Ring-billed Gull, Cork Lough, Cork, Ireland.

Wintering RB Gulls in the UK are now almost extinct but Ireland still seems to attract various regular individuals, often at traditional sites

Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box.

Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

Supplementary feeding is a threat to UK Hawfinch populations #Ornithology #UKBirding

Climate change aggravates bird mortality in pristine tropical forests | www.science.org/doi/... | Science Advances | #ornithology 🪶

A park bench at Bridgend this morning….

Regal Greatstreak scientific name Evenus regalis.

This wonderful butterfly is the Regal Greatstreak, seen in the Riviera Maya in Mexico a few years ago. #butterflies

A coloured pencil and gouache illustration of 5 Waxwings, facing right, sitting in the twigs and branches of a tree, on a white background.

The Waxwings artwork for the cover of the 2023 Leics & Rutland Bird Report is finished. Mostly done using Polychromos coloured pencils, with a bit of gouache in the details, on Fabriano Artistico paper. Original is about A4 size. #birds #birdart #ukbirding

"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"

Are you talking single site record? 431 was recorded in Ecuador by one team but visiting mutiple sites.

Bearded Tit, Ouse Fen RSPB.

Build it and they will come.

First proofs of Neotropical Birding 36 are in. And mighty smart they look too. Articles by Steve Howell, Tom Schulenberg, Josh Jones, Milosz Cousens, Jonathan Newman plus a photo fest courtesy of Rob Jansen. Published by Neotropical Birding and Conservation early next year. Here's a taster...