This is incredible..turn the volume UP!😍🐦🎶
How many sounds do you hear?
This video is not mine, it belongs to Sarah Tidwell.
She's not on Twitter, but gave me permission to share here, as I knew my followers would love it!❤️
#Starling
Emergent Generation - One Year On. A 2 day gathering @ConygreeFarm designed to enable, encourage & empower. An event for young people (18-30) who want to build an agroecological food system and regenerative future.
#agroecology#youth#regenerativeagriculture
Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes! 🤯 Even for me as a nest researcher, these are the craziest bird nests I've ever seen. Today my paper came out on this rebellious behaviour. And it's like telling a joke...
A thread. 🧵
Almost straight from #Glastonbury23 to #Groundswell23 - I'm not sure I have ever felt so nourished by friendship, community, music and knowledge.
But now time to sleep.
@JessicaStokes9 Yes, they would select for fatty tails for use sacrificially and the fat for fuel.... apparently. So they would like to keep the tail and therefore must build it a tail-mobile
"All the shepherds know enough of carpentering to make little trucks for their sheep's tails"
Another to add to the collection of mad things humans have done to animals... this time from c.450BC
What relationships are there between gamebird release and management and numbers of other non-game species?
In our new paper out today, we explore these across the UK considering 🦊🐀🪲🦋🐦🦎🐍 and more
Some taxa ⬆️and some⬇️🐦⬛
https://t.co/3A382NowNN
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This is absolutely horrendous and heartbreaking to watch... an alternative to CO2 stunning for pigs is long over due .
Pigs do not have a humane death - it is good that this is being brought to the UK press following on from the US expose.
https://t.co/RTNe5lrX3b
Kosläpp is a Swedish word that literally translates to cow release after winter housing, and today was that special day here on our farm. I don't know if there is an Irish version of the word Kosläpp but I think it's a beautiful moment that definitely deserves its own word 🐄😊
I had the pleasure of finally graduating from my PhD @BristolUni. Its been a long journey but wonderful to finally close this chapter of my life!
Thankyou to all my colleagues, old and new @FAIfarms for their support over the years as well as the ABW group @Bristol_Vets
"We must have brave conversations about hospicing industrial meat and making way for an agroecological farming system."
@dr_cscott on the power and politics at the centre of the meat debate.
#Agroecology
Read the full blog 👇
https://t.co/hpQSIIck06
Great few days at the #AWRN2022! Thanks to all those involved & to the wonderful @GNM_Hancock for hosting our welfare network. Feeling reinvigorated by all the wonderful ideas, knowledge exchanged and experiences shared.
On the way back after a fabulous few days of #awrn2022 - catching up with old friends, making new friends, and learning about lots of fantastic work all aiming to make the lives of animals at least a bit better
Time for some more cats on White Cat Appreciation Day. Ghost sent in by @LonepineRjr Luna who's 6 sent in by @OssieAndLuna Blue who's 9 sent in by @BFlanaganNJ and Louis who's 9 sent in by @AnnieRayner