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@numenini

5 years

WONDERFUL NEWS from French Council of State: it's modified the decree allowing hunting of 6000 Curlews in the 2019/20 season, fixing the quota at ZERO to meet France's obligations under #EUBirdsDirective & @unep_aewa , with immediate effect. No more curlews to be shot this season!

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Fantastic news! The French Council of State just stopped Turtle Dove hunting in France in a case brought by @LPOFrance (BirdLife France). Though the season opened 29 Aug & already 6500 of these precious birds are shot, the rest of the 17,500 quota now safe

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4 months

Last eve, thanks to Chris Knights, explored one of Norfolk's most wild, spots; a faerie redoubt if ever there was one. 500m of River Gadder being just how a chalk stream should be. The 3.5hrs it took to swim this secret assault course rewarded with many delights. #MySwim 🧵1/13

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Astonished to find the 1.5km of River Lark from Mildenhall to Worlington includes glorious prime #chalkstream , silken with River Water Crowfoot. I indulged in it sans wetsuit (H2O 19°C) the last 2 eves, 1st entering top left. Here's a cooling🧵on the wonders found. #MySwim 1/22

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1 year

Poor, poor River Cam. 1 of most disappointing swims we've had & our 1st in UK for 8 weeks. Should've been divine on this gorgeous summer evening, snorkelling 500m up from Braseley Bridge to Byron's Pool, water 17.4°C (air 23.8). But shockingly, visibility almost nil. #MySwim 🧵1/5

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@numenini

3 years

OMG! Look what just saw thro' window (MEGA distraction from fascinating @Natures_Voice Annual Globally Threatened Species Recovery Group meeting!). 1st ever TURTLE DOVE in #MyGarden - under feeders. Trying to get heart rate back to normal. #BirdsSeenIn2021 #turtledove #Suffolk

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@numenini

1 year

New record count: 1587 Nordmann's Greenshank (>est. world popn of 1300!!) at Tiaozini, Yancheng, China's Yellow Sea World Heritage Site, by Hongyan Yang, among rich tapestry of 115117 birds of 42 spp. Great news ahead of World Coastal Forum, Yancheng 25-27 Sept. #BirdsSeenIn2023 .

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@numenini

3 years

Amazing detective work by Bengt Legnell tracked down the oldest Spoon-billed Sandpiper in the world; the very bird used by Linné to describe the sp. in 1764! From King Adolf Fredrik of Sweden's collection - seems it was collected in Siam, now Thailand - it's now at Uppsala Uni.

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@numenini

3 years

Today Russia's migratory birds lost their greatest champion & many people who care for those birds lost a great friend & inspiration. RIP Evgeny Syroechkovskiy. Without him the Spoon-billed Sandpiper would likely be extinct. There'd be no Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative. Etc...

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@numenini

4 years

EXCITING NEWS from Tiaozini, the new World Heritage Site on China's coast: record count of 1150 Spotted Greenshanks aka Nordmann's Greenshank (Tringa guttifer) just made (96%!! of world population of 1200 birds). Here's a vid from the great Dongming Li.

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@numenini

7 years

FANTASTIC NEWS FOR CHINESE COAST! State Ocean Administration to stop approving general reclamation projects, ban all land claim of Bohai Sea coast (!), withdraw approval of damaging projects, demolish illegally reclaimed land...and more! #DreamComeTrue !

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@numenini

1 year

Last eve in Great Ouse I swam with dolphins & eels & don't know which was most thrilling! 60km inland, Common Dolphin mum & calf, & European Eels, my 1st elvers & adults ≥ 30cm, 1 dead; more in 750m down from Brownshill Lock than I've seen in total before. #Cambs #MySwim 🧵1/9

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@numenini

7 years

Only known sound recording of slender-billed curlew now at (by Adam Gretton improved by Magnus Robb). Makes a great mobile phone ringtone - to prime you for finding the next record of this elusive bird!!

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@numenini

4 years

Some of 22-30 Spoon-billed Sandpipers wintering at Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve, Fucheng Estuary, SW Guangdong being studied by Hongyan "Nicky" Yang & Xinpeng Rao, Center for East Asia-Australasian Flyway Studies at Beijing Forestry University #ThreeDaysOfBirds2020

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@numenini

5 years

Excellent 5 page story on how Tiaozini, the world's most important Spoon-billed Sandpiper stopover, went from being doomed to destruction 3 yrs ago, to inscription on the #WorldHeritage List, thanks to huge vision & commitment of Yancheng & @loveJiangsu .

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@numenini

6 years

CHINA DOES IT AGAIN! On Weds THE STATE COUNCIL(!) issued a Circular on Strengthening the Protection of Coastal Wetlands & Strictly Controlling Reclamation. Has any country ever made a stronger, clearer commitment to coastal ecosystem conservation?

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@numenini

10 months

Great news! Thanks French Council of State for sustaining suspension of hunting of Eurasian Curlew & Black-tailed Godwit in France during the 2023-24 season that began on 2 August, against challenges from the National Union of Migratory Bird Hunters Associations. 📷 @EBwSTweets

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@numenini

3 years

For #WorldWetlandsDay #WorldWetlandsDay2022 a celebration of: Spoon-billed Sandpipers; Guangdong Zhanjiang Mangrove National Nature Reserve, their S China wintering site; & Hongyan Yang's team researching their feeding. Her📷of 4/25 SBS in 1 transect in Dec!! Others by Li Cheng.

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@numenini

6 years

HUGE CONGRATS Yancheng Govt for announcing that Tiaozini, the world's most important site for spoon-billed sandpiper (seemingly doomed to destruction only 2 years ago), is added, with Gaoni & Dongsha, to the Yancheng World Natural nomination. #ornithology

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@numenini

11 months

Amazing spectacle to watch the magnificent Atlantic Salmon throwing themselves up the weir on the mighty Tyne at Hexham. Such a good news story: this is now the best Salmon river in England & Wales, with c30,000 fish; it had almost none during my Northumberland childhood. 🧵1/3

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@numenini

1 year

So, so sad. The lower Babingley is as sick as the upper river is the closest to a perfect chalk stream I've ever been privileged to snorkel. Wouldn't it be great if it could be restored from source to sea to make it the world's most naturally functioning #chalkstream ? #MySwim 1/7

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@numenini

2 years

On Sunday in the upper reaches of the River Babingley - the most crystal-clear, natural-seeming, trout-packed chalk stream have ever been blessed to snorkel in - almost wondered if I'd died and gone to heaven. This pool of 16 Brown Trout was the zenith. #MySwim #Norfolk 1/12

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@numenini

7 years

GAME-CHANGING DECISION TO SAVE CHINA COAST confirmed & interpreted by @BirdingBeijing . Am sure the likes of @BirdLife_News @EAAFP @IUCN are ready to support Provinces such as #Jiangsu #Liaoning #Hebei keep their coasts looking like this by @richardallenart

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@numenini

4 years

For #westernpalearcticbirdsweekend , Slender-billed Curlew; photo Michel Brosselin, 15 Feb 1968, Vendée, France. Maybe 1st W Palearctic extinction since Great Auk - hope not; post #lockdown keep an eye out - id guide here , more info

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@numenini

4 years

Divine to be back in #chalkstreams ; 1st time conditions suitable for snorkelling since Nov. AND, prize beyond measure, nest building/spawning BROOK LAMPREYS in the Cut-off Channel! #MySwim #Lakenheath #ForgottenFishes @theriverstrust @Britnatureguide @Feargal_Sharkey #Suffolk 1/7

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@numenini

1 year

Breaking! Major advance for migratory bird of prey conservation in the African-Eurasian flyway! Governments of @BonnConvention Raptors MOU just committed to conserve more than 7500 international top priority sites for these birds, including >3000 Important Bird Areas #RaptorsMOS3

