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Kevin Wood @drkevinwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Insights from technological advances in wildlife research' New special issue of @wildlifebiology.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1903220x... 🌍 🧪 🦤

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Wildlife Biology: Vol 2026, No 5

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British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A new study of Black-headed Gulls in Sweden found that survivors of a 2023 highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak developed long-lasting immunity and changed their behaviour. Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 📸 David Tipling

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New paper out! 🦆Using almost 50 years of data, we show that production of young and adult female survival are key drivers of Wigeon population change in NW Europe. A great international collaboration bringing together multiple long-term datasets from across the flyway! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nest cameras, colour-rings, GPS tags & capacity building. Read all about our latest expedition to Iceland to study Whooper Swans, part of a long-term study now in its 38th year! swansg.org/2026/09/18/i...

A boat load of Whooper Swans captured for studying through bird ringing

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lovely blog post by Sarah Davies - a behind-the-scenes account of her recently published study of the diets of wetland warblers in Catalonia. bou.org.uk/blog-davies-...

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Disentangling the diet of reedbed warblers in Catalonia - British Ornithologists' Union

Applying DNA metabarcoding to assess dietary overlap and prey selectivity in wetland insectivore communities

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

5/5 Which feels particularly fitting today, after the great news about a new paper from our Iceland Whooper Swan work having just been published. Led by my good friend @stephen8vickers.bsky.social & worked on together with another great friend @drkevinwood.bsky.social. See bsky.app/profile/step...

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

4/5 Over dinner one evening, Jenny said something that really stuck with me: if you can do science with your friends, then that really is something truly special and something you should never lose. ❤️

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

3/5 All these years later, I feel incredibly lucky to now be leading that same Whooper Swan study. And hearing Jenny speak again this week was, as always, inspiring. She has a wonderful ability to communicate science to absolutely any audience 💫

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

2/5 In fact, that work helped inspire me to get involved in the long-term Iceland Whooper Swan study. I won’t say how many years ago that was, at risk of embarrassing both Jenny and myself… 😅🦢

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

1/5 A real highlight of #IWSG2026 in Santiago de Compostela was catching up with @jengill.bsky.social. I first saw Jenny speak when I was just 14 and hearing about her & colleagues’ long-term work on Icelandic Black-tailed Godwits had a huge impact on me.

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Stephen Vickers @stephen8vickers.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our GPS tracking work has found Iceland Whoopers Swans spend less than a third of their time in protected areas! Read all about it in our latest paper published fully open access today in Biological Conservation 🦢 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 27/07/2026

EARLY VIEW in IBIS A systematic review and meta-analysis of variation in nest predation of ground-nesting birds | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Mari D. Klaussen, Kevin A. Wood, Alex Nicol-Harper, Anita Diaz Isla, Emilie A. Hardouin, Richard A. Stillman | #ornithology 🪶

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Looking forward to the IWSG conference later this year and the chance to visit Santiago de Compostela for the first time! Excited to catch up with colleagues, hear about the latest wader research, and explore a new corner of Europe 🇪🇸

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Back from 10 brilliant days in Iceland - recovering GPS tags, deploying nest cameras on Whooper Swans, and discussing new goose projects. A real highlight was visiting a huge Pink-footed Goose colony with thousands of nesting pairs. Above all, however, it was the people that made the trip! 🇮🇸🦢

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yes, one of the parents injured and so stayed & have been breeding for several years...

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Lovely to be back on fieldwork in Iceland continuing with and starting new projects! Today it's been good to catch up with the Whooper swans! Tomorrow we kick start a new project on Iceland Greylag geese... #Fieldwork #Iceland

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Tohar Tal @tohar-tal.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Why are Bewick’s Swans declining? Here, we set out to answer this question by breaking down the reproductive cycle of the rapidly declining Western Palearctic population, using both GPS/ACC and citizen-science data. Click the link below to read the full story! @hanslinssen.bsky.social

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Abi Mackay @abimac.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Finally got out to do some #PhD fieldwork last week! Spent Good Friday on the River Tamar taking #eDNA samples to identify fish species using the tidal freshwater zone between Calstock and Gunnislake.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It was such a pleasure! I loved every minute and learnt a great deal from you - thank you! :-)

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Abi Mackay @abimac.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Big thank you to the team who came out with me and made my first bit of fieldwork a breeze! @kanebrides.bsky.social Sarah Davies Sian Taylor

