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Dan Nesbit

@dannesbit.bsky.social
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🦜 PhD student at Durham studying avian species interactions and their impact on coexistence and range dynamics 🦆 Birder & C-permit Ringer 🐦‍⬛ He/Him 🦩

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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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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.
Dotterel
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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 · 21/03/2025
Might be a bit preemptive stocking this in Durham.
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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.
8-year old Blue Tit in the handA leucistic BlackbirdA leucistic blackbird Nuthatch
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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, South ShieldsRoss’s Gull South ShieldsRoss’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.
White-billed Diver
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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.
Martial Eagle
Speckled PigeonVitelline masked weaver nest building Juvenile Redstart
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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 Dead porpoise
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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 2024Possible Red-winged larks, Laikipia, Kenya sept 2024
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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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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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