Badger Wetherhill @ptarmiganthony.bsky.social Field Ornithologist at BTO Scotland | Secretary Tay Ringing Group | Neach-ionnsachaidh Gร idhlig | Probably out bothering some birds |๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฆก (he/him)
Alice Edney @aliceedney.bsky.social Seabird Ecologist at @n-t-s.bsky.social | Treasurer of The Seabird Group | Enjoys birds, nature, & outdoor adventures ๐ฃ๐โฐ๏ธ | she/her
Jonathan A. Green @jon-seabirds.bsky.social researcher educator | #ornithology | #seabirds | #ecophysiology | #conservation | dad | adopted #scouser | he/him | thoughts my own
Ben Porter @bardseyben.bsky.social Passionate Welsh naturalist & photographer fighting for a wilder World.
PhD student studying #seabirds
Often found running in the mountains โฐ๏ธ ๐ฃ
https://www.benporterwildlife.co.uk
#StubbornOptimist | #GenerationRestoration
Will Smith @willjsmith.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Nottingham Uni.
Evolution @ the wild-domestic interface: focusing on feralisation ๐๏ธ๐ฆ๐
I study wild-type Rock Doves (doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.01.065).
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=UW64SScAAAAJ&hl
The Clever Cockie Research Project @clevercockierp.bsky.social Account for the research project jointly run at ANU and UZH and led by Lucy Aplin, studying spread of innovation, culture and cognition in urban cockatoos
https://www.clevercockies.com/
Dr Eve Holden (she/her) @chimpanzeve.bsky.social Developmental & comparative psychologist. Socialisation in people & nonhuman primates. Interests in evolution, culture, experience, social behaviour, learning, sex, gender, parenting, ADHD. Postdoc @DurhamPsych. Fieldwork lover. Cat & plant mother. ADHD.
Andy Radford @andyradford.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Ecology @ Bristol | social behaviour, vocal communication, cooperation, conflict, global change biology | love teaching and mentoring | love family time more
https://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/behavior/Vocal_Communication/
Sammy Ball @sammyhareball.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ATU, Galway working on bat genomics and stable isotope analysis
Alizรฉe Vernouillet @vernouilleta.bsky.social Behavioural ecology & comparative cognition, with a predilection for corvids. Currently Research Fellow at Cambridge, working with magpies. she/her ๐ฆ
Richard Donaghey @richarddonaghey.bsky.social Wildlife & the outdoors on the north coast of Northern Ireland.
Bird watcher/ringer at Copeland Bird Observatory and Causeway Coast Ringing Group.
Views are my own
Mark Grantham @ringing-mark.bsky.social Bird ringer since the tender age of 15 and once again back working in the BTO ringing scheme, but now from home in sunny Cornwall.
BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social Updates from BirdLife International Marine Programme - @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social & @rspb.bsky.social - on our work saving seabirds & marine wildlife across the globe.
Greg Conway @greg-conway.bsky.social Ornithologist, Birder, Ringer (Trainer), Trail Runner, Badminton, Traditional Archery. Interested in : Nightjar, Woodcock, Kestrel and bird tracking technologies. Views are my own.
The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Promoting the study & conservation of seabirds via conferences, grant provision, newsletters & our open access, free-to-publish journal ๐ง๐๏ธ๐
Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social 
Cape Clear Bird Observatory (CCBO) @ccbowarden.bsky.social Monitoring, researching and recording bird migration & the wildlife of Cape Clear. Part of Birdwatch Ireland, the largest independent conservation organisation in Ireland. CCBO is an accredited member of the Bird Observatories Council.
BTO Northern Ireland @bto-ni.bsky.social The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) is the UKโs leading bird research organisation. Discover BTO projects, news and events from across Northern Ireland right here. https://www.bto.org/about-bto/national-offices/bto-northern-ireland
National Parks and Wildlife Service @npwsireland.bsky.social Updates from National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) in Ireland.
