#ornithologist | @BournemouthUni #PhD student - breeding waders and their predators | @WaderStudy Colour-mark Coordinator | @Curlewrecovery Director
Hampshire, United Kingdom
Joined October 2016
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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)!
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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.
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
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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
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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
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%.
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Massive congratulations to @Javaraptor ! I had no doubt that you would smash it! Fingers crossed for my own in a few months :-)
Yesterday I successfully defended my PhD thesis. Marking the end of 4 incredible years @UniExeCEC with @jTroscianko.
Ryan Burrell retweeted
Excited to announce the hatching 🐣 of @WaderStudy's latest #ornithology Project, in partnership with @MovebankTeam- the Global Wader Tracking Data Project (GWTDP)!
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But - what is it?
Why do we need it?
How does it work?
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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
🖼 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
What a brilliant way to introduce lapwing anti-predator behaviour! Well done and thanks for a great talk @dillenseger_g #IWSG2023
Fantastically engaging talk by @dillenseger_g on the nest defense behaviours of lapwings 👌 #IWSG2023
Head-starting can be a brilliant conservation tool but sharing experiences is essential for it to be successful. Please complete this survey #ornithology
Are you headstarting #Curlew? We are running a survey across European projects, fill in the questionnaire at bit.ly/headstart-curlew-euro… #IWSG2023 @WaderStudy
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9 talks on Curlew science and conservation today at #IWSG2023. First up our director @RyanABurrell talking about the Curlew Solutions Trial funded by @DefraGovUK #SpeciesRecoveryProgram
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CRP SG member @_SamanthaFranks summarises insights from the Eastern England Curlew Recovery Project. Headstarting may buy us time to generate solutions and policy for insitu conservation. But, we still do not know where they will recruit yet...
An excellent event! Thanks for the invitation @FiPLofficer
Understanding how changing pasture management can benefit farm economics, soils and biodiversity is important for widespread wildlife recovery in grassland landscapes. Our director @RyanABurrell spent yesterday learning from the experts to see how it could help #Curlew
Sad to have stepped down from this role with @IBIS_journal. If you wish to develop skills in event management and science communication then this is the post for you! Shoot me a private message if you have questions :-) #ornithology
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Completed the late June visits for our Owl and Kestrel monitoring on the @MDSuperCluster and @WadersForReal farmer clusters last weekend. BO breeding stage is more spread out this year, kestrel chicks are fledging and we found a new LO nest site. Thanks for the help Flo Turner!
It is a pleasure to give brilliant BSc students like @annathompsy, the opportunity to join us during Barn Owl and Kestrel monitoring and to discuss farmland conservation @WadersForReal @CranborneEstate @MDSuperCluster
Had a great time nest-box checking and ringing at the weekend. Several of the barn owl boxes were occupied, and we found a brood of kestrels nesting in a tree! Thanks @RyanABurrell for taking me out!
(All birds ringed under BTO license)
Brilliant news! @LizzieGrayshon is researching why Redshank increased so significantly under Life Waders for Real so she can replicate that elsewhere. Keep it up! :-)
First confirmed successful breeding of a Avon Valley redshank chick from 2021, now with big chicks of her own only a few fields across from where she hatched! #conservation #ornithology @GWCTScience
