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A plenary of huge encouragement to get the #ICCB2025 conference started from Queensland Chief Scientist & QUT Professor Kerrie Wilson.

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June 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
tfinch.bsky.social
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November 13, 2024 at 9:17 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
#Tasmania #citizenscience #threatenedspecies #conservation #conservationscience #nature #NatureTrackers #wedgetailedeagle 🌏🧪🦅🌿
clawkins.bsky.social Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · May 12
Tasmanians! Isn't the best way to catch up with friends, family, colleagues on a trip in the great outdoors? How about a raptor survey?
Book into #WhereWhereWedgie on any/all of Fri-Sun 15-17 & 29-31 May.
1st weekend deadline's *tomorrow* (Weds).
Details & bookings: naturetrackers.au/projects/whe...
Where? Where? Wedgie! trip to survey for Tasmania's raptors (& 3 cockatoo species) among work colleagues in 2022. Four people point fingers & binoculars to the distant left of the photo, standing on a grassy roadside near a car surrounded by fields. Photo: Clare Lond-Caulk
May 12, 2026 at 10:17 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Exciting news in the world of #Tasmanian #WedgeTailedEagle conservation!

#Tasmania #conservationscience
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utas.edu.au University of Tasmania @utas.edu.au · Jun 19
Our researchers have developed a powerful risk mapping tool to help prevent fatal collisions between endangered wedge-tailed eagles and overhead power lines. The model is already helping guide conservation strategies across Tasmania. Read more: utas.au/Tracking_
June 19, 2025 at 6:23 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
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bou.org.uk British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · Apr 1
🧵1/8 Welcome to #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology, our annual conference.

Over the next 3 days, we’ll be in-person in Nottingham, and here on Bluesky

Follow the #BOU2025 for conference threads and to join in!

#ornithology 🪶🧪
April 2, 2025 at 6:12 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Thank you @faunatech-au.bsky.social !

#conservationscience #citsci #acoustic 🦇🦉🎙️🧪🌏🌿
faunatech.com.au Faunatech @faunatech.com.au · May 13
What are bitterns and bats up to when we’re not watching? 👀

CallTrackers is finding out! This citizen science project uses acoustic recorders to capture the sounds of Tasmania’s endangered wildlife - we love seeing community-powered conservation making a real impact! 👏 #CitizenScience
May 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
tfinch.bsky.social
OK, attempting again to write a pinned post for the #conservationscience feed! 📌

