PiedFly.Net
Posts by Malcolm Burgess. Runs PiedFly.Net, a citizen science network monitoring Pied flycatchers across SW England contributing to science on #phenology #migration #demography and more.
- JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...
- Closing date tomorrow, an exciting PhD linking insects with demography of aerial foraging birds such as House martin based @uniexecec.bsky.social in Cornwall.
- Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
- Back from Olomouc — such a well-organised conference in a brilliant location. This community through these HNB conferences has sparked so many collaborations for PiedFly.Net, putting UK data on the map, and led to @spibirds.bsky.social making working together even easier. Thanks you organisers!
- Pleased to contribute a nest to this years @lesserspotnet.bsky.social monitoring. A brood of 4 revealed by the special camera thanks to @angusrobin.bsky.social
- First pied flycatcher nest hatching today, 11 May 2025. Most nests incubating eggs now.
- First Pied flycatcher egg of the season at East Dartmoor, 22 April 2025
- Only two more days left to apply…
- PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
- At least half the male pied flycatchers back at East Dartmoor now, with some pairs starting nest building.
- First Blue tit egg at East Dartmoor was April 4 2025. There are 3 earlier lay dates since mid-1950s, all in 2019. Probably about 1 in 8 pairs have started laying - much the same pattern as in 2019. Suggests we can expect first Pied Flycatcher eggs 2 weeks from now. #phenology
- And we're off! Our first blue tit egg was laid on 3 April 2025 - making this, by some margin, the earliest start to a season in the 12 years of our project! 🪺 #phenology #ukbirding #ornithology 🪶
- First male Pied Flycatcher singing this morning at East Dartmoor. Second earliest arrival recorded on the reserve. #phenology
- PhD opportunity with me (RSPB) at Sheffield Hallam combining ecology (building-nesting birds esp. Swift) + building design & planning (Net Zero goals & retrofit). We need a strong student interested in both! Is that you? url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/cNyjCR636C... Please repost.
- PhD Opportunity!! Come work with us (University of Exeter, RSPB & BTO) Diagnosing population decline in insectivorous birds. Inkd.in/eG58dQxs Contact me for more details (s.bearhop@exeter.ac.uk). Please Share @britishbirds.bsky.social @ibisjournal.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
- Checkout this new phenology analysis on Common redstart now out, first publication from Ilaria’s PhD!
- Gosh, what a relief to be here now and not to have that black square on my devices anymore. So my first post: to draw your attention to results of work in Liberia on Pied flycatcher home range habitat use...
