Conservation biologist, Ornithologist (specialising in Asia) • Science Team, BirdLife International • Managing Editor, BirdingASIA • 🏳️🌈 he/him.
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Alex Berryman retweeted
4 Nov 2024
I reviewed the new book by @PaulREhrlich @GerardoCeballos and Dirzo in Nature. My take: this eloquent requiem for nature risks leaving the reader feeling helpless rather than energized.
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Alex Berryman retweeted
2 Nov 2024
Hi UK, here they come!
Huge start of bird migration from the Waddensea westwards. Currently an bird migration traffic rate of 9000 birds per km per hour. Enjoy 😉
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28 Sep 2024
Saturday morning, UK-relevant reflection on this note @BirdtourAsia and I wrote at the end of last year: Notwithstanding its flimsy taxonomic status as a species, how many of eBird's 904 (only 25 appended with recordings) Scottish Crossbill records are legit?
4 Jan 2024
A fun note in BirdingASIA, written with @BirdtourAsia. I had intended to write a fuller thread, but internet on the LNER service to Edinburgh is desperately poor, and I can't be bothered. But a brief summary of what we did and why it (very) vaguely matters.
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17 Sep 2024
I barely post on Tw*tter these days, but new paper published today with, and led by, Simon, looking at transmission pathways of HPAI.
17 Sep 2024
New research in @ConLetters from @AlexJB497, @MarsKlaassen, Richard Kingsford, @rohanclarke01, and I demonstrating the potential for HPAI H5N1 virus transmission via food-theft (kleptoparasitism) in seabirds: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.c…
Pic: David Tipling
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Alex Berryman retweeted
24 May 2024
New paper shows impact of war in Ukraine on migrating Greater Spotted Eagles: birds made large deviations from traditional migratory routes & shorter stopovers in Ukraine, leading to longer journeys and later arrival at nesting grounds rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Conte…
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Alex Berryman retweeted
14 Feb 2024
Australian #birds that have a high level of evolutionary distinctiveness, live on #islands, and unable to adapt to survive in agricultural areas are among the species most at risk of #extinction, our new study has shown. @AlexJB497 @arc_gov_au @ANUmedia reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stor…
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6 Jan 2024
Fun day moping around the Cairngorms with dramatic scenery, pleasant weather and some fat snowball-like birds for company.
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4 Jan 2024
As a final point of consideration: we publish an appendix of other species pairs/groups in South-East Asia which are extremely difficult/impossible to ID in the field, some of which have a surprising (=, IMO, erroneous) number of records currently accepted in eBird etc.
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4 Jan 2024
I've skipped a lot in the above, especially regarding ID, so encourage all those interested to download and read the full 'note', which ended up spiralling into 5,000 words of (fun) tediousness.
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9 Dec 2023
New paper in JAO. Back in December 2022, I robbed Vietnam of two of its nine endemics: the Endangered Golden-winged Laughingthrush and Grey-crowned Crocias also occur in Laos. I also added Golden-breasted Fulvetta to the Lao list.
31 Dec 2022
An exciting end to 2022, with a solo exploration (lasting just 24 hrs) of remote and barely known forests in south-east Laos yielding three avian country firsts, of which two were previously thought endemic to Vietnam. We still know so little...
Happy new year, all!
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9 Dec 2023
As is often the case, getting off the beaten track yields results, and is vastly more satisfying than twitching nearby eBird hotspots. That being said, I'd strongly advise no one to visit this area. "Logistic difficulties" might go down as the biggest understatement of my life..!
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