Miguel McMinn
@mmcminn.bsky.social
Biologist living in Mallorca 🪶✈️ miguel.mcminn@gmail.com
Another great #seabirds paper by amazing @liamtaylor.bsky.social !
Liam U. Taylor@liamtaylor.bsky.social · 2d agonow on the cover @esajournals.bsky.social Front. Ecol. Env. with @ejgnam2.bsky.social beautiful photo from world's coolest site by Francesco Ventura Young seabirds are mysterious - but we need to keep learning about them! They matter for biology, and for conservation! doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Last week, we welcomed our Nature Champion for gannets, Kayleigh Kinross-O’Neill MSP, to the Centre! We had a lovely wander along the beach, chatting all about gannets & watching them dive! A big thank you to Kayleigh for being a voice for gannets. Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill RSPB Scotland
👀Behind the Paper!👀 Author Thayara S. Carrasco discusses the ecological functions of species across different time periods in the Brazilian Pampa, the challenges of working across the fossil record, and the importance of maintaining constant exchange🦴 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/1NjHPm3 🧪🌍️
Thayara S. Carrasco | What do fossils teach us about conservation and ecological restoration?
In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post author Thayara S. Carrasco – a a postdoc at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, explores the paper “Long-term changes in functional div…
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🌡️🌊 La temperatura del agua de nuestros mares está más de 3 °C por encima de lo normal para estas fechas en el Cantábrico y más de 4 °C en el Mediterráneo occidental. ➡️ Esto provoca noches muy cálidas en la costa y un aumento de la sensación de bochorno por la elevada humedad.
Reticulated adaptive radiation and phylogenomic diversityloss in the Hawaiian honeycreepers #ornithology www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
Next year is the centenary of the publication of Elton's Animal Ecology - excellent idea for a Special Issue of @animalecology.bsky.social animalecologyinfocus.com/2026/06/30/2...
Celebrating 100 years since the publication of Charles Elton’s Animal Ecology
Reflections from our Executive Editor, Dr Nate Sanders Image of Charles Elton. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 100 years ago, a 27-year-old Charles Elton published Animal Ecology, a foundational b…
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Boia de sa Dragonera 32,7 C a les 14:00 05/08/2026. Puc triar meteorit. Crec que serà una mort més ràpida i pràcticament sense dolor.
#Feral cats and other animals do far more damage than we think. At a time of species decline, we can't afford this. theconversation.com/feral-cats-l...
Feral cats likely kill far more Australian native animals than we thought: first DNA analysis
We cannot fence the whole of Australia. Therefore, we need to know which species are most at risk from cats.
theconversation.com
Never made a pinhole camera? 12 August is the perfect excuse 📦 It's one of the safer ways to observe a solar eclipse & you can build one with things you have at home. Page 32 has all the details 👉 https://cesar.esa.int/download.php?Id=4144&N=77047198 (PDF) 🔭 🧪 ☀️ #EuropeanSolarEclipse
Your daily Avian Hybrids story! Why are there more bird species at lower elevations? avianhybrids.wordpress.com/2024/07/03/w... #ornithology
Why are there more bird species at lower elevations?
Highland regions might act as a species pump for lower elevations.
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Taylor et al. Prebreeding populations and the importance of life history for conserving imperiled seabirds esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds
Prebreeding populations and the importance of life history for conserving imperiled seabirds
Seabird conservation often focuses on nestlings and breeding adults. Yet imperiled seabird populations also contain prebreeders, including juveniles and subadults, that wait several years before bree...
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Momentarily moving away from #seabirds. Butterflies can also fly! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...
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WHITE-THROATED SPARROW Isle of May showing well. Just found (1st island record). Sorry for rubbish photos, just put phone against binoculars
#WonderfulWaderWednesday Ruddy Turnstones on the Northumberland coast. Passage migrants or Winterers?
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...
