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Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 4h

Timely reminder for everyone to continue to report all dead birds that you find to the links below for possible testing. It's also really valuable to submit to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring purposes too.

BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 26d

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

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nickkempe.bsky.social @nickkempe.bsky.social · 3h

Prof Douglas MacMillan applies a little science to sporting landowners' claims that muirburn by reducing "fuel load" helps prevent wildfire by mapping the Dava Moor fires parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/30/t...

The Dava Moor mega-fire/s - did muirburn mitigate the damage? - parkswatchscotland

I thought we lived in a world where science guided our decisions about how best to protect nature and the planet. Sadly this would appear not to be the case. Vested interests and the voices of the pow...

parkswatchscotland.co.uk

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2h

This is such a crying shame, and so short-sighted. But there it is.

Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 2h

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 57m

This is heartbreaking.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Thousands of dead cranes litter cherished European birdwatching spot

Birds have been seen staggering and then collapsing

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 25m

We made a near-2-acre wild garden from the garden and yards of an old farmhouse and a piece of field. 24 years on, reaping the rewards!

Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 2h

THE ANDREW FORMERLY KNOWN AS PRINCE!

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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 3h

It's the end of the road for BBC Science in Action. But science itself is facing growing roadblocks. For this terminal edition of SinA I'm joined by @naomioreskes.bsky.social @drdebhoury.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social & @angierasmussen.bsky.social for where now?

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

BBC World Service - Science In Action, How science got here, and where next

As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy have a future?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 6h

Imagine being a Minister in Scottish Govt & sanctioning 6 months of torching this sensitive & important carbon-sequestering habitat, in a climate emergency & against will of Parliament, just so a handful of wealthy elites can get off on killing Red Grouse.

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/30/s...

Scottish Govt fiddles while grouse moors burn

Earlier this month the Scottish Government announced a delay, for the second time, of the implementation of muirburn licensing after caving in to pressure from aggressive lobbying by the grouse sho…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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American Atheists @atheists.org · 12d

No Gods, No Kings, No Petty Tyrants. Not today, not ever.

#NoKings

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h

So why didn't you put the quote in quotation marks?
You tell us nothing about yourself, so I've absolutely no idea what people you claim to be like or why it would matter to me.

'We risk becoming an island of strangers' said Starmer, stupidly.
You, I and everyone else are included in that quote.

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 6h

The name isn't the issue, it's the lack of any information in your bio. Jacob.

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 6h

Why are you afraid to give away any information about yourself?
If you're not a bot, why behave as one?

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 7h

Mail headline about Bob Vylan was not misleading, regulator finds bit.ly/4oIf5ou even though he did not say the words in single quotes, it summarised what he said. If Mail had used double quotes that would have been different, maybe.

Mail on Sunday Bob Vylan 'death to Israelis' splash 'not misleading', IPSO says

A Mail on Sunday splash saying punk rap duo Bob Vylan had chanted "led ‘death to Israelis’" chants at Glastonbury was not misleading - IPSO.

bit.ly

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 6h

Or Damn Castors with most people up here!

Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 12h

Ethnic cleansing in action.
Israel is not a functioning democracy.

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 13h

#WTACH | Under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, settlers released their livestock in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, in the occupied West Bank.

(Quds News Network)

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Important piece by @resi-analyst.bsky.social this. Successive governments seem not to have understood that your regulatory framework over the longterm shapes who your market participants *are*. If want short-term (i.e. over the next 5-10 years) benefits of planning reform, need to be more active.

New homes: even if you build them, there’s no one to buy them

We’re often told housing demand exceeds supply — so why are new homes struggling to be built and bought?

www.ft.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 12h

Government either needs to go 'well, we've made these changes and over time, the market will do its thing and new businesses will emerge' or it needs to actively do things to accelerate that process/act as a £450k a pop builder itself for a bit.

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · 1d

The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts

Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

www.wildlifetrusts.org

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks, Fiona! That's cheered me up!

Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 12h

Blyth's Reed Warbler and Sabines Gull, both along the Tweed and Borders' 3rd Cattle Egret 2 weeks ago (wasn't the 'finder').
A Pied Flycatcher in the garden, White-fronted Goose near the house, Marsh and Pectoral Sandpipers at Musselburgh - all-in-all a good year!

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 12h

That's great to hear!
Viv died in September, he was living on his farm in Portugal - he did well to live into his eighties.
When I hung out with him we were both at a low point - he was living in a friend's basement.

Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 22h

If he gets the Peace Prize, even the dead will rise up to hand back theirs!

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 22h

@birdtrack.bsky.social
My BirdTrack year to date:
Records 6455, species 176, places 255.

Although I live only 8 miles from England as the grouse flies, records in my home county of (Scottish) Borders total:
Records 5829, species 156, places 194.

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 22h

Only an imbecile believes the planet is infinite. You appear to constantly treat friends as enemies.
Solar and wind are the solutions - messy at the moment, but if the biosphere survives, and as the technology improves, the harms can be healed.
Just what are your solutions? Are you genuine?

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