Leela Channer
@leelachanner.bsky.social
PhD student in mongoose behavioural ecology | fan of moths, butterflies & reptiles | photographer | science comms
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Bonkers day-trip to St Agnes yesterday provided two lifers. The mourning dove didn't move much but the spotted sandpiper, american pipit, and hoopoe all put on a show to make up for it. With @leelachanner.bsky.social @liamlangley1.bsky.social and quite a few others!
October 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Bonkers day-trip to St Agnes yesterday provided two lifers. The mourning dove didn't move much but the spotted sandpiper, american pipit, and hoopoe all put on a show to make up for it. With @leelachanner.bsky.social @liamlangley1.bsky.social and quite a few others!
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Impressive showing from the Arctic Tern that's been about at Argal Res for the past few days @cbwps.org.uk @leelachanner.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Impressive showing from the Arctic Tern that's been about at Argal Res for the past few days @cbwps.org.uk @leelachanner.bsky.social
Bonelli's warbler on St Mary's, Scillies, from a day trip in mid August
September 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Bonelli's warbler on St Mary's, Scillies, from a day trip in mid August
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Living in the bush often means finding weird solutions to problems faced by animals living near humans.
Huge thanks to aquaphor for a truly multipurpose balm that helped us grease this Nile monitor out of the grate he was trapped in!
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Huge thanks to aquaphor for a truly multipurpose balm that helped us grease this Nile monitor out of the grate he was trapped in!
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June 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Living in the bush often means finding weird solutions to problems faced by animals living near humans.
Huge thanks to aquaphor for a truly multipurpose balm that helped us grease this Nile monitor out of the grate he was trapped in!
@laurarlabarge.bsky.social @leelachanner.bsky.social
Huge thanks to aquaphor for a truly multipurpose balm that helped us grease this Nile monitor out of the grate he was trapped in!
@laurarlabarge.bsky.social @leelachanner.bsky.social
Two new sightings for me in Mweya, QENP; glossy ibis and a lovely pair of white-faced whistling ducks.
May 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Two new sightings for me in Mweya, QENP; glossy ibis and a lovely pair of white-faced whistling ducks.
Out in the field again with all the highs and lows that brings, from having to cook 22 tiny omelettes every other night to elephants sparring with a lion.
May 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Out in the field again with all the highs and lows that brings, from having to cook 22 tiny omelettes every other night to elephants sparring with a lion.
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April 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Great to have had the opportunity to present my research into individual variation in interspecific cooperative behaviour at #ASAB2025 in Liverpool today. Very lucky to be in the company of so many fantastic talks!
@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social
@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Great to have had the opportunity to present my research into individual variation in interspecific cooperative behaviour at #ASAB2025 in Liverpool today. Very lucky to be in the company of so many fantastic talks!
@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social
@asab-spring-2025.bsky.social
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Day 2 of #ASABSpring2025 has begun! 🦤
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Day 2 of #ASABSpring2025 has begun! 🦤
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Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥
We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖
We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖
April 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Our #ASABSpring2025 conference kicked off with a blast (from the past) today🔥
We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖
We had an incredible talk by Dr. Tom Fletcher and Tom Land from Silverback Films 🦍, accompanied by Camilla Affleck from Liverpool Screen School 📽️ and Prof. Peter Falkingham from LJMU 🦖
Lots of butterflies out despite the overcast skies! Orange-tip, green hairstreak, green-veined white, southern festoon, small heath, grizzled skipper, wall brown, baton blue and >15 painted ladies. Plus yellow and woodcock orchids.
April 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Lots of butterflies out despite the overcast skies! Orange-tip, green hairstreak, green-veined white, southern festoon, small heath, grizzled skipper, wall brown, baton blue and >15 painted ladies. Plus yellow and woodcock orchids.
Some nice birds from the train through Occitanie, on my way to visit my family for Easter – egrets and grey herons, black kite and black-winged stilt. Looking forward to seeing what insects are about.
April 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Some nice birds from the train through Occitanie, on my way to visit my family for Easter – egrets and grey herons, black kite and black-winged stilt. Looking forward to seeing what insects are about.
