence, as it crept across an open channel in the reeds #OrkneyBirds
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1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
December 17, 2024 at 10:15 AM
1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding
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2024 biodiversity indicators are in... If a wake-up call was needed to show the UK is failing nature, this is it.
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...
December 10, 2024 at 5:43 PM
2024 biodiversity indicators are in... If a wake-up call was needed to show the UK is failing nature, this is it.
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...
Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨
To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...
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For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 1:42 PM
For my first post here, I’m happy to share our new paper just published in @ibisjournal.bsky.social Thanks to a great team effort, we made a small step forward in the study of Siberian vagrants in Europe and clarified the status of two (pseudo) vagrants: the YBW & the Sib Chiffchaff. Some results 🧵