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@numenini

4 years

Beyond sublime to snorkel, on my doorstep, in what I assumed for 25 yrs is a field drain & discover a thriving #chalkstream (10.0°C); saw 2 separate Brook Lampreys heading downstream (1 seemed to want to latch onto me), 2 pools of Dace & Trout, a Chub... #MySwim #Chalkstreams 1/3

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@numenini

4 months

What better way to end a 0.5 km snorkel up the River Gadder than to walk back to the car against a fabulous Breckland sunset. #Chalkstreams #Breckland #TheBrecks #Brecks #Norfolk #sunset 13/13

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@numenini

5 months

Utter thrill to find local #chalkstream Tuddenham Mill Stream, tributary of the River Lark, full of dozens of fine Brown Trout, mostly 12, 9 & 6 inches long. This one was sitting downstream of a fallen tree. #chalkstreams #westsuffolk #tuddenham #suffolk #browntrout #MySwim 🧵1/15

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@numenini

5 years

#ADreamComeTrue ! Spoon-billed Sandpipers at Tiaozini, their most important staging site in the world, doomed to destruction 3 years ago but, in July, protected as a #WorldHeritage Site. Thank you governments of Yancheng, Dongtai, Jiangsu & China for your vision & commitment 1/6

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@numenini

2 years

On Sunday in the upper reaches of the River Babingley - the most crystal-clear, natural-seeming, trout-packed chalk stream have ever been blessed to snorkel in - almost wondered if I'd died and gone to heaven. This pool of 16 Brown Trout was the zenith. #MySwim #Norfolk 1/12

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@numenini

7 years

Best news ever for Yellow Sea waterbirds ! China adds 14 sites to World Heritage tentative list. RoK to nominate soon

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@numenini

5 years

Check out great article by Chris Gomersall, sadly the last person to photograph a Slender-billed Curlew, about that experience 25 years ago, with previously unpublished photos. The 1st W Palearctic bird extinction since Great Auk? #OurWorldIsWorthSaving

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@numenini

3 years

I defy anyone to avoid falling in love with Spoon-billed Sandpipers by watching Cheng Li's wondrous intimate vid at Danzhou Bay, Hainan of China's most southerly Spoonie feeding (with amazing pounce technique as well as more usual sweeping), stretching, scratching, preening. 1/2

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@numenini

6 years

I'm afraid the days of our old #willowtunnel are numbered, with this guy so enthusiastically hammering into it. #GreatSpottedWoodpecker #woodpecker #gardenbirds #WinterWatch #OurWorldIsWorthSaving @Britnatureguide @BBCSpringwatch (PS The grunting is our eccentric rabbit, Ella.)

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@numenini

2 months

Amazing news from "720 acre" roost site created at Tiaozini in China's Yellow Sea #WorldHeritage Site: Beijing Forestry Uni. counted 188546 waterbirds of 32 spp incl 86700 Great Knot, 1630 Nordmann's Greenshank, 5 Spoon-billed Sands & 240 Eastern Curlews!

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@numenini

1 year

New paper increases global population estimate of Nordmann's Greenshank to 1500-2000, c50% of key sites are outside Protected Areas. Tiaozini, in the @UNESCO #WorldHeritage Site, is the most important stopover site. Emphasises importance of creating new high tide roost sites.

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Yesterday we found the River Gadder, tributary of the Wissey, to be a world class #chalkstream as it flows through Norfolk hidden gem, Gooderstone Water Gardens & Nature Trail; had quality time with this 50cm beauty. Thanks Chris Knights for suggestion! #BrownTrout #MySwim 🧵1/10

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@numenini

8 years

Our 3rd slender-billed curlew paper gives hope of rediscovery: isotopes hint folk were searching wrong breeding area

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@numenini

6 years

Delighted #SpoonbilledSandpiper 'Lime 05', mother of 17 'headstarted' chicks in NE Russia, is back at her usual wintering spot, Khok Kham saltpan, Inner Gulf #Thailand . Thanks BCST/BirdLife in Thailand & @theGEF for conserving her #WorkingCoastalWetlands .

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@numenini

3 years

With huge thanks to @anicolson for the introduction & Roger Harrison for sharing his slice of paradise, here's a thread on the enchanting River Itchen downstream of Alresford, my 1st experience of crème de la crème of #chalkstreams . #MySwim #RiverItchen #Itchen #Hampshire 1/12

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@numenini

2 years

It took this Spoon-billed Sandpiper (of which there are only 420 adults left in the world), wintering in South China, 30 MINUTES to consume this crustacean. #CriticallyEndangered #spoonbilledsandpiper #EAAF #crustacean #shrimp #SundayMorning Photos by LIU Zhu via Hongyan Yang

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New world record! 2440 Spotted Greenshank seen y'day at 720mu roost site, Tiaozini, Jiangsu in China's Yellow Sea #WorldHeritage Site (& 14 Spoon-billed Sandpipers, 3 legflagged!) by Hongyan Yang, Beijing Forestry Uni. More roost sites need to be made so not all eggs in 1 basket!

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@numenini

1 year

New record count: 1587 Nordmann's Greenshank (>est. world popn of 1300!!) at Tiaozini, Yancheng, China's Yellow Sea World Heritage Site, by Hongyan Yang, among rich tapestry of 115117 birds of 42 spp. Great news ahead of World Coastal Forum, Yancheng 25-27 Sept. #BirdsSeenIn2023 .

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@numenini

5 months

Congrats @ClientEarth @spea_birdlife @_JoseAAlves_ etc. Your exemplary collaborative flyway conservation action has saved Tagus waterbirds shared with 30+ countries & c350 Important Bird Areas covering 16.7 mill ha & 4 World Heritage Sites according to @RSPBScience . #ornithology

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BREAKING: We just saved the iconic Tagus Estuary and its migratory birds from a new airport in Portugal. Following our lawsuit, authorities ditched the plans and the nature reserve is safe.

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@numenini

2 years

Most disgusting swim ever, 1km up Little Ouse (9.2°C) from County Bridge, Euston: river like pea soup, visibility <60cm, thick brown (rather than grey) silt over everything & in several places revolting scum. But seemed just as bad upstream of chicken farm... No fish. #MySwim 1/5

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@numenini

2 years

Appalled at poor water visibility (30cm) & patch of scum in River Little Ouse (a chill 7.1°C) down from County Bridge Weir, Euston, despite flowing thro' a reed bed. Could this chicken foot & location of Crown Chicken plant at Snarehill Farm just upstream explain it? #MySwim 1/4

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5 years

@RSPBbirders @martinRSPB @BirdLife_News @CABS_REPORTS @RSPBEngland @Natures_Voice Best ever hope for ending illegal killing of wild birds! Today European govs via the Bern Convention, adopted the Rome Strategic Plan 2020-2030 for eradication of illegal killing of birds in Europe & the Mediterranean . Let's all support its implementation!

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@numenini

2 years

Suppose it was only a matter of time before I found human remains... Still, quite a shock when swimming up Lode Dike at Boughton Fen, alone on a sultry evening to come across a skull on the silty river bed #MySwim #BoughtonFen #Boughton #Oxborough #WestNorfolk #Norfolk #skull 1/5

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@numenini

4 years

Once in a decade opportunity! THE most influential job in the world for facilitating conservation of the planet's migratory birds is up for grabs @BonnConvention . Apply by 20 Aug if you care about them & are exceptional at getting things done. #ornithology

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@numenini

4 years

In celebration of the autumn return of the Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpiper, in good numbers, to their most important staging site, China's new Yellow Sea Coast World Heritage Site at Yancheng, see Li Dongming's wonderful photos on WeChat

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@numenini

6 years

Want to stop illegal killing of birds in the Mediterranean? Good project management skills? Well try your luck at scooping a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of the BirdLife Global Flyways programme (UK based) - deadline 25 June #ornithology

