People are always surprised to learn that packaging, processing, and transportation are almost always small contributors (<10%) of food-related GHG emissions. The TYPE of food we eat -- meat versus plants -- is a MUCH bigger factor.

We reached 250,000 birds! This sets us ahead of the average counted by this date. Undoubtedly, the star of the show for the past week has been European Honey-Buzzards, which comprise 98% of our current totals. Photos by Valentin Cordes and Tanja Schachner.

We’ve counted half a million birds already this season! 🤯🇬🇪🦅

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500.000 birds counted!!! The past three days, the skies have exploded with Honey Buzzards, resulting in daily(!) totals of more than 90.000. Photos by Thijmen Stolk, Jess Cosentino, Yang Li, Mansour Elkerdany, Toka Eldakamawy, Olaf Gwiazdowski, and Sofia Meskhidze

After a few drizzly days on station, the clouds finally parted and streams of Honey-Buzzards began to flow through the bottleneck - today’s raptor total was 903! Photo credits: Valentin Cordes, Lauren Evans, Oscar Hazell, Toka Eldakamawy

Excited to publish the last paper from my PhD which explores how light can constrain chick provisioning behaviour in Manx shearwaters Thanks so much to all my co-authors and to everyone who helped support this manuscript! #seabird #science #research royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

Day length may impose an ecological constraint on chick provisioning behaviour in a high-latitude seabird

Abstract. Variation in daylight hours may shape light-dependent behaviours both across seasons and among latitudinally distinct breeding colonies. We inves

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Welcome to Badge Bimble! TGR member Vix puts our #HowWeKitUp pillar into action by buying kit second-hand & ignoring shoe replacement myths. Living in a rural area, she carshares whenever possible to protect our green spaces. Read more at thegreenrunners.com/badge-bimbles/

Sustainable running stories: Badge Bimbles that make a difference - The Green Runners CIC

You joined The Green Runners. You made your pledge. You pinned on your badge (or perhaps stitched it, if you are more sartorially inclined). What next? It's time to meet your fellow members from acros...

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Today was the first day of BRC’s 18th autumn raptor count! While raptor migration isn’t yet in full swing, our first Honey-Buzzards, Booted Eagles, White Storks, and Black Storks rewarded our efforts scanning today’s sunny skies. Photos by Lauren Evans, Valentin Cordes, and Jess Cosentino.

So excited to be back in Batumi as one of this year’s coordinators! 🤩🦅🇬🇪

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The 2026 BRC coordinators have arrived in Batumi and eagerly await this season's outstanding team! We are very grateful to our sponsor, Kite Optics, for providing stellar optics and financial support to make this year's count possible!

Meet our trainees! Toka from Egypt, Arda from Türkiye, and Redha from Lebanon will join us as the 2026 cohort of the Flyway Monitoring Traineeship. We set up this traineeship program with OSME last year. Read more about the program and trainees: www.batumiraptorcount.org/news/2026/8/...

Highly recommend signing up to the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Guillemates initiative! I've had some wonderful mentors and met some great like-minded people over the past few years! 💫

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Our Guillemates 2026/27 mentoring is now open for sign-up! 🐧 Join a colony of peers at a similar career stage 🤝 Be matched with a mentor (or become one!) 🎤 Take part in population-wide talks 🔹 Mentee sign-up: forms.gle/HyxYdjYz6Lgt... 🔹 Mentor sign-up: forms.gle/AQUHoa5NKa5h...

1/3 We're always striving to do better! 💚 Got 4 minutes to help us shape the future of The Green Runners? As a volunteer-led crew, we want to give our community the best support possible. Your voice matters! forms.gle/c9acPSEgEx5R... 🏃‍♂️🌿 #TheGreenRunners #EcoRunning

The Green Runners: Community Perception & Membership Survey

Are you an active TGR member? A former supporter? Or have you just discovered us today? We want to hear from you! This 4-minute survey helps us understand how runners view sustainability, what you e...

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Join us for our next panel discussion 'Being queer in Seabird Science'! 🏳️‍🌈 🗓️ Friday 7th August ⏲️ 09:30 - 11:00 (BST) 📍 Online Sign-up here to receive the joining link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 📷 @scottishseabird.bsky.social

My second visit to the uninhabited island of Eynhallow in Orkney for fulmar tagging. Fantastic birds, glorious weather & lots of swimming!

