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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

If I didn’t already have my PhD project this is one I’d be doing: Vocal behaviour of killer whales and the dual pressures of ship noise and predation on Arctic marine mammals iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

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Vocal behaviour of killer whales and the dual pressures of ship noise and predation on Arctic marine mammals

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Feathered thorn (Colotois pennaria) of the family Geometridae. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. #TeamMoth

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A quiet day, for me, on Skokholm but I forgot to tell you about the dotterel a couple of days ago! First wryneck ringed and great spotted woodpecker. #UKbirds #BirdingWales #Skokholm 📸RB/GE skokholm.blogspot.com

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Yesterday I ringed a wryneck, the second young bird in 2 days #Skokholm #UKBirding #BirdingWales 📸RB skokholm.blogspot.com

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Two Sabine’s Gull and four Black Tern. Water Rail and Lapwing, singles of Golden Plover and Whimbrel, seven Curlew, 14 Turnstone, 45 Black-headed Gull, a Mediterranean Gull, a Common Tern, six Arctic Tern #UKBirding #WelshBirding #Skokholm skokholm.blogspot.com 📸RB

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

LOOK AT WHAT I SPOTTED TODAY!!! Grey Phalarope, just four fleeting glimpses on #skokholm this century. skokholm.blogspot.com #UKbirds #Welshbirds 📸RB

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Buff-breasted Sandpiper from North America! Rosefinch, Wryneck, Water Rail, Oystercatcher, Ringed Plover, Curlew, Turnstone, Snipe, Common Tern, Gannet, Shag, Sparrowhawk, Swallow, Willow Warbler, a Sedge Warbler, Goldcrest, a Spotted Flycatcher, Stonechat. #UKBirds skokholm.blogspot.com?m=1 📸RB

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Rosefinch, Firecrest, Teal, Common Scoter, Oystercatcher, a Whimbrel, Curlew, Turnstone, Black-headed Gull, Sandwich Tern, ten Common Tern, Arctic Tern, Gannet, Shag, Sparrowhawk and Kestrel, Jackdaw, Chiffchaff, Spotted Flycatcher, Stonechat, and a Tree Pipit. #UKBirds skokholm.blogspot.com?m=1 📸RB

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

22 Glossy Ibis flyover of Skokholm towards Marloes. 📸 Stephen Hyam

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Convolvulus hawk-moth (Agrius convolvuli), two different individual. #Skokholm #TeamMoth

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Despite all the moth photographs we do have seabirds on our seabird island. skokholm.blogspot.com?m=1

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I pulled a Delicate out of the trap yesterday #TeamMoth 📷 G Eagle

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I like little hemlock moths (Agonopterix alstroemeriana) #TeamMoth

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I’m quite enjoying the silver ys this week.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

We have been getting some nice scarce bordered straw moths lately.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

We are getting some quite interesting moths - scarce bordered straw, rosy rustic, dark sword-grass. The island also has birds.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

What is this miso soup cloud pattern called?

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Ruby Tiger and (?) at the Skokholm moth trap this morning.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Looking for tern and seabird ringing opportunities for next year to work towards seabird endorsement. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Manxie Productivity Census on Skokholm #UKBirding 📸 G Eagle

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We have had too many storms the last couple of nights to be ringing stormies but we are trying again tonight. #TeamPetrel #UKBirding

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I’m not posting ringing photographs as I don’t want them to be misconstrued by a lay audience but we have ringed A LOT of storm petrels despite the full moon over the last couple of nights. #UKBirding

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Arrived safely on Skokholm! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #UKBirding

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I don't like to talk about things other than science and nature here but this is an official acknowledgment of the Tinker Experiment. Scotland invited Nazi eugenicist Wolfgang Abel to assist in rehabilitation [concentration] camps operating in Scotland under national policy to eradicate Gypsies.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Signed up to UK Arctic Science conference. But I have a thought: There is strong empathise on bits being held at Wylam Brewery to 'ensure' everyone is included but when I was at @polarimpact.bsky.social we had a big discussions on Pubs and Breweries being a huge barrier to EDI. What do you think?

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I spent some time at home this week

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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

A great thread on really important new research about bowhead whale vulnerability to climate change 🐋🐋🐋

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My camera isn’t behaving, but from my new apartment window.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

"He has been unable to remove wild campers from his land and said this had affected his conservation efforts" I *once* carried out a lot of conservation efforts on the land under his ownership, that *once* is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

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Elizabeth Tutty @tutty352.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

The 2025 seabird season starts for me here at the Farne Islands.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Spending time this week preparing for my move to Cambridge in September to start my PhD on Higher Marine Predators. #MarMam #UKBirding

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Because of the massive increase in #IngestedPlastic this year (number, mass and size of particles) were finding intact items inside our baby #seabirds. This means we’re able to get information on brands…including THIS! ⬇️ #SoyFish #PollutionIsADesignChoice #shearwaters @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The wrong kind of fish is ending up in seabirds. Soy sauce throw away package from a Sable Shearwater.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica. Antarctic tourism – background, impacts, and opportunities 30th April 2-3pm UTC Sign up via Eventbrite here Dr Jasmine Lee conservation scientist, Dr Susie Grant marine biogeographer www.eventbrite.com/e/ukpn-semin...

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UKPN Seminar Series: Science for Policy in Antarctica

Join us for the second in this series where we will be joined by Dr Jasmine Lee and Dr Susie Grant (British Antarctic Survey)!

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 25/04/2025

The Penguin Book of Penguins! Coming later this year: a beautifully illustrated book about the world’s most beloved bird, written by British Antarctic Survey’s Peter Fretwell @ptfretwell.bsky.social What better day to reveal the cover the #WorldPenguinDay? ⬇️

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Lovely munro before ringing tree pipits, before spending the evening on the elliptical training for the new alpinism!

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Brilliant day ringing with the Clyde Ringing Group - redpolls and tree pipits! #UKBirding #BirdingScotland

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Skokholm Island @skokholmisland.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Moon sparkles on the sea tonight! A marine fireworks display, as Manxies soar in and shoot down their burrows to avoid being spotted by the Great Black-backed Gulls patrolling the plateau.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Public service announcement. They are not Dire Wolves. They have 20 single letter changes in their entire genomes. I’ve done shits with more mutations. Every time journalists write up a Colossus press release, They are making people stupider. Client journalism by a ridiculous company.

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Samanta Wilde @samantawildlife.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Fun little play session, lack of birds a significant oversight but I did watch a rock dove drinking from the gutter and have an insightful talk with BAS about the seabird-ice interaction questions my PhD will answer.

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