Elli Rivers

PhD student in curlew conservation, general nature obsessive. All views are my own...

[Elli Rivers @elli_rivers]

@Crazymoments01 @MattWallace888 Finanances??

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@FarRightSkip @SkyNews My daughter had flu and I never caught it from her. Vaxxed 🤷‍♀️

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@julian_voelcker @guyshrubsole …and sustaining breeding curlew numbers..

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@fbuner @HOSbirding @BirdsonBrink @vickyewart @Gameandwildlife @FWAGSouthEast @mnorrishill @Farmland_Nature @RSPBHopeFarm Well done, love starlings! ❤️👏

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@KaneBrides I think there must be some nest parasitising business sometimes, I had a nest go from 4-5 with an odd coloured egg right before it was due to hatch!

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@fbuner Mike and me found one of our nests last year when we heard the most godawful sound as a male curlew yanked the skin on the neck of a cock pheasant passing his nest. Not a sight I expected, or sound!

[GWCT Science @GWCTScience]

A new project led by the @Gameandwildlife aims to boost numbers of threatened #wading birds on the Solent coastline.

The team will create #habitat & trial non-lethal #predation management measures, to help local coastal bird populations to recover.

➡️ https://t.co/bTzrl1Fv5k

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@donaldmcknight2 @JamesUVanDyke Thanks for this review, it looks great. I just checked their website though and they are closing down! 😕

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@GrahamFAppleton We’ve seen one on the south coast too! 😍

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@CranborneMiddle Well done Ellie!

[Graham Appleton @GrahamFAppleton]

Love the phrase 'Siberia's waiting room'!
Grey Plovers will be the last #waders to leave the Humber.
More here: https://t.co/a3zTBK4aXu

[Elli Rivers @elli_rivers]

@TonyHockley @ElizaPacey @curlewcalls @knottbrothersuk @DavidGray @CurlewAction Thank you. I’m 50% funded by Bournemouth University and half of my supervisory team are academics. GWCT scientists just want to see the best outcomes for wildlife, we’re not being told what to say!

[Elli Rivers @elli_rivers]

@ElizaPacey @TonyHockley @curlewcalls @knottbrothersuk @DavidGray @CurlewAction No one is telling me how to do my science! I’m working to find out the reality about what is threatening curlews, and I have no interest in promoting a biased view.

[Elli Rivers @elli_rivers]

@GrahamFAppleton Absolutely! Well she's got this excellent chap looking after her territory so she's got the best chance... https://t.co/YhxAl0H2lB

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A story about an older lady (curlew!) in the New Forest for World Curlew Day :)
https://t.co/zW28IrfQMu

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@TBuck69246394 @DorsetBirdClub I’m not sure where this trap is, it sounds like it may be on private ground, but I just wanted to highlight some of the difficult issues surrounding the balance of bird numbers in the forest.

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@TBuck69246394 @DorsetBirdClub In this photo I took a crow is eating a curlew chick which was part way through hatching. To put it in perspective for c.50 pairs of curlew they have fledged just 4 chicks in 2020 and 8 in 2021 across the whole forest.

[Elli Rivers @elli_rivers]

@Ewing_birds @fbuner @KaneBrides @JCaseNature @WildCRU_Ox Me and my colleague Mike are in our second year successfully using cameras on wader nests and if anyone is interested in the strict protocol we follow for deployment please do get in touch.

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@Ewing_birds @fbuner @KaneBrides @JCaseNature @WildCRU_Ox Hi Harry, if you'd like some more info please feel free to PM me and I'll give you Mike Short's number here at GWCT and he'd be happy to chat to you about this :) A lot of his experience has been from catching and tagging foxes in long grass environments.