"We are the last continent in the world to have bird flu, it's quite remarkable that it hasn't come here already...that's meant...that we have had time … to make sure we're as well prepared as we possibly can be." But very frustratingly, we are not, Minister Watt! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads
A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.
abc.net.au
🧵 El verano de 2026 por ahora (junio-julio) es el más cálido de la serie histórica en España, que arranca en 1961. ➡️ Con una temperatura media de 24,5 ºC, supera en 0,7 ºC a los bimestres junio-julio más cálidos, los de 2022 y 2025. Es 2,9 ºC más cálido que el promedio 1991-2020.
This is a depressing read but we all need to be aware of the terrible potential of the bird flu that has finally made its way to Australia and New Zealand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
'List of doom' outlines birds facing extinction if deadly flu spreads
A list of thousands of Australian species have been ranked by threat level as the deadly H5 bird flu spreads.
abc.net.au
¿El lobo ocupándose de las ovejas? ¿Moreno Bonilla era el mirlo blanco, el moderado de su partido? 👇👇 Moreno cede a Vox el servicio para valorar a víctimas de violencia de género que los de Abascal pedían "depurar" por su "sesgo ideológico". Por @DaniCela8 www.eldiario.es/1_ccd7a9?utm...
Moreno cede a Vox el servicio para valorar a víctimas de violencia de género que los de Abascal pedían "depurar" por su "sesgo ideológico"
El partido ultra gestionará las Unidades de Valoración Integral de Violencia de Género, adscritas a la Consejería de Justicia que pilota su líder, Manuel Gavira. En 2019, Vox reclamó al Parlamento la ...
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Esta indecencia sí que merece una alerta democrática: El Gobierno cuestiona la lealtad del PP al Pacto contra la Violencia de Género tras ceder a Vox la evaluación de las víctimas en Andalucía. Por @DaniCela8 www.eldiario.es/1_cce23f?utm...
El Gobierno cuestiona la lealtad del PP al Pacto contra la Violencia de Género tras ceder a Vox la evaluación de las víctimas en Andalucía
La ministra de Igualdad, Ana Redondo, sindicatos, ONGs y todos los líderes de la oposición de izquierdas en Andalucía cargan contra Feijóo y el presidente Juanma Moreno por dar a la ultraderecha el co...
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There is a lot we can do to help Australia’s native wildlife survive and recover from H5N1 bird flu. It will require far greater care and investment from governments than we’ve seen so far. theconversation.com/powerless-ag...
Powerless against bird flu? Not entirely. Here are 8 ways to help protect Australia’s birds and mammals
As lethal bird flu spreads in Australian wildlife, it can be easy to think nothing can stop it. That’s an error – much can be done.
theconversation.com
Yellow tip to the bill means Sandwich Tern; this one on the Northumberland coast.
Bats appeared around 56 million years ago, and evolved into one of most diverse mammals out there. Just think about potential pterosaur diversity we're missing, given they thrived for over 160 million years.
Natalia (娜塔莉)@nataliajagielska.bsky.social · 23h agoMore crazy bats. Greater Bulldog Bat has a bulldog face and giant feet, used for the on-the-wing fishing
Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine-fed system www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Molecular evidence for a relict marine community in an Antarctic Dry Valleys subglacial brine-fed system - Nature Geoscience
Eukaryotic microorganisms within a subglacial brine-fed system in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are largely of marine origin, a legacy of past incursions of seawater into the area, according t...
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BirdLife International has received a £7.5m grant from the Ecological Restoration Fund to support conservation along the African–Eurasian Flyway, one of the world’s most important migration routes. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/.../article/... 📸Christian Gelpke
#ornithology www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Physiological constraints on heat adaptation in birds
Rising global temperatures and compound climatic extremes outpace avian thermoregulatory capacity. Yet, heat tolerance has been studied in only 1–2% of birds, mostly from the southern subtropics. The ...
cell.com
Todavía no hay un nombre universalmente aceptado para las noches en las que no se baja de 30 °C, pero lo cierto es que estas ya se producen. Uno de los términos propuestos es "noche infernal". Pues bien, en Canarias ha habido esta madrugada localidades con ese tipo de noche.