Fabulous but somewhat knackering day on Puffin Island, Anglesey, ringing Kittiwakes! They’re having a good season here this year #birdringing #birdbanding

On speaking out & the power of individual action. Green Runner Russell Bentley sets out the case for hope. “Climate change isn’t some distant thing your grandkids might deal with, it’s here now. It's making living & running tougher.” Choose hope, it’s the only place action can come from 💚

Heatwave and Hope

It’s hot you dickhead.

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Given my trusty Asics hopefully a new lease of life with @pair-ups.bsky.social! 👟 Tested at Parkrun this morning & so far so good! 🏃🏻‍♀️ @thegreenrunners.bsky.social #shareyourpairups

Accepted, Bee-eater, South Stack, Anglesey, 9 May, finder L. Evans.

The reward of island rat eradication is seeing, hearing and smelling seabirds return. Reminding myself of winter days volunteering with @northwaleswt.bsky.social. Plus recent sightings in this week's @northwaleslive.bsky.social BirdNotes. #BirdingWales #Anglesey www.birdnotes.wales/blog/volunte...

Volunteers aid recovery of island seabird colony

Watching a thriving seabird colony is a special thing: the sight of thousands of whirring wings as birds move from cliff to open water, a cacophony that conveys meaning to the parents and chicks for.....

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Shocking report by Unearthed and @greenpeaceafrica.org. Fast fashion over consumption in the UK is generating huge volumes of waste that is polluting Ghana and other African countries. As runners, we need to play our part in #HowWeKitUp when it is comes to kit & event merch.

✨🐝 Bee-eater 🐝 ✨northwest past South Stack, Anglesey this morning! Disappointingly brief views as it zoomed along the top of the cliffs but my first self-found nonetheless! @angbirdnews.bsky.social

Thought provoking read about how climate impacts running and how running impacts climate change. “Runfluencer culture and over-consumption in running fashion are dramatically increasing the environmental cost of what should be a low-impact activity. #HowWeKitUp theconversation.com/hurdles-to-a...

Hurdles to a hobby: How climate change and ‘runfluencer’ culture impact our daily jog

Climate change is already re-shaping how people engage in sport. Due to warming temperatures, running may become less accessible and safe for many of us.

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🥳 New paper alert 🥳 The first of the data chapters from my DPhil, and the works from my first few field seasons on Skomer, is out! "Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales" - doi.org/10.1242/jeb.... A huge thank you to everyone involved 🩵

Shearwaters make efficient navigational decisions, even at very fine scales

Summary: A fine-scale displacement of Manx shearwaters, a wide-ranging pelagic seabird, reveals that they preferentially adopt shorter homing routes following release at proximal sites, demonstrating ...

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Following @Natures_Voice advice on feeding birds, many of you have asked: what more can we do? 🐦💚 ✂️ Cut hedges less often 🐕 Keep dogs on leads during breeding season 🐈 Keep cats indoors at dawn & dusk Small changes = big impact. Protect our birds for future generations

A wonderful week of raptor migration in Tarifa, Spain. Eagles, kites & vultures galore! Plus Lesser kestrels breeding right outside the apartment window! 🪟

Our 2026 Flyway Monitoring Traineeship is open for applications from raptor enthusiasts living in the OSME region. Learn all about raptor migration, identification and what it takes to run a count like the BRC, and receive up to €1300 to cover costs. www.batumiraptorcount.org/flyway-monit... 🪶

A three ibis species day at La Janda, Spain! Northern bald ibis, Sacred ibis & a flock of Glossy ibis!

Call for Counters! Join BRC in Autumn 2026 to witness the magnificent migration of >1 million raptors, improve your ID skills, and contribute to population monitoring! Fees: €10-24/day with discounts available! Read more & apply here: www.batumiraptorcount.org/volunteer-as-raptor-migration-counter

We would be grateful if you could take part in our 2026 Diversity and Inclusion survey 💙 Within The Seabird Group, we're tracking our progress and working to build a more diverse, inclusive community 👥 It takes just 5-10 minutes to complete ⏲️ Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A superb few days in the arid desert south of the Morocco’s High atlas. 116 species up for the trip so far (in 4.5 days!). Thick-billed Lark, Temminck’s Lark, Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Lanner Falcon, Cream-coloured Coursers and loads of migrants. A superb Desert Horned Viper too. Off to the Desert today🇲🇦

Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...