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@numenini

6 years

Great news for #WorldWetlandsDay ! South Korea has nominated part of its Yellow Sea coast as a World Heritage Site . This is of key importance for spoon-billed sandpiper & other migratory waterbirds. Hopefully it will be inscribed in July 2020. #ornithology

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@numenini

2 years

Little Curlew (Numenius minutus) photographed yesterday at Tiaozini, Jiangsu, China's Yellow Sea coast #WorldHeritage site, by Li Dongming - just 2 days too late for #WorldCurlewDay . It is en route from its Australian wintering area to East Siberian nest site #BirdsSeenIn2022

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11 months

This is the power of #OrcaTorch #Divelight : within 10 minutes of christening my superb @ORCATORCH D710 in River Itchen, the world's premier #chalkstream , at @WinColl on dark, rainy Saturday, FOUND A HUMAN SKULL; 5 mins later an UNEXPLODED WW2 BOMB!! Soo Halloween! #MySwim 🧵1/11

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@numenini

7 years

China achieves remarkable feat: submitted, within a year, Phase I of its World Heritage Serial Nomination, Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf Coast. Includes Jiangsu Yancheng NNR AND part of Dongsha Radial Sands. Trust Nantong part of ecosystem, KEY SITES Tiaozini & Rudong, to be added soon!!

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@numenini

4 years

On #WorldMigratoryBirdDay let's celebrate Yellow Sea #coastalwetlands of S Jiangsu, China: new research shows on southbound migration c 50% of Spoon-billed Sandpipers use it spending 66 days & 80% of Nordmann's Greenshanks for 84 days to moult primaries.

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@numenini

7 years

China's State Oceanic Administration, in its consultation on 'Coastal wetland protection and management practices' proposes 'the area of key protected coastal wetlands BY 2020 will account for NOT LESS THAN 50% of the national coastal wetland area'!

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2 months

For sheer euphoria hard to beat the joy of floating down a chalk stream over glistening banks of Water Starwort into the low sun of a hot summer's eve. Incredibly blessed to have this paradise only 8mins from home! Who needs to visit coral reefs when we've #chalkstreams ! 22/22

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3 years

Grieving that "our" Nightingale, for 2nd yr, absent from #CavenhamHeath . But cheered (with touch of envy) by these Nightingales in full song, by John MacKinnon; yesterday at a spot nr Canterbury, Kent he could hear 5 Nightingales PLUS Turtle Doves #BirdsSeenIn2021 @Team4Nature

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@numenini

8 years

Our slender-billed curlew isotope work suggests bred in N Kazakhstan, S of areas searched; here's how to report any!

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@numenini

6 years

WAAHOO! #RamsarCOP13 adopts resolution on promoting the conservation & wise use of intertidal wetlands & ecologically-associated habitats with these amendments , calling for establishment of a multi-stakeholder global coastal forum!

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@numenini

3 years

Congrats @LPOFrance et al on good news for 5 American waders & 3 other spp! French court just banned Martinique hunt of A. Golden Plover, Bb Plover, Sb Dowitcher, Whimbrel & Huds Godwit! Hope soon add R Turnstone, L. Yellowlegs, Willet, Stilt & Pec. Sands

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@numenini

3 years

I've long thought that if I was born again, I'd like to be raised in a Long-tailed Tit nest. This one, being lined in Kent, was filmed recently by John MacKinnon. #longtailedtit #longtailedtits #BirdsSeenIn2021 #TwitterNatureCommunity @Team4Nature

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1 year

Sad for disappointed kid & organisers, but jamboree site was built on land reclaimed by destroying world's most impt coastal wetland for migratory waterbirds; several species that migrate btw Arctic & SE Asia/Australasia now at brink of extinction. Revenge of the waterbird gods?

