On Monday (11/11) at 12:45, I'll be Chairing a session where the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs @huw4ogmore and others are speaking. Join us to ask your question! See here to register and for the programme: https://t.co/M0of0gsOSq
The curlew is back 🪿
The #LIFEProject@CurlewLIFE has supported this amazing species in #NorthernIreland, with 52 breeding pairs & 20 fledglings spotted✨
Check out more in the @BBC report: https://t.co/UDuMBlkv9Z
#LIFEProgramme
We need to know if #Curlew head-starting can make a real difference to numbers in Britain & Ireland:
HEAD-STARTING CURLEW
https://t.co/wJuKqjM5de
MONITORING SUCCESS OF HEAD-STARTING (Black-t Godwits)
https://t.co/N1zD9XO0nk
Please report colour-ring sightings:
#ornithology
In 2016 the first stop on my 500-mile walk for Curlews was the Antrim Plateau in N Ireland. It's a rare Curlew hotspot, a wild, windswept and wonderful place. Can you take over the job as Conservation Officer and look after them? https://t.co/oe119TWCn5 @RSPBNI@Natures_Voice
Dydd Llun (11/11) am 12:45, byddaf yn Cadeirio sesiwn efo'r Dirprwy Brif Weinidog ac Ysgrifennydd y Cabinet dros Newid Hinsawdd a Materion Gwledig @huw4ogmore ac eraill yn cymryd rhan. Ymunwch am gyfle i ofyn cwestiwn! Manylion cofrestru a'r rhaglen yma: https://t.co/6tjcUNmSaj
If anyone is of the view that the odd flooding incident might be a normal event, scroll back through tweets from @volcaholic to see how it is now a truly global phenomenon. We need an urgent programme of adaptation, including large-scale Nature-based solutions.
New study shows why roof-nesting oystercatchers thrive in Münster, Germany. Breeding success is high because egg/chick predation is low (no mammalian predators), especially close to irrigated sports pitches (lots of earthworms): https://t.co/ze7HLBfcsp
Now I really am in an ethical dilemma about staying on this platform.
The way this app has been weaponised has given too much power to individual people.
Time to finally pull the plug?
In a guest blog post for Curlew Action, Przemek Obłoza discusses the Curlew conservation project in Poland, why headstarting has been used to boost the population there, and the headstarted Curlews that have travelled to the UK.
https://t.co/9yLxSP5TCw
Paper just out in @IBIS_journal - data from acoustic recorders and an AI classifier can be better than transect survey data at predicting relative densities of Curlew and Oystercatcher (but not Golden Plover or Lapwing) across an upland study site.
We've got a draft blog post in the works about the Curlew breeding season in the UK this year.
However, we could NOT wait any longer to share this photo of newly hatched Curlew chicks which features in it!
📷 @bethanbeech2 / @NatResWales
Today we launch our wintering waders sign competition!
Find out how to submit your entry via the images below (the alt text includes this information)
Read our blog post on wintering waders: https://t.co/ickhQ1xCUp
Download the PDF guide: https://t.co/l7VkcYXqvp
We protested in the 90s, warning of this. We’ve come to accept ‘a month’s worth of rain fell in a few hours’ as new normal. A year’s worth of rain fell in 8 hours in #Valencia, killing people, wrecking lives. Everything we do now must powerfully include Climate, Justice, Nature..
Ivy flowers are a really importance source of food for an amazing array of insects during early autumn and ivy berries are food for many creatures too. Please think twice before cutting ivy back, as you will be depriving many creatures of food and cover for nesting.
I woke up seeing 60+ people are dead, thinking Valencia will be a turning point, will dominate the news, wake everybody up to climate change. It’s not though is it. The budget is dominating reporting in the UK. Public don’t care. We are determined to send our children over a cliff to their deaths without even engaging with this issue.