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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 1d

🌊I caught up with veteran oceanographer Sylvia Earle, who recently turned 90.

"What really caught my imagination, even as a child, was the extraordinary diversity of life in the sea. Creatures that have no counterpart on the land, like starfish".

📺Watch here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsb...

Sylvia Earle at 90 – The ocean pioneer on a lifetime of discovery and Hope Spots

YouTube video by Times Radio

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Tine Kerdraon《《inkArt》》 @tinekerdraon.bsky.social · 2d

Petit dessin rapide, petite participation pour #october 🥀

"Fleurs séchées / Undead flowers"
Encre de Chine & plume, A3.
8 octobre 2025

#drawing #dessin #art #inkArt #encre #artYear #bloomscrolling #flowers #fleurs #dailyNature #nature #MortVivant

Dessin à la plume et encre de Chine, ensemble de fleur et boutons. Grandes feuilles dentelées. Fond blanc.

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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 1d

Part2 #ExhibitionSneakPeek

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Steffen Oppel @steffopp.bsky.social · 1d

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

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Ian Parsons @ianparsons.bsky.social · 1d

Something magnificent for the weekend. What an eye!
Bonelli's Eagle, #Extremadura
@markavery.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @stevedudley.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social #birds 🪶🌍

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Rob Edmunds @vc28wildlife.bsky.social · 1d

This small beetle was in the moth trap this morning - about 10mm long
Is it Lagria hirta @colsocbi.bsky.social

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David Bradley @sciencebase.com · 1d

Just 22 of 13 in Cambs for me #teamMoth BUT one of them was Connie! Always lovely to see Convolvulus Hawk-moth. The tobacco plants are well past their sell-by-date, but Connie turned up nevertheless

Convolvulus Hawk-moth, overhead view, with wings almost fully wide

Closeup of head, showing antenna and compound eye of Convolvulus Hawk-moth

Closeup of the "face" on the back of the head of a Convolvulus Hawk-moth, presumably evolved to ward off predation by mimicking an animal staring back at a predator

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Andy Langley @langers77.bsky.social · 5d

Please see my JustGiving page how donations to the @worldlandtrust.org Autumn Appeal can be MULTIPLIED by 6️⃣! 🪶

Appeal will save threatened forest in Colombia - home to the critically endangered Blue-billed Curassow

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📸: Lars Buck

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Photos of Blue-billed Curassow (Female on left).

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn’t be happy if I lived in Cambridge. I wonder how @tonyjuniper.bsky.social feels about this.

Bonkers Busway Cambs News @bonkersbusway.bsky.social · 2d

Biodiversity loss for County Wildlife Site, net gain for the Council 🌳🪚🟰💰🗞️ www.facebook.com/share/p/1WLu... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 3d

Was surprised to see I do

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 3d

Slightly disappointed that A Message from Martha wasn't similarly used - more and longer words!

A Message from Martha

Cover: Carry Akroyd

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 3d

My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.

Check if you qualify too secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...

Cover: Audubon

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 5d

Chaotic, thoughtless, unsupportable government. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Ministers to announce significant changes to UK’s planning system

Exclusive: Differences over changes to environmental and legal provisions to prompt economic growth hint at chaos at heart of government

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 5d

Two pretty moths (Red-green Carpet, LHS and Barred Sallow, RHS) and a Mottled Rustic which, common tho it is, was nfg and a lifer.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 5d

Good list Andy!

Andy Langley @langers77.bsky.social · 6d

***See how donations to World Land Trust can be MULTIPLIED by 6️⃣!***

Yesterday I did an all day birdwatch to raise money for @worldlandtrust.org Autumn appeal, to save threatened forest in Colombia.

£5,000 🎯could become £30,000.

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www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 5d

Very pleased to see Lone Wolf short-listed here. Deserves to win prizes.
My review markavery.info/2025/08/10/s...

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Pelagic @pelagic.bsky.social · 9d

New on the blog! We talked to Wilson Wall and David Morgan about Citizen Science in Biology 📖

Read the full interview ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/4pz3mncf

#citizenscience #biology #sciencehistory #fieldwork #survey #ecology #conservation

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rru.bsky.social @rru.bsky.social · 9d

This shelf looks a lot like my Bluesky feed from my nature/writing list.

Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 9d

Spotted 🧐 in the wonderful Sam Read Bookseller in Grasmere on Sunday by a friend. Loving the company Land Beneath the Waves is keeping! 🥰

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 9d

ICYMI: Jason Burke, Helen Garner, Richard Holmes, Justin Marozzi, Adam Weymouth and Frances Wilson have been shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 👇 #BookSky

'Eunuchs, pirates, horny wolves, terrorists': Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist revealed

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Steve Nash @stevenash71.bsky.social · 9d

Another big increase in St Mellion last night, with 372 moths of 50 species noted. Best of the migrants were 7 Pearly Underwing, 2 White-speck, Delicate, l-album Wainscot & Scarce Bordered Straw. #teammoth

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 9d

On the same day the Conservatives blame net zero and renewables for high energy costs, a detailed new study explains how Spain's net zero and renewables have given it some of the lowest power prices in Europe. www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

What can the UK learn from Spain breaking of the 'ruinous link' between gas and power prices?

Wind and solar growth has reduced the influence of expensive gas and coal on Spain’s electricity prices by 75 per cent since 2019, new analysis finds

www.businessgreen.com

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Hannah @wilderhomestead.bsky.social · 9d

A respectable 61/14 last night - first moth to greet me was a Merveille du Jour and it was great to finally meet a Satellite and Carcina quercana, both absent from our old garden despite being quite common locally. Box fresh Sallow also a treat and two Black rustic #TeamMoth

Merv, Merveille du Jour - a beautiful green moth with black and white markings. North Herefordshire, SO24

Carcina quercana, a brown micro moth with long antennae and golden yellow edges to its wings
North Herefordshire, SO24

A lovely fresh Sallow. An autumnal yellow moth with brown markings on the wings. North Herefordshire, SO24

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 5d

More than breezy today

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 7d

‘A breezy day’
(From a pre-war Ladybird - circa 1935)
Artist: Rene Cloke

1930s style illustration of two children walking in Woodland. Their clothes are being tugged by the breeze and hats are blowing away.

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