Ryan Burrell

#ornithologist | @BournemouthUni #PhD student - breeding waders and their predators | @WaderStudy Colour-mark Coordinator | @Curlewrecovery Director

[Wash Wader RG @WashWader]

Nov weekend success! Our team managed over 290 resightings of over 130 individual Curlews, Turnstone and Bar-tailed Godwits. This included birds marked by WWRG in the #WashNNR and by projects elsewhere. Fantastically, this included 17 headstarted Curlews (yellow-leg flags)!

[Curlew Recovery Partnership @curlewrecovery]

We are at the @CurlewLIFE Conference this week with 100+ delegates from 30+ organisations and projects. What an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences! We need policymakers to take the lessons from this project and others, support #Curlew for the long-term and at scale.

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@TwrchIwrch @m0xdx @curlewcalls @curlewrecovery @WashWader @Sammers_Lee Great to be concerned for welfare Richard. Colour-marks are used extensively across the globe to uniquely identify waders. In the UK their deployment is licensed by the BTO on behalf of the statutory agencies. There is no evidence of negative effects in Curlew.

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@m0xdx @curlewrecovery @curlewcalls @WashWader @Sammers_Lee Encase you do not know already this will be a headstarted bird released by the East of England Curlew Recovery Project

https://t.co/lwyXnjnabv

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

Curlew are far from recovery but brilliant work is happening. For wader recovery, we urgently require long-term large-scale funding to maintain and restore habitats, manage predation and provide consistent advisors to work with land managers, monitor success and adapt practice

[Curlew Recovery Partnership @curlewrecovery]

Down to our last few nests, exclusion fences are coming down and our fieldwork teams are well into the tricky business of chick monitoring! Our Curlew Solutions Trial teams have monitored 145 nests across 5 English landscapes this season! Well done All!

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@Cotswold_Sparky @mikepnature @WildOxfordshire @curlewrecovery Excellent work Keith! Thank you for all you've done this season!

[Waders For Real @WadersForReal]

The water has FINALLY dropped enough to access our best redshank site, with the redshank champion himself @RupertBrewer2! The nests have a 2 inch layer of dry grass in them to keep the eggs nice and dry, what a fantastic species! #conservation

[Curlew Recovery Partnership @curlewrecovery]

Reducing predation is crucial for Curlew recovery. Learning how nest survival and predator identity varies between areas is important for getting interventions right. The images show a stoat predating a Curlew nest monitored this season by @_BTO for the CST project

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

OUR NEW PAPER - 50 yrs of monitoring cereal invertebrates in the Sussex Downs.

37% decline in overall invertebrate abundance but the situation is complex. Increases for 16% of non-overlapping taxa at the order or family level, and no change for 37%.
https://t.co/FgTPTNGfGb

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@Carmond_K @GrahamFAppleton Thanks Kristofer. I'll keep an eye out for the PM :-)

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@Carmond_K @GrahamFAppleton Hi Kristofer. Excellent work! I'm the project officer for DCWRG and I can say that if you didn't get a response then the sightings were not received. I'll happily follow this up if you can drop me a private message with your email and the sighting information :-)

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@miguelbtg Miguel - where has it ended up? The end of the track looks fairly close to where Lizzie and I both live! Pm me a zoomed in map :-)

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

Massive congratulations to @Javaraptor ! I had no doubt that you would smash it! Fingers crossed for my own in a few months :-)

[George Hancock 🥚🦋🦎 @ghancockzoology]

Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis. Marking the end of 4 incredible years @UniExeCEC with @jTroscianko.

[Josh Nightingale | Global Wader @Luscinia_joshua]

Excited to announce the hatching 🐣 of @WaderStudy's latest #ornithology Project, in partnership with @MovebankTeam- the Global Wader Tracking Data Project (GWTDP)!

https://t.co/ofiWh3xA3r
https://t.co/hQVOAhIMVg
But - what is it?
Why do we need it?
How does it work?

🧵 1/9

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

A brilliant new pilot by @SianKTaylor! Finding the culprits for the large number of unknowns often present in wader nest and chick predation studies is so valuable for our knowledge, management and policy #ornithology #IWSG2023

[Wader Study @WaderStudy]

🖼 Poster sneak peak - "Who ate who?" @SianKTaylor @WWTconservation are developing new methods to use DNA to identify predators and better support conservation of nesting waders #IWSG2023

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@cjm20192 Excellent! Great work @RogerMGwriter!

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

What a brilliant way to introduce lapwing anti-predator behaviour! Well done and thanks for a great talk @dillenseger_g #IWSG2023

[Marc Gilles @_Marc_Gilles]

Fantastically engaging talk by @dillenseger_g on the nest defense behaviours of lapwings 👌 #IWSG2023

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@alexnicolharper @WaderStudy @projectgodwit @EULIFE_news @KaneBrides Great talk Alex!

[Ryan Burrell @RyanABurrell]

@KaneBrides @WaderStudy @ScottoftheMarsh Thanks Kane :-)