Conor Ryan
whalenerd.bsky.social
Conor Ryan
@whalenerd.bsky.social
Here for whale/fungi/sea kayaking/queer 🏳️‍🌈/marine science chat. 🇮🇪living in🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Bubble-trail encounters from #krill #fishing vessels show that #Antarctic Voluntary Restriction Zones for the #krillfishing industry has displaced fishing into areas where the penguin encounter rate is higher/the same #CCAMLR

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June 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Some critters found while gardening today: European common frog, palmate newt, wood mouse
June 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Based on interviews and archive work (Bergen/Oslo, April 2024), Peter Wilson, @sbenjamins.bsky.social and I reviewed minke #whaling around Ireland in @injournal.bsky.social Vol 41.

Funded by Percey Sladen Memorial Fund & Society for Nautical Research

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June 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In the latest Irish Naturalists Journal issue, @andyfoote.bsky.social and I reported that "#DopeyDick" the killer whale that swam into #Derry City (Nov 1977) was a West Coast Community whale; probably "Comet". Minimum age 53y, but last documented 10y ago.
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June 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Departing Aberdeen Harbour is always fun for the bottlenose dolphin action. This afternoon we saw them eating salmon. A grey seal also had a fine lunch of salmon!
May 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It has been such an honour to sail around Ireland with U.N. Elder, Mary Robinson. Quoting Archbishop Desmund Tutu, she said she is "Not an optimist, but a prisoner of hope" #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis
May 13, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Here are some macaroni penguins (and a lone gentoo) with a humpback whale bearing down on them off Cooper Island, South Georgia... for #SuperSeabirdSunday
April 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I had no idea that we have water shrews in #Mull. Neighbour's cat killed two in under an hour. #shrew #watershrew
April 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
10 years ago today, my work was cited by an expert IWC panel to demonstrate that Japan's proposed new scientific whaling program was not scientifically justified because non-lethal alternatives had been proven to work. Proud moment (which I'd forgotten about until FB reminded me) #whaling
April 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Finally found a reference for the population control attempts on killer whales by the US military, at the request of the Icelandic Government in the 1950s (Naval Aviation News, 1956). #whaling
April 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
These beautiful and honest essay was published recently by my dear friend Rose Skelton. #queerfamily #spermdonation #mushrooms #love & #friendship.

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April 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Barnacle geese or pink-footed? I am leaning towards the former, as i think pink footed have more of a flutes or whistling call? Migrating north over Mull today with a nice tail wind #migration
April 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Antarctic minke whale drive-by in Lazarev Bay
March 27, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Commerson's dolphins: contender for the smallest marine dolphin in the world. These spent hours swimming into our prop-wash while the ship held position off Saunders Island, Falkland
March 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I found the beautiful yellow specklebelly in Mull today (Pseudocyphellaria citrina). Like a sheet of hammered copper, studded with golden stars. A rare treasure. #fungifriends #lichen #temperaterainforest
March 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Excited to report that @andrewfoote.bsky.social and I have a new note in the next issue of Irish Naturalists Journal irishnaturalistsjournal.org (please subscribe!). We believe that Dopey Dick (Derry 1977) was Comet (Hebrides & Ireland 1992-2014), now presumed dead #WestCoastCommunity #killerwhale.
March 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Colleagues have told me that cloudy eyes is a suspected symptom of HPAI in Antarctic fur seals. I saw several adults and pups with both or single cloudy eyes in South Georgia last week. This one was at Maiviken @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
West Point Island. Always a warm welcome from Tees and Kiki who have devoted so much time to making this island a haven for wildlife. #Falklands #rainbows
March 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Here's the closest thing to a top-down shot that I could get. Aside from morphlogy, given the small size and the fact that it was well fused, I think minke would make sense. Thanks for your help!
March 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
So many whale bones on Barren Island in #FalklandIslands🇫🇰. Highlights were a beaked whale vertebra and a sei or minke whale skull (help with species id would be great! @paoloviscardi.bsky.social)
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
March 6, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Pipe dream
March 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds
March 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Antarctic minke #whale lips👄
February 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Some whale pictures from an incredible week around the Antarctic Peninsula: pack-ice killer whale, humpback whale blow, long-finned pilot whale and humpback whale dorsal fin
February 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM