Hey! Our account was unfortunately locked yesterday and we lost many tweets in the process of unlocking it, but: WE ARE BACK! Right on time for the start of the 16th count in a few weeks💪 #BRC16 Can we get a like to know you see us — and for this confiding male Honey Buzzard?

Opportunity of a lifetime for any #raptor #birdmigration #conservation #wildlife #ornithology enthusiast 👇

Just a few more days until I too make my way to this incredible place once again. For the 7th time now, eager to see my 3-millionth-something Honey Buzzard 😁 Glad to see the birds are already moving and the team is in place.

Ten days into our 2024 autumn count, and migration is now kicking into gear with a season total just shy of 15K raptors. Some more details about the migration in following tweets 👇 1/5 Daily and season totals updated every evening at batumiraptorcount.org/data

The redesigned live season totals looking mighty fine now that the season is kicking into gears. 👌 Really happy that's possible with the Trektellen.org live feed. Slowly churning away at a redesigned daily count viewer, but that's for next year. Got some raptors to count first. 😁

New paper out in Biogeography.News doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14…! We compare some 15 years of GPS tracking and citizen science resighting data of Bewick's swans, to see which contains more information on population space use. GPS data substantially outperform resightings. Nonetheless...

It's a special day when the newspaper you grew up with translates your latest research into a beautiful interactive. “Trekvogels moeten steeds vaker laveren tussen de maaiwieken van windturbines” in NRC nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/10… IBED UvA Amsterdam

Hoe wordt een overwegend pro-#EU land onder de knoet gehouden door een #Kremlin-gezinde partij? Lees deze lange thread na een dag in de #GeorgiaElections #Gvote24 #GeVote24 op het platteland voor MO*magazine

🇬🇪The elections are marked by systemic fraud. Leading opposition groups, civil society observers, and international monitors raise urgent concerns, stating that the results do not reflect the will of the people. 🧵This election is stolen and illegitimate and should be rejected.

A chilling read and an even more chilling reality here in The Netherlands, where universities are already shutting down entire degrees. Innovation and education are at the core of our society and crucial for addressing the challenges we are facing. nature.com/articles/d4158…

This graphic is going viral. This is how it was calculated... let's get geeky🤓...

New star trails photography is back! This 30-minute time exposure through orbital night with our new 15mm wide-angle lens was able to capture sunset (on the left) all the way to sunrise (on the right). I have never been able to capture this before but our new fast (14mm f1.4 and

Keep the Batumi Raptor Count flying high with your support! To continue our work in 2025, we need your support! Your generosity will help us to continue our world-class monitoring in the Batumi bottleneck. Please read our full appeal here: 👉batumiraptorcount.org/news/2024/12/f…

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands. Last year we published (esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fe…) about the massive impact of fireworks on birds. Thread with a damning animation of radar measurements during NYE countdown, below. 👇