@liamlangley1
Seabird Ecologist interested in movement, foraging ecology and navigation. Recently moved to Lund and currently getting to grips with life in Sweden. Spend an unreasonable amount of time stood on a hill waiting for birds to fly past. He/Him.
This month's Free Access Editorial Team Choice: Canada Warbler in Pembrokeshire!
Magnolia Warbler at St Govan’s Head, Pembrokeshire, found by Toby Phelps was then added to with the discovery of Britain’s first Canada Warbler.
Read more:
📸 Canada Warbler by Graham Jepson
✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
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@seatrackscience.bsky.social
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Common Crane
Old Womans Lane, Cley
March 11 2026
A little bit of patch gold on a breezy early, early spring afternoon.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#norfolkbirding
#cleybirds
Main foraging areas (75% AKDE) of male Goshawks foraging exclusively in forest (A), in forest and farmland (B), and in forest and town (C). Foraging areas of individual birds are indicated by different colours. The town of Hajnówka is shown in grey. White dots indicate known active Goshawk nests.
Several male Goshawks breeding deep in Poland's Białowieża Forest 'routinely travelled up to 20 km to hunt feral pigeons in a town' with the authors concluding that 'urban environments shape the foraging behaviour of raptors even within primeval forests' #ornithology 🌍 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Fantastic fully funded PhD opportunity from @camglamresearch.bsky.social on the entomology of East Anglia and the associated archival records.
Bugs'n'books.
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
An atmospheric clip of the Black-winged Kite, late afternoon at Ludham Bridge. We'd been along the footpath, no joy, but saw it distantly from the noisy road bridge. Curiously reminiscent of a gliding Leach's Storm-petrel at times.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#norfolkbirding
#ukbirding
#rarebirdsuk
The Port Meadow Ring-billed Gull blog post is now out, photos will be replaced in due course with better versions as I don't currently have the computer I usually use for image processing with me. Some identification pointers inside #ukbirding
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Hanging out the washing this morning when a migrant Coal Tit started singing in the neighbour's tree. Washing dropped, bins and camera grabbed and our house list increased by one! Coal Tits are less than annual on Barra. House list now stands at 154 species. #birdingscotland
Serin just pitched in a tree top at the Obs
Some nice birds locally and out around Pembs over the last week or so as spring slowly starts going. On the local patch, a Marsh Harrier east over Skrinkle and a Goshawk over Manorbier in the week. Yesterday 2 Velvet Scoter off Telpyn Pt and today a Black Redstart at Martin's Haven! #birdingWales
Group of gulls and Terns on wooden posts. They all have white underparts and grey wings, and varying arounds of black on their heads. One Tern is a vagrant Foster's Tern and had a black eyemask and some dark streaking on its otherwise white head. It had orange legs which stands out from the nearby black legged Sandwich Terns, and a black bill that is conical.
Same group of birds but the Forster's Tern has turned around to show pale grey upper parts and even paler primaries.
Train arriving at a platform. There are benches on each side of the flatform. The train is mostly grey and dark blue. It is a small station with a bridge linking the 3 platforms. It is overcast. The information board for the platform with train says "Weymouth and..."
Couldn't resist direct train to Poole to reacquaint myself with the Forster's Tern! Great to see on the deck after the fleeting views past patch 3 years ago. Maybe it'll return? 🙏 #LowCarbonBirding #DorsetBirds
This is terrific. Writing is a way to think; waiting to write until you've worked everything out is counterproductive. On the discomfort of thinking through writing, from @patthomson.bsky.social
Ad. Bonaparte’s Gull today at Copperhouse, Cornwall (8th March ‘26). One of at least three birds in the county, plus same or another 1w at R. Plym yesterday.
#cornwallbirding #birding #ukbirding
Adult Kittiwake Woodhead Res @derbyshirebirds.bsky.social 0850-0904 when headed E @birdguides.bsky.social #UKBirding
Naff boc shots, but the Willet on Boa Vista showed nicely today. All gearing up nicely for the pelagics off Fogo next week, hopefully some quality sea-birding here on Cape Verde to come...
Amazing find for the meadow, great work and thoroughly deserved!
