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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show. Excellent work by the National Trust at Holnicote. #MakeBritainWetAgain www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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Phenoweb project @phenoweb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

1/🧵 Our 2026 Spring field season data is in! Here are some highlights from our long-term monitoring of blue tits, invertebrates & trees across 44 sites in Scotland👇🏼

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New paper! 📊 Delighted to share this work from my PhD with @fairywrensanu.bsky.social — out now in Ecology & Evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Anne Aulsebrook @anneaulsebrook.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

📣 #PhDOpportunity in Geelong, Australia Ever wondered how urbanisation affects sleep in birds? 🐦 Interested in #behaviouralecology and #biologging? Come and work with me and Kate Buchanan at @deakinuniversity.bsky.social! Applications close 31 May Details: www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

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HDR Scholarship - Avian sleep in urban environments

Conduct research in in urban bird behaviour with Deakin's PhD scholarship.

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Phenoweb project @phenoweb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Spring is gaining momentum across Scotland. 🌱 Cumulative budburst across the transect has now passed 40%, driven by a surge of activity at our northern sites in recent days. While the North is waking up, the South continues to lead the way in terms of first leaf emergence. #Phenology #Spring2026

Plot showing the cumulative percentage of trees in first budburst and first leaf across the Phenoweb Transect since 1 April 2026. Orange line shows southern sites, while the blue line shows northern sites. The black line represents the transect-wide trend.

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Phenoweb project @phenoweb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The first week of the 2026 field season is underway, and Storm Dave has provided a chilly – but atmospheric – start. ❄️🏔 63 blue tit nests initiated, so far, with 4 lined. Looking like a later start for us compared to elsewhere in the UK/Western Europe. #phenology

A snowy mountain scene taken in the northern Cairngorms on 5 April 2026.

Woodcrete nest box hanging from a snow-covered tree.

Woodcrete nest box hanging from a tree, with a snowy landscape in the background.

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Sienna Rattigan @siennarattigan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

1/🧵My first preprint!🐛🌡️ We examine how environmental effects experienced during one life-history stage persist and modulate environmental responses in later life-history stages. With Lea Beaupere, @sheldonbirds.bsky.social, @rona-learmonth.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Most detected bird species thus far: Eurasian wren and – perhaps unsurprisingly – blue tit! Really excited to see what we can learn from these data long-term.

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Edward Grey Institute @egioxford.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

🚨🚨 Breaking news from Wytham Woods: The 80th year of data collection of the long-term tit study officially started today with this nest with 3 Blue Tit eggs (pic: @mcmahok.bsky.social). First egg inferred 23 March which is our earliest EVER nest - beating the previous record of 26 March by 3 days!🚨🚨

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Many congratulations to Shane Butt on the publication of his first paper as part of his PhD on @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social . Three decades of satellite remote sensing (Landsat & MODIS) + long-term field data = better insights into red deer ecology. 🌿🦌 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

#ornithology nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

📣 Hot off the press! 🔥🧪 'Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social'. Proud to have played a small role on this one with an amazing team led by @hasikadam.bsky.social! 🦌🌱🪱 Read about it here 👇

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Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer | Parasitology | Cambridge Core

Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer

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The Scottish Ornithologists' Club @scottishbirding.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New research on Edinburgh's urban Sparrowhawks has been published in Bird Study. Lead by Mike Thornton, SOC representative on Scottish Raptor Monitoring Group, the study looks at changes to Sparrowhawk diet and links to clutch size. doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2025.2513542 #RaptorResearch #ornithology

Photo by John Agnew. Adult male Sparrowhawk perched on a garden fence. It is a small bird of prey with slate-grey back, wings, tail and head with rufous cheeks and breast. It has orange eyes and a hooked bill. The bird has its back to the camera but has turned its head to look at the camera.

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This morning's bird ringing highlight: a male Grasshopper Warbler! After over four weeks of hearing one reeling at this site, it was great to finally catch it in the net. (A first for me). @btobirds.bsky.social #ukbirding

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Absolutely worth the 03:00 am start. Last week, I helped to ring and process 46 Sand Martins 🪶 — under licence from the BTO — including 6 retraps that had safely returned to East Lothian from their overwintering grounds in W. Africa. All wrapped up with a beautiful sunrise over the Forth. 🌅

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Phenoweb project @phenoweb.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

And we're off! Our first blue tit egg was laid on 3 April 2025 - making this, by some margin, the earliest start to a season in the 12 years of our project! 🪺 #phenology #ukbirding #ornithology 🪶

A single blue tit egg in a nest inside a woodcrete nest box.

The change in date of the first blue tit egg in the Phenoweb project population. Black points represent the mean (+/- SE) first egg date in each year, across all sites on our transect (with day 1 equal to the 1 April). The light grey points represent the first egg date at each individual site. The regression line represents the estimated mean (+/- 95% CI) and is fitted through data from 2014-2024. The red point represents the date of our first egg found in the current 2025 season.

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Phenoweb project @phenoweb.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Looks like being a very early spring for us. We already have over 60 blue tit nests and didn’t reach similar numbers ‘til around April 10th last year. This sycamore is already in leaf, and last year it didn’t reach a similar stage for another three weeks. When will we get our first eggs?

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The 12th phenoweb.org field season is underway! What a beautiful couple of days spent rambling around the Scottish Highlands checking nest boxes 🪹!

