Emeritus Head of Museums, University of Aberdeen. Birds, mammals, herps. The rest is essentially just bird food.
Aberdeen, Scotland
Joined October 2019
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Well. There’s a surprise!🙄
@ScottishBirding @_BTO #birdingscotland
#bioacoustics
Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys americanornithology.org/huma…
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TONIGHT! NE Scotland SOC online talk from @_BTO 's Neil Calbrade on monitoring the UK's important pops of migratory geese & swans. All welcome. 7:30pm tinyurl.com/geeswan
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Nick Littlewood will be talking to the NE @ScottishBirding branch tonight about two decades of birding and other surprising wildlife at Blackbog. Not just scoters!
7:30 Room MR613, MacRobert Building
King Street/St Machar Drive AB24 3FX
All welcome
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I'll be giving a talk on the last 11 years of #Nightjars in NE Scotland to the @ScottishBirding Tayside branch this Thursday 6 Feb at 7:30 at Glaiste Hall, St Andrews Parish Church, King Street, Dundee DD1 2JB
"Out of the dark: breeding Nightjars in NE Scotland"
@BTO_Scotland
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Mon 3 Feb. Fair Isle is Britain’s premier bird observatory & migration study site with new buildings opening this yr. Talk for @ScottishBirding by Douglas Barr, Chair of @FI_Obs
7:30 pm, MacRobert Bldg, King St, Abdn
All welcome!
Annual raffle - prizes welcome too
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Well, why not? Cute. Filmed on phone at 30cm thru open window. All credit to the magnificent @ScotSquirrels team. Reds not seen here in Aberdeen 'burbs till a couple of years ago, and no Greys for a long time now. Brilliant work. Thank you.
@NESMammals @Mammal_Society
Nightjars! I'll be giving a talk to the SOC/RSPB onTuesday this week (14 Jan) on Nightjars in NE Scotland. They're not as rare as we thought!
All welcome.
@ScottishBirding @BTO_Scotland
TONIGHT Mon 9 Dec > #RareBirds? Pioneers or vagrants? Do they matter? YES! But who keeps the record straight? Talk tonight about the important work of BBRC by Paul French for @ScottishBirding
MR613 Macrobert Building (corner of King St & St Machar Drive) free parking, 7:30 pm
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NE Scotland #mammal, #reptile & #amphibian, #moth & #dragonfly annual reports to 2022 now available online
the-soc.org.uk/pages/local-r…
@NESMammals @_BCT_ @ARC_Bytes @ScotlandBds
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Small but Mighty: The Important Role of Voles 🐀
Douglas Carchrie, a local conservationist, writes about his work surveying the Vole population within the #CairngormsConnect landscape: bit.ly/the-important-role-of…
@NatureScot @ForestryLS @RSPBScotland @cairngormsnews
ALT A hand in a blue glove holds a Vole towards the camera, little legs and arms outstretched with beady black eyes and long whiskers.
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Not all the Nathusius' Pipistrele #Bats are tucked up in bed yet. This one here last night in #Aberdeen, though it was a very mild night.
@NESMammals @Mammal_Society @_BCT_
Does any UK #mammal watcher confidently recognise this low frequency call, from the middle of a grass tussock in Scotland? (Not in the recent Middleton/Newson/Pearce book.) Presumably a #mouse, #vole or #shrew.
@NESMammals @Mammal_Society
This Soprano Pipistrelle #bat was resting on a raspberry stem just 1m off the ground at Kinnordy on Wednesday evening. Flew off after a while and was seen feeding later.
@NESMammals @_BCT_ @Mammal_Society
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Wondered what a swimming #Beaver looks like in the dark? Probably not. Here's one at Kinnordy this evening recorded with the #thermal. You'll need to look at it on a large screen! The hotspots are the eyes and ears.
@NESMammals @Mammal_Society
'Hello world' - a 3 day old Grey seal pup at the tip of the Ythan estuary, Aberdeenshire. It's the first pup to be born this breeding season on the Forvie Spit #NatureLover #naturelovers #NatureGoneWild #TwitterNatureCommunity #TwitterNaturePhotography
