New Paper!🦈🚨
I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!
🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP
#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife
Illustration of a spiny dogfish and smaller fish swimming among stylized kelp strands, white lines of current threading around it and its surroundings.
spiny dogfish
(Swim On 5, 2019) #art #sciart 🎨🦑🦈
Ah interesting! Thank you 😊🐟
Can anyone ID these fish for me please? I’m thinking goby, blenny, goby, but I’m not sure! Found in rockpools at Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK 🐟🌊
#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification
Inshore areas recognised for flapper skate and thornback rays | Shetland News
Recently I’ve been volunteering with the Hull International Fisheries Institute for their tagging and electrofishing river surveys, and I’m really enjoying learning about the wildlife in our rivers and seeing some amazing fish species up close 🐟
A variety of crows based on real species are on a pastel background. The surroundings are filled with sparkly effects that crows love. The birds are smiling gently or playfully and look happy and joyful.
Happy crows 🐦⬛
I had an amazing time at the MBA’s @thembauk.bsky.social 21st Postgraduate Conference at Hull last month! 🫧🐟🌿
The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊
Unfortunately the great tits stopped returning to the nest a couple of weeks ago. I can only hope that they’re okay and built another nest elsewhere🤞🏻 I’ve missed seeing the chicks hatch and grow (like last year - below!) and just hope they’ll be back (or others) next year 😔🪹
Nest update! 😊
A great tit perched on a branch.
The start of a great tit nest in a bird house, made up of just a few twigs.
We put up a bird house with a camera in our garden in 2021 and every year since we’ve had great tits come and nest in it, and it looks like they’re going to nest again this year! Looking forward to watching them raise their chicks and seeing (hopefully) all of them fledge 🤞🏻🐣 #birds #spring
A yellowhammer perched in a tree, looking at the camera.
A yellowhammer perched in a tree.
A blurry photo of a marsh harrier flying low over the reedbeds near the river Humber.
The sunset on the Humber embankment in East Yorkshire.
Nice to see the little egret and marsh harrier again as well as some yellowhammers around the Humber today! 🐥🦅
A little egret walking on grass near the River Humber.
A little egret flying near the River Humber.
Saw a little egret on today’s walk 😊
❤️🩹🦈🩹New #physioshark paper 📑 out – “The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks” 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
@shamildebaere.bsky.social & our team!
#sharks #Elasmobranch #SharkResearch #WoundHealing #SharkConservation #NeonatalSharks #SharkBiology
A red Squid-shaped-squid playing with its food. Psychroteuthis glacialis is what we've been seeing, so maybe that? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 788 #AntarcticClimateConnections #MarineLife
A photo of two buzzards flying so high in the sky that they look like two tiny dots.
A blurry photo of a large bird of prey, likely a buzzard, perched on a branch in a tree.
A blurry photo of a red kite flying over a farmer’s field with its wings fully stretched out.
A photo of the sunset on the River Humber, taken in Brough.
Spotted 2 buzzards soaring and 1 perched in a tree (?), a red kite flying over a farmer’s field, and a kestrel sat in a bush while on a drive to/from Beverley on Wednesday. Then saw a flock of common teal on the Humber (Brantingham Drain area) on Thursday which I’ve never ‘seen’ (or ID’d) before!🦅🦆🌅
Success – an important win for nature! 🐝
Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids.
This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.
Yesterday, lots of people were asking me why I, an ocean conservation scientist, said “I support restricting where we use trawling gear, but I don’t support banning it everywhere.”
The answer is simple: humans need food and jobs.
Trawling hurts sensitive habitats
Don’t trawl there.
(Not to say the birds we saw aren’t special! But I was secretly hoping to record a sparrowhawk or see the bullfinch again… They never come when you want them to🥲)
Garden birds are the BEST 😍🐦
This weekend is the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch 24-26 January.
We’ve seen lots of vibrant visitors to our feeders this #Winterwatch & some cheeky ones too! You can enjoy more incredible wildlife on Winterwatch! Tune in on BBC iPlayer
#Birds #Wildlife #Nature
An eastern grey squirrel perched on the branch of an apple tree above a few bird feeders.
An eastern grey squirrel cheekily stealing bird food from some feeders hanging in an apple tree.
Despite the weather we still saw 7 starlings, 3 wood pigeons, 3 house sparrows, 2 blue tits, 2 collared doves, and 1 crow for the #BigGardenBirdwatch🐦 More than I expected as the garden was mostly empty all day with the wind! This strange-looking bird was the most ‘exciting’ thing I saw all day…
🦑 #Nudibranchs! Even more! How many could I spend time shooting? Yea more than that. #Bohol #Philippines
Perfect, thank you so much! 😄🩵
Hi! Yes that would be great, thank you! 😊
One of my favourite graphite pencil drawings I've done of a great spotted woodpecker.
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #bird #birds #birdart #drawing #PencilArt #woodpecker #art #ArtWork
A Short-eared Owl
maxime_lv_photography 📸📸
#Nature #Birds #Owls #Photography
just met a weiner dog named beef so not EVERYTHING is awful just most things
A sparrowhawk perched in a tree.
A sparrowhawk perched in a tree.
A marsh harrier flying over the river Humber.
A kestrel hovering in the sky.
We live close to the Humber and occasionally see marsh harriers flying over the river, and sometimes we get sparrowhawks in our garden! And I often spot buzzards and kestrels and sometimes red kites when in the car. Always feels magical seeing them! 🦅
(These pictures do *not* do them justice😆)
Yes they’re beautiful birds! I think here in the UK they’re doing better than they were but there’s still not as many as there should be. I’m hoping the one I saw today comes back!
New #sharkscience from @juliachaumel.bsky.social and @georgelauder.bsky.social showing that the tail of pelagic rays contain an extension of the lateral line system making it a giant hydrodynamic antenna. Fascinating stuff with implications for ecology.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
