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Emily Joáchim

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Nature Writer | PhD on Little Owls | C-permit bird ringer | UK Little Owl Project | Lights Out for Nature🦉🦇🦡🦊🦔✨🌗 [email protected]

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Dec 22

Lights Out for Birds ✨🐦‍⬛

Artificial light at night kills over a billion migratory birds each year. Light pollution is reversible and we can all make a difference now.

Find out more in my article on light pollution and birds in this month’s Birdwatch @birdguides.bsky.social

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 2d

We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. 🦉 Read about BTO’s research tracking Short-eared Owls here ➡️ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch

📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO

A Short-eared Owl perches on a fence post looking in the direction of the camera.

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · 2d

What’s a wild yeast hunt?! 💚

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · 3d

Tsssseeeep 🎶 ❤️

FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!!

📷 Jo Cartmell

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · 3d

I love it!!! Many congratulations!!! Well done Dani 💚

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · 7d

Foggy full moon; heady ivy flower scented night air; crazy owl calls; rustling hedgehogs; last of the chirping crickets; listening out for Redwings… I love October 🧡🍂🦉

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Sep 4

What causes them to shrink? I still feel sad I missed out on those fog pasta bowls… gorgeous!

Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Aug 29

Autumn arriving at Charmouth 🌬️🌊

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Aug 10

New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶

The face of a Barn Owl peeks around the brick wall of a barn as it perches on the building window ledge.

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Jul 12

Midsummer haze 🧡🌾🌞🌻🦗

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Jul 10

Poorest breeding season on record for Kestrels and owls in #Wiltshire.

Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Jul 5

When was the last time you saw a wildflower meadow bursting with so much colour, teeming with 🦋🐝🪲🐛, orchestrated by chirping crickets and breeding birds?

#NationalMeadowsDay

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Apr 28

Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Apr 20

Heard this beautiful nightingale singing in a park in Budapest 🎶

A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Apr 19

I saw my first one yesterday in Hungary. They’re huge! There was a storm and the paths were covered in them. Absolutely beautiful and a different colour from your gorgeous chalky beach looking ones 💚

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Apr 18

😮 that’s amazing! What was the smell like? Many droppings on you? 🦇

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Apr 18

Inquisitive Tawny Owlet 🦉💚

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Apr 13

1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Apr 11

Heard a Kestrel in Budapest!

Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦‍⬛

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Mar 27

A privilege to be in Kiskunság National Park in Hungary watching Szabolcs Kókay paint a Black-tailed Godwit. So many beautiful waders here. Curlews calling all around ❤️

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Mar 23

Heard my first ever Scops Owl last night! They’ve just arrived back in Catalonia after overwintering in Africa. Five were calling back to our Scops Owl whistle calls! 🦉💚

Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Mar 22

They’re back! (In Catalonia!)

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Mar 21

Great talk on Little Owl diet and the trial use of AI to analyse insect remains in video files in the 🇳🇱. A whole weekend on Little Owls at the International Symposium in Spain🦉

Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Mar 17

@btobirds.bsky.social Spring 25 edition of their member’s magazine is wonderful. I especially loved @willrose.bsky.social artwork, Annie Brooker’s illustrated article ‘Healed by Birds’ & Cudyll Cymru on raptor monitoring in Wales 🦅

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Feb 5

Wonderful to watch this Water Rail foraging along the banks of the River Chew. Winter is the best season to spot this secretive bird.

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Emily Joáchim @emilyjoachim.bsky.social · Jan 29

Heard my first Song Thrush of the year 🎶 Magical to hear glorious birdsong again #SignsOfSpring 💚