Some excellent wildlife-watching on a current research visit to Vancouver!

Roman Mosaic in the Bardo museum in Tunisia which showcases shifting extinction baselines. Orpheus plays his lyre to a bunch of animals that all occurred in the Roman empire (and all except the tiger in Tunisia) when it was made, yet are now all extinct (or only recently reintroduced):

Nice Christmas present this year - new paper on the inferred impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on hunted mammal species in Cusuco National Park, Honduras, just accepted! Great work by Dylan McKenna pushing it through. Pre-proof version here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Absolutely! Just coming back from Egypt now - saw these 3000 year-old ducks yesterday. Very pretty, but ultimately just artistic drawings at the end of the day.....

Woodcock surrounded by Bankers talking about the FTSE 100 in the middle of the City of London today. Odd but i understand not massively rare? A case of city lights confusing their migration, perhaps? (Photo courtesy of my brother)

New paper out, excellently led by Ferran Sayol, showcasing the AVOTREX database. This database summarized information on all 610 bird species known to have gone extinct in the last 130,000 years (including geographical range data, traits, and phylogenetic positioning). tinyurl.com/muznycc9