Report wildlife crime to wildlifeenforcement@npws.gov.ie
Read more about us at www.npws.ie
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Cornish Choughs ใใ @cornishchoughs.bsky.social 
Josie Hewitt @josiethebirder.bsky.social Seabird ecologist at UKCEH | UEA Ecology graduate | Birder | Entomologist | Bird ringer (S Permit). She/her. All opinions are my own.
Brian Burke @bburke88.bsky.social Seabird Scientist for Birdwatch Ireland, with a particular interest in Terns and Gulls. S-permit bird ringer.
Wicklow/Roscommon.
Katherine Booth Jones @katboothjones.bsky.social Seabirder | Senior Conservation Scientist | Bird Ringer | Occasional wildlife artist | she/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ #seabird
Allan Mee @kerryeaglemee.bsky.social Works on birds, reintroduction, eagles, vultures, threatened species, โค๏ธ all things nature, earth justice, human rights๐ต๐ธ
Skokholm Island @skokholmisland.bsky.social 
Bardsey Lodge & Bird Observatory @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social One of two Bird Observatories in Wales. Monitoring the wildlife on Bardsey Island since 1953. Come and stay in our comfortable accommodation at Bardsey Lodge. www.bbfo.org.uk
Sam Bayley @sambayley.bsky.social NPWS Conservation Ranger Cork. SouthWest Ireland Ringing Group bird ringer, moth-er, general naturalist + ecologist. Irish Cuckoo Tagging Project. Ex-Warden of Cape Clear Bird Observatory 2016/17.
Copeland Bird Observatory @copelandbirdobs.bsky.social Updates from the CBO team at Northern Irelands only Bird Observatory
Steve|Fyffe @feralbirder.bsky.social Ornithologist,
Martin Stevens @wildlifevision.bsky.social Underwater and wildlife photographer based in Cornwall
YouTube: wildlife_vision1
Instagram: stevensunderwater
TikTok: wildlifevision1
Cornish Jackdaw Project @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social Research team led by Alex Thornton at the University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation, studying cognition in wild jackdaws and other creatures.
wildcognitionresearch.com
Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy Investigating the evolution of social behaviour. Comparative Behavioral Ecology group leader (he/him) at the MPI EVA
๐ bridged from https://fediscience.org/@DieterLukas on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Vladimir Pravosudov @cognitiveecol.bsky.social Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology Lab
Ben Sonnenberg (he/him) @sonnenbird.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow @University of Western Ontario at AFAR
Formerly at Oregon State University and University of Nevada
I'm a behavioral ecologist interested in spatial cognition, development, hormones, and all things avian
Website: www.bensonnenberg.com
Rachael Shaw @wild-minds.bsky.social Behavioural Ecologist who plays games with birds in Aotearoa. Senior Lecturer at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Pฤkehฤ, she/her. Toitลซ Te Tiriti
thinkingbehaviour.org
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4831-8283
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social We want to understand and predict animal decision-making in the natural world | Max Planck Institute in Konstanz, Germany. Photo by Simon Gingins
Lucy Aplin @lucymaplin.bsky.social Certified bird brain, researching cognitive and social ecology of parrots and parids. Currently holding down a dual position at the Australian National University and the University of Zurich
Lysanne Snijders @lysannesnijders.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Behavioural Ecology @w-u-r.bsky.social | Animal Behaviour | Conservation | Nature | Science | Plant-based
Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social Social evolution, social aging & the benefits of social networks. Professor @crab-exeter.bsky.social, Dept. of Psych, Uni. of Exeter. Big team science collaborations: #MacaqueNet #CBRU. She/her. http://linktr.ee/laurenbrent
Damien Farine @damienfarine.bsky.social Analysing collectives of living dinosaurs. Discoverer of multilevel societies. Watcher of fishers and dolphins. Modeller of emergent phenomena. Caretaker of long term guineafowl, fairywren and chough projects. A/Prof @ Australian National Uni.
Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social UC Davis. Developmental drivers of individuality in the Amazon molly. Nature through nurture and a lot of noise. Really into random effects. Hard no to autocrats
Neeltje Boogert @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social Associate Professor in Animal Behaviour at Exeter's Penryn Campus. Studying avian social behaviour, cognition, disease spread and human-wildlife conflict. Love trail running, rock climbing, kayaking. Terrible at (kite-)surfing and expert worrier.
Kees van Oers @keesvanoers.bsky.social Senior Scientist Evolutionary Behavioural Ecology | @NIOO-KNAW | Forum Editor Behavioral Ecology | Executive Vice-President ESEB
Professor Animal Personality @WUR | Behavioural Ecology Group
Ecological Epigenetics | Animal Cognition | Animal Personality
Anne Charmantier @annecharmantier.bsky.social Evolutionary Ecologist #CNRS @cefemontpellier | quantitative genetics | wild birds response to climate change & urbanization | #TeamHB3 #womeninSTEM
Laure Cauchard @laurecauchard.bsky.social #MSCAction Postdoctoral Researcher @
๐ฉโ๐Crazy about #evolution #cognition๐ง #behaviour #birds๐ฆ(but not only!) and #fieldwork๐ณ๐ชบ
LaurenGuillette.bsky.social @laurenguillette.bsky.social Animal Cognition Research Group leader, Associate Prof. @psychualberta.bsky.social, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Ecology (she/her) ally ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @laurenguillette on X
Sarah Benson-Amram @sarahba.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of British Columbia, Animal Cognition, Animal Behavior, Urban Carnivores, Director Animal Behavior and Cognition Lab
Jordan Cuff ๐ท๏ธ๐งฌ๐ธ๏ธ @jordancuff.bsky.social Molecular ecological entomologist ๐งฌ๐ธ๏ธ๐ชฒ @ForagingEcology.bsky.social PI ๐พ๐ท๏ธ Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow ๐ผ๐ Editor of Agricultural and Forest Entomology ๐พ๐ชฒ๐ฒFellow of the Royal Entomological Society ๐๐ he/him
Michael Reichert @reichertfroglab.bsky.social Behavioral ecology, animal communication, frogs and insects, bioacoustics, cognition, evolution. Associate Professor at Oklahoma State University. Not really into social media but can't deny it's occasional usefulness.
Gabrielle Davidson @drgdavidson.bsky.social Behavioural ecologist / comparative psychologist / molecular biologist. Microbiome and cognition in animals. Associate Professor.
UCC Research @uccresearch.bsky.social Securing Our Future Through Research Excellence. #UCCResearch #UCCFutures
The Royal Society @royalsociety.org The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
https://royalsociety.org/
Samantha Patrick @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Ecology at University of Liverpool
BurrayBirding @burraybirding.bsky.social I'm fortunate to live in Orkney, a place which some describe as bleak and barren but if you know where to look there is plenty of nature to explore and enjoy.
BTO C permit bird ringer.- B Rebecca Kilner @buryingbeetle.bsky.social
PEC Exeter @pec-exeter.bsky.social Working on: the consequences of release and management of gamebirds; the evolution of cognition, using the genius of the bird world - pheasants; and occasionally messing with chickens, ravens, beavers and moths. Tweets by Jo Madden 
Claudia Wascher @wascherclaudia.bsky.social Prof. of Behavioural Biology | cooperation, communication, cognition, corvids and physiology | equity & diversity research | addressing biases in animal behaviour
https://claudiawascher.github.io/
she/her โป๏ธ๐๐|๐ณ๏ธโ๐ & ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ ally|โ๐ฟ ally|๐ช๐บ|
Beth Preston @bethpreston.bsky.social Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology at RVC, UK. Interested in wildlife conservation, behavioural ecology, social behaviour, mostly in mammals. Worked on Ethiopian wolves, banded mongooses, elephants, lions, hyenas. she/her.
