Bird-watcher & conservationist in and from Wales. Roles include Associate Researcher at Cardiff Uni, co-Director of Eco-explore CIC, Trustee of Wild Cymru / Cymru Wyllt, & Craig y Rhondda. Views are my own, but you are welcome to share them!
Rob Thomas
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Is the anonymous tweeting vet “Bronwyn” on Bluesky? It would be good to see her/him responding to this in a properly accountable manner.
A Fellow of the Royal Society inciting riots? "Just an opinion" I guess.
Israeli settlers attacked the historic Christian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting fields on fire & targeting Palestinian homes with Molotov cocktails🇵🇸😢
Seabirds galore at Severn Beach! 250+ Manx Shearwater, Great Northern Diver, Bonxie, Arctic Skua, Fulmar, 2 Storm Petrel, 2 Common Scoter and 4 Kittiwake this morning. Dark phase Arctic Skua, 2 Guillemot, 5 Common Tern and 2 Kitts last night @andy-1963.bsky.social @severnsidebirds.bsky.social
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And just imagine if each of those solar arrays was used as a freshwater catchment for amphibian ponds…
Eradication of Rats (and other invasive non-native predators of eggs and chicks) on islands can play a big role in seabird recovery.
Ensuring they don't get there in the first place is essential too, and far cheaper. It places a big onus on island managers for whom sustaining funding is a challenge
UK-ringed storm petrels encountered in Portugal so far this year will be reported formally in the usual way -but do let us know if you want advance details of; 2692977 and 2800741 if they were your birds.
Rob Thomas
Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months.
Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.
