Great to see these greater horseshoe bats making use of the hotbox I helped with some years ago. Mums are gathering, ready to give birth a month from now, and every bit of energy they can save by being cozy helps to make bigger, healthier babies! East Devon National Landscape Devon Wildlife Trust #bats

Really lovely to meet you and share some boar enthusiasm!

Let's hear it for the boar! Case for restoring this native species to British ecosystems admirably presented by Chantal Lyons Ambios Ltd The Sharpham Trust Restoring Nature Festival. Read 'Groundbreakers' for more info. 🐗

Excited to be in glorious Devon sunshine for the Restoring Nature Festival The Sharpham Trust Ambios Ltd 🐝🐦🦉🦊🦇

How can we help our amazing eels? 🪢EEL ROPES🪢 are a low-cost, nature-based solution that lets eels bypass otherwise impassable barriers. Watch here: buff.ly/3WM82R8 #WorldEelDay #NatureBasedSolutions #EelConservation

'Screaming parties' of swifts here in Colyton seem to comprise of just 3 or 4 birds (not usual 10+). Not looking promising....

How to restore nature? Festival of #rewildling and #regenerative agriculture and literature tomorrow The Sharpham Trust Devon organised by Ambios Ltd. Join me, Derek Gow, Chantal Lyons and Tim Kendall. ambios.net/restoring-natu…

Training the next generation of bat workers! #bats #wildlife

Fun exploring Mason bee hotels with @bethbees Ellen Rotheray University of Sussex #bees #wildlife

You can't see me! This tiny Common pipistrelle bat is not dead. It is fairly typical for them to 'play dead' like this. I presume it is an anti-predator response. #bats #wildlife

La pipistrel·la dels Nathusius es troba en procés de migrar cap a les àares de reproducció a Europa continental. Per a tal de conèixer el seu recorregut s'utilitzen tags amb GPS que duren enganxats a l'individu unes setmanes, coincidents amb l'època de migració.

⚠️ Amb la rata cellarda al punt de mira 🐹
Fins al 2023 hi ha hagut 8 estacions per recollir dades d'aquesta espècie. L'estat de les seves poblacions és molt incerta a Europa, i per això formem part del grup de treball europeu per a la conservació #ratacellarda Mammal Conservation Europe

On this #WorldMigratoryBirdDay 🐦, we celebrate the turtle dove, which is starting to come back to 🇪🇺 skies

Thanks to a technical support to Member States and legal action, it reached 1.96 million breeding pairs in 2023 in the western flyway 👉 europa.eu/!Fnhxfd

#WMBD2024

On #WorldMigratoryBirdDay spare a thought for the tiny Nathusius's pipistrelle bats than can migrate more than 1,000km. Along with the usual hazards, they now have to dodge wind turbines in N Sea and English Channel. Safe travels little bats! 🦇 Here's one we are tracking.

I know 😢. I am tempted to try my luck on a Lottery ticket for only the 2nd time in my life!

Absolutely agree. Delaying BPS phase out is absolutely not in the interest of farmers - not now and not ever. It really is time that the NFU woke up and started to lobby effectively to help farmers move towards a sustainable future rather than trying to pin them in the dark ages.

Junk food: GPS tracking reveals that kittiwakes ingest indigo-dyed plastic fibers in the Gulf of Alaska & feed them to their young.

New paper out #OpenAccess below, led by Paolo Tremolada & Univ Milan.

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Any wildlife lovers out there with £250k to spare? Stunning derelict farmhouse with a major roost of lesser horseshoes plus a couple of greater horseshoes up for auction next week. I managed to get the estate agent to change the brochure to mention #bats . symondsandsampson.co.uk/property/33012…

Good to be in Bovey Tracey to chat about wildlife conservation and our book 'Black Ops and Beaver Bombing'. It is a long time since there have been red squirrels in this part of the world, but still nice to see them commemorated in these old plaques! #wildlife #books

Just look at what Britain's hedgerows COULD look like. This one at Umborne East Devon National Landscape Wild East Devon is always a stunner! #NoMowMay Plantlife Devon Wildlife Trust East Devon National Landscape Wild East Devon