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Kane Brides 🦆

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Senior Research Officer in the Conservation Evidence team at WWT. Working in wetland species recovery. Global Chair of IUCN Duck Specialist Group 🦆 🏳️‍🌈 All views my own.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Nov 15

First post on Bluesky! Hi I'm Kane & I work in wetland species recovery at @wwtworldwide.bsky.social based at Slimbridge. Along with posting about my WWT work, in my own time I also run lots of projects on bird species, especially wildfowl, so expect posts & project updates from these too! 👋

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 2h

💫 we have @stephen8vickers.bsky.social to thank for that!

Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 2h

Nice!! 😊

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 4d

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 1d

A week on from #StormAmy 🌬️ data from our tagged Whooper Swans show both storm assistance & storm displacement. Some birds made rapid migrations, others battled the elements – some out at sea for 55 hrs! As North Atlantic storms grow more frequent, understanding their impact is vital. 🦢 #Ornithology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 2d

Try - app.bto.org/static/files... (Peter Coffey) 👍🏻

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 2d

🤫 It's a Merseyside RG bird. Ringed at Shotton Steelworks, Flintshire, on 14th June. Don't have email address to hand right now but will be listed on www.cr-birding.org

European colour-ring Birding | cr-birding

www.cr-birding.org

Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 2d

Merseyside RG, are, I think. Possibly also East Dales. Is it 2440?

Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 6d

Awesome! I ringed that bird Ray, I'd have loved to have seen it in my hometown of Manchester!! Thank you for reporting it!

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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · 24d

Our new open access study on human-nature connectedness is now online.

We show that engaging in outdoor environmental activities increases human-nature connectedness, with mindfulness and encounters with wildlife showing the largest increases.

Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...

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An infographic showing six images of people engaged in outdoor activities, which serves as the graphical abstract for our newly published paper on human-nature connection. The first image, showing a man and girl looking at an otter, represents encounters with captive animals. The second image, representing educational activities, shows a woman and two children pond dipping and identifying the animals that they find. The third image shows a group of people on a 'Landrover safari' looking at waterbirds, which represents encounters with wildlife. The fourth image represents gardening, and shows a group of adults and children creating a new garden. The fifth image shows two people in the distance walking alongside an estuary, representing recreation. The final image represents mindfulness and shows a person meditating in nature. For each activity, the mean value for the change in human-nature connectedness is reported, based on the analyses undertaken in our paper.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Sep 12

Nice!! It's not been resighted since ringing, so super good to get this one :) If you head to www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org (report a bird page), you'll get the details there. Cheers!

Waterbird Colour-marking Group

Visit the post for more.

www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · Sep 1

🦢The International Swan Census involves counters to carry out a one-off count on the weekend of 17th-18th January 2026.

This involves counting Whooper and Bewick’s Swans, as well as recording age assessments and habitat.

Visit the vacant site map⬇️
app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...

#Ornithology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Aug 15

Together, the team turns challenging fieldwork into transformative science.

#ScienceInTheField #WhooperSwan #Iceland2025 #ProtectedSites #SpeciesResearch

Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Aug 15

From Ketill Þór Thorstensen & Dr @stephen8vickers.bsky.social to Scott Petrek, Dr @drkevinwood.bsky.social, Prof Cao Lei and Dr Eileen Rees OBE, each member plays a vital role - whether that’s trekking remote wetlands, analysing migration data, or bringing unparalleled knowledge of Whooper ecology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Iceland Whooper Swan Study Group is powered by an exceptional team of volunteers united by a passion for the conservation of swan species. Led by Kane Brides, Sverrir Thorstensen & Dr Ólafur Einarsson, the group blends decades of field experience sharp statistical skills & deep species expertise

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our Whooper Swan expedition has been a blur of hauling zodiacs over tundra, coaxing engines through salt spray & dancing with Iceland’s untamed waves. While our waterproofs are still drying, we’ve gathered the stories data & moments that made this trip 👇🦢

www.linkedin.com/pulse/icelan...

Iceland Whooper Swan expedition 2025

This summer, we're back in Iceland for the next chapter of our research - here’s an update from across our three current main work areas..

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Aug 12

A successful few days deploying GPS tags on Whooper Swans in the highlands of Iceland to check whether the wetlands they depend on in Britain & Ireland are still doing the job in a changing climate.

#Iceland #Wetlands #ProtectedSites #Ornithology

Whooper Swans in protective jackets in a boat in Iceland. Caught for colour-marking & GPS tagging.

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Bird Study Journal @birdstudy.bsky.social · Jun 26

22 papers across two issues document the impact of #AvianInfluenza and assess effectiveness of management responses. They show the unprecedented scale of the outbreak, decimating populations across Europe, Africa, North and South America to the South Atlantic.
📚 bit.ly/bird-study-h...
#Ornithology

A dead Black-headed Gull at a colony in Norfolk, UK, photographed by Dawn Balmer / BTO, and likely a victim of high pathogenicity avian influenza.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Jun 12

Lovely day yesterday catching up with staff. A day of assessing recruitment of Curlews to the Dartmoor breeding population, discussing headstart post release monitoring & of course seeing the 2025 cohort of headstarts! 😊

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Jun 7

Interesting few days working on behalf of Natural England in advising the UK Great Bustard Group on developing & trialling a protocol to monitor great bustard productivity. The trip also facilitated knowledge transfer between national experts in species monitoring. #SpeciesRecoveryProgramme

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Jun 4

They are fascinating! I'm looking forward to deploying GPS tags on them in 2026! Makes you wonder whether this bird is actually a usual Strathclyde moulter but potentially postponed its moult migration in 2024 & decamped to Windermere instead....

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g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social · Jun 4

Slimbridge Greylags currently starting to appear at Strathclyde Loch and Hogganfield for their annual moult migration, among them, unusually, this one ringed at Windermere
@kanebrides.bsky.social #clydebirding

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Nature @nature.com · May 17

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · May 10

Rather satisfying loading up to @movebank.bsky.social
1,679,731 Bewick's Swan tracking data points ✨️👌🏻 #Ornithology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · May 8

Annual paddle in the Lake District for Barnacle Goose nest counting & monitoring. Lots of nests found, GPS'd, colour-marked adults identified & lots of eggs counted, measured, and weighed. Fun day with @cateden91.bsky.social #monitoring

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · Apr 30

Do UK hatched Whooper Swans go to Iceland? These two hatched at WWT Welney last year & today were in Northumberland with other migrating Whoopers. Hopefully, we'll get sightings of them in Iceland 🤞

Gary Woodburn @gary-woodburn.bsky.social · Apr 30

7 Whooper Swans arrived at Low Newton scrapes this morning from the south, about an hour later they departed north. 2 of the birds had white rings with black letters on the right leg, ABN and ABP. Metal rings on the left leg.

#NEbirding

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