This feed collates all posts tagged with #conservationscience, but to filter out content which might relate to conservation of buildings/heritage, you also need to use a globe emoji 🌍🌎🌏
December 2, 2024 at 10:46 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
#ThreatenedSpeciesDay
#BiodiversityMonth
#acoustics #citizenscience #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #STEM #ornithology #bittern #bat #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature #CallTrackers #NatureTrackers 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
clawkins.bsky.social Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · 27d
Take part in Tasmania's annual population tracking of noisy but elusive species...
Choose your survey square (anywhere in the state, there's one <6 km from you) & book your recorder.
Help discover who's calling where—& over time, how their populations are going!
naturetrackers.au/projects/cal...
Picture of a small dark green Wildlife Acoustics recorder set up on a stake in a rainforest in northwestern Tasmania, captioned: CallTrackers season 2026-27 starts on 7th September: Threatened Species Day. Have you booked yours yet? naturetrackers.au' and featuring the lime green CallTrackers logo with a bright pink sound wave, and, in black a bat and an Australasian bittern .
September 6, 2026 at 9:30 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
#NatureTrackers' big #news! 🧵
with @btobirds.bsky.social
#bioacoustics #acoustics #citizenscience #CallTrackers #Tasmania #conservation #science #conservationscience #wildlife #monitoring #nationalscienceweek #STEM #ornithology #birds #curlew #threatenedspecies #biodiversity #nature 🌏🧪🦇🪶🦉🌿🎙️
clawkins.bsky.social Clare Hawkins @clawkins.bsky.social · Aug 7
This season, we can announce a new call recogniser in the software: for Critically Endangered FAR EASTERN CURLEWS, seen but rarely heard in #Tasmania.
It recognised calls from our 1st recordings near curlews, at dusk & dawn.
Where else will #CallTrackers detect them?
#news 🧪🌏🪶🌿🎙️
📷 Elaine McDonald
Far eastern curlew on low wetland vegetation in Tasmania, showing off its immensely long, slightly downward curved bill.
August 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
"Survival rates are important"
WaderTales blog from 8 March 2018 🎂7️⃣
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/03/08/m...
#ConservationScience🌏
March 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
rebhahn.bsky.social
‘Save the Partridge’ has established a monitoring of Grey Partridges across Germany. 5,000 transects surveyed! Partners are @dda-avifauna.bsky.social , @uni-goettingen.de with @consbiogoe.bsky.social , and German Association for Landcare (DVL)
#ornithology 🪶 #conservationscience 🌏
December 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
clawkins.bsky.social
A fascinating set of publications, including these findings from an app rather like eBird for night-time lights.
#CitSci #DarkSkies #SaveEnergy #Conservationscience 🌏🧪
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
Now that we've given up on Slender-billed Curlew, attention in the curlew world focuses on Far Eastern Curlew.
New blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
Two godwits are in more trouble than we thought too!
@birdlifeoz.bsky.social
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December 12, 2024 at 11:44 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
Following Black-tailed Godwits with rings, colour-rings and tracking.
New paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social by @amigodeaves.bsky.social et al, summarised in WaderTales blog.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
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Paper:
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January 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
bou.org.uk
Urban bird diversity conservation plan based on the MaxEnt model and InVEST model: A case study of Jinan, China | Ecological Indicators | www.sciencedirect.co... | #ornithology 🧪🪶 #conservationscience 🌏
April 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
Can habitat management rescue Lapwing populations?
It's hard without fences ...
... even if you use all of the #ConservationScience🌏 tools available.
Blog from 5 January 2017 🎂
wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/c...
Paper by Rebecca Laidlaw, Jennifer Smart, Mark Smart and @jengill.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 6:23 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
Network analysis identifies important sites for Black-tailed Godwits, by combing ringing movements, colour-ring sightings & tracking data.
Blog:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
Paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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January 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
Looking back ...
A summary of wader/shorebird research featured in WaderTales in 2022
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/w...
There's a link at the bottom to summaries for 2021 2020 2019 2018 & 2017
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📷 Golden Plover, Red-capped Plover, Oystercatcher & Whimbrel
December 30, 2024 at 7:37 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
Concerned about the conservation of migrant birds?
Blog from last month may be of interest.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
@amigodeaves.bsky.social paper explains how to bring ringing, colour-ring and tracking data together, to identify key migration sites.
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February 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
wadertales.bsky.social
#ConservationScience🌏 often involves value judgements.
For instance: 🔴Hedgehogs or 🟠Redshanks?
On the Outer Hebrides (Scotland) the decision is made easier because Hedgehogs were introduced to the islands:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/01/20/p...
WaderTales blog from 20 Jan 2016 🎂
January 21, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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NEW PAPER: Mapping Very Important Locations can improve conservation of rare bird species. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#ConservationScience #WildlifeConservation #Ecology
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January 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
wadertales.bsky.social
Waders/shorebirds are individuals.
Counting flocks tells you only part of the story, when assessing the impact of a new development.
If you read one WaderTales blog, please make it this one:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/c...
Paper: Josh Nighingale et al.
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January 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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#remotesensing #gis #conservationscience #conservation #wildlife #EcoRestore #GenerationRestoration #biodiversity 🌏🌐🧪#🌱
March 30, 2025 at 5:08 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
More details on the power line risk model for Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagles - how it was created, & how it’s used.

#Tasmania #wedgetailedeagle #conservationscience 🌏🦅🪶🌿🧪
Overhead power lines kill millions of birds a year. Scientists found a way to help cut the devastating toll
As electricity networks expand, the risk of birds becoming injured or electrocuted by power lines increases. How can we protect them?
theconversation.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 AM
clawkins.bsky.social
Great progress from the Astroacoustician! If we can include data on numbers & positions of individuals in our population monitoring, we will immediately be much better informed on the monitored species’ conservation status.
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#Tasmania
astroacoustics.bsky.social Jim Lovell @astroacoustics.bsky.social · Dec 17
Using a #bioacoustics recorder in stereo mode can provide constraints on population and movement. This article describes how I was able determine the presence of two bitterns at a wetlands in the Tassie midlands
#tech4wildlife #ecoacoustics

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December 21, 2024 at 4:25 PM