Director of Conservation | Ecuadorian Amazon Parrot EEP Coordinator | UK Butterfly and Moth Geek 🦋 🦜
Joined April 2009
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1 Jun 2020
Our paper describing the conservation status of Amazona lilacina has just been published! A population decline of 60% in the last 20 years, makes this likely now a Critically Endangered species.
dx.doi.org/10.1017/S09592709…
@ScienceatCZ @MMUEcolEnv @AmazonaLilacina @CerroBlancoGye
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18 Jul 2025
Just a few days left to apply for our Head of Conservation Education vacancy @twycrosszoo
Fantastic oportunity to work with a fabulous team and inspire the next generation of conservationists!
👇🏽 #jobalert 📣
hr.breathehr.com/recruitment…
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16 Feb 2025
Great fun chatting with @BeccasButterfli yesterday about conservation @TwycrossZoo for her new podcast.
Thank you @SarahButterfli for being such a great team mate in the Wildlife Quiz 👏🏼 will we beat @ChrisGPackham and @lizbonnin ? … we’ll have to wait to find out! 🦋🦍
15 Feb 2025
Recorded another epic episode for my new #Podcast, which will be released early April, with #RebeccaBiddle of @TwycrossZoo & my sister @SarahButterfli. Thank you both for joining me
🎧🎙🐒🦋
#podcastseries #Podcasts #podcasting #zoo #conservation
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2 Feb 2025
@RSPBTitchwell folk were reporting rough legged buzzard sightings over the marsh yesterday - I think it’s this owned / escaped bird I saw this morning perched by the entrance to the reserve!
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Becca retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Come and join us! This is a really exciting PhD opportunity for anyone interested in insect conservation, conservation genetics, or species reintroductions
12 Nov 2024
📢 NEW PhD opportunity: The Conservation Genomics of the Kentish Glory Moth
This exciting project aims to protect existing populations of the Kentish Glory (Endromis versicolora) and to reintroduce it into England.
Full details 👇
centa.ac.uk/studentship/2025…
📷: Dave Green
ALT A brown and white patterned moth with a fluffy thorax and feathered antennae, resting on a thin branch
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20 Oct 2024
And now we’ve all been sent to a hotel that has no rooms….. disgraceful.
Queuing here for an hour to be told there is no where for us
@emirates @EmiratesSupport @Emirates247
What a joke
20 Oct 2024
Absolute chaos @emirates at Birmingham airport.
400 people waiting and no form of communication or plan….. we’ve been here for six hours!
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20 Oct 2024
Absolute chaos @emirates at Birmingham airport.
400 people waiting and no form of communication or plan….. we’ve been here for six hours!
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24 Aug 2024
First time doing @Southseaparkrun and absolutely bloody loved it!
(Mainly due to the lack of hills …. Not the pouring rain)
Congrats to the @parkrunUK team tor the 500th one here! 👏🏼🙂
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10 Aug 2024
Species 58!! The stunning high brown fritillary - one of our most endangered butterflies, at Heddon Valley @NorthDevonNT @BCDevon 😲
It’s emotional - my final GB species to see. Thanks for the inspiration @patrick_barkham and the incredible ongoing protection @savebutterflies
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30 Jun 2024
Pretty good haul this morning inc two hawk moth species and my new favourite the burnished brass 🤩
#mothsmatter @savebutterflies @ButterfliesEM @BC_WestMids
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24 Jun 2024
Butterfly species 57!!!! 🥰
5h drive and a fairly steep walk, to find the gorgeous mountain ringlet on Saturday. Glorious views. ~30 individuals by Greathall Gill, Irton Fell.
@BC_Cumbria @savebutterflies @Simon_Tolly
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2 Jun 2024
Butterfly species 56 out of 59! 😃
After many attempts trying at @savebutterflies Fineshade wood, took the trip up to Scotland to find the Chequered Skipper, in the Scottish rainforest @RSPBScotland Glenborrodale @ASRainforest
Stunning place 🤩
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10 Apr 2024
Not a bad view for this mornings meetings…. Joined by chiff chaffs, wrens, cetti’s warbler, gold crests and my first black cap of the year!! 👏🏼
@TwycrossZoo @stu_y
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Becca retweeted
26 Mar 2024
🚨JOB ALERT!🚨
We are advertising three new lectureships on our £8.3 million E3 'Sharing Space for Nature' initiative.
2 Lecturers in Conservation Science - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx…
1 Lecturer in Marine Conservation - jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx…
Deadline to apply is 6th May
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20 Mar 2024
Today, we have mainly eaten our way around Chester… 😃🤤 #shrub @StoryhouseLive #PastryPedaleur
What a treat. And I get to do it all again tomorrow with @Raisinmeister 😄
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3 Mar 2024
Still none for us yet…… 😬😬
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24 Jan 2024
Exciting day for you @naomilfrost !!
Looking forward to the many interesting discussions and investigations to come….. you’re going to fantastic, an asset to @TwycrossZoo 🥳
Day 1 @wlv_uni for our new PhD student, Naomi Frost! Naomi will work on developing a methodology for best practice in zoo animal welfare assessment, with supervision by @VaglioStefano, Colin Dubreuil, @Beccabiddles & Lisa Clifforde, and funding by @WLVsci_eng & @TwycrossZoo 😀
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