Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦

Coordinator of Research & Monitoring for the EWT's Birds of Prey Unit | PhD Ecology | Honourary Researcher at #UKZN, #UCT and #UniversityOfPretoria | Vultures

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

A new study, brilliantly led by @natismunoz , explored wildlife crime cases heard in South Africa's higher courts and highlights the importance of recognising the broader systems that enable these crimes.

Published in The British Journal of Criminology: https://t.co/QdIqSulCkK

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

Characteristics of potential nesting trees for White-Backed #vultures (Gyps africanus) in South Africa 🇿🇦
| https://t.co/aRV77DACf8 | @Ecol_Evol | #ERAIFT | #ornithology

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

A visit to the #Kruger National Park with Prof. Bill Bowerman from @UofMaryland and @ExplorersClub. Bill has studied Bald Eagles 🦅 for 40 years, and he visited #Hoedspruit to raise awareness about #avianinfluenza.

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

Projected climate scenarios reveal an expanding suitable habitat for the Critically Endangered White-backed Vulture

https://t.co/TofNrIbWaQ | #whitebackedvulture | #ornithology

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

We recently hosted eminent Prof. Bill Bowerman from @UofMaryland for a talk on how #BirdFlu has ravaged the population of Bald Eagles that he has studied for 40 years 🦅

Thanks to @timbavati Private Nature Reserve for the use of this beautiful venue | @TheEWT | @ExplorersClub.

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

New study using camera traps to study breeding behaviour of Cape Vultures | https://t.co/8iDPRgZUKu | #capevulture | #ornithology | #nestpredation

[Prashant Ghimire @Prashant_stork]

Gobinda works at grassroots level in Nepal. He rediscovered Eurasian otters in Nepal, helped many researchers study Cheer pheasant, red panda, vultures, owls and many more. Always energetic.

[L. Jen Shaffer @jin_verde]

Needs more vulture.

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

I'm leading a big collaborative study, asking experts to fill in spreadsheets for various bird species. One of South Africa's foremost bird experts, with each spreadsheet she submits to me, sends me a gorgeous anecdote about each species. Receiving her emails is making my day! 😊

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

Two recent studies on Africa's Palm-nut Vulture | https://t.co/QC5z6QUMGA | https://t.co/cUzDcgvVxr |
#palmnutvulture | #ornithology | #ageing

[Yay Vultures 𓅐 @YayVultures]

Wing beat analysis of newly introduced juvenile Bearded vultures in Bavaria
#BeardedVultures2024
Like many gym goers, they know to take rest days

[PhoebegeebeeArt☦️👩🏻‍🎨🎨 @Phoebe42141073]

Incredible colored pencil art!

[Gary Ritchison @GaryRitchison]

Status assessment and conservation priorities for a circumpolar raptor: the Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus
https://t.co/RLvOl4RV0M

[Kartong Bird Observatory 🇬🇲 @kartongbirdobs]

A record-breaking Hooded Vulture sighting thanks to Marcus Nash @OrioleBirding.
Green FK ringed Saruja CRD 13/11/24 resighted: 22/11/24 Senegambia Hotel WCD
129 miles in 9 days. The first recorded movement between the population groups we are studying.
Photo: Steve and Judy Down

[Hawk Conservancy Trust @HawkConservancy]

Our Hooded Vultures showing off that pink goes good with blue! 💙💖

We're determined to make vultures POPULAR! Vulture populations are on the decline, resulting in them being the most vulnerable of all birds globally. Find out how we're conserving them: https://t.co/740NvYEsL0

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

New #genetics paper, led by brilliant PhD candidate @LeRynhardt: "Family associations in a breeding colony of Critically Endangered Hooded #Vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus) in the Lowveld of South Africa" 🇿🇦 https://t.co/gdTqKaUFjI @lab_munro

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

New paper, led by the wonderful @ClementDabone:
"Nest-site selection by Hooded #Vultures Necrosyrtes monachus in the Sudano–Sahelian area of Burkina Faso" 🇧🇫

https://t.co/NQFaU3cANf

https://t.co/H7MjRXgj9r

[Dr Lindy Thompson 🇿🇦 @Lindyt18]

Interesting new article, led by @SamManqele: "Aspects of the illegal hunting and trade of #vultures in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa" 🇿🇦

https://t.co/1Hv7tboY9V

[Kartong Bird Observatory 🇬🇲 @kartongbirdobs]

Levaillant's Cuckoo, Clamator levaillantii, is a summer breeding inter-African migrant to West Africa. This bird was ringed as a breeding adult in November 2023 and retrapped at the same site exactly a year later. The first ever record of breeding site fidelity in this species.