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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Over the moon to pass my viva today with no corrections, couldn’t have done it without the amazing supervision of @jonathanpdrury.bsky.social. Many thanks to @josephtobias.bsky.social and Sally street for examining! 🦜

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Great to present my talk and poster at #ICCB2025 in Brisbane today. Great to chat to so many people and appreciate all the lovely comments!

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Martin Stervander 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🦉🦤🪶 @stervander.com · 11/06/2025

🦅 The new unified global #avian #taxonomy #AviList has just been released at www.avilist.org! Xmas for anyone interested in #birds & checklists... The first version will be followed by annual updates, with decisions and processes aimed to be more transparent than its predecessors'. 🪶🧪 🧵

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Great to catch up with the Druridge Dotterel yesterday after dipping the Cinnamon Teal. American Wigeon, Garganey and Spoonbill decent supporting cast.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Lush to be back in Cambridge this week presenting my poster on predicting avian hybridisation at @sccs2025.bsky.social

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

I’m visiting Brisbane in June for a conference and staying out there for two months afterwards, wondering if anyone had any recommendations for possible ringing opportunities or just birding generally, planning on travelling about a bit and going to NZ as well.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Might be a bit preemptive stocking this in Durham.

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

New species discovered! 🐦✨ The Banda Myzomela was previously thought to be two subspecies, new research confirms they are in fact three distinct species—differing in plumage, size, and, most importantly, song. 🎶 🔍 Learn more: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/03... #Biodiversity #Nature

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New species described! Scientists unveil a fascinating find in Indonesia

In a new study, published in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club and led by a BirdLife scientist, a colourful honeyeater has been described from the little-known island of Babar in…

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Great ringing session this morning. An 8-year old Blue Tit, a colour-ringed Bullfinch control, a leucistic Blackbird and 3 Nuthatches.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

So Ross’s Gull becomes my 800th bird. I know it’s nothing in the grand scheme of things but v happy to get there.

Ross’s Gull and Black-headed Gulls South Shields

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

First lifer of 2025. So glad it reappeared after my car was snowed in yesterday.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Absolute highlight of the year was getting back to Kenya, teaching on field course with Uni. Also spent a lot of time ringing at my own site since getting my C. Tripit, breeding spotfly and redstart the best. Plus 200 species exactly in the UK, 12 of them new.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

That’s a wrap! Thanks so much to everyone that came!

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Looking forward to presenting at #BES2024 tomorrow. Last talk of the conference again!

Predicting avian hybridisation title slide

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

7 Little Auk on Holy Island today, 2 flew into the harbour calling and then carried on over the island. The other five hung around the castle for a bit. Plus a porpoise past its best.

Little auk taking off from water, male and female eider behind

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Got a few ID mysteries from Kenya (Laikipia) in September if anyone has any ideas? Red-winged Larks? Pipits?

Possible Red-winged larks, Laikipia, Kenya sept 2024

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Written in 1995. The kites and great reeds lagging behind the stilts slightly.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIRDS - THE FUTURE
Cley Marsh 2020? Will global warming bring back Great Reed Warblers, Black Kites and Black-winged Stilts to breed in Britain?
Likewise, if the Scottish mountain tops lose their distinctive Arctic-Alpine character, with their specialized avifauna supplanted by widespread species, what does it matter if they are opened up to tourism? British conservationists will have some difficult decisions during the coming decades, as the effects of global warming begin to become apparent.
Farther afield, the conservation of existing wetland areas, particularly those used as stopover sites for migrants in western Europe and Africa, is likely to assume a crucial significance. Judging which ones we should save, and which will inevitably disappear, will not be easy. Ultimately, we may find that we are powerless against the combination of natural and man-made pressures we have set in motion. Like passengers on a rollercoaster, we can only hope that the ride will eventually come to an end, and that when it does, we and the birds will have survived.

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Following a new study, it has been recommended that Slender-billed Curlew be declared extinct, putting to bed any hopes that the wader may still exist and marking the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europe: bit.ly/4hMX9qh

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Slender-billed Curlew declared extinct

Slender-billed Curlew has been declared extinct following a new study that puts to bed any hopes that the shorebird may still exist and marks the first known global bird extinction from mainland Europ...

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Some really nice Blackbirds moving through atm. Along with plenty of Redwing and Fieldfare still. Although the Fieldfare are eluding the nets.

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Dan Nesbit @dannesbit.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Plenty of thrushes passing through today.

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