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Lights out, GPS trackers on. 🦢🌙 With the last of our tagged Whooper Swans back in Iceland, another winter of roost analyses is complete. Tracking 70 birds has revealed where they roost, the wetland types used, and whether those sites fall within protected areas or outside our conservation network.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

MMU #ecology PhD student James Richardson is looking for people to complete a survey comparing different aspects of city green spaces - if you live in the UK (or a familiar with city landscapes) please help by clicking on some photos! 🌍🧪 citynaturechoices.org

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Sarah Gutowsky @halibirdnerd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Thanks, Mark! Best to report to www.waterbirdcolourmarking.org for detailed histories and maps of their movements

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Waterbird Colour-marking Group

Visit the post for more.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Fab, thank you! Now here's to the 4th!! :)

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Excellent, thanks Scott!! Did you submit it to the app?

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Fab! Thank you Gareth! Will be in touch...

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Great! I think these could be Dutch / Russian birds. If you're able to confirm the remaining bird & get any photos and send me the details (location / dates) to colourmarkedwildfowl@wwt.org.uk - I'll sort out accessing details.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

As in one bird has two colour-rings, one on each leg?

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Nice! Did you get any neck collars? Lovely to see Criffel there too!

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Picking a favourite wetland feels a bit like picking a favourite bird, let’s be honest, it's my main study site, the Ouse Washes 🦢💙 Big skies, winter floods, thousands of swans & a landscape that’s never quite the same twice. Chaotic, beautiful, dynamic and endlessly fascinating #WorldWetlandsDay

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

#WorldWetlandsDay is a reminder that wetlands are cultural landscapes as much as ecological ones. The places I’ve worked - urban, farmed and remote - all exist because of generations of knowledge, care and coexistence. Protecting wetlands means valuing the people woven into them.

An Emirati lady overseeing the placement of mist-nets on a tidal creek in Dubai. For bird ringing capacity training

A Chinese fisherman using the Yellow Sea to bring in a catch.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

One day a week a go into the office. My productivity is usually much poorer than when working from home.... mainly because of these outside my desk window 👀 #OfficeVibes

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

1/2 Curlew – wonderfully charismatic, desperately threatened and in need of urgent action if they are to remain part of our landscape. That’s why the launch of the UK Curlew Species Action Plan yesterday in the House of Lords is so important. #Ornithology #Curlew

A group of five people including BTO staff are smiling and looking at the camera at the Curlew Action Plan Launch.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Honoured to attend the House of Lords today for the launch of a UK Action Plan for the Eurasian Curlew. A vital, evidence-based framework bringing together science, land management and policy to help halt and reverse the decline of one of the UK’s most iconic birds. Lots to be done!!

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Working under the cover of darkness, counting snoozing swans 🦢💤 #Ornithology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Good effort 👏 Love Goldeneye!

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who is out counting swans this weekend for the International Swan Census! I've had a great day in the Cambridgeshire Fens. I'm really looking forward to analysing the data & seeing the overall results! 🦢

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Out counting for the International Swan Census this weekend? Look out for colour-ringed swans. Sightings will help us assess the whereabouts of individuals but also to detect whether any major movement has occurred during the census period. Sightings to ring.ac #ornithology

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Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Up early to count the swans before they left their roost. 389 Whooper Swans (59 juvs) and 1 Bewick's Swan. All submitted to the International Swan Census data portal. Check out vacant sites that need covering this weekend app.bto.org/gsmp/public/... #NorfolkBirding

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

🦢 The International Swan Census is almost here – this weekend! We still have a few priority sites that need coverage. Please check the map & help us assess how well our Whooper & Bewick’s Swan populations are faring. Every count matters! 🙏 bto.org/gsmp-isc 📸 @tangrigg.bsky.social #Ornithology

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

📉Bewick's Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe are declining. Would you like to help us continue to monitor Bewick's (and Whooper Swans) through participating in the International Swan Census this weekend? See more information: www.bto.org/gsmp-isc

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The next International Swan Census is almost here (17/18 Jan). Coverage is looking good, but there's a few small gaps. If you're able to help, please check the below map and get in touch with @webs-gsmp.bsky.social Birders on Mull, Skye, Orkney & Uists are needed in particular! Thank you!!

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Pinkies above the chimney pots! Apologies to all my colleagues who had to endure several mid-meeting pauses today so I could grab photos of migrating Pink-footed Geese from my desk… priorities! Streams of Pink-footed geese heading west over Manchester today.

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