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Birds, science, politics. Reader @ManMetUni Associate @CornellBirds, Chair BOURC. Usually found in the #PeakDistrict or #Amazonia @RAS_network he/him
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Our new commentary led by https://t.co/Qzd0ocm1RC argues that historical art is not a suitable basis for taxonomic speculation and that the 'Meidum Geese' in the Chapel of Itet are not a new species and are most safely identified as Red-breasted Geese

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Chiffchaff is increasing, helped by having a broader thermal niche and getting one over on WW by barely bothering to migrate in many places

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17M UK households spend £250M on 150K tonnes of bird food annually. Great if you are a dominant species like a Blue Tit but what about if you are subordinate species like a Willow Tit?

Thread based on our new paper led by https://t.co/rnnynksrpU 1/

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Yep, Tundra plovers in temperate landscapes. Curlews are legitimate lowland meadow species, I worry about them and Snipe more than I do Golden Plovers. Better to create patches of high quality habitat for hill waders than create huge expanses of poor quality habitat for them.

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Andy at the risk of this being a distraction to bustards, Capers co-occur with those species across millions of km2 of Eurasia without a problem. Disturbance and deer densities/fences are major changes and humans... https://t.co/n2qX7qGraT

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Now that everyone has got tired of Daily Express 'snow bomb' stories it is clearly go big or go home time 👇

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Hi both, this seems likely gunshot, given that a) Batumi is a known blackspot, b) that HBs have very different life histories to GH(and fight each other less) & c) big difference in trauma between those images, & d) that you can map plausibly the scatter of shot onto the HB.

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