Jamie Dunning
I am an ornithologist, broadly interested in the social behaviour of birds.
📚 Research - j-dunning.net
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- (1/) Linnet is a small species of finch that is often found in weedy fields and areas of open ground. This species declined by 74% between 1967 and 2023. It is quite a sociable species, and it is often found in groups. @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science
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- ...and here's a striking, well advanced to summer (almost) adult Caspian Gull. A bit distant, marching around along the edge of the strand-line in the murk created by a surprising amount of sea-spray. Looked the bees-knees in flight, textbook patterns 👌 @linnetincley.bsky.social #norfolkbirds
- A selection of part of a flock of 500,000 starlings at Ham Wall Nature Reserve in Somerset arriving at reedbeds to roost this evening @mybirdcards.com
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- A 'mega-roost' of Stock Doves has been recorded in western France – a figure that is believed to be a national record for an autumn or winter roost of this species:
- Another bird from my Pacific trip last year for #SuperSeabirdSunday - Black Noddy while we were off Pitcairn Island #birds
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- Hours of fun at Teignmouth today with 14 Little Gull fishing along the shoreline and at times very close in. Had great fun standing on the beach photographing them while the world and its dog wandered past, oblivious. #UKBirding #DevonBirds
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- A drastic and sudden increase in patch Cirl Bunting numbers.... stevesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/cirl... #ukbirding
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- Adult and second-winter Common Gull caught by hand and colour-ringed at London’s Round Pond yesterday with @bh-wlbirding.bsky.social. Check out the difference in bare parts! #birdringing #UKbirding
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- On the subject of penguins and madness, did you know that 9 King Penguins were released in 1936 in Arctic Norway by the Norwegian Nature Protection Society? At least a couple possibly survived until 1944. So for a brief period Polar Bears and penguins could in theory have met. #biologicalinvasions
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- Lesser spot in the Wyre forest weather perfect for these stunning birds also 🏴birds started drumming today 😀@lesserspotnet.bsky.social
- I rarely see more than one or two Kittiwakes when birding in the winter, so 70+ feeding close inshore at Seaton Point today was a surprise, a consequence of the recent big seas #NEbirding #birds
- Fascinating day at High Court in London listening to Moorland Assoc’s permission hearing for JR against new burning regs. Highlight was judge’s comment about their argument: “It just seems to lose all sense of reality”. Judgement tomorrow at 10am on whether they can proceed to substantive hearing.
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- Nothing mega but at least I had birds! These are three of the four Yellow-broweds found today (our second wave of the autumn), plus Garden and Willow warblers, Blackcaps, several Robins, a couple of Sparrowhawks and 61 Pink-feet. A reasonable days #WestrayBirding in glorious sunshine. #UKbirding
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- More gull watching today and I came across this apparent Great Black-backed Gull x Herring Gull hybrid. A real brute! #WestrayBirding
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- Think urban park Mallards don’t travel and are all feral? Think again! I’ve read eight rings this week in Victoria, British Columbia. Seven were from a local rehabilitation centre, but this female was ringed 1975 km away, near Northway, Alaska! 🌎🧪 #birdringing
- I couldn't find the Water Pipit along the beach today at Wembury but the presumed Siberian Chiffchaff was still present and showing very well #devonbirds
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- 1/🧵 New BTO-led research sheds light on the number and range of Little Egrets with population estimates higher than previously thought – likely exceeding 2,000 pairs in the UK! 🙌 #Ornithology @britishbirds.bsky.social 📖 www.bto.org/little-egret...
- Good to see #shropshirebirding getting in on some twitchable Russian Whitefronts at last, with 4 adults and a 2cy found yesterday on Crudgington Moor floods and still present on my way home today
