Tom Langton
@tomlangton.bsky.social
Conservation ecologist, Europe & North America. Vertebrates, herpetofauna, epidemiology, habitat management & restoration, legals.
GCN juv, fresh out of the pond, climbs grass to sniff the air.
September 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
GCN juv, fresh out of the pond, climbs grass to sniff the air.
First from this yr or smallest from last?
August 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
First from this yr or smallest from last?
Purple Emp on the reserve???
August 21, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Purple Emp on the reserve???
Sizewell C displaced adders will move away for 1 km or more and be crushed on road and in building work or just get lost in unsuitable habitat - where are the wildlife barriers to prevent this?
August 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Sizewell C displaced adders will move away for 1 km or more and be crushed on road and in building work or just get lost in unsuitable habitat - where are the wildlife barriers to prevent this?
June 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
June 11, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Do like it when the daphnia get serious.
May 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Do like it when the daphnia get serious.
And someone had a little grebe...
May 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
And someone had a little grebe...
Sudden death of three wild rabbits overnight - under investigation.
May 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Sudden death of three wild rabbits overnight - under investigation.
Good lot of common toad tadpoles at Captains Wood, Suffolk on Sunday.
April 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Good lot of common toad tadpoles at Captains Wood, Suffolk on Sunday.
Slow-worm and ants at the top of the compost bin again...
April 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Slow-worm and ants at the top of the compost bin again...
Frog and toad spawn hatching well in extended sunny period. But drought conditions forming, a worry for the summer.
April 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Frog and toad spawn hatching well in extended sunny period. But drought conditions forming, a worry for the summer.
Afternoon encounter with a large grass snake.
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Afternoon encounter with a large grass snake.
Worms out tonight. Newt feeding time.
March 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Worms out tonight. Newt feeding time.
Great crested newts - noses out testing the weather. They want to get their year started.
January 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Great crested newts - noses out testing the weather. They want to get their year started.
A rebuttal by Mills et al: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
has itself been rebutted in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪🌍
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has itself been rebutted in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪🌍
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December 3, 2024 at 10:13 AM
A rebuttal by Mills et al: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
has itself been rebutted in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪🌍
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has itself been rebutted in this pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧪🌍
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Recently published re-analysis of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials show that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that badger culling affected bTB breakdown incidence:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:13 AM
Recently published re-analysis of the Randomised Badger Culling Trials show that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that badger culling affected bTB breakdown incidence:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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