Allan Mee
@kerryeaglemee.bsky.social
Works on birds, reintroduction, eagles, vultures, threatened species, ❤️ all things nature, earth justice, human rights🇵🇸
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Allan Mee
@kerryeaglemee.bsky.social
· Feb 11
My ornithological journey began in Scotland nearly 40 years ago, volling in the Highlands in '84, then paid jobs (seabirds on Farnes 85, Orkney 86 etc) but the Highlands kept drawing me back. In 90/91 monitoring rare breeders inc Golden Eagle, divers, grebes, in Strathspey for @rspb.bsky.social 🦉
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds 🌎 🪶
Source: The Guardian
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Source: The Guardian
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60,000 African penguins starve to death after sardine numbers collapse – study
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds
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December 5, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Climate crisis and overfishing contributed to loss of 95% of penguins in two breeding colonies in South Africa, research finds 🌎 🪶
Source: The Guardian
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Source: The Guardian
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🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🐗 Belowground effects of ground-dwelling large herbivores in forest ecosystems. "This study reviews how ground-dwelling large herbivores affect forest soil and litter globally"
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/Sxq8XrB
Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines 🌎 🪶
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Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines
Citril Finch has nearly disappeared from Germany’s Black Forest, with numbers plunging by over 97%. Across Europe, habitat loss and climatic change threaten this mountain specialist, prompting urgent ...
www.birdguides.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Citril Finch population collapses in Germany amid broader European declines 🌎 🪶
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
www.birdguides.com/news/citril-...
Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago 🌍
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Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago - Homepage - Western People
The earliest directly dated wildcat (Felis silvestris) ever found in Ireland has been identified
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November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Archaeologist uncovers Ireland’s first known wildcat from 5,500 years ago 🌍
www.westernpeople.ie/archaeologis...
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Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
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Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
November 26, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Spatial Insurance of Distinct Ecological Functions
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Communities can act as functional sources and sustain rare ecological roles across space. We reveal patterns of functional vulnerability for plants and birds
Check out our Perspective in Ecol Lett
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🌐🌍🦤🪴🍁🧪
Who'd have thunk it?
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Who'd have thunk it?
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
While parties such as the European People’s Party, the largest political group in the EP, have framed the wolf as a threat to rural life—invoking imagery reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood12—such narratives do not reflect the broader attitudes of EU citizens.
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting | Nature Ecology & Evolution share.google/LSqdkPpKucNu...
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A survey of 10,000 members of the public across European Union countries in which there are large carnivores finds strong support for carnivore recovery but simultaneous, and somewhat paradoxical, opp...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Europeans support large carnivore recovery while opposing both further population growth and hunting
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌎
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Andrew Jackson really cooked Collison here.
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
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November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Andrew Jackson really cooked Collison here.
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Hilarious that Collisons think tank Progress Ireland are asking “How will you avoid getting pigeonholed as right-wing tech bros?” - a question you should never ask publicly if you dont want to be labelled a right-wing tech bro
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
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Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
The Icelandic gyrfalcon population has been hit hard by the ongoing wave of avian influenza in recent years. Once numbering around 2,000 birds, the population has now collapsed to roughly 500 individu...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The impacts of avian influenza are profound and far reaching. Hopefully 🇮🇸 Gyrfalcons will recover in time but this is near catastrophic #RaptorResearch 🌎 🪶
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Avian flu taking a severe toll on Iceland’s falcon population
icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
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Are Bearded Vultures in Trouble?🦅 In the Maloti-Drakensberg, breeding territories have declined by up to 51% over 50 years, with birds now confined to a smaller range. Protecting them is more urgent than ever. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
Trends in territory occupancy, distribution and density of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis in southern Africa | Bird Conservation International | Cambridge Core
Trends in territory occupancy, distribution and density of the Bearded Vulture Gypaetus barbatus meridionalis in southern Africa - Volume 24 Issue 2
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October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Are Bearded Vultures in Trouble?🦅 In the Maloti-Drakensberg, breeding territories have declined by up to 51% over 50 years, with birds now confined to a smaller range. Protecting them is more urgent than ever. doi.org/10.1017/S095...
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
#VultureConservation #AfricanOrnithology
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Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
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Avian flu “real disaster” as over 1K cranes found dead at key German roosting spot: experts
YouTube video by Global News
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October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
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Cerro Rico de Potosí, hollowed out to fuel colonial Spain’s immense wealth, now stands on the brink of collapse. A profound metaphor for the toll that humanity’s greed has taken on nature and Indigenous peoples.
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In the heart of Bolivia, the mountain that financed an empire risks collapsing
At about 4,800 meters, or nearly 15,800 feet, above sea level, Cerro Rico towers over the city of Potosí, in Bolivia’s southern highlands. Famous for its vast silver reserves, Cerro Rico — whose name ...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Cerro Rico de Potosí, hollowed out to fuel colonial Spain’s immense wealth, now stands on the brink of collapse. A profound metaphor for the toll that humanity’s greed has taken on nature and Indigenous peoples.
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-t...
Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
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Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
A new analysis challenges one of the most publicized claims about Yellowstone's wolves. In a detailed comment published in Global Ecology and Conservation, researchers from Utah State University and C...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Researchers challenge claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after wolf reintroduction
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Almost all of my posts are some evidence or illustration of what @camwalker.bsky.social is describing in this thread. We are in the midst of a massive, rapid ecological breakdown that is all around us -- but most don't recognize it or care. But eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. 🌎
If you pay attention, ecological collapse is happening everywhere, in real time.
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands.
orionmagazine.org/article/twil...