Dee Sidhu @karendeepsidhu.bsky.social PhD student | Evolutionary Biology | Climate change and sexual selection | Animal Behaviour | Heawaves| Decolonising | QUADRATdtp | University of Aberdeen | opinions are my own | she/her
๐ต๐ธ Free Palestine
๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ Trans rights are human rights
Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social Interested in early-life and parental effects, climate change, infectious diseases. Likes insects, theory and comparative studies.
Professor of Life History Evolution & Wuebben Fellow, JGU Mainz
Leads EVE lab www.evelab.org
Academic mama, from Zimbabwe
Ellis Langley @ellislangley.bsky.social She/her | Postdoc | Cognition and sociality | Bird bothering, music & fitness obsessed fidget.
Candy Rowe @candyrowe.bsky.social Researcher in animal behaviour, cognition and welfare, and Dean for Research Culture and Strategy at Newcastle University. Views my own. She/her.
Dr Jen Colbourne ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ @raccoonologist.bsky.social Postdoc in Vienna specializing in tooling and object manipulation research ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ Urban wildlife nerd & bin animal aficionado. She/her. Manages @asab.org @araa.at @behaviour2027.bsky.social- C Christine Beardsworth @cebeardsworth.bsky.social Lecturer in Behavioural Ecology at Liverpool John Moores University. Interested in cognition, personality and movement ecology
Ana Cristina Gomes @anacrgomes.bsky.social PostDoc researcher at Uppsala University
Behavioral ecology, phenotypes evolution, sexual selection, social behaviour, coloration, cognition, personality
PhD (she/her)
Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social Ornithologist and Evolutionary Ecologist at the University of Oxford - natural history, science, cycling
Friederike [freddy; she/her] Hillemann @fhillemann.bsky.social . behavioural ecologist
. Foraging Ecology And Social Ties (FEASTs)
. von Humboldt postdoc fellow @ Durham
. Preprint Editor ProcB
. General Editor Hunter Gatherer Research
๐ฑโป๏ธ๐๐ง ๐ถ๏ธ
โally to ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ and BLM
fhillemann.github.io
Sarah Dalesman @sarahdalesman.bsky.social Researcher in animal behaviour and cognition, mostly working with aquatic snails and dogs. And sometimes both!
Dog agility trainer, judge and competitor in my spare time.
Lecturer at Aberystwyth University in Wales @aberdlsagb.bsky.social
ASAB @asab.org We promote the study of animal behaviour, organise conferences, fund research & support the teaching of animal behaviour. Co-publisher of #AnimalBehaviourJournal. For meeting coverage, follow @asab-meetings.bsky.social
Liz Humphreys @kittiwakegirl.bsky.social
Head of Marine Research (BTO)
Seabird Ecologist
She/her
Views my own
Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social Birder, ringer, moth(er) and mother. Head of Surveys at BTO, BB Editorial Panel, BB Director, BBRC, Chair RBBP. EBCC Board. Views my own. She/her.
Dr. Kez Armstrong @alethionaut.bsky.social Irish Ornithologist | MCIEEM | ECR | President Copeland Bird Observatory| Lecturer | PhD on Kestrels | BTO Down Regional Rep | Bird Ringer Trainer | Views mine | She/Her
Lundy Bird Observatory @lundybirds.bsky.social Bird and other wildlife news from Britain and Ireland's newest Bird Observatory, re-accredited in 2023.
www.lundybirdobs.org.uk
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
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Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright ๐ท
Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social 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!
Steph Harris @stephharris.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF @liverpooluni.bsky.social researching seabird foraging, movement and communication. Previously postdoc @sosbangor.bsky.social. She/her
Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social Seabird Ecologist interested in movement, foraging ecology, navigation and anthropogenic impacts. Based in Cornwall, UK. Spend an unreasonable amount of time sat on a cliff waiting for birds to fly past. He/Him.