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ah… k-media are reporting that the 2023 saemangeum world scout jamboree kpop concert, which zb1 will be attending tomorrow, ~might~ be rescheduled due to heatwave in korea an official from the organizing committee said, "we are in the process of changing the concert schedule,"

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3 years

OMG! A family of Torrent Ducks in Chile. Sheer entrancement. Watch till the end... #BirdsSeenIn2021

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3 years

Familia de Pato cortacorrientes enseñando su magia a los polluelos | 📷: alanjavierph (Instagram) #patocortacorriente #patagonia #avesdechile #torresdelpaine #wildlifeplanet

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3 years

After walking from #Freckenham down gorgeous Kennett-Lee Brook, a perfect-looking #chalkstream , as I slipped into #RiverLark at West Row on a perfect Saturday a.m., was buzzing with anticipation for a swim up Lee Brook. But, horrors! For almost a mile a DEAD ZONE! #MySwim 1/7

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7 years

CONGRATULATIONS to DPRK (North Korea), about to become the 170th Party to the @RamsarConv Wetands Convention on 16 May 2018, including designation of the Mundok Migratory Bird Reserve on the Yellow Sea coast & Rason Migratory Bird Reserve as Ramsar Sites

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4 months

It was quite an overcast evening & shaded tunnel of a river so I needed my trusty @ORCATORCH D710. After hanging out with some Three-spined Sticklebacks, my torch beam suddenly gleamed off the white belly of a huge beast, a mighty Trout at least 2 foot long. But he was shy. 2/13

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3 years

Ultimate treat to spend w/e at home with chalk stream - not just any #chalkstream , but Itchen - flowing under & around. >1m of watery bliss. Thanks Roger Harrison! Wouldn't it be great if global imprtnce of our #chalkstreams were recognised by World Heritage listing?! #MyWalk 1/6

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1 year

Perhaps the awful visibility of the River Cam is why this fisherman is looking so thin & lethargic? There's masses of fish in there, evident as they surface, but if they can't be seen otherwise, do the piscivorous birds go hungry? #BirdsSeenIn2023 #Cormorant #Trumpington 2/5

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3 years

Luckily the drivers on Snettisham Beach Road were sensitive to the Ken Hill overspill - a family of Shelducks trying to cross the road... #KenHill #snettisham #northnorfolk #lovenorthnorfolk #Norfolk #rewildling #BirdsSeenIn2021 @BBCSpringwatch #30daysWild #FridayFeeling 5/5

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7 years

China's new Arctic Policy attaches importance to Arctic biodiversity protection, strengthens protection of migratory birds & their habitats, organizes research on Arctic bird migration & advances international cooperation on Arctic fauna & flora protection

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2 years

Robert Gillmor was among the wildlife art greats & kindest, gentlest of men. Many of his images have become iconic, incl. those he produced for British Birdwatching Fair. This, in 2012, went on to have a life of its own, instrumental in the big advances in saving the Yellow Sea.

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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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4 years

Your local walk getting dull; birds silent, plants dormant? Then look for #fungi - on trees, permanent grassland even on dung... You may be surprised what you find. Today on ours: Yellow Stagshorn, Badhamia utricularis Slime Mould, Lacquered Bracket & Winter Stalkball #MyWalk 1/3

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3 years

Not a twitcher, but when a Roller takes up residence 5 mins from home, the day we depart for 5 days hols, & has the courtesy to still be here upon our return, how could I not dash out between meetings to join the twitching hoards on main road SE of Icklinkgham. #BirdsSeenIn2021

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@numenini

4 years

Not only America has sapsuckers! Here's a Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (in Feb, Himalayan foothills, Pangot, Utterkhand, India) making rows of sap wells; like American sapsuckers some populations migrate. At least 3 other Eurasian woodpeckers suck sap. @Britnatureguide @nehaa_sinha

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@numenini

2 years

Appalled at poor water visibility (30cm) & patch of scum in River Little Ouse (a chill 7.1°C) down from County Bridge Weir, Euston, despite flowing thro' a reed bed. Could this chicken foot & location of Crown Chicken plant at Snarehill Farm just upstream explain it? #MySwim 1/4