Apparently patch birding does all come good in the end. 1w Ring-billed Gull this evening and glad some people managed to connect after my rather garbled attempt at putting news out. Blog post to follow #ukbirding
The only North American record of the extinct Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris Alexander L. Bond, Paige R. Langle Abstract An historical record of the extinct Slender-billed Curlew Numenius tenuirostris from Ontario, Canada, is quite exceptional, being the only North American record. Its inclusion in North American, Canadian, or Ontarian avifaunal lists is patchy, and the specimen has not been assessed against current identification criteria. We show that the specimen is extant, in the collection of the Buffalo Museum of Science, and is indeed a Slender-billed Curlew. Here, we compile the history of the specimen and its collector in the wider context of the ornithology of the Niagara Region.
New paper in @britornitholclub.bsky.social - Paige Langle and I highlight (and confirm the identity!) of the only North American record of the now-extinct Slender-billed Curlew (1/4) bioone.org/journals/bul... #ornithology
I’m recruiting a PhD and MSC student for fall 2026 working on the movement ecology and conservation of Mexican spotted owls in SW forests and rocky canyonlands. Exciting partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Great vibrant lab group, high impact research! 🦉
gavinmjones.com/opportunities/
Cheers Reuben, clearly some proper potential here with Pacific Diver, Pallid Swift and Laughing Gull in the last year away from the seawatch!
A cracking couple of days on patch and buzzing to get some quality self-find points for @patchbirding.bsky.social #UKBirding
Curlew Sandpiper in a wader roost. First record in modern times….
Pacific Diver - 1 of many photos
Absolute scenes! at St Ives Island with @jonesgareth.bsky.social & @liamlangley1.bsky.social with 3 megas in 12 hours. Last night a roosting Curlew Sand. This morning - a Magpie! - followed by a Pacific Diver drifting W on dropping tide. Maybe it will return …
#cornwallbirding #birdsseenin2026
Sad but not surprising to see Derek Gow throwing his toys out of the pram after being blocked from releasing Twite of a different non-native subspecies (and even in some places it didn't occur historically). A reminder of why this would fail 🧵#Ornithology #UKBirding 1/
Peacock butterfly in hibernation, with spider lurking!
120 wings of dead Peacock butterflies on floor of bunker, presumably eaten by bats. Equates to 30 butterflies eaten!
A solitary Peacock left alive in the Purbeck bunkers. Out of 73 that went in. Not a very good survival rate! Culprits are bats (wing photo from last August) and spiders. Let’s hope they do better in other hibernation sites @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
The importance of taxonomists is exemplified in the line “Insects are by far the most diverse vertebrates.”
‘I love midges because I know what their hearts look like’: is the passion for taxonomy in danger of dying out?
This Scaup has been around for at least 2 months. It looked pretty drab when he arrived - look at him now!
Super pleased to find the Pacific for the year. Saw it in December. Still looks pretty smart and was close in. Still has his chinstrap although not as noticeable as it was a few weeks back?
This could have been a great photo … but the PD was very active and fishing/diving constantly. At one point it must have gone over 50 metres underwater. Difficult to keep tabs on it.
Bonaparte’s Gull at Hayle. Fortunately Steve R had already picked it up as I arrived - I would probably have missed it as it disappeared 5 minutes later. Thanks to the finder.
Drake Scaup looking dapper on Long Rock this am after 60 Manx, GND, RTD & 1 BTD off St Ives. Found the Pacific Diver close in at Roskilly - showed way better than my photos suggest - then jammed in on the Bonaparte’s at Hayle before it disappeared in lashing rain #cornwallbirding #birdsseenin2026
Ross's Gull
I don't often twitch long-distance anymore, but with 3 dips over nearly 30 yrs, Ross's Gull was up there as most wanted. And being a first winter, its even more special to the ID aficionados. Just a few 1000 pics to go through... #RareBirdsUK
Thrilled to share our new paper out in @science.org, led by François Leroy and Petr Keil! Using the Breeding Bird Survey, we document not only a continent-wide decline in bird abundance since the 1980s — but, crucially, the acceleration of these declines over time. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
