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More dead gannets washing up on beaches due to avian influenza outbreak. Best advice if you see a sick or distressed seabird is to keep your distance and notify Irish Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine.

From street level down to platform. A #3dscan of the Transport Museum, #brooklyn, #newyork. #laserscanning #pointcloud #lidar #farofocus

The very beautiful Inishtrahull featuring for ~ 15 minutes on Ireland’s Wild Islands on RTE today (not forgetting #Rathlin #Tory

Aerial surveys around Ireland’s 2 largest gannet colonies provide estimate of HPAI mortality. The arrival of HPAI at the end of the breeding season may have limited its impact on populations, but updated census a priority. #ObSERVE @OriolGP4 Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

This is absolutely bananas. There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable. But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages? Nope.

High-pathogenicity avian influenza (#HPAI) is seemingly taking hold in some E coast UK seabird colonies again this breeding season. 27 dead/dying birds of 4 spp along a 1.5km section of the Buchan Ness to Collieston Coast SPA 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 last Friday. (1/4) #BirdFlu #AvianFlu

My new favourite climate graphic From Jane Morton Jane Morton's excellent free booklet 'Don't Mention the Emergency?'

2023 was a good year for the natterjack toad said Ferdia Marnell Watch this short video with Minister Malcolm Noonan and the project partners as they released the toadlets into the wild…

With the news news circulating about the increase in corncrake numbers in 2023, let's color in a few key details. A short thread:

Molly, who turned 21 today, with a painting done by the very talented robertvaughanillustrations from a photo she took of an Egyptian Vulture in Co Roscommon.

The latest news on the Observatory rebuild is now available on the FIBO website. With the completion of the roof and cladding, we have reached a significant milestone whereby the building is now wind and watertight. fairislebirdobs.co.uk/update18

Tickets are now available for the Dinner to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Copeland Bird Observatory - looking forward to welcoming you to celebrate with us! #birdobservatory BTO BTO Northern Ireland Belfast Live QUBEcology BirdObs Council GB&I eventbrite.com/e/copeland-bir…

#BirdFlu update ⬇️ We detected HPAI H5N1 among brown skuas on South Georgia in October 2023, and later kelp gulls in November. Unfortunately recent testing by a vet from APHA has now found positive cases in elephant seals and fur seals. More here: bas.ac.uk/media-post/avi…

It was a real privilege to get the platform I did on the Tommy Tiernan Show and to be able to bring Irish Wildlife Sounds to such a wide audience. It's been life-changing. It's just so uplifting to see the thirst people have for nature.

A shocking example of shifting baselines in this month’s British Birds. Up to 800,000 Bullfinches were trapped and shot EVERY YEAR in the 1950s, 60s and 70s to reduce damage to orchards. Now we are down to 265,000 breeding pairs. A fascinating paper by Ian Newton.

The IOC has announced that it will recognise the split of Red Grouse and Willow Ptarmigan, with the former now set to become a British and Irish endemic species: bit.ly/3KNAESX

Brent geese will always be my first love. I can’t wait to watch this!

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