1) News just in! 🦆🦢The 2022/23 Waterbirds in the UK report was released today showing fewer ducks, geese, swans and wader species are travelling to the UK as milder winters keep them in northern Europe. Discover the findings⬇️or read the #WeBSReport ➡️bit.ly/3WxpKrF

I deployed the first GPS tag of my PhD this morning! I will be following this female mallard (& 9 others) through the breeding season. Very exciting times, I can’t wait to see where she goes 🦆

Congrats Vildan Acar on your winning poster! Check out Vildan’s project if you ring great tits and want to contribute to an interesting project

Had a great time at #BOU2024 - grateful for the chance to meet lots of amazing people and learn more about urban birds!

Excited to now have a C-permit to ring mallards! Thanks Prof Tom Cameron and Chas Holt 🌍🇺🇦 for all your help 🦆

Paid another visit to the local nest tubes this afternoon with Prof Tom Cameron - 4/6 checked are now in use, with 3 mallards sitting on eggs and a fourth tube occupied by an Egyptian goose..

Proper treat to spend some time with a Hen Harrier today at Abberton - phone photos - while doing fieldwork recon with Hannah Coburn

Best day at work 😍 meeting peeps for first time in person and bringing like minded souls together for discussion on waterfowl 🦆 research and tag training - thank you so much to Ros Green Kane Brides Chas Holt 🌍🇺🇦 Heather Warrender Hannah Coburn and two legends from the NThamesRG

It’s official - the mallard nesting season has begun! Two of the local nesting tubes here in northern Essex are already occupied 🪺

Apparently it is #MallardMonday 🦆🦆🦆🦆 - we love 🦆🦆 School of Life Sciences, University of Essex - here is PhD student Hannah Coburn with one the mallards in our (licenced) study and one of the #urban sites to find them using in #Colchester #Essex UK

Nice to be involved in this - I’m looking forward to monitoring these nest tubes as part of my summer fieldwork 🦆🪺

Ornithological science needs women and girls!

This International Day of Women and Girls in Science we’d like to showcase just some of the women and girls integral to BTO's community of researchers, citizen scientists and communicators. We asked them, why birds?

#WomenInScience

From 40 year studies on the #Essex Colne estuary, understanding seagrass, saltmarsh, mudflat, oyster beds and coastal seas to the #wildlife that uses and connects them - School of Life Sciences, University of Essex #research & #education supports #WorldWetlandsDay2024

Had an amazing day ringing wigeon and brent geese with the North Thames ringing group