#comic s #funny #webcomic #comic s trip #cartoon #humor #humor ous #haha #funny content #comic s trips #comic #dogs #pets #LunchPun #dadjokes

Eurasian eagle-owl peeking out from her manmade “rocky cliff.” (See my last post.) She has evidently lived in this neighborhood with her mate for at least a few years and is doing well. (Last month in Madrid)

#birds #birding #nature #wildlife

Wishing everyone a happy #FlyDay
Here's a Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture (Cathartes burrovianus) looking for a wholesome dinner.
April 2024
#BirdsOfBelize #BirdsSeenIn2024 #birds #birding #birdwatcher #birdphotography #BirdsOfTwitter #BirdsOfX #NaturePhotography #BBCWildlifePOTD

Two PhD positions available in my lab, in the project on parental coordiantion in birds. See more here biology.ug.edu.pl/sites/biology.…
or contact me for more details

#FridayFacts

New paper, brilliant led by Dr Clément Daboné,
'Hooded #Vultures (Necrosyrtes monachus) are at risk of #extinction in Benin: A result of #poaching for belief-based use & decreasing food availability'. 🇧🇯

DABONE Clément
📖 doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1…

📸 © edgeofexistence.org

Vultures may have the worst personal brand in the entire avian world. #vultures #birdofprey bit.ly/4aKBoTx

Alcoholic vultures?
#Vultures deemed 'too #drunk to #fly ' after #dumpster #diving taken to ' #rehab ' center

foxnews.com/lifestyle/vult…

Interested in the #energytransition & supporting community economic #Resilience ?
🆕'Labor archetypes in industrial transitions: case studies from Yankee whaling and Gulf #windenergy in the United States'
- find it here or DM for a copy
doi.org/10.1016/j.erss…

I'm very proud of my ex-MSc student Monday Mdluli for publishing his second book. This time, a children's book on bats. This is one of his contributions to bat conservation!

Job alert! Come and join the team at BTO as an Ecological Statistician. Apply on our website 👉 bit.ly/btojobs

The successful applicant will have a quantitative background and an interest in ecology or nature conservation. Closing date: Sunday 21 April.

😂

The collective effort of many researchers and organizations, led by BirdLife Science reveals with data from 45 large migratory species that anthropogenic causes are main source of mortality at a flyway scale, energy infrastructure representing 49% casualties sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Scientists reveal bird that can fly over a 100 miles without flapping its wings
good.is/scientists-unv…

Tracking data highlight the importance of human-induced mortality for large migratory birds at a flyway scale
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Today I won a gold medal 🥇 in breaststroke at the South African Regional swimming championships. 🏊🏾‍♂️
It's taken me many years to get to this stage. Juggling academics, sports, art & being an ecowarrior ain't easy but I keep pushing on.
Alice Dearing

An student of mine is investigating 'public perceptions of #wildlife marking techniques for #research and #conservation ' for her MSc.

If you have 5-10 mins to spare, please fill out her survey: surveymonkey.com/r/ZRSNTS2

📸 © CSIRO (2022).

New paper out form korin reznikov's amazing MSc!
We show how different feeding schemes at feeding stations affect the movement of endangered Egyptian #vultures .

academic.oup.com/condor/advance…

with Animal Flight Lab and Oded Berger-Tal

#conservation #ornithology #biologging

Small update. I've changed my mind about owls 😄 Bearded vultures are much harder to draw !

Coloured pencils on Pastelmat, pan pastel background. A3 sized. My friend Jamie MacArthur made the beautiful reference photo in Spain.

#lovevultures #gypaetusbarbatus

Cool series of images depicting contemporary animals in the same manner that dinosaurs are depicted. 'Shrink wrapped' with very little fat on the muscle and bone.