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Birder #WestrayBirding | Orkney Bird Recorder #ukbirding #birding #ornithology 🪶 | moth-er #TeamMoth | #wildlife #art | Pro-EU | Former COO of BOU/@IBIS_journal | ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 Ally

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Last night tried out my new Jackery Explorer 500 Portable Power Station which I’ll use to run moth traps remotely around the isle this summer. Got c.5hrs running my 160w MV (blended) bulb. Low catch (cool clear night) but a couple of commoner #moths NFY. #MothsMatter #TeamMith

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Been down with the Covid for 10 days and today is first day I’ve felt remotely human again! Sat out enjoying a cool (12°) summers day watching the loch. Plenty going on birdwise but star spot was a Rush Veneer moth which settled on the bench briefly! #WestrayBirding #MothsMatter #TeamMoth

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“Hockney is … an erudite person, a highbrow and a polymath. … he communicates with such clarity and charm … He is virtually incapable of saying a boring thing.”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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I’ve got my first look at this fabulous new book. It covers around only 60 species for me here in #Westray but it’s great put it’s great have the wider context. And it’s nice to see a dot you’ve put on an atlas! That northern-most Orkney dot for Red-line Quaker is me! #MothsMatter #moths #TeamMoth

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Got a spare £1.4m? Come and buy the centrepiece of my #WestrayBirding local patch! Noup Farm (inc Noup Head - lighthouse not included - Loch of the Stack and your own white sand beach and bay), here in Westray. Great bird list and potential. Comes complete with resident birder.

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3 Cuckoos were tagged in Scotland as part of BTO's Cuckoo Tracking Project, and they're now migrating back to Africa. Henry was first to depart, reaching Paris via Montrose and Crawley. George 2 is close behind, reaching Essex via the Lake District. You can follow their journeys at bto.org/cuckoos

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Ta very much. Was tasked with delivering a completely new design and hopefully folk like it. Glad you do!

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Orkney Bird Report 2023 now out! 😮‍💨

I’m so pleased to see my first report out since I took over as county bird recorder last year and latterly, and unexpectedly, as report editor.

See Orkney birding and wildlife Facebook groups for availability or DM for info.

#ScottishBirding #birding #birds

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📢 NOMINATE NOW

For the BOU Early Professional Award 🏅

Recognising an outstanding initial contribution to #ornithology

bo'>l-award/'>bou.org.uk/about-the...

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📢 NOMINATE NOW

For the Godman-Salvin Prize 🏅

Recognising an outstanding contribution to #ornithology

bo'>-awards/'>bou.org.uk/about-the...

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📢 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY

Applications now open for our Small Research Grants and Career Development Bursaries

Funding #ornithology around the globe

Deadline: 31 October 2024

➡️ Research Grants: bou'>grants/'>bou.org.uk/funding/s...
➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

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Max Berger 's avatar Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social
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I am officially coconut-pilled. 🥥🌴

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If those running these companies aren’t personally invested in #lowcarbonbirding can we expect them to stop taking the high-carbon £? To stop promoting high-carbon travel and birding? But the conservation orgs are no better. RSPB and others rely on the high-carbon £ too 🤷🏻‍♂️ 3/3

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I think the answer is simple. As organisations they’re conflicted because they rely on advertising and sponsorship revenue from high-carbon companies. Despite paying lip service to #lowcarbonbirding they actively promote and individually engage in high-carbon birding. 2/3

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I’ve been thinking about the role birding media play on issues like this. If they can’t get it right then why do we expect the general media to get it right? And why don’t they get it right? As individuals they’ve been around long enough to know the facts or where to get them 1/3

#lowcarbonbirding

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Tim Allwood🇵🇸's avatar Tim Allwood🇵🇸 @timallwood.bsky.social
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Most conservationists / birders don’t care enough about the planet to change - that much is evident. The examples set by conservation orgs & birding media have been truly pathetic.

We left it too late but at least some of us tried. I have the utmost respect for those people. ✊

#lowcarbonbirding

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Only two weeks until the annual ultra-high carbon travel festival of backslapping called Birdfair.

Another year on, climate is much worse yet it’s still supported by RSPB, Birdlife, British Birds & Birdguides etc.

Profit before planet. Every time.
#lowcarbonbirding

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Tim Allwood🇵🇸's avatar Tim Allwood🇵🇸 @timallwood.bsky.social
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Lots of people want change to restore nature and save the planet.

Way too few people want to change their own lifestyles though.

Natural systems are now breaking down. I suspect the speed of breakdown will only increase.

#lowcarbonbirding

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Tim Allwood🇵🇸's avatar Tim Allwood🇵🇸 @timallwood.bsky.social
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People who want to restore nature but are still flying halfway round the planet every year. 🤣

#lowcarbonbirding

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The Scottish Ornithologists' Club's avatar The Scottish Ornithologists' Club @scottishbirding.bsky.social
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We were delighted to run the third Scottish Bird Camp with our friends at BTO Scotland last month.

You can read all about the exciting activities campers got up to across this nature-filled weekend in East Lothian in our blog: www.the-soc.org.uk/blogs/blog/b...

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Tim Allwood🇵🇸's avatar Tim Allwood🇵🇸 @timallwood.bsky.social
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Yesterday was the first day in 469 days that a new sea surface temp record wasn’t set.
Red Kites and Glossy Ibis the only birds of note last couple of days.
#lowcarbonbirding

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The article on the left has one brief mention of climate change. Comments on the BG site are split btw climate deniers & those accepting scientific facts.

Hard to believe we are STILL in this position. Profit before planet.

People need to speak up. We are way too accepting.
#lowcarbonbirding

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Just back from our cycling trip across France: ferry Santander, trains to Bayonne, cycled 700+ miles Velodyssee/EV1 to Roscoff. Camped mostly with a few nights under a roof for a change and some sightseeing. Slowly going through photos so here's a selection from first few days.
#LowCarbonBirding

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Here in Orkney maybe up to 80% of Bonxies lost. Gannet we know has fast developed immunity and the drop in AONs on Westray between 2019 and 2023 was only 2! Despite dead Gannets found regularly. BF has simply halted the annual increase in Gannets for time being. Too early to tell for auks, etc.

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Tim Allwood🇵🇸's avatar Tim Allwood🇵🇸 @timallwood.bsky.social
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Four things you can do to help keep Earth habitable:

Stop flying
Stop eating meat
Drive as little as possible
Talk about the above

It’s that simple.

#lowcarbonbirding

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