Sam Whiting @whitingsnature
Ecologist & wildlife recorder • Lifelong naturalist & general science nerd • Multilinguist 🇬🇧🇪🇸🇨🇵🇩🇪🇳🇴 Staffordshire/Derbyshire, UK Joined November 2022-
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A few fungi finds from a family foray into the forest over the weekend.
A few entomological phone snaps at the end of a fantastic season of surveying, to serve, if nothing else, as a reminder to self to get a better camera before the next season begins.
Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in…
Politicians pledge to stop #nature's decline by 2030, but vital funding & policies are no where to be seen. Today, with 80 charities, we launch #nature2030, calling on all political parties to commit to 5 actions to improve our environment. Please sign! bit.ly/nature_2030
Fantastic few days on training courses this week, surveying for birds, newts and reptiles @Carymoor including this beautiful Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) 🐍
Early spring urban botany - Common chickweed (Stellaria media) and Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum) - Newcastle-under-Lyme, 22/03/2023
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (23rd April 🏴) was at 5.55am, sunset is at 8.17pm
Today is International #ForestDay! 🌳 Forests provide important habitat & Key Biodiversity Areas for migratory animals. But many of these areas lack a protected status! See latest UN Report on the State of the World's #migratoryspecies. cms.int/en/publication…
Get your green space buzzing with pollinators by incorporating some of these plants into your 2024 garden 🦋🐝
Our vision is of a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together
📢BREAKING NEWS: An historic day as Scottish Parliament votes through grouse moor licensing! We did it! Bloody well done, everyone! 👏👏👏 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/03/21/an-…
Mad as a March hare. I was "ringside" early this morning @AlthorpHouse for the main event! Early spring mornings are always the best time to see this fantastic spectacle. It never ceases to make me smile. [email protected] #boxinghares #Althorppark #madmarchhare #brownhare
Great Northern Diver and 5 Whooper Swans this morning @ Carsington per @ddbirder
Scarlet Elf Cups growing through bright green moss make a very attractive combination. #fungi
220m of insect hotel!! 72 species have been identified so far from this hotel at @HeliganGardens So cool
My first butterfly of 2024, a Brimstone, seen 24 January, at Lye Valley, Oxford. Just checked iRecord, first one in Oxfordshire for 2024. First January sighting at Lye Valley ever recorded as well.
Police just pulled me over and screamed “Papers” Luckily I screamed back “Scissors, I win” and drove off. He’s keen for a rematch, he’s been chasing me for 45 minutes.
As well as possessing cognitive skills that rival adult apes, ravens are the largest songbirds in the world. We bet their favourite genre's black metal 🤘 @BBCSpringwatch #Winterwatch
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A little composition of just a few of the moths we encountered at Trus Madi, Borneo, during only two nights of trapping this last week. I’ll work on a few more compositions when I get some time but suffice to say the diversity of shape, form, and colour is simply breathtaking
Amazing to see this Beluga of the Shetland coast today with Rebecca Nason @puffinpassion #Shetland
Sleep is natural forward time machine
Taking a closer look at the tiny creatures, we occasionally come across the even smaller ones. Just above the 4mm long springtail Orchesella cincta, a teeny beetle mite can be seen, possibly Cepheus dentatus. #springtails #mites
"Wetlands store more carbon than any other habitat and support 40% of all species on EARTH." "But they only cover 6% of the planet?" "Girl, exactly."
Two Jack-russel yay tees , shared by @NickyChristie3 on Twitter , thank you Nicky ! #FoxOfTheDay
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