Rob William Martin

We closed an amazing gathering of transformative meetings sharing successful stories, and the work to Assess, Plan, Act, Network, and Communicate for species conservation. Thanks for being part of this fascinating work, it was an immense pleasure to be with you all. #WeAreSSC

🚨Red List Update🚨 Migratory shorebird populations are plummeting globally. ⚠️ 📉 16 species have been reclassified to higher threat categories, with potential causes including habitat loss and degradation, disturbance, hunting and climate change. 🌊 🌎 Travelling the world on migration routes called flyways, shorebirds are a familiar sight worldwide. Protecting shorebirds is vital for all of us. 💚 The places migratory birds stop and rest on their long journeys are important for millions of people. CBD COP16 is the moment to galvanise action to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030. 🤝 Nature loss can be reversed but extinctions cannot.❌ Read more here 👉 birdlife.org/news/2024/10/2… #COP16Colombia #BirdLifeInternational #BirdLifeFlyways #RedList #HabitatLoss #Shorebirds #ClimateChange #Extinction #Conservation

Get ready to discover why the most iconic things are not things. Follow us on Instagram and stay tuned if you want to know more. 28.10.2024 #IconicSpecies @iucn_congress instagram.com/iucnred_list

Where do migratory seabirds go? Come to @ueaenv for a PhD studying the connectivity and conservation of seabird marine flyways, with a great supervisory and collaboration team @AldinaFranco @TammyEDavies @BirdLifeMarine @PeterIMiller More info here: aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships/S…

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@LewisStuff @IBIS_journal @bci_journal @gm_kirwan 😯

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@Lophophanes @Alexander_Lees Nor mine, Mark's one is only 15 km away...

Coming to a mist net near you..

@Alexander_Lees @Team_eBird Although the first view has generated a quizzical eyebrow: does the peak bird abundance zone really include Baldock?

For the first time since 1988 we have #sihek #GuamKingfisher in the wild! Successfully released the first six over the weekend. A huge effort from so many partners 🙏 Work now focusses on supporting a population to establish @thomasreporting @OfficialZSL youtu.be/BZOQadsHj8k?si…

Managed to dig bin this fragment, slow-mo'ed to 1/4 speed.

Dark juv honey buzzard heading s over Baldock now #hertsbirds

Great to hear about the official opening of @RSPBEngland Loughlin's Marsh. Named in memory of the wonderful Ralph Loughlin; a stalwart of wetland management in the Broads, who supported many @biouea students and researchers of #wader conservation. Photo @Yarmouthbirder

Hey #raptor #birdmigration fanatics! Over the past months I've added to eBird what's now almost 3,500 photos of raptors in flight from 4 years at @BatumiRaptors — Most photos are aged/sexed, so you can filter down to specific plumages (and more). Enjoy! 🔗media.ebird.org/catalog?userId…

Honoured to become the new Global Co-Chair of the @IUCN SSC Duck Specialist Group (DSG). A position previously filled by the late Richard Hearn. Looking forward to working with duck scientists & conservationists globally.

Are you inspecting a bat roost under licence in the next fortnight? Could you take a 30s .wav recording of the background noise in the roost space using a full spectrum detector (no frequency or amplitude filters) and send it to science@bats.org.uk? We’d like info on noise levels in roosts to inform future bat monitoring approaches! Thank you!

🚨‼️ This is MEGA‼️ The first record of Spix’ Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) young born in the wild!🤩 The species was considered extinct 24y ago, but 50 individuals bred in captivity were reintroduced in Curaçá-BA in 2020. Congrats to Natalia Diniz (dinizbio on IG) for the record!

@mattkfloyd @bbctms @T20WorldCup @AatifNawaz @roushanalam @FrankieMac71 @BBCSounds Thanks for adding the end on, appreciated.

@robwillmartin @bbctms @T20WorldCup @AatifNawaz @roushanalam @FrankieMac71 @BBCSounds Hi Rob - u can listen to the whole match back on BBC Sounds app 👍🏽

Our commentary team for critical Afghanistan v Bangladesh @T20WorldCup clash. @AatifNawaz @mattkfloyd @roushanalam & @FrankieMac71 Afghanistan win takes them to semi-finals. Defeat & Australia or Bangladesh could qualify. 5 Sports Extra & @BBCSounds NOW #bbccricket

@qikipedia Quite right too. A fine, if a bit rude, ornithological philosophy question to ask a Tityra. Are you extinct? "no" ebird.org/checklist/S177… next, Do you exist?

A bird called the white-tailed tityra isn’t considered extinct despite there being no confirmed sightings since 1829.

Inspirational 1st conference at #ECCB2024_Bologna! Grateful to present my 1st PhD paper (in an amazing symposium!), using the @IUCNRedList to explore what works in species conservation (preprint coming soon). Great to connect with friends old and new; hope to see you again soon!