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Keith McMahon @mcmahok.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

We're hiring a fieldworker to help with some of our projects in Wytham Woods this spring. Wonderful place to work (and live), especially in the spring. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.

We are seeking to appoint a fulltime field assistant to work on the Wytham Tit Project for 4-8 weeks in spring 2025. Duties will include (i) collecting standardised data from nest-box breeding populations of tits, (ii) setting up equipment to monitor foraging behaviour of great tits (e.g. cameras, proximity loggers), (iii) fitting proximity tags and accelerometers to adult great tits (iv) inputting data collected in the field. The start date and duration of this position is flexible, depending on availability of the successful candidate. The post could last up to 8 weeks, starting in mid-April, or c. 4 weeks, starting in early May. All fieldwork will take place in Wytham Woods, near Oxford. The work is variable in intensity and will at times require long days in the field, and working some weekend days, but this will be balanced out by a quieter period at the start and end of the season. Successful candidates must have (or be qualified to obtain) a BTO permit to ring adult great tits, be able to demonstrate skill and enthusiasm for biological research as well as experience of fieldwork under arduous conditions, and both lone work and working as part of a team. Due to the short-term nature of these posts, successful applicants must already have the right to work in the UK.
Salary & Accommodation: Field assistants will be paid at grade 5.2 (£17.02/hour) and responsible for finding their own accommodation. It will be possible to hire accommodated at the Wytham Chalet, a research station within Wytham Woods. Alternatively, field assistants can find private accommodation locally and use their own transport to commute to the woods (approx. 30 min by car or bike, depending on location).
Please submit an application, consisting of (1) a covering letter explaining relevant experience and motivation, (2) a CV (max 2 pages), and the names of two people who can be contacted as referees, by Tuesday 11th March 2025 to eleanor.cole@biology.ox.ac.uk. Inquiries to same email.

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Do apply and get paid to watch spring unfold across the Scottish highlands. 🌳-->🐛-->🐣 #ornithology #birds #ukbirding

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Final 2024/25 @btobirds.bsky.social winter ringing session in East Lothian. A good haul of 141 birds, and I *finally* got my hands on a siskin! All birds handled and ringed under licence.

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There are many studies of phenology of components of the tri-trophic tree-insect-bird system, a useful model for understanding effects of climate change. But how do different measures relate to each other? We compared 5 methods, deriving 9 metrics, across 6 tree spp www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Schematic figure illustrating methods to measure phenology of trees and insects

Example of phenological measures for a single Oak tree at Wytham Woods

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Alfredo Sánchez-Tójar @asanchez-tojar.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Check out our new contribution, a massive collaboration brilliantly led by @danielwanoble.bsky.social. Full of interesting insights such as "What's the average time between the first manuscript submission to its acceptance in a scientific journal?" Go figure that and more at doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#HeathrowExpansion won’t deliver growth. Business demand is falling & more tourists leave than arrive. But it *will* trash climate commitments, drive more extreme weather, noise & air pollution & only benefit frequent flying super-emitters - the 15% who take 75% of flights. Labour should be better

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Staggering #AttackOnNature by Chancellor Rachel Reeves MP. What on earth has happened to the UK Labour Party since moving into government?!

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Edinburgh Napier University @edinburghnapier.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

❗ | Due to the red weather warning in place for Friday 24 Jan, we have made the decision to close our campuses tomorrow for student and colleague safety. Full details for students ➡️ orlo.uk/Qe4jU For colleagues ➡️ orlo.uk/G5y6y Thanks for your understanding and please take care. #MustBeNapier

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Excellent start to 2025! A total of 215 new #birds ringed (+5 retraps) from 14 species, including: lesser redpoll, yellowhammer, house and tree sparrow, and more than 50 chaffinch! All handled and ringed under licence from @btobirds.bsky.social. #birdringing #birdbanding #ornithology #UKbirding

Tree sparrow in the hand after being ringed.

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Wow, I am so happy to see that cOnr is still going well! He was born in the ANBG back in the 2017/18 breeding season (4 Jan. 2018, so he'll soon be celebrating his 7th birthday!) 🎁 #ornithology #longtermstudy #superbfairywrens

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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 17/12/2024

Helpers-at-the nest mitigate the costs of cowbird brood parasitism in brown-and-yellow marshbirds | link.springer.com/ar... | Ornithology Research | #ornithology 🪶

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Fantastic #PhD position at @scienceanu.bsky.social working on unquestionably the coolest honeyeater - the noisy friarbird! Kind of makes me want to go back to Australia to do a second PhD!

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Another fantastic morning #birdringing ( #birdbanding ) w/ Lothian Ringing Group. 64 birds ringed (+30 retraps) from 13 species. Highlights included: reed bunting, siskin, and redwing. All birds handled and ringed under licence from @btobirds.bsky.social #ukbirding #ornithology

long-tailed tit in the hand after being ringed.

male bullfinch in the hand after being ringed.

female reed bunting in the hand after being ringed.

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Dr Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

📢If you manage #woodlands or #treescapes in the #UK — whether for #timber production, nature #conservation, recreation, #agroforestry, or other purposes — we would love to hear from you. 🌳🧪 Please complete our short questionnaire (5-10 minutes): survey.napier.ac.uk/n/treeprotec... 1/4

A roe deer fawn standing in a field of wildflowers.

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A grey squirrel descending a tree.

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A field of tree saplings in plastic tree tubes.

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© Mike Faherty

A wood mouse grasping on to an acorn at the end of a broken branch.

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