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@numenini

5 years

CONGRATS!!! Bird Conservation Society of Thailand (BCST, BirdLife Thailand) for today buying salt pans at Pak Thale, top Thai site for #Spoonbilledsandpipers & many other coastal waders, thanks to @RainforestTrust & others. TO DONATE for site management contact: ayuwat @bcst .or.th

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@numenini

3 years

What fabulous, fabulous fish are Minnows. Look at these guys pumped up with testosterone, intent on their surfing. Terrific individual variation in colouration and patterning. #MySwim #Minnows #freshwaterfishes #Chalkstreams #RiverKennet #Freckenham #fens @Britnatureguide 1/7

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@numenini

4 months

Very thrilled to find, growing on the subaqua base of a tree in the River Gadder, these amazing creatures which I take to be freshwater bryozoans (Moss Animal) of the genus Plumatella? #Bryozoa #Chalkstreams #Phylactolaemata #Norfolk #Gooderstone #bryozoan #Mossanimals 6/13

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@numenini

2 months

At the Worlington end of my River Lark Swim delighted to find the River Water Crowfoot (Ranunculus fluitans) still in flower, spangling the long tresses gilded by the evening sun. I swim upstream first. It's then a lot faster going back down! #chalkstreams #WestSuffolk 2/22

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@numenini

1 month

Yikes a Pike! Floating briskly back down 850m of the lovely Lark at Worlington nearly crashed into this mighty "freshwater shark", who, nonetheless smaller than me, was reluctant to give way; got to admire the gall of this handsome lord of the river. #MySwim #Chalkstreams 🧵1/18

nicola crockford

@numenini

2 months

Astonished to find the 1.5km of River Lark from Mildenhall to Worlington includes glorious prime #chalkstream , silken with River Water Crowfoot. I indulged in it sans wetsuit (H2O 19°C) the last 2 eves, 1st entering top left. Here's a cooling🧵on the wonders found. #MySwim 1/22

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@numenini

1 year

Per @SBS_in_China ,Yongxiang Han's📷of Lianyungang's 7th record of Spoon-billed Sandpiper. Emphasises crucial to add this site to the Phase 2 #WorldHeritage nomination; by this weekend 20,000 NT Asian Dowitchers will have arrived - almost total world population. #BirdsSeenIn2022

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@numenini

1 month

Amazed to stumble (or rather splash) on W Suffolk's best kept secret 8min drive from our home of 30yrs! Worlington Hythe. Got in River Lark at West Row sad that vis poor, lots algae, few fish, but persisted up, coming to this "yellow crowfoot road" leading to bliss.. #MySwim 1/25

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@numenini

3 years

Ringland bridge over Wensum (18.1°C) otter territory according to spraints. #MySwim 1 km upstream lovely clear water packed with fish & plants indicating good water quality. If Norwich Western Link road crosses a mile upstream, will it still be this paradise? @StopWensumLink 1/6

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nicola crockford

@numenini

6 years

Oh dear, the heating was off in the office today so I had to work at home... Of course, all the birds turned up that were absent during #BigGardenBirdwatch . Glad not ALL the bramblings are in Slovenia. #gardenbirds #Winterwatch #Ourworldisworthsaving

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@numenini

4 months

Actually, I saw perhaps only 10 adult Brown Trout - all 30-45 cm long, on my way up the River Gadder & all were shy - perhaps due to resident otters, or because tricky to navigate the obstacle course quietly. Some of the quite abundant parr were tame, as was this small Pike. 3/13

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@numenini

1 year

Besides the Cormorant, there were the usual river waterbirds, all well habituated to human presence in the busy Byron's Pool Local Nature Reserve: Moorhens - some with tiny young, Mallard, Mute Swan. #BirdsSeenIn2023 #RiverCam #ByronsPool #Trumpington #Grantchester #Cambridge 3/5

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@numenini

3 years

In the Wissey surrounded by Brown Trout of all sizes, the river cloaked in a flowing, star studded gown of Chalk-stream Water Crowfoot, the only way I knew I hadn't died & gone to heaven was the absence of sunshine. #MySwim #Ickburgh #Wissey #ChalkStreams #Breckland #Norfolk 1/8

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@numenini

8 years

I'm the luckiest of Mums to have daughters who make me this #MothersDay spoon-billed sandpiper card saying inside: Keep on saving the World!

