Alexander Lees
@alexanderlees.bsky.social
Birds, science, politics. Reader Man Met Uni, Associate Cornell Lab of #Ornithology, Chair BOURC, Trustee @bou.org.uk SC @ras-network.bsky.social. Usually found in the #PeakDistrict or #Amazonia, he/him. Views own.
Yes, but a vast amount of suitable habitat, they will quickly learn to use sites with no disturbance and birders know not to share. It pains me that we have to hide the species throughout the year on eBird but justification is clear.
February 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
Yes, but a vast amount of suitable habitat, they will quickly learn to use sites with no disturbance and birders know not to share. It pains me that we have to hide the species throughout the year on eBird but justification is clear.
🤣 more accurate, it is an issue that many of the people banging on the drum and standig to gain are not formally ecologically trained and they are telling the public and land owners/managers that these interventions are priorities to mitigate the biodiversity crisis.
February 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
🤣 more accurate, it is an issue that many of the people banging on the drum and standig to gain are not formally ecologically trained and they are telling the public and land owners/managers that these interventions are priorities to mitigate the biodiversity crisis.
Vanity is quite a loaded term, the issue is perhaps that there is an emerging market for releases of all sorts of taxa, some are poorly justified (if at all) historically, others are doomed to fail as initial extinction drivers remain in place. Others are true conservation priorities.
February 12, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Vanity is quite a loaded term, the issue is perhaps that there is an emerging market for releases of all sorts of taxa, some are poorly justified (if at all) historically, others are doomed to fail as initial extinction drivers remain in place. Others are true conservation priorities.
A (re)introduction rather than a reinforcement with very limited (pre)historical evidence for presence here.
February 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
A (re)introduction rather than a reinforcement with very limited (pre)historical evidence for presence here.
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Seemingly limited justification for reinforcement for the 'Critically low' (actually Green Listed) Long-eared Owl population: 'decreasing winter roost counts' (= Continental migrants short-stopping?) & UK breeding population apparently stable & limited by food & Tawny Owls #UKBirding #Ornithology
February 11, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Not even Holocene evidence for EO anyway
February 11, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Not even Holocene evidence for EO anyway