Yep - big declines in anything that eats insects and migrates across pesticide-drenched western Europe. And unfortunately, the pesticide-drenched area is growing . . . 😢😨

Buy organic food.

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected.

MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative.

If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it.

Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

By reintroducing keystone species, such as beavers, and allowing rivers to flow more naturally, we can help secure a future for brown trout – and countless other species that depend on healthy waterways.

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Really fascinating thanks for sharing this

Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...

Importance of landscape configuration on nest predation explored here in @wadertales.bsky.social blogs by Graham Appleton bsky.app/profile/wade...

But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology

The study looks robust but they don’t report how many events had nest predator identity ‘unknown’ (could still be badger also) and say that badger were uncommon at the site in the first few years of the study. That badger were more likely to take clutches in cold conditions is interesting.

The nest camera, nest predation paper in @bou.org.uk Ibis journal is here, (unfortunately not oa)
doi.org/10.1111/ibi....

Li k to study is here bsky.app/profile/btob...

But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology