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Stephen Moss

1 year

I'm delighted to announce that Ten Birds That Changed The World has been shortlisted for the prestigious 2023 @wainwrightprize #JCWP23 #10YearsOfWainwrightPrize Huge thanks as ever to @broodoherty @DHHlitagency @lucymcrobert1 and all at @FaberBooks 1/3

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Stephen Moss

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16 days

Very sad news - Tony Soper, a huge influence on generations of birders and broadcasters, who I had the huge privilege of working with and getting to know, has died aged 95. The last person who was there at the start of the BBC Natural History Unit. A lovely man.

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The worst environment secretary ever (and that takes some doing!) has resigned. Good riddance @theresecoffey - you were utterly useless, and according to one leading conservationist who met you, the rudest and most uninterested politician they had ever met.

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3 years

A very happy 80th birthday to my dear friend and colleague, the incomparable genius @BillOddie Please RT and send Bill your very best wishes; after a tough year he is back, as he says, "I have risen again!" Have a great day Bill... @ChrisGPackham @IoloWilliams2 @DilgerTV 1/3

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3 years

My late mother Kay, a single parent who left school at 15 and was never given the chance to go to university, always wanted me to be a doctor. Not sure this is what she had in mind, but I think she would have been proud. I owe it all to her love and guidance. Thanks, mum.

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Stephen Moss

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2 years

Just to say I’ll be out of the loop for a few weeks, as I’m in Taunton hospital for checks after a small but worrying stroke. No doubt I’ll soon be bored witless and keen to find out who our latest PM is. Or maybe not. Love to you all for keeping me sane in this mad world. 🥰

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1 year

⁦ @EnvAgencySW ⁩ ⁦ @EnvAgency ⁦ @pow_rebecca ⁩⁩ What the hell is pouring into the river below Huntspill Sluice, where migrant birds are feeding? Please RT ⁦ @MarkAvery ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisGPackham ⁩ ⁦ @SomersetWT ⁩ ⁦⁦ @Natures_Voice ⁩ ⁦⁦ @RSPBEngland ⁩

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Is @Detectorists the best drama/comedy series ever made by the BBC?! Perfect watching - funny, poignant, moving and very very real. Slow TV at its very best - well done to all involved…

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

3 months

For god sake @BBCNews - we face the most important election in our nation’s history, you totally ignore the environment, and for three bulletins in a row you lead with the 106th person in line to the throne having concussion. Do you understand the concept of news values?!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 months

Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds.

Vaccinating badgers more effective than culls in stopping bovine TB, study finds

Percentage of badgers with bTB fell to zero in Cornish study, raising hopes of end to cull of 210,000 badgers since 2013

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

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It was one of the greatest privileges and pleasures of my life to work with, and later get to know as a friend, the wildlife TV presenter Tony Soper, a true pioneer who entertained millions. Here is my @guardianobits tribute to this fine man.

Tony Soper obituary

Television presenter and writer who came up with the idea of a BBC natural history unit and led cruises to polar regions

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Sad news. The immensely talented, kind and brilliant bird artist Robert Gillmor died this afternoon, after a long illness. Many of us grew up with his artwork in magazines, and on book covers. A lovely man, who’ll be much missed. RIP Robert. Sympathy to Susan, Emily & Thomas.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

@NightSkyLantern Please do NOT release these lanterns - they cause fires and can harm livestock and wildlife... this is VERY STUPID (not sure I’m being clear enough here...)

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

The birders are coming for you, ⁦ @trussliz ⁩

Liz Truss facing rural rebellion over anti-nature ‘growth’ push

Wildlife charities, Tory former ministers and millions of ordinary people raise alarm over environment

www.theguardian.com

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@StephenMoss_TV

3 months

Proud to have been there. Where were you, ⁦ @BBCNews ⁩ ? #restorenaturenow

Thousands march in London to urge leaders to tackle wildlife crisis

Protest features 350 environmental groups demanding more robust action on UK wildlife loss

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

One month ago today I was diagnosed as having suffered a stroke. Fortunately it was a fairly minor one, and I appear to have made more or less a full recovery. I wanted to thank all my friends, here and elsewhere, for their kind words during my recovery. Really touching. 1/3

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Stephen Moss

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2 years

Ten days to go until publication day for my new book, Ten Birds that Changed the World. Chapter 1: The Raven - the bird that shaped ancient and modern mythology, from Odin to the Game of Thrones...

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Stephen Moss

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3 months

100,000 people listening to the legendary ⁦ @Feargal_Sharkey ⁩ at the March to Restore Nature… uplifting stuff!

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@StephenMoss_TV

3 years

Great to see @Feargal_Sharkey taking the water and farming industries to task for illegal and unacceptable river pollution on tonight’s @BBCNews

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Grandpa with the boy Sammy in his bear outfit… cute, or what?!

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Stephen Moss

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2 years

I'M GOING HOME!!!!! - thanks to the amazing staff (doctors, nurses, cooks, and many more) at @NorthBristolNHS #Southmead Hospital. You are such heroes, and I can't thank you enough. And thanks to my lovely twitter friends for your kind concern. Now in Nurse Suzanne's care😀😀😀

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

My Observer feature: Why Springwatch is the ultimate reality TV show for our times ⁦ @ChrisGPackham ⁩ ⁦ @IoloWilliams2 ⁩ ⁦ @MeganMcCubbin ⁩ ⁦ @HStitfall ⁩ ⁦ @BBCSpringwatch ⁩

Why Springwatch is the ultimate reality TV show for our times

The producer of its first series 15 years ago was amazed by its success. Does any other show have such a strong bond with its viewers?

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Yes, that's how facts work. Release 50 million pheasants a year - more than the entire biomass of all the UK's other breeding birds combined - and there is bound to be major ecological consequences. Sorry you can't understand that.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

1/9 Having taken legal advice from a major firm of solicitors, I politely request that @C4_pmc remove the @BBCr4today programme interview with me from their misleading and cynical Twitter advert. @ChrisGPackham @MarkAvery @RuthTingay

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Here's my wonderful mum in Venice 1959, the coach holiday that she met my dad (the driver, from Milan). As my dad told me when we finally met 43 years later, "On the last night we made love, with your grandmother asleep in the same room". I'm grateful my nan was a heavy sleeper.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

1 year

Exactly one year ago today, I awoke feeling like I was coming down with a dose of 'man flu'. It turned out to be a stroke - a bleed on the brain. Fortunately it was a very minor one - and now, a year on, I feel as if I dodged a bullet... 1/3

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

3 years

Stunning as ever!

Carl Bovis

@CarlBovisNature

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Gorgeous male Greenfinch! 😍 Taken today out of my bathroom window. 😁 #TwitterNatureCommunity 🐦

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

3 years

Just heard 3 words I never thought Suzanne would say: "Congratulations, Dr Moss". Passed PhD with minor modifications. Huge thanks to my supervisors Tracy Brain and Kate Rigby, colleagues and students at @BathSpaUni and examiners @samlwalton @patrick_barkham @john_fanshawe 😀

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

11 months

Lunch in London with my old friend, the legendary ⁦ @BillOddie ⁩ - always a pleasure!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

3 months

I went on the first march for nature a few years ago. It was a lovely social event, with a few thousand people, most of whom I knew, but to be honest, fairly ineffective. Today was a proper mass movement: 100,000 passionate people fighting to restore nature. Real progress!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

This is a red herring - I am not employed by the BBC and did not receive a fee from @BBCr4today for my interview. Telling the truth about raptor persecution does not spread a 'radical agenda'. Birds of prey are being KILLED ILLEGALLY: what is so radical about condemning that?!

C4PMC

@c4_pmc

4 years

Hello @DefundBBC - can you please ask the question why it is celebrities @StephenMoss_TV and @ChrisGPackham are continually able to abuse their platforms on the BBC to spread their radical agenda in the countryside and get significant attendance fees for events?

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

60 years ago today my mother Kay, a single parent when that was almost unknown, gave birth to me. Six weeks later she had to go back to work, so my Nan, the same age as I am now, brought me up. I owe everything to them, and so wish they were here so I could tell them so. 1/2

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Just had great news: I have tested NEGATIVE for COVID-19, despite suffering from many of the symptoms since the weekend. Very relieved! Thanks to all friends and colleagues (and the saintly Suzanne and my children) for their love and support, as ever. Stay safe and well all...

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Always lovely to get a visitor when you’re in hospital. Especially if it’s little Sammy! (And his mum and dad of course).

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

3 years

If you enjoyed these 'bird biographies' (and hopefully the Swan, coming this autumn), would you like to suggest the next bird in the series? I'll then turn those into a shortlist for you to vote! Many thanks in advance... Please RT

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Very special day in the Moss household - our youngest two, George and Daisy, turn 18 today... Here's a photo from 18 years ago!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Huge thanks for kind words and thoughts from all you lovely people; I’ve been humbled and cheered by all these. Currently on nil by mouth and awaiting an angiogram today… hopefully the forecast will then be clearer. Meanwhile take care of yourselves - and I’ll be back soon! 😁

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

But today, as I hit the milestone of 60, I am so grateful for my health, happiness, fulfilment, dear friends and especially my wonderful family Suzanne, Daniel, David, James, Charlie, George and Daisy - and of course the joys of the natural world. Stay safe everyone. 2/2

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@StephenMoss_TV

5 months

Insect-eating bird population ‘drops by 40% in decade’. Terrifyingly obvious here in Somerset where sightings of house martins in particular are few and far between… ⁦ @phoeb0 ⁩ ⁦ @_BTO ⁩ ⁦ @RSPBNews ⁩ ⁦ @SomersetWT ⁩

Swallow, swift and house martin populations have nearly halved, finds UK bird survey

Reduction in insect numbers contributes to drop, and there are declines across more than a third of bird species surveyed

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Met the little fella - aka Sammy - today. Lovely moment…

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Sammy (Samuel) Moss Edwards, born Friday 7th October 2022. To David and Kate, a son. To Stephen and Suzanne, a grandson. To Daniel, James, Charlie, George and Daisy, a nephew. Welcome to the world, little fella!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Just watched a wonderful TV programme about the urgent need to save Britain’s precious habits and their wildlife, with a charismatic and engaging presenter. No, not that one. Paul Whitehouse, Our Troubled Rivers. @BBCTwo

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

This week's 'Teach Yourself Birdsong' covers three of our best-known and best-loved songsters, Robin, Blackbird and Song Thrush - enjoy!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

1 year

Lovely cover for my forthcoming book The Owl: A Biography... out October 5th!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

1 year

Incredibly excited that Ten Birds that Changed the World has been long-listed for the prestigious Wainwright Prize. Can't wait to see who else is on the list! Wish me luck for the next stage... #JamesCropperWainwrightPrize #JCWP23 #10YearsOfWainwrightPrize @wainwrightprize

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

First singing Blackcap of the year in the garden just now, right outside my office! Earliest ever here in 17 springs, though by just one day. Nice way to celebrate Suzanne's birthday... May spring be with you all soon!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Petition: Overturn the decision to allow use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops - well done @DaveGoulson for launching this!

Petition: Overturn the decision to allow use of neonicotinoid pesticides on sugar crops

The decision needs to be reversed. The health of our environment must be put first.

petition.parliament.uk

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Thanks to everyone for your support today. I hugely appreciate your kind messages and retweets. I’m going to step back now for a few days while I cycle across Britain (well, England) the sensible west to east way, rather than as my son and his partner are doing, south to north...

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Stephen Moss

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1 year

Less than a year after my health scare I did the Wedmore 30-mile bike ride in under two hours - and got a medal! (and a beer!)

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Astonishing to see that no one working on @BBCCountryfile can tell swifts apart from swallows! Maybe check out my book?!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Ten Birds that Changed the World now out from @FaberBooks My first truly global book, showing how birds have influenced human history, culture and society, from prehistoric times to the present day, and with a timely message for the future...

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

6/9 To repeat for the hard of understanding: Birds of Prey are doing very well in the UK, APART FROM on and near grouse moors where they are being systematically and ILLEGALLY killed. What do you not understand about that, @C4_pmc ?

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

OMG!!! Cuckoo calling from end of garden as we enjoy breakfast... only 2nd ever here!

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

1/6 Here, as promised, all six Teach Yourself Birdsongs, starting with Part 1: Great Tit and Chiffchaff (it's all about the rhythm!)

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2 years

At long last, the first garden Swallow of the year greeted me as I returned from my early morning bike ride... a full two-and-a-half weeks later than the long-term average of April 8th. Welcome back, my old friend...

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

1 year

Tories urge swift brick law to help endangered birds. Well done ⁦ @WriterHannahBT ⁩

Tory MPs back mandatory swift bricks in all new homes to help declining birds

Calls grow for legislation requiring developers to include hollow bricks for endangered nesting species

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

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1 year

I'm celebrating on the first day of my visit to Ecuador, en route to #ecuadorbirdfair . Here are a couple of snaps: me at the 'middle of the world', with one leg in each hemisphere, the other a Blue-winged Mountain-tanager, just one of the amazing birds here! 3/3

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

The Tyne Kittiwakes are one of our greatest natural wonders. We must save them! ⁦ @Natures_Voice ⁩ ⁦ @Kateblincoe ⁩ ⁦ @M_Z_Harrison ⁩ ⁦ @AmyJaneBeer ⁩ ⁦ @RobGMacfarlane ⁩ ⁦ @MarkCocker2 ⁩ ⁦ @DominicCouzens ⁩ ⁦ @birdingetc ⁩

Geordie shore: the river Tyne's 'soft, gentle' kittiwakes fly into trouble

The gull that ‘won’t eat your fish and chips’ is about to make its annual return to the UK – but a favourite nesting spot is under threat

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

9/9 Really, this is very simple: a cabal of landowners, shooting and game interests creating fake news, making personal attacks on conservationists, and supporting blatant lawbreaking. It’s really not that hard to understand, is it, @c4_pmc ?

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Happy 60th birthday to my wonderful wife Suzanne, the light of our lives...

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Just wanted to wish @CarlBovisNature and his family a very happy Christmas - and thanks Carl for cheering us up with your wonderful and often very funny photos, of common birds like Great White Egret and rarities like House Sparrow. Keep up the great work! @DominicCouzens

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Ready to sign 1000 copies of Ten Birds that Changed the World! It’ll be a long day…. ⁦ @FaberBooks ⁩

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@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Earliest ever singing Chiffchaff in our Somerset garden by an astonishing 35 days... usually start in mid-March. I am elated and worried in equal measure...

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Urgent message from John Lister-Kaye at @Aigas Please lobby @nature_scot if you are concerned. 'Yesterday the ospreys in Aigas Gorge were mobbed by paddleboards and canoes. Some people were disturbing the birds to take photographs. Please act urgently to protect the ospreys.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Just a total twat. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse.

Dr Richard Bate

@thenewgalaxy

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The PM promised to “scythe through red tape and get things done...the newt-counting delays in our system are a massive drag on the productivity and and the prosperity of our country.” I am concerned for our wildlife @SteB777 @NaturalistDara @joshual951

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2 years

First post-stroke early-morning bike ride - a leisurely circuit of the Skylarks with Rosie loop. Lots of Fieldfares and Redwings, Starlings and Goldfinches, and gulls on the flooded fields...

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2 years

I’ll be on @BBCr4today this Saturday doing my first bird walk after the stroke… sometime between 8.30 and 9, if you’re up!

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@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

The world's smallest carnivore - a Least Weasel - just ran in front of my garden office! First ever for the garden and 18th mammal in all... Photos not going to win any awards! @CarlBovisNature @DominicCouzens @DilgerTV @eddrewitt

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4 years

Well done ⁦ @WildJustice_org ⁩ ⁦ @MarkAvery ⁩ ⁦ @RuthTingay ⁩ ⁦ @ChrisGPackham ⁩ - the bell is starting to toll for the game shooting industry...

Activists sue ministers over release of game birds for shooting

Wild Justice accuses UK government of breaching duty to protect conservation sites

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

FINALLY… the first Swallow of the spring flying rapidly north over the local cider farm as Daisy and I came home with Saturday night Chinese takeaway. A pure Somerset experience.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

1 year

Just to say a huge thanks to those of you who have bought my 'bird biographies'. The Robin, Wren, Swallow and Swan, plus Twelve Birds of Xmas, have now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK! Robin leads the way with over 50,000; Wren second with 24,000! Owl coming this autumn!

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

9 months

Well, 2023 was quite a year, with some good amongst the (often very) bad. The Moss family have a lot of big life changes coming up, and some exciting challenges in the year ahead. We wish you all a happy and fulfilling 2024 - Stephen, Suzanne, Charlie, George and Daisy.

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Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

4 years

Usual nonsense you would expect from this organisation. Am consulting m'learned friends about misuse of copyrighted material and possible reputational damage. Will let you know the results later today.

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Beavers to be given legal protection in England - at last! ⁦ @g_stokes18 ⁩ ⁦ @SomersetWT ⁩

Beavers to be given legal protection in England

‘Nature’s engineers’ who create wetlands with their dams are recognised as native wildlife

www.theguardian.com

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

My tribute to the doyen of bird artists, Robert Gillmor, on the @guardian website...

Robert Gillmor obituary

Artist behind the RSPB’s logo whose vivid illustrations of birds graced the covers of the Collins New Naturalist book series

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Chiffchaffs singing every day now in my garden and on my early morning bike ride through the Somerset village lanes. This does feel like a fairly new autumn phenomenon, maybe linked to them overwintering? Any thoughts, @DominicCouzens ?!

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4 years

Just wanted to flag up that on the afternoon of December 31st (New Year's Eve) some of my nature writing friends and I will be doing a livestream event on Twitter, reading extracts from our work to (hopefully!) cheer people up! More details to follow after Christmas...

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3 years

Inevitably I too have been confirmed as having COVID, following teenager catching it. Don't feel too bad - just a bit shit; like typical man-flu really. 🤣 Mrs M. doing a brilliant job looking after us. Hope you are all safe and well in the meantime...

