What a legend 💪💪

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the sad news that our friend, valued colleague and leader of the Duck Specialist Group, Richard Hearn, has lost his battle with illness and has sadly passed away. Read about Rich's work - ducksg.org/2024/02/status…

Last few days to apply for the Monitoring Officer role on the Severn & Avon Vale Curlew project!

If you fancy a field based job monitoring Curlew in Gloucestershire/Worcestershire see here for more info: jobs.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/1849…

Kane Brides They're giving 👀👀

📢 Job alert!
Come & work with Daniel Gornall & me. Can promise you a great team, lovely farmers, working in beautiful hay meadows & #Curlew chicks... all whilst collecting vital evidence to help lowland breeding Curlew. See ➡️ jobs.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/1849…

Finally managed to catch up with waxwings locally in Worcestershire. Given the numbers in the country I had a feeling this would be the year.

We're going to be recruiting soon for x2 exciting fieldwork positions working on our #Curlew projects in the Severn & Avon Vales (Glos/Worcs) and on Dartmoor! Keep an eye on the WWT website for details 👀

2023 has been another busy year for us! With 1,216 waterbirds colour-marked of 11 species. Three new species have joined our studies & our online app has processed 12,500 sightings. Overall our datasets contain 63,400 sightings. Stay tuned for species updates!

Our study also provides new & updated information on the survival and mean dispersal distance (76km) for non-breeding Canada Geese. Annual mean survival rates ranged between 0.510 and 0.875 over the study period, with a mean of 0.654 #ornithology
(Photo G Catley)

Our paper on the moult migration, site fidelity and survival of Canada Geese at Windermere, Cumbria has now been published online in the journal Wildfowl wildfowl.wwt.org.uk/index.php/wild… #ornithology

This week, we've managed to catch 142 Black-headed Gulls for ringing, with 11 of these having GPS tags fitted. We also managed to read the rings of 164 previously ringed birds, topping up our newly ringed & resightings datasets nicely! #NWBHGs

Gull week featuring geese. Great company and great birds

Did you know? Today is Rememberance Day for Lost Species. Sadly we could have lost at least 9 species of #wader . Here is a quick thread about them all 😥🧵⬇️ #lostspeciesday

Our new paper is out! Looking at plant traits associated with seed dispersal by ducks & geese in urban and natural habitats. It is the most detailed study yet of #endozoochory by UK wildfowl. See here - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
#Ornithology with @DrAndyGreen Ádám Lovas-Kiss

Project Godwit Action Plan sets the priorities for the next decade wwt.org.uk/news-and-stori… via @wwtworldwide

Sad to see 7 Guillemots and 1 Razorbill washed up on the shoreline between Cley beach and Blakeney point today as well. 1 Guillemot still alive in the surf.

#ProjectAfrica Day 107: 60km

Gonna be honest the last few days have probably been some of the toughest of my life.

On day 102 I was separated from the boys & the support van after some impassable roads in the planned route.

In an attempt to find the boys at a village on the…