I’ll never get used to how Wryneck move their heads 🐍 Dorset Bird Club

⚠️🗞️📰 #Cyprus 3 poachers arrested while operating massive trapping site in Ormidhia – 69 protected birds rescued by SBA Police BFCyprus & CABS staff. Nets, bird caller & car used by suspects seized. 18.09.2024 Read our full Press Release here 🕊️👉 komitee.de/de/aktuelles/p…

Highlight from the Storm-petrel nest cams today! A wonderful moment when this pair swap chick-brooding duties and have a moment of gentle preening before the partner heads back out to sea. So cool to hear their vocalisations too - volume on! What amazing birds. #fieldwork

We can't allow the scientists to be shut down, nor the science to be denied or derided. We have to keep fighting for the right to tell the truth, or everyone will suffer.

Scottish Gamekeepers Association's 'training centre chief' defends actions of man subsequently convicted of what Police Scotland describe as "reckless & deplorable" wildlife crime. Leads to questions about quality of SGA's training courses... New blog 👇 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/09/20/sco…

I was wondering why it had been so quiet on my feeders today..... then I discovered why! I just happened to be at my desk and saw this sparrowhawk take a greenfinch. It must have been hanging around today, hence the lack of visitors! 😱 #GwylltHollow

Some 25 years after devolution, naturalists in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will be surprised to read in the @Guardian that Tony Juniper is the "UK nature chief". The English just can't get their heads round it, can they? Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru | Natural Resources Wales NatureScot

Please SIGN our #petition: Tell Germany's #DeutscheBahn to drop a destructive railway project that would open a huge swath of the #Amazon heartland to agribusiness, mining and logging! rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/1289… via Rainforest Rescue

Bird bills can have a delicate sense of touch - Alex Bond Dr Alex Bond Steve Portugal & al. look at which groups have these organs and what their origins might have been doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2…

A rather entrancing video of an ovenbird building its eponymous nest, in Brazil.

Report exposes meatpackers’ role in recent chemical deforestation in Brazil focusingonwildlife.com/news/report-ex…

⚠️🧵 1/4 #BarnOwls rescued in #Cyprus During a night patrol one of our teams involved in our current bird protection camp in Cyprus discovered a trapping site with 60 limesticks in a tree near the village of Kofinou. alongside several songbirds, we also found 2 #BarnOwls!!

Regarding the recent application by National Farmers' Union to allow 'emergency' use of neonics on sugar beet, this image explains the problem: most of the pesticide goes into soils, leaches into waterways, & is taken up by wildflowers & hedgerows. Only 5% in crop. nature.com/articles/natur…

The Climate Justice Camp is live! More than 300 young people from the Global South have gathered in sub-Saharan Africa, uniting their voices in the global demand for climate justice. We want climate justice NOW!

⚠️📰 Press Release 11.10.2024 552 protected birds released and 25 poachers convicted amid massive spike in illegal bird trapping in #Cyprus Republic – CABS. 882 limesticks, 51 nets and 40 bird callers seized by authorities within 30 days 👉 komitee.de/de/aktuelles/p…

the explosive beauty when 14 tonnes of waders take to the air. My diary on one of the greatest spectacles in all English nature. theguardian.com/environment/20…