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Gary Allport
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BirdLife International, bird conservation, ornithology, birding, fish, fun... all views my own
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Kiat et al. Connectivity between breeding sites, wintering areas, and migration routes in Common Terns (Sterna hirundo) breeding in the Western Palaearctic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds
Connectivity between breeding sites, wintering areas, and migration routes in Common Terns (<fi>Sterna hirundo</fi>) breeding in the Western Palaearctic
Detailed knowledge about bird migration patterns can enhance our understanding of the evolution of migration and temporal changes in space use throughout the annual cycle. Additionally, as many migra...
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September 28, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Important piece by @fionaharvey.bsky.social on huge significance of the Report by UK Security Chiefs on rising climate & nature threats which has been shamefully suppressed by Government. Also the focus of my @therestpolitics.bsky.social mini-series, #WhenNatureBecomesASecurityThreat
Why is the UK’s suppressed climate national security report significant?
Warnings about the catastrophic effects of vital ecosystems collapsing were not published under previous prime minister
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September 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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EARLY VIEW in IBIS

A global perspective on the annual cycles of whimbrels | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Camilo Carneiro et al | #ornithology 🪶
September 17, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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Latest Wadertales blog on the amazing new IBIS (@bou.org.uk) paper from Camilo Carneiro and over 50 co-authors, bringing together tracking data for Whimbrels across the world:
blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/09/22/w...
paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#ornithology
World-wide Whimbrels
When Camilo Carneiro and colleagues started to write a 2026 paper about global movements of Whimbrel, in 2024, there was just one species. By the time they finished there were two, with the America…
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September 23, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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Three days, three outcomes, 125 Partners and a song. A comprehensive sketch of the week the Partnership came to Africa. - www.birdlife.org/news/2026/09...
An Omnibus Scrapbook of Nairobi: The Global Partnership Meeting and Global Flyways Summit 2026
BirdLife’s Global Partnership Meeting and second Global Flyways Summit in one scrapbook. State of the Worlds Bird’s, Global Birdsong Initiative and more.
www.birdlife.org
September 25, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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Excellent paper by James Hogg in Afrotropical Bird Conservation putting Bela Vista wetlands on the map. With 3,500 Curlew Sandpipers shows International Importance of freshwater wetlands in Mozambique journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/AB...
September 24, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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The Birds of Bela Vista Wetland

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Here is an article about Bela Vista Wetlands to the south of Maputo. Hopefully you'll find it interesting, it is a site worthy of more attention and protection.

#birds #ornithology #birding
The birds of Bela Vista, Maputo Province, Mozambique: a regionally important site for wetland bird conservation | Afrotropical Bird Biology: Journal of the Natural History of African Birds ...
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September 23, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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Also big thanks to Gary Allport @birdsandlife.bsky.social and Peter Ryan for help with the MS and Derek Engelbrecht for the maps.

Pied Avocet, Bela Vista, March 2022
September 23, 2026 at 4:46 AM
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Wow! What a study and what a graphic. #ornithology
birdsandlife.bsky.social Gary Allport @birdsandlife.bsky.social · 22d
Steppe Whimbrel - remember this?
The tracking data now part of an amazing collaborative study of all tracks of whimbrels globally, put together by Camilo Carniero just published in Ibis.
Still a big data gap in Southern and Eastern Africa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Migratory routes of tracked whimbrels with the breeding (triangles pointing downwards), wintering (triangles pointing upwards) and stopover sites (spring: circles; autumn: diamonds). Stopover symbol sizes represent duration in days. Each subspecies is represented by a distinct colour, with undetermined by grey symbols and dashed tracks. The coloured polygons at high northern latitudes illustrate the longitudinal ranges considered to assign subspecies with exception of N. p. alboaxillaris (see Table 2; note that presumed overlapping subspecies N. p. phaeopus– rogachevae and N. p. rogachevae– variegatus are not labelled). Repeated individual tracks are shown but not included in statistical analysis. The map is presented in an equal area projection, which retains the relative size of areas.
September 17, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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I'm writing WaderTales blog #160 about a fantastic global Whimbrel study.
Lots of info re migration, subspecies, threats, conservation etc to cram into 1500 words.
Reckon WaderTales must be up to 250,000 words by now!
Catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/
#ornithology
September 18, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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Spannende globale Studie: Regenbrachvögel im Jahresverlauf.

In NRW sind diese Watvögel regelmäßige Durchzügler. Oft werden die ruffreudigen Vögel bei nächtlichen Tonaufnahmen festgestellt, aber auch als Rastvögel werden sie - wenn auch keineswegs häufig - immer mal wieder beobachtet.
birdsandlife.bsky.social Gary Allport @birdsandlife.bsky.social · 22d
Steppe Whimbrel - remember this?
The tracking data now part of an amazing collaborative study of all tracks of whimbrels globally, put together by Camilo Carniero just published in Ibis.
Still a big data gap in Southern and Eastern Africa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Migratory routes of tracked whimbrels with the breeding (triangles pointing downwards), wintering (triangles pointing upwards) and stopover sites (spring: circles; autumn: diamonds). Stopover symbol sizes represent duration in days. Each subspecies is represented by a distinct colour, with undetermined by grey symbols and dashed tracks. The coloured polygons at high northern latitudes illustrate the longitudinal ranges considered to assign subspecies with exception of N. p. alboaxillaris (see Table 2; note that presumed overlapping subspecies N. p. phaeopus– rogachevae and N. p. rogachevae– variegatus are not labelled). Repeated individual tracks are shown but not included in statistical analysis. The map is presented in an equal area projection, which retains the relative size of areas.
September 18, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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the relative longitudinal consistency is fascinating
sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 21d
Such an impressive compilation of data from tracked birds across (most of) the global range and diversity of Whimbrel in this new collaborative paper in Ibis: look at the map - so many major transoceanic movements