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@numenini

4 years

As well as above vid here's Dongming's pic from world record count of 1150 (c96% world total) Endangered Spotted Greenshanks at Dongtai Tiaozini. 80 Spoon-billed Sandpipers were also counted by @EAAFP Science Unit. Congats Jiangsu Yancheng Gov for managing the site for the birds!

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@numenini

4 months

Another extraordinary thing in the River Gadder at Gooderstone, the like of which I've never seen, are these colonies of what are reminiscent of marine worms or worm snails but perhaps are a type of caddis fly larvae that drill into wood? Am mystified. #Norfolk #Riverflies 7/13

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@numenini

5 years

Congrats #CMSCOP13 for approving a new permanant post in the @BonnConvention Secretariat: Avian Associate Programme Officer (P2). As sole addition to the budget status quo this is much needed extra capacity to support implementation of the CMS Avian agenda

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@numenini

5 years

AGAIN China is a global leader on nature conservation! A National Forest & Grassland Administration Circular now bans new wind farms from ecologically sensitive areas incl. for bird migration! Great news too for their Yellow Sea World Heritage nomination.

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@numenini

2 years

Hard to forgive @Bill_Sutherland : almost 1st time he uses my old Olympus Tough TG2 he snaps the fish I most want to see - among UK's rarest fish, the Spined Loach - thinking it was a trout parr, while I was busy with a stickleback! Wissey Little River's the best! #MySwim 1/12

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@numenini

4 years

The Stone Curlews on Cavenham Heath were restless this afternoon, seeking shelter & looking as fed up as I feel about the dreary, wet weather this #BankHolidayWeekend . Wouldn't blame them if they head south early... #MyWalk #CavenhamHeath #Suffolk #StoneCurlew @Britnatureguide

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@numenini

5 years

V touched to be honoured by Saudi Wildlife Authority for my contribution to coordinating the BirdLife Partnership & others effectively to conserve migratory birds including via @BonnConvention . Thanks @SaudiWildlife for award & for being such a strong voice for birds at #CMSCOP13

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@numenini

3 years

Lost for words to describe thrill of discovering that ditch on edge of our village is probably Suffolk's most important chalk stream, 1 of only 2 with breeding Brown Trout (neighbouring tributaries of River Lark). Most of the dozens are c20cm but 2 of 30cm+ #Tuddenham #MySwim 1/6

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@numenini

4 months

Small Chabot Bullheads abundant under stones - there are some lovely clean flint beds - in the River Gadder at Gooderstone, as are shoals of small Three-spined Sticklebacks especially around tree roots. But saw no other fish in this Wissey tributary. #Chalkstreams #Norfolk 5/13

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@numenini

4 months

Here's a dark little Brown Trout parr in a favoured spot, clean flinty gravels downstream of one of many fallen trees & other natural woody debris in River Gadder chalk stream. Stream edges lush with Greater Water Parsnip as the water runs clear & coolish 14.9°C (air 18.5). 4/13

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@numenini

6 years

The death of Bradnee Chambers is a tragic loss. Under his leadership, the @BonnConvention moved up to the next level of influence. @BirdLife_News @RSPBNews are deeply grateful for his support and action to the benefit of migratory birds globally, not least vultures. #ornithology

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@numenini

3 years

Was wooed yesterday by Ol' Blue Eyes the Three-spined Stickleback as I "snootled" (according to @anicolson ) up Cavenham Mill Stream. #MySwim #Chalkstreams #Chalkstream #Cavenham #WestSuffolk #30DaysWild #stickleback #freshwaterfishes #freshwaterfish 1/5

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