Xav Harrison @xavh.bsky.social Molecular Ecologist at the University of Exeter. Interested in Wildlife microbiomes, disease, and statistics.
xavharrison.github.io
Christos C. Ioannou @ccioannou.bsky.social Professor Bristol uni Biological Sciences. Lots of #fishsci #behaviour #rstats #collectivebehaviour #predators. Grants Secretary for @asab.org
Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social Prince Philip Professor of Ecology & Evolution
@camzoology.bsky.social
I like brains.
www.shmontgomery.co.uk
Melissa Ramsay @melissa-e-ramsay.bsky.social PhD researcher at St Andrews' Centre for Biological Diversity and the Scottish Oceans Institute. Sensory ecology - animal (multi)sensory processing - intertidal scavengers.
๐ฆ๐๐๐ซง
EastBio EDI/Student Rep
(she/her)๐๐๐ฑ
Jolyon Troscianko @jtroscianko.bsky.social Visual ecologist at Exeter University. I study how visual information affects the ecology, behaviour, survival and conservation of many different animals. Areas of interest include camouflage, signalling, visual modelling and artificial light at night
Jamie Dunning @j-dunning.net I am an ornithologist interested in the social behaviour of birds. BTO RIN Chair.
๐ Research - https://www.j-dunning.net/
Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University โข Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning โข she/her
Wilson Ornithological Society @wilsonornithsoc.bsky.social News and updates from the Wilson Ornithological Society, an international scientific society for professional and amateur bird nerds. ๐ฆ
https://wilsonsociety.org/
Birds of the World | The Cornell Lab @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Explore the remarkable diversity of birds with Birds of the World, the world's leading collection of avian life histories published by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in collaboration with a global editorial team of avian experts. birdsoftheworld.org.
Current Biology @currentbiology.bsky.social Scientific journal publishing research, overview and commentary across all of biology. All of it!
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/home
Part of CellPress @cellpress.bsky.social
Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social Journal of Animal Ecology publishes the best #AnimalEcology research that develops, tests and advances broad ecological principles. A @britishecologicalsociety.org journal.
Oikos @oikosjournal.bsky.social One of the leading peer-reviewed journals in ecology, owned by the @nordicoikos.bsky.social. Publishes research papers where different aspects of ecology are brought together.
Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social Professor of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in University College London's People and Nature Lab; interested in anything to do with ecology/evolution but especially pollinators, fruit flies and memory
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
Holly English @hollyenglish.bsky.social Zoologist working on animal movement ๐ฆ๐ฆ
Postdoc RA, ATU Galway ๐ฉโ๐ป๐
Fox and gull enthusiast
Tea addict โ๏ธ
she/her
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Y3nmsLUAAAAJ&hl=en
Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social Ecologist, author, tree watcher. Shill for Big Forest. Writing another textbook on biodiversity and biogeography. It's always karaoke time. More at treesinspace.com
Dr Cassandra Raby @cassandraraby.com Conservation biologist: animal behaviour and health.
Studies ๐ ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ | Stats, GIS, Fieldwork
Teaching Fellow, University of Leeds. FHEA.
Outdoor adventures and allotment grower
she/her (Cass/Cassie)
Rachel Harrison @rachelaharrison.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Anthropology Department, Durham University. Studying social learning in humans and other primates. 
Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social Writer & life-long birdwatcher.
Formerly Director of Communications for BTO.
#WaderTales blogs about #waders #shorebirds #birds #ornithology
Kirsty MacLeod @kjmacleod.bsky.social Behavioural and evolutionary ecologist, lecturer in Bangor, Wales - sociality, life history, stress, thermal ecology, mostly in reptiles macleodlab.weebly.com
British Ornithologistsโ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk Advancing Ornithology | Home of #theBOUblog | Upcoming events #BOUasm26 #BOU2027
https://bou.org.uk
Dr Lauren M Robinson @drlmrobinson.bsky.social Job hunting psychologist of monkeys, wolves, dogs and anything interesting and fundable. Incapable of reading anyone's mind including my own. I research animal personality, happiness, and cognition when paid to do so. Views my own unless they're wrong