Twilight Trees - Orion Magazine
An elegy for ponderosa pines in a changing west
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October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Almost all of my posts are some evidence or illustration of what @camwalker.bsky.social is describing in this thread. We are in the midst of a massive, rapid ecological breakdown that is all around us -- but most don't recognize it or care. But eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. 🌎
Another returning Irish White-tailed Eagle, 2024 release female 51, back on home soil after 6 months exploring Scotland, from Kintyre and north to Hoy, Orkney in late April. Also unusual was this bird never visited the west coast islands (esp Mull). She's back in Donegal safely! Beir bua:-)
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October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Another returning Irish White-tailed Eagle, 2024 release female 51, back on home soil after 6 months exploring Scotland, from Kintyre and north to Hoy, Orkney in late April. Also unusual was this bird never visited the west coast islands (esp Mull). She's back in Donegal safely! Beir bua:-)
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A lot of hard work goes into @rhodorangers.bsky.social work done by a lot of others!
Licences, landowner liaison, scouting sites, best practice review, organising speakers etc
Not to mention costs of travel, tools, insurance etc - all self funded atm!
Please share and follow the page!
Licences, landowner liaison, scouting sites, best practice review, organising speakers etc
Not to mention costs of travel, tools, insurance etc - all self funded atm!
Please share and follow the page!
Now you see me....
Now you don't!
A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back
And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves...
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Now you don't!
A photo from a @rhodorangers.bsky.social day out from a while back
And an opportunity to reintroduce ourselves...
Please like and share!
(1/6)
October 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A lot of hard work goes into @rhodorangers.bsky.social work done by a lot of others!
Licences, landowner liaison, scouting sites, best practice review, organising speakers etc
Not to mention costs of travel, tools, insurance etc - all self funded atm!
Please share and follow the page!
Licences, landowner liaison, scouting sites, best practice review, organising speakers etc
Not to mention costs of travel, tools, insurance etc - all self funded atm!
Please share and follow the page!
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I am delighted to share some new paintings, illustrations and card designs, all now available on my website.
www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
As always, a massive thank you to Sara Sirtoli for all her work on this!
www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
As always, a massive thank you to Sara Sirtoli for all her work on this!
October 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
I am delighted to share some new paintings, illustrations and card designs, all now available on my website.
www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
As always, a massive thank you to Sara Sirtoli for all her work on this!
www.robertvaughanillustrations.com
As always, a massive thank you to Sara Sirtoli for all her work on this!
Kerry fish farm licence reinstated but regulations 'shattered' says fishery watchdog
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Kerry fish farm license reinstated but regulations ‘shattered’ says fishery watchdog
In the tranquil bays of the Iveagh Peninsula hides the thronging Deenish Island fish farm. In the minds of many locals, the farm, owned by Norwegian fisheries giant Mowi, is a deeply insidious force.
m.independent.ie
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Kerry fish farm licence reinstated but regulations 'shattered' says fishery watchdog
m.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
m.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
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Brilliant visuals making the latest bird migration science accessible.
The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised
Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...
www.theguardian.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Brilliant visuals making the latest bird migration science accessible.
The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The birds have important messages for us about our rapidly changing home.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The impact of sea level rise on nesting sea turtles: a global meta-analysis to highlight current understanding and knowledge gaps - Marine Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌎🦑
The impact of sea level rise on nesting sea turtles: a global meta-analysis to highlight current understanding and knowledge gaps - Marine Biology
Sea turtles face a number of threats from climate change. One pertinent threat is the impact of sea level rise (SLR), which can lead to a loss of nesting habitat and reduced survival of embryos due…
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October 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The impact of sea level rise on nesting sea turtles: a global meta-analysis to highlight current understanding and knowledge gaps - Marine Biology link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪🌎🦑
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Data given to @lnbdublin.bsky.social show very low levels of prosecutions for wildlife crime. "these figures expose a system that’s simply not delivering”
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Convictions for wildlife crimes in single digits despite high number of complaints
In the absence of ‘real deterrents’, penalties amount only to ‘slap on the wrist’, says Sinn Féin MEP
www.irishtimes.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Data given to @lnbdublin.bsky.social show very low levels of prosecutions for wildlife crime. "these figures expose a system that’s simply not delivering”
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Over 30 years decline of an iconic farmland bird, Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio, in a Central European stronghold: meadow loss and shrub succession drive near-local extinction | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
October 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Over 30 years decline of an iconic farmland bird, Red-backed Shrike Lanius collurio, in a Central European stronghold: meadow loss and shrub succession drive near-local extinction | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶
No info on where this is in Co. Cork, but depressing to hear when almost every remaining scrap of native woodland is degraded from sheep, deer browsing, invasive etc as it is. What price our natural heritage?
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
www.thejournal.ie
October 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
No info on where this is in Co. Cork, but depressing to hear when almost every remaining scrap of native woodland is degraded from sheep, deer browsing, invasive etc as it is. What price our natural heritage?
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
@whittledaway.bsky.social
www.thejournal.ie/cork-tree-fe...
The statement confirms that Operation Turtle Dove does not currently support captive releases, despite recognising that they may be "well-intentioned".
www.birdguides.com/news/operati...
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Operation Turtle Dove issues statement over captive releases
Operation Turtle Dove has issued an official statement over the captive breeding and releasing of European Turtle Dove in the UK. The statement confirms that the partnership does not currently support...
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October 4, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The statement confirms that Operation Turtle Dove does not currently support captive releases, despite recognising that they may be "well-intentioned".
www.birdguides.com/news/operati...
www.birdguides.com/news/operati...