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿: unprecedented numbers (50+) off W coast of Sri Lanka in last few weeks. Here's a video edited in
Michael McKee-style....
May 27, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Such an impressive compilation of data from tracked birds across (most of) the global range and diversity of Whimbrel in this new collaborative paper in Ibis: look at the map - so many major transoceanic movements

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
September 17, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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After 20 years of research, scientists have formally described Mus dumbara, a new spiny mouse species endemic to Sri Lanka’s Knuckles Mountain Range.

First lured by burnt coconut in 2004, the elusive rodent highlights the island's overlooked small-mammal biodiversity.

Story by Malaka Rodrigo.
How burnt coconut helped discover new to science endemic species in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO —  As dusk settled over the paddy fields at Puwakpitiya, a village on the northern edge of Knuckles Mountain Range locally known as Dumbara mountains in Central Sri Lanka, researchers began…
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September 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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Steppe Whimbrel - remember this?
The tracking data now part of an amazing collaborative study of all tracks of whimbrels globally, put together by Camilo Carniero just published in Ibis.
Still a big data gap in Southern and Eastern Africa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Migratory routes of tracked whimbrels with the breeding (triangles pointing downwards), wintering (triangles pointing upwards) and stopover sites (spring: circles; autumn: diamonds). Stopover symbol sizes represent duration in days. Each subspecies is represented by a distinct colour, with undetermined by grey symbols and dashed tracks. The coloured polygons at high northern latitudes illustrate the longitudinal ranges considered to assign subspecies with exception of N. p. alboaxillaris (see Table 2; note that presumed overlapping subspecies N. p. phaeopus– rogachevae and N. p. rogachevae– variegatus are not labelled). Repeated individual tracks are shown but not included in statistical analysis. The map is presented in an equal area projection, which retains the relative size of areas.
September 16, 2026 at 10:38 AM
birdsandlife.bsky.social
Steppe Whimbrel - remember this?
The tracking data now part of an amazing collaborative study of all tracks of whimbrels globally, put together by Camilo Carniero just published in Ibis.
Still a big data gap in Southern and Eastern Africa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Migratory routes of tracked whimbrels with the breeding (triangles pointing downwards), wintering (triangles pointing upwards) and stopover sites (spring: circles; autumn: diamonds). Stopover symbol sizes represent duration in days. Each subspecies is represented by a distinct colour, with undetermined by grey symbols and dashed tracks. The coloured polygons at high northern latitudes illustrate the longitudinal ranges considered to assign subspecies with exception of N. p. alboaxillaris (see Table 2; note that presumed overlapping subspecies N. p. phaeopus– rogachevae and N. p. rogachevae– variegatus are not labelled). Repeated individual tracks are shown but not included in statistical analysis. The map is presented in an equal area projection, which retains the relative size of areas.
September 16, 2026 at 10:38 AM
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#ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Drivers of Stopover Distribution Across Two Autumn Migration Routes of a Long‐Distance Afro‐Palearctic Migrant, the Common Cuckoo (<fc><fi>Cuculus canorus</fi></fc>)
We model autumn stopover distribution of UK common cuckoos across two migration routes, revealing distinct environmental drivers and key geographic hotspots. Iberian mountain systems and the Po water...
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August 11, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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New paper with an unbelievable team of collaborators, led by Bob Flood. @scillypelagics.bsky.social

A new subspecies of Cape Verde Storm Petrel Hydrobates jabejabe from São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea. Ostrich, 1–18. doi.org/10.2989/0030...

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August 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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Two of the two main targets on today's pelagic to the Baby Isles and Cheland Banks, Unalaska - Whiskered Auklet and Laysan Albatross @yellowbrow.bsky.social
June 1, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁-𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿: unprecedented numbers (50+) off W coast of Sri Lanka in last few weeks. Here's a video edited in
Michael McKee-style....
May 27, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗡-𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗣𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗨 𝗜𝗡 𝗞𝗔𝗠𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗧𝗞𝗔 by 𝘓𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰 et al. in latest BirdingASIA is amazing collaborative science giving prospects for future survival of this icon of the East Asian Australasian Flyway
#ornithology jameslowenwild.bsky.social
May 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗢𝗙 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗡-𝗕𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗣𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗨 𝗜𝗡 𝗞𝗔𝗠𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗧𝗞𝗔 by 𝘓𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘰 et al. in latest BirdingASIA is amazing collaborative science giving prospects for future survival of this icon of the East Asian Australasian Flyway
#ornithology jameslowenwild.bsky.social
May 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Your Monday bird read: Meet the scientists trying to figure out why female Bicknell's Thrushes are declining faster than males, in an effort to turn things around for this rare species. (From Audubon Magazine.) #ornithology
Why Are These Rare Female Thrushes Disappearing?
Scientists are unraveling the conservation risks to the elusive Bicknell’s Thrush.
www.audubon.org
April 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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wpmueller.bsky.social
#ornithology
#seabirds
datazone.birdlife.org/articles/six...
April 27, 2026 at 9:41 PM