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I've recently moved to Bristol and have been trying to explore the surrounding area. A trip to Ubley Warren on Saturday in search of reptiles didn't disappoint with adder, grass snake, and plenty of common lizards seen! @leelachanner.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I've recently moved to Bristol and have been trying to explore the surrounding area. A trip to Ubley Warren on Saturday in search of reptiles didn't disappoint with adder, grass snake, and plenty of common lizards seen! @leelachanner.bsky.social
Super exciting to stumble across 4 early adders basking on Tregonning Hill in the weekend's lovely weather
February 25, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Super exciting to stumble across 4 early adders basking on Tregonning Hill in the weekend's lovely weather
Back in Cornwall and good to get out birding quickly! Lifer in the form of a ring-billed gull, and nice to see the glaucous gull and goosanders.
February 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Back in Cornwall and good to get out birding quickly! Lifer in the form of a ring-billed gull, and nice to see the glaucous gull and goosanders.
A couple of days in Samburu to round off the EBE field trip, with white-rumped shrike, secretary bird, white-headed buffalo weaver, and red-and-yellow barbet. @uniexecec.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A couple of days in Samburu to round off the EBE field trip, with white-rumped shrike, secretary bird, white-headed buffalo weaver, and red-and-yellow barbet. @uniexecec.bsky.social
From Nakuru NP – great white pelicans and grey hooded gulls, ruff, little stint, and augur buzzard.
February 9, 2025 at 7:12 AM
From Nakuru NP – great white pelicans and grey hooded gulls, ruff, little stint, and augur buzzard.
Continuing with the @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc EBE field course sightings, here are some from Ol Pejeta: crowned hornbill, red-cheeked cordon bleu, golden-breasted bunting, and black-headed oriole. The bunting is my favourite of the trip, one I've wanted to see for ages and which didn't disappoint!
February 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Continuing with the @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc EBE field course sightings, here are some from Ol Pejeta: crowned hornbill, red-cheeked cordon bleu, golden-breasted bunting, and black-headed oriole. The bunting is my favourite of the trip, one I've wanted to see for ages and which didn't disappoint!
Some of the bird species on the @uniexecec.bsky.social
MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.
MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.
January 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Some of the bird species on the @uniexecec.bsky.social
MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.
MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.
A first for the year! Found this silly hummingbird hawk-moth awake and flying around the house last night. Released it once the temperature had warmed up today, hopefully it finds somewhere more suitable to overwinter.
January 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A first for the year! Found this silly hummingbird hawk-moth awake and flying around the house last night. Released it once the temperature had warmed up today, hopefully it finds somewhere more suitable to overwinter.
Didn't expect to spot a hawfinch from the kitchen window!
December 28, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Didn't expect to spot a hawfinch from the kitchen window!
Cirl and reed buntings on our Boxing Day walk, on the edge of the garrigue
December 26, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Cirl and reed buntings on our Boxing Day walk, on the edge of the garrigue
A great turn-out for our Science Storytelling for Change event! Lovely to see so many engaged people in the audience. Thanks so much to everyone at @another-way.bsky.social who helped organise, and to our fantastic panelists, @radapandeva.bsky.social, Anna Roberts and Gillian Burke.
December 10, 2024 at 10:15 AM
A great turn-out for our Science Storytelling for Change event! Lovely to see so many engaged people in the audience. Thanks so much to everyone at @another-way.bsky.social who helped organise, and to our fantastic panelists, @radapandeva.bsky.social, Anna Roberts and Gillian Burke.
Some fascinating talks at Exbase yesterday, from termite conflict to dolphin communication via squirrel caching! Nerves aside, I was also happy to present some background to my own research on terrestrial cleaning symbioses.
November 26, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Some fascinating talks at Exbase yesterday, from termite conflict to dolphin communication via squirrel caching! Nerves aside, I was also happy to present some background to my own research on terrestrial cleaning symbioses.
Hello! A quick intro as I begin on this new platform. I'm Leela, interests include behavioural and sensory ecology, conservation and environmental change. Keen on insects and herps, cat person, photographer, currently researching mongoose behaviour.
November 24, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Hello! A quick intro as I begin on this new platform. I'm Leela, interests include behavioural and sensory ecology, conservation and environmental change. Keen on insects and herps, cat person, photographer, currently researching mongoose behaviour.