@phelpstoby1

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So this happened tonight! Magnolia Warbler at St Govan's Head. A totally surreal experience but simply incredible!! What an amazing bird😮😮 @PembsBirds
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I saw this bird (Green RC8T) in 2019. Jon @CalidrisPhoto has seen it again yesterday - 5 years later on the same beach! #birdringing
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Despite decent numbers of passing Cory's, the clear highlight of my Lizard yesterday (04/08) with @phelpstoby1 @elyod95 @ej_cornelius was this stunning Dutch-ringed juv casp picked up by Toby as we were leaving @CBWPS1
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Razorbills are down. Breeding numbers of Razorbills dropped this year on the Isle of May as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com/
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In 55 years we have never seen the seabird colonies on Canna in a worse state. Fulmar, gulls, shags and guillemots at or near record low numbers. Breeding productivity figures for most species well below long term averages. Food supply a big issue.
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The only complex life we know to exist ANYWHERE in the universe. Being obliterated so that shareholders can amass imaginary wealth. It’s as heartbreaking as it is shameful.
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These birds did not all go extinct in 2023. Last documented sightings of Bachman's warbler were in 1988; the bridled white-eye in 1983; the Kaua'i 'akialoa in 1967; the Kaua'i 'ō'ō in 1987; the Large Kaua'i thrush in 1989; the Molokai creeper in 1963; the Po'ouli in 2004. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
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We need more dog owners to help our rapidly declining shorebirds. Once again I saw a #dog run riot chasing feeding Curlew, Oystercatcher, Sandwich Terns and Mediterranean Gulls at Goodwick beach, Pembrokeshire. There isn't any safe space from dogs at Goodwick for our #shorebirds
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Modern birds replace their feathers regularly, a few at a time, in a process called molt. New study of fossil record suggests molt had begun to develop by 125 million years ago. #ornithology #BirdsOfX science.org/content/article/…?

First birds molted their feathers much like modern ones, fossils show

Finding bolsters notion that early birds were decent flyers

science.org
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This might come in handy for those who, like me, still have the old version of the 'Handboek'. A comparison I made between the 1w Red-headed and a 1w Black-headed Bunting (september 2016) with show the most important ID criteria taken from @nomadbirder 's talk on BirdersTwitter.
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Latest issue of @BritishBirds has our analysis of the incredible arrival of American landbirds in the UK and Ireland last September britishbirds.co.uk/content/u… #Ornithology
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The 2023 @PembsBirds Report and 2023 Ceredigion Birds have been published. Huge and important work and informative reading 🙌 Mae adroddiadau adar 2023 Sir Benfro a Cheredigion wedi eu cyhoeddi. birdsin.wales/pembrokeshire-…
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Are you a patch birder in the UK? Would you like to participate in a research project about patch birding? The project focuses on environmental change, well-being, low-carbon birding, and new technologies. Find out more here. @PatchBirding @BirdingClimate andrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.…

Patch Birding Project

Research Context The British Birds in the Anthropocene research project is about birders in Britain, particularly those who regularly watch a local patch. I am interested in how birders perceive en…

andrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.com
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Rufous-chested Swallow, Cecropis semirufa photographed at Elsinore yesterday by Mikkel Høegh Post (flight photo by Jan Lindegaard Rasmussen) - the 1st record for Denmark and Western Palearctic @Rasmus Strack
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It was nice listening to singing Thrush Nightingales in the local parks around Copenhagen last weekend. One showed well briefly in full song out in the open!
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6 Wood Sandpipers (just about got them all in the first vid) at Picton Ponds (aka Sweeney Wetlands), just outside Chester this evening. Female Garganey there yesterday too! @CAWOSBirding
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Enjoyable cycle through the Welsh hills yesterday afternoon. Glad I took my bins and camera as there was lots of birds about! Wood Wabler, several singing Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Whinchats and a pair of Ring Ouzels! Cold though! 🥶🚴
Wood Warbler

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Pied Flycatcher

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Pied Flycatcher

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Whinchat

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Accepted, Cory's Shearwater, single off St. Govan's Head, Pembroke, 29th & 30th July and 1 Aug. Observer: T. Phelps. @phelpstoby1
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Couple of photos of Goshawk seen today at clocaenog. Spent a couple of mornings there (one with @phelpstoby1 ). Tried a few new and usual areas- goshawks showed well in both - switchback/diplaying, perched up and calling..Some new/potential nightjar sites noted.
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2 Mealy Redpolls were amongst a highly mobile redpoll flock at @NTBickerton last weekend. c100 birds in total but difficult to count accurately! @CAWOSBirding
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Same bird as first photo (centre). With Lesser Redpolls feeding alongside.

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The second Mealy Redpoll (centre right) amongst more Lesser Redpolls.

ALT The second Mealy Redpoll (centre right) amongst more Lesser Redpolls.

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