We need your help - four of our satellite-tracked quail have gone missing in France! Any information would be interesting, e.g. if the signal comes from near a fox den, buzzard nest or hunting area 🦊🦅🔫 If you can recover the tag, we can re-use it - and you can name this quail 😉 Pls share widely 🇫🇷

Epic news, surely the UK will follow???!!!!!

BirdLife Europe & Central Asia@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · 5d ago

WE WON. Lead in gunshot will finally be banned across the EU! Just now, the European Parliament approved in plenary the Commission's proposal to restrict lead in gunshot. This decision ends years of debate on one of Europe's most persistent forms of lead pollution.

Funded 3.5 year PhD🎺 The effects of gamebird release and management on the lowland ecosystems of S England Lots of fieldwork. A robust and resilient student is required. Focus on reptiles and ecto-parasites Any Qs, please DM or email me Please RT www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

The second target species for these Bluetooth tags was the Blue Tit, to test their potential for studying irruptive migratory movements. The first results, after a few days, are just so cool. Still pretty crazy to think that we can follow the migration of such a small bird in (almost) real time! 😎

The @marshawards.bsky.social for Local Ornithology goes to The Friends of the Lower Derwent Valley Conservation Group! This group’s ornithological and conservational efforts in their area are commendable, including their work radio-tagging Jack Snipe, their bird ringing studies & book publication.

The autumns first Yellow-browed Warbler is at the Warren by the seawatch hut #spurnbirds @rarebirder.bsky.social

Truly bizarre experience twitching a Great Bittern (Botaurus stellaris) feeding on the edge of the woodland whilst visiting Sheffield General Cemetery today. Has anyone seen them hunting in similar habitat? Left it ‘showing well’ at 1130 hrs. SK34248600 @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social #UKBirding

Delighted to see Ireland’s 2nd Blackburnian Warbler on Dursey Island, Cork today. Amazing find by Paul & Noel. #irishrarebirds

Birthday celebrations for @jabbirdart.bsky.social ‘s 40th in Filey this weekend, topped off nicely with these 3 Cranes right over head whilst waiting for a Wetherspoons brekkie this morning, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACK YOU LEGEND 🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥💚💚💚

Potato Field hawthorn with a Wryneck 🙂 Such an enjoyable time here. Staff @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social welcoming & the set-up around the area is second to none. We've heard lots about it over the years & to see it in action was impressive. What a place! @linnetincley.bsky.social #spurnbirds 3/3

Arriving to Sammy’s yesterday evening and heading south along the peninsula this morning, this ringtail Pallid Harrier was a showstopper for its few lucky observers! Stunning pictures sent into us from Roger Parrish, taken yesterday. 📷 #Spurnbirds @rarebirder.bsky.social

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🚨 Exciting news! The Swiss Ornithological Institute is starting a collaborative program that offers multi-sensor geolocators and analytical support for bird migration research, focusing on underrepresented species & regions. Interested? geopressure.org/GeoCollabForm/ Please share!

The spectacle of an eclipse when it didn't even get dark was maybe on a par with today's migration happenings - something of a damp squib. WWs just about struggled into double figures at the Bill, where a miscellany of waders - 13 Whimbrel, 9 Ringed Plovers & a Knot - provided a little interest.

New guidance from the eBird Team - summarising - don't use AI tools to edit your bird photos! ebird.org/news/threat-... link to original paper: rdcu.be/ftx6h #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧪🌎

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In southern France and Swifts are everywhere! All the towns have epic numbers and a single building this morning must have had 20+ pairs, they seem to like these ridged tiles when they aren’t filled in, something to recreate in UK rather than a token Swift brick here and there?

That was quick! Tophill's a sporadic breeding site ~48km from Spurn (2nd biggest dot on map below). Good example of Marsh Tits dispersing from isolated territories in fragmented habitat getting 'lost in the landscape', with no habitat or mates nearby. They keep looking until they run out of options☠️

Richard K Broughton@richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Can't wait to hear origins of the ringed Marsh Tit at Spurn. In the book I included a section & figure on dispersing Marsh Tit juvs reaching Spurn in summer, how they must cross at least 40 km of hostile open farmland to get there. But sadly it's the end of the road for them. #ornithology #ukbirding

A very unusual nest! A pair of Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix feeding young Wrens Troglodytes troglodytes. I presume the warblers' nest was predated and they found this similar looking nest nearby and began to feed the young even though the adult Wrens were too! Dartmoor, Devon this morning.

Just over 2 years ago I chopped 2 gaps in our new build garden and never thought I’d actually get a Hedgehog come in… they’ve only gone and nested in it! 2 babies wandering round the wildflower patch this evening! 🦔🦔🦔

and a wee bit of video of the Woodcock with chicks in tow! #highlandbirds 🪶

A nice surprise to find Yellow-browed Warblers (Phylloscopus inornatus) breeding in a relatively small larch forest at ~2,000m elevation in E Kazakhstan, in the same habitat as Hume’s Warbler. As far as we know, the species was not previously known to breed in Kazakhstan. @pdvsky.bsky.social

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At Newton this evening when I heard a Phalarope calling, I looked up but could only see a large flock of Starlings. Then I realised, this Red-necked Phalarope was in amongst them ! It dropped towards the scrapes but I couldn't relocate it unfortunately. #NEbirding #Lowcarbonbirding #PatchGold

And the star of the show: the Richard’s Pipit (Anthus richardi). We searched for the species along the Russian border, near where the birds that winter in Europe are breeding. Let’s see whether they all go east or west.

It’s barely mid-June and I have nearly ripe Yellow Rattle Seed in my front mini meadow! Also epic Vipers Bugloss display! #wildflowers

Great to see our first review of the Birds of the #LDV in this month's Bird Watching magazine – much appreciated! If you haven’t purchased a copy yet but would still like to do so, please get in touch with us direct (via Lucy.Murgatroyd@naturalengland.org.uk) @yorkbirding.bsky.social

We’ve also been sent some photographs this week from #LDV volunteer David Salisbury of two pairs of Oystercatchers nesting amongst solar panels near Aughton, with records of other pairs breeding around the reserve in the surrounding area on flat roofs on industrial estates🐣

LDV_NNR@ldvnnr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Nice to receive this record of a colour-ringed Oystercatcher seen in the Foggathorpe area by @duncbye.bsky.social this week – originally ringed in August 2009 as a first-year in Hampshire - next seen near Barnsley (April 2012) and Goole (April 2014) - likely to be breeding in the area.

An Eastern Common Nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos golzii) from yesterday, NE Kazakhstan. What a strange looking bird! w/ @pdvsky.bsky.social

Amazing find by Simon H-R! First for UK Western Reef Heron at the Foryd Bay. Looks the real deal 👍Great twitch with @owen27.bsky.social #ukbirding #welshbirds

happy pride, bird heads!