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5 years

My tribute to the great ornithologist, conservationist and saviour of the Red Kite - Peter Davis - is in print in today's @guardian

Peter Davis obituary

Ornithologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his working life to saving the red kite

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

Very confiding Black-throated Diver at a murky Apex Park, Burnham-on-Sea this afternoon... My first ever for Somerset, and one of some very good birds that turn up here, including Yellow-legged and Glaucous Gulls, and Tundra Bean and White-fronted Geese in recent winters!

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1 year

50 years ago yesterday I saw my very first Avocet at @Natures_Voice Havergate Island reserve in Suffolk, while on holiday with my mum. Have never forgotten the sheer wonder of this beautiful bird. Now I see then on my Somerset coastal patch - what a success! Well done RSPB...

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2 years

Here are my top three nature books of the year, from @YoloBirder @Mike Toms @guyshrubsole @AmyJaneBeer Do you agree?!

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3 years

Ding dong, the MP has resigned. Full of self-pity and faux-innocence. Good riddance to the worst environment minister in UK history (and that's saying something!)

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@AstronautHeart When I was a kid, we called wild swimming ‘swimming’.

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Huntspill Sluice, Somerset, dawn. Raven and Wigeon calling… distant Curlew…

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3 years

Huge cheers to @LucyMcRobert1 and @Lucy_Lapwing for such a powerful message about how women birders feel unsafe on @Channel4News We must call out ANY bad behaviour affecting women when birding...

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1 year

My latest bird biography, The Owl, takes flight today! Thanks to ⁦ @SquarePegBooks ⁩ ⁦ @bronzebygold ⁩ ⁦ @E_M_Books ⁩ ⁦ @BrooDoherty ⁩

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Stephen Moss

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3 years

Very proud to be graduating today with my @BathSpaUni PhD, with two cohorts of our talented and inspirational MA Nature & Travel Writing students, colleague @Lucyenglish1 and dear friend @PaulPickering9 . Photos - complete with fancy gown - later! PS even my children are coming!

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2 months

Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years. Excellent news!

Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastline

www.theguardian.com

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2 years

At last! The first singing garden Chiffchaff of the spring - roughly average date and same as last year... Always brings a tear to my eye!

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@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

What I didn’t say was that the people looking after me at Musgrove Hospital, Taunton, have been absolutely AMAZING! Kind, caring, informative and simply brilliant. And that means you, Natalie! And the rest of the team… (Note to the Tories: don’t you dare mess with the NHS).

Stephen Moss

@StephenMoss_TV

2 years

Just to say I’ll be out of the loop for a few weeks, as I’m in Taunton hospital for checks after a small but worrying stroke. No doubt I’ll soon be bored witless and keen to find out who our latest PM is. Or maybe not. Love to you all for keeping me sane in this mad world. 🥰

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4 years

Teach Yourself Birdsong no 4 - this week I'm listening to three finches, all of which are singing at full volume at the moment! (Spot the rather severe lockdown haircut from last spring, courtesy of Charlie...) Enjoy!

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5 years

Finally, at long last - my very first Swallow of the spring, floating low over our Somerset garden... Have spent the last year writing a biography of this incredible bird, including a visit to South Africa to watch more than a million roosting at sunset. And now, they're back!

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2 years

Ten Birds that Changed the World will be published by @FaberBooks on March 2nd 2023. My first truly global book, with an urgent and very timely message: when you mess with nature, it will mess with you back.

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1 year

UK migratory birds 'in freefall' over climate change. Not good news. Well done @_BTO for giving us this timely warning…

UK migratory birds 'in freefall' over climate change

Bird lovers will see a very different pattern of species in the future, scientists warn.

www.bbc.co.uk

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1 year

Purple-throated Woodstars enjoying a meal from my hand!

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2 years

Thanks to everyone who has followed me in the past week - taking me to 12K followers. I suspect many of you enjoy birdsong! I’ll be posting the final teach yourself video tomorrow and then package all six into one thread!

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3 years

It took @patrick_barkham less than a year to see all Britain's butterflies - I've just completed the set (of 61 species) with Mountain Ringlet (on Ben Lawers), coincidentally after 61 years. Not the most beautiful British butterfly, but still pretty special for me!

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4 years

To those men who dismiss women's concerns, I remind you that these are our sisters, daughters, mothers, friends and colleagues, and they - and all the millions of women we do not know - deserve to go about their lives without fear, danger, attack or worse. #SarahEverard

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3 years

Amazing birthday present with early start at Burnham seafront - 120 bar-tailed godwits, 30 whimbrel, peregrine, swallow passage and then 4 ARCTIC SKUAS right overhead, heading inland on their journey north!

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