Most time spent birding, heart beating for migration. Convinced that many people could improve their existence by birding.
Joined November 2014
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Niels Goulem retweeted
31 Oct 2025
My most bizarre observation this year. On Öland for late autumn birding. Walked along the eastern coast this morning and heard a sharp call I couldn't place, eventually found a passerine high in the sky. A migrating Dipper! #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdwatching @BirdLifeSverige
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19 Apr 2025
There's no doubt for me: a phonescoped video of a bird, even in the simplest of situations, takes you so much closer to it than any still picture could. For the same reason people now mostly take videos of their children, I'll mostly take videos of my birds.
19 Apr 2025
Black Tern at Grimley CLP this morning, shortly before it headed off high NE #WorcsBirds
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19 Apr 2025
Much cheaper also. No need to walk around with a large lens or anything, just an extra casing for your phone. Makes it more convenient as well.
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Niels Goulem retweeted
3 Apr 2025
In the past five years I have ringed 34 Long-eared Owls. They are rare in Wiltshire so these totals are pretty amazing. We ringed this female in Jan 2023 and in March 2025 she was retrapped by a ringer in Finland - only the 4th 'LEO' ringed in the UK to be recovered in Finland!
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Niels Goulem retweeted
3 Apr 2025
Alpine Accentor Aire point Cornwall L ✔️
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Niels Goulem retweeted
22 Jan 2025
📢 New paper alert! Dive into the fascinating migration of the Woodland Kingfisher within Africa! 🌍✨
📄doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.26…
Big congratulations to Yann Rime and @taymida on this outstanding work! 👏!
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Niels Goulem retweeted
4 Nov 2024
Surveys by @CardiffOTT for @MARINElife_UK on @PelticSurveys provide more proof that thousands of Woodpigeons cross the Channel in Autumn: England to France. Many flocks visible on radar, all south, at 30mph speed, with 1.6k seen 15m N Alderney 31/10 & 10-20k 20m SW Guernsey 26/10
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2 May 2024
Ringed in 2008, still flying around.
Ringed in the port of Zeebruges, but hasn't been seen there since 2014. Spends its time in Koksijde (BE) with occasional holidays in Vlissingen (NL). 109 sightings along its life, last one in October, same place.
Have a nice spring KN•AT
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13 Mar 2024
1510, 200 years before Linnaeus, 350 years before the first porro prisms were invented but this guy knew his birds
12 Mar 2024
This painting is over 500 years old, but looks like it could have been made yesterday.
It might seem like an acid trip - it's actually the greatest warning about sin ever painted... (thread) 🧵
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28 Jan 2024
15242 roosting gulls (mainly black-headed with common, herring and caspian) forming a cute little heart at the CCB quarry (Tournai) on Saturday evening. Just before a Eurasian eagle-owl started singing openly from the top of a poplar. Quite an atmosphere!
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Niels Goulem retweeted
7 Oct 2021
Figure showing the wing beat frequencies of songbirds detected by radar from august - October 7 in the Netherlands. Small songbirds dominated aug-sep, thrushes (manly songthrush) the night from October 7-8, @BaranesJudy @trektellen @j_vanbruggen
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12 Aug 2021
WHAT IS THIS 😱😱😵💫😵💫
12 Aug 2021
Anfang August ziehen die #Mauersegler bereits in ihre Winterquartiere. Vor dem schlechten Wetter am vergangenen Wochenende sind nicht weniger als 17 959 Mauersegler über den Col de Bretolet gezogen, ein eindrückliches Erlebnis! Video © Julia Wildi
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Niels Goulem retweeted
6 Aug 2021
Here they come 😄 first juv Red-backed Shrike of the autumn this afternoon, bring it on.... @FI_Obs
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3 Aug 2021
And that's a good thing! Light rain at night brought some of the best #nocmig nights in Brussels.
Average number of days per year with precipitation.
🇧🇪 Brussels tops the list at 199 days annually!
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Niels Goulem retweeted
4 Jul 2021
A sure sign of 'autumn' migration kicking in - the first juvenile Black-headed Gull on the beach here at #Filey this evening. Such beautiful birds, too....
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Niels Goulem retweeted
29 Jun 2021
Beats any frame filler hands down 😍
29 Jun 2021
So chuffed to finally see the stunning Black-browed Albatross sat on the cliffs and flying round, much better than previous fly-pasts.
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31 May 2021
You thought #BirdsOnBoats was impressive, how about #BatsOnPlanes
28 May 2021
Only this was left to see in 2021 :
Air India flight to Newark returns back to Delhi after a bat flew by the cabin.
ps : though its going towards the area where the really good @airindiain sandwiches are kept 😎
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Niels Goulem retweeted
31 May 2021
Pink is back this season! Rosy Starling sightings have been increasing this past week, mainly in northern Italy and southwestern France. data.biolovision.net/index.p…
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Niels Goulem retweeted
30 May 2021
Aberdeen - Shetland ferry tonight, lots of fog and this House Martin appeared when we were well out #birdsonboats ⛴
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Niels Goulem retweeted
10 May 2021
Migration | Jordan: unprecedented fall of Corn Crake (Crex crex) in Aqaba area, 9 May 2021, estimated to involve 10-15,000 birds (Feras Rahahleh via OSMEBirdNet)
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