The #SAVCurlews field team have been busy! Here's an update on totals so far this field season #Fieldwork #Curlew #ConservationEvidence @WWTConservation

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We've already had 34 Black-headed Gulls reported across Europe this breeding season, from 8 countries
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Sightings map now online - waterbirdcolourmarking.org/sightings-bh/

Great new PhD available with former student Kevin Wood at WWT Conservation on Curlew conservation

Last saw head started Curlew J5 on the Camel Estuary in September 2023 with Tan Grigg. Today, Tan & I saw her at her new breeding site in Gloucestershire. At two years old, she had secured a territory with her partner & laid a clutch of eggs 💫

New life 🐣

It was a lovely evening celebrating Rich Hearn with friends & colleagues WWT Slimbridge. Some lovely memories of a life well lived & service to global waterbird & wetland conservation. Rest easy, Rich 💚

This evening we joined family, friends and colleagues WWT Slimbridge to celebrate the life and work of Rich Hearn. A life well lived but cut far too short. A global wetland conservation hero RIP Rich

Looking forward to welcoming people to WWT Slimbridge this evening as we come together to celebrate the life and work of Rich Hearn. We'll be hearing from friends & colleagues and sharing stories of Rich's work across the globe.

..... and three weeks later! Lapwing chicks 💫

Kane Brides Kevin Wood ☺️ not only will you join the welcoming team of WWT, but you'll get to work closely with team #SAVCurlews (among others: Kane Brides, Daniel Gornall and @Andy_Scott95) who make this work possible by collecting field data and testing interventions 🪶

But I can endorse Alex Nicol-Harper (she/her) as a super line manager & colleague who is great to work for / with. @DrKevinWood & Alex will be awesome supervisors. See below for PhD opportunity & come join team #SAVCurlews ⬇️ 💫

I can't speak for myself (will be learning on the job), but I do highly endorse Kevin Wood as a supervisor - he was mine 😁 #PhDynasties for the win!

In all seriousness, excited to help someone get stuck into modelling to support 'urgent evidence-informed conservation action':

Always watching 👀

Cosy! 7 of the hundreds of eggs counted, weighed & measured today. #BarnacleGeese

Beautiful day for a paddle out on Derwentwater for the annual Barnacle goose colony census #Cumbria #Monitoring

The first of the Slimbridge / Llangorse Barnies to be seen away from Gloucestershire/Powys/South Wales. ⬇️

The night we caught > 1% of the world's Spoon-billed Sandpiper population for tagging to understand their movements along their 8,000km migration route #WorldMigratoryBirdDay

The Severn Estuary is so calm this evening 🫶

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