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Completed the late June visits for our Owl and Kestrel monitoring on the Martin Down Farmer Supercluster and Waders For Real farmer clusters last weekend. BO breeding stage is more spread out this year, kestrel chicks are fledging and we found a new LO nest site. Thanks for the help Flo Turner!

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Sad to have stepped down from this role with BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈. If you wish to develop skills in event management and science communication then this is the post for you! Shoot me a private message if you have questions :-) #ornithology

‼️ PLEASE RT Poster and Twitter-only abstract submissions are still open for #BOUsci23 Global flyways Submit here: bou.org.uk/event/bousci23… Deadline: 31 July (09:00 BST) | #ornithology Thx to Wouter Vansteelant José A. Alves Elly Knight Camila Gómez Yachang Cheng Sayam U. Chowdhury and all SPC

An excellent event! Thanks for the invitation Matthew Trevelyan

9 talks on Curlew science and conservation today at #IWSG2023. First up our director Ryan Burrell talking about the Curlew Solutions Trial funded by Defra UK #SpeciesRecoveryProgram

CRP SG member Dr Samantha Franks summarises insights from the Eastern England Curlew Recovery Project. Headstarting may buy us time to generate solutions and policy for insitu conservation. But, we still do not know where they will recruit yet...

Head-starting can be a brilliant conservation tool but sharing experiences is essential for it to be successful. Please complete this survey #ornithology

What a brilliant way to introduce lapwing anti-predator behaviour! Well done and thanks for a great talk Guillaume DILLENSEGER #IWSG2023

A brilliant new pilot by Sian Taylor! Finding the culprits for the large number of unknowns often present in wader nest and chick predation studies is so valuable for our knowledge, management and policy #ornithology #IWSG2023

Excited to announce the hatching 🐣 of Wader Study's latest #ornithology Project, in partnership with Movebank- the Global Wader Tracking Data Project (GWTDP)! waderstudygroup.org/projects/globa… globalwader.org But - what is it? Why do we need it? How does it work? 🧵 1/9

Massive congratulations to @Javaraptor ! I had no doubt that you would smash it! Fingers crossed for my own in a few months :-)

OUR NEW PAPER - 50 yrs of monitoring cereal invertebrates in the Sussex Downs. 37% decline in overall invertebrate abundance but the situation is complex. Increases for 16% of non-overlapping taxa at the order or family level, and no change for 37%. resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ic…

Reducing predation is crucial for Curlew recovery. Learning how nest survival and predator identity varies between areas is important for getting interventions right. The images show a stoat predating a Curlew nest monitored this season by BTO for the CST project

The water has FINALLY dropped enough to access our best redshank site, with the redshank champion himself Rupert Brewer! The nests have a 2 inch layer of dry grass in them to keep the eggs nice and dry, what a fantastic species! #conservation

Curlew are far from recovery but brilliant work is happening. For wader recovery, we urgently require long-term large-scale funding to maintain and restore habitats, manage predation and provide consistent advisors to work with land managers, monitor success and adapt practice

In the LATEST ISSUE of BOU 👩🏻‍🏫👨🏿‍🏫🧕🏽👳🏽‍♂️ 🌈 Monitoring wader breeding productivity | onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… David Jarrett @AksuLehikoinen Steve Willis | #ornithology #waders #shorebirds

Calling all farmers! We would hugely appreciate it if you could fill in our #Curlew survey 2024. Don't worry if you know nothing about Curlews! We would love to hear your views and experiences 👉 curlewlife.org/2024/06/callin…

We are at the Curlews in crisis Conference this week with 100+ delegates from 30+ organisations and projects. What an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences! We need policymakers to take the lessons from this project and others, support #Curlew for the long-term and at scale.

Nov weekend success! Our team managed over 290 resightings of over 130 individual Curlews, Turnstone and Bar-tailed Godwits. This included birds marked by WWRG in the #WashNNR and by projects elsewhere. Fantastically, this included 17 headstarted Curlews (yellow-leg flags)!