Like a flock of waders, we're gathering in Montpellier 🇫🇷 for our #IWSG2024 side events and tonight's cocktail welcome reception - its time for our annual conference 🥳🍸 #IWSG_conf
Smaller #waders don't live as long.
@_BTO longevity record for Dunlin is just short of 20 years - still long enough to have 'known' 7 UK Prime Ministers (and 8 soon).
Blog about longevity of #shorebirds (not Prime ministers):
https://t.co/IbnisIozNd
#ornithology
As we document in our book SINAGOTE, THE BIOGRAPHY OF A SPOONBILL, #spoonbills are very social, albeit with qualifications. Mutual #allopreening is common, but seeing four birds in a group-allopreen certainly is not!
Photographed on #Schiermonnikoog by https://t.co/T0z8j3seO0.
📽️ #REPLAY - Séminaire "Effets de la chasse sur les effectifs d'oiseaux d'eau" de Tatiana Tronel
Suite à la demande, le séminaire du 22 avril est exceptionnellement disponible en replay pendant 30 jours !
🔗 Retrouvez le replay jusqu'au 24 mai : https://t.co/k4IpvJAoeR
Oh wow. The @WGLepelaar newsletter just dropped and it's looking gorgeous, packed with great info. If you are interested in spoonbills you really want to subscribe to this newsletter on the bottom right of this webpage https://t.co/fs5hPsWtxh
11 ONG dont l'ASPAS lancent une grande #pétition pour demander au @gouvernementFR de s'opposer au projet de @UEFrance visant à rabaisser le niveau de protection des loups !
▶️Pour signer : https://t.co/9uULe6afhP
MERCI POUR VOTRE MOBILISATION !
#ProtegeonsLesLoups#JaimeLesLoups
Happy that the first paper of my thesis is out in #oecologia!
"Relationship between wintering site and survival in a migratory waterbird using different migration routes"
https://t.co/lYAq3KvSBY (1/7)
🌊 Just like coastal and land birds, seabirds migrate thousands of miles, but over open ocean.
🌏At #CMScop14, BirdLife teams and seabird experts gathered to discuss how international collaboration will help conserve these important marine flyways.
#BirdLifeFlyways #NatureKnowsNoBorders
🦇Mercredi 31 janvier, la chercheuse Maria Mas proposera le séminaire/webinaire : Bats and wetlands :the role of Mediterranean humid habitats for bat conservation.
https://t.co/7zp2pmMmce
Great news! Thanks French Council of State for sustaining suspension of hunting of Eurasian Curlew & Black-tailed Godwit in France during the 2023-24 season that began on 2 August, against challenges from the National Union of Migratory Bird Hunters Associations. 📷 @EBwSTweets
The Elegant Tern, which was ringed in France in 2003 and has visited several sites in Europe, was sighted today in South Africa by Theuns Kruger (photo)!
Observation d’un Tournepierre à collier en recherche de nourriture ce matin, sous des étendues de morceaux de plastiques (plage de Vieux-Boucou dans les Landes)…😔
Scattered across the coastal desert at Banc d'Arguin in Mauritania we find dried bodies of the migrants that perished as they tried to cross the Sahara from north to south this past autumn, in this case a beautiful male Common Redstart.