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Sean Walls
@seanbuzza.bsky.social
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Nature Lover, with particular passion for raptors and diving.
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josephwb.bsky.social
Congrats CD on your well-earned achievement!

(This is _actually_ on the "journal" website)

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Screenshot from journal website. There is a picture of of Count Dracula. Text: BEST AUTHOR Of The Month Professor Thomas Count Dracula, MD, PhD Distinguished Professor of Haematology Head — Experimental, Historical & Sensory Haematology Vlad the Impaler University, Wolf’s Lane, Wooden Stakes Grove 666, Transylvania.
September 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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bou.org.uk
Factors Associated with Homing Behavior in Cooper’s Hawks Following Mitigation Translocations from Airports | doi.org/10.3356/jrr2465 | Journal of Raptor Research | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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dorsetraptors.bsky.social
Hoping to deliver a live streaming Hobby nest camera this year. We have several cameras up on nests/baskets that were used last year; some are looking promising but we won't know for sure until eggs are laid! Average laying date is approx 14th June....🤞
June 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
seanbuzza.bsky.social
Red kite currently over Wareham Common
February 14, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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myabambrick.bsky.social
Come along to the premiere of my upcoming documentary ‘Conservation: the Next Generation’ in collab with @btobirds.bsky.social at the David Attenborough Building in Cambridge!

Followed by a Q&A.

Tickets are free here: www.bto.org/community/ev... 😊

Trailer here: youtu.be/Fop-NhoKm-c?...
February 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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hughhanmer.bsky.social
Big difference in bill lengths on these #Nuthatch ringed this morning for the @btobirds.bsky.social winter #BirdRinging project. Both males but the longer billed bird was 2+ years old with other a 1st winter. ringed under license @welshlassy.bsky.social @greg-conway.bsky.social @avutarta.bsky.social
Two Nuthatch with different lengths bills. Ringed under BTO licence.
January 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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bou.org.uk
Satellite-tracking provides first description of migration in Tasmanian Boobooks Ninox leucopsis | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶
January 13, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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seafloorscience.bsky.social
Happy New Year from invertebrates that look like fireworks.

Credits
Jellyfish: OET/Nautilus Live
Anemone: Cathy Lewis
Feather duster worm: Pauline Walsh Jacobsen
Octopus: Schmidt Ocean Institute
A round jellyfish with glowing golden stripes on the bell and long tendril tentacles against a background of deep sea sediment. An anemone with many white thin tentacles A close up into the centre of a feather duster worm with radiating striped white and brown tentacles A semi-translucent octopus with a spotted mantle and blue tentacles.
December 31, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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bou.org.uk
Breeding behaviour of Central European Red Kites: parental sex-dependent differences | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶
Breeding behaviour of Central European Red Kites: parental sex-dependent differences
Journal of Ornithology - The breeding behaviour of raptors is determined by many characteristics, such as courtship and mating patterns, nest building, foraging, territorial defence activities,...
link.springer.com
November 27, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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liamlangley1.bsky.social
New paper alert!

Really excited to see this work from a postdoc with Steve Votier @heriotwattuni.bsky.social published in Ecology & Evolution!
In it, we use existing bio-logging data to study competition and facilitation in foraging gannets.

Link to paper here:

dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Competition and Facilitation Influence Central Place Foraging Ecology in a Colonial Marine Predator
Analysis of combined deployments of GPS loggers with cameras or temperature–depth recorders reveals that despite experiencing intraspecific competition for food, northern gannets engage in dynamic, c...
dx.doi.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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arjundevamar.bsky.social
NEW PAPER📝
Plumage polymorphism in the black sparrowhawk (Accipiter melanoleucus) is strongly associated with expression level of agouti signalling protein

J. of Heredity. 2nd Chapter from Ed Rodseth's PhD, co-supervised by Rob Ingle

doi.org/10.1093/jher...
#RaptorResearch #ornithology #colsci
a white morph black sparrowhawk held in the hand prior to release
November 25, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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jannerbirder.bsky.social
Research by Bangor University found that birds, in this case, Eurasian Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus scirpaceus), use only the Earth's magnetic inclination and declination to determine their position and direction.

#Ornithology
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
New experiment challenges long-held theories on how migratory birds navigate
New research challenges the long-held belief that all components of the Earth's magnetic field, especially total intensity, are essential for accurate navigation.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
Seb gave us a wonderful overview of Wild Woodbury, and took part in very lively Q&A together with our other speakers at the end of the day. Many thanks.
sebelwood.bsky.social Seb Elwood @sebelwood.bsky.social · Nov 17
Amazing to have presented and been part of the Dorset Bird Conference yesterday. Several great talks and conversations, leading to a day filled with inspiration and hope for the future.

@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
@btobirds.bsky.social
November 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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richardkbroughton.bsky.social
Titbit: Willow Tits & Marsh Tits use their black throat patch like a status badge to intimidate rivals. They change posture to increase/reduce the size of the black patch as needed.

The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit, published 5 Dec 2024: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit...
#ornithology #ukbirding
November 15, 2024 at 2:07 PM