Annie Shadrake
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Personal account & views. Advocate for Nature & Neurodivergency. Vol for @_BTO & @Natures_Voice. #ActuallyAustistic. She/her.
Yorkshire Dales
Joined December 2021
Stuff the critically endangered #curlew and other ground nesting birds, the dogs had a lovely run. Open Access moorland in heart of #YorkshireDales NP today. @nybirdnews @curlewcalls @curlewrecovery @CurlewSLakes @AliDriverUK @Natures_Voice #birds #waders
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Excited (aka quaking in my flip flops) to be talking at #globalbirdfair today about #ND #autism, birdwatching & inclusion - 12:30, #Curlew marquee! Free fans! @GlobalBirdfair @waderquest @_JoelAshton @ospreylf @RoyDennisWF @rspb @spurnbirdobs @curlewcalls @4Apes @HawkConservancy
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Interesting article by @Mark_A_Eaton @ukrbbp on UK scarce breeders. I’ve been watching a family of Little Ring Plovers since April - this sole chick (DOB 30.5.25) is now a happily fledged teen with parents on 2nd clutch! @_BTO @nybirdnews @waderquest @WaderStudy @SEO_BirdLife
Spring is long gone, and even the summer is getting on, but there’s still plenty of rare breeding birds to be found. Here’s some tips
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Hi orchid aficionados - please could you ID these? Outrageously tall, no/few spots on leaves. Damp, prob acidic grassland, #YorkshireDales -Embsay Res, late June. See these every year! @_JoelAshton @Love_plants @WildlifeTrusts @YWT_North #wildflowerhour @bigmeadowsearch
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Kids, eh. Weeks of cherishing and all the thanks you get is a peck round the head! (Audio - #curlew in defence mode). @nybirdnews @Britnatureguide @curlewcalls @StephenMoss_TV #YorkshireDales #BirdsOfTwitter #birds
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OMG I thought I was monitoring Charadrius dubius but no!Thinornis dubius! Aka Little Ringed Plover. Chick with mum recently. @WeBS_UK @WaderStudy @waderquest @NycPlover @ontarioplovers @ed_keeble @GrahamFAppleton @curlewcalls @WMBD @ukrbbp @Mark_A_Eaton #BirdsOfTwitter #birds
Big Changes to The British List Under New Unified Global Taxonomy. AviList brings in a new global avian checklist revising bird classifications with significant implications for the British List
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A teeny lapwing chick being well protected by its parent against any threat (inc this pheasant). Glimpsed over a drystone wall on a windy (!) Sunday in the #YorkshireDales. @waderquest @WaderStudy @curlewcalls @BBS_birds @CurlewSLakes #waders #BirdsSeenIn2025 #BirdsOfTwitter
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RT @WMBD: AEWA turns 30!. Since 1995, this treaty has united 80+ countries to conserve migratory waterbirds across Africa & Eurasia. From I….
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Great to see “ardent nature campaigner” @curlewcalls featured in first @hfholidays members magazine! #walking #curlews #BooksWorthReading
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British #curlew need to fledge 10,000 more chicks/year just to halt the catastrophic decline - so if you see a curlew calling from a wall-top or field - stay back it’s protecting its young! @curlewcalls @waderquest @CurlewSLakes @CurlewCountry @CurlewLIFE #BirdsofTwitter #birds
Reminder from 12 June 2021:."More Curlew chicks needed".Blog based on paper by @_BTO scientists, using data collected by British bird ringers. #ornithology
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Gutted to see this #curlew chick taken by Lesser Black-backed Gull today, on @bbs survey, despite frantic efforts of both parents. [Agric policy & economics, not farmers or gull.] @curlewcalls @LandEthics @CurlewCountry @WaderStudy @waderquest @_BTO #BirdsOfTwitter #birds
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RT @GrahamFAppleton: I'm in the chair for Wednesday's FREE Curlew webinar from @CurlewAction .** Tracking Curlews **..
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Today I saw (thru windscreen) this “sentinelling”#curlew on a Dales drystone wall. We must all act now AND together, or lose curlew entirely in UK in our lifetime. Read👇to learn more. @curlewcalls @CurlewSLakes @CurlewCountry @CurlewLIFE @WaderStudy @waderquest #BirdsOfTwitter
‘Curlew Moon is a book with an urgent and important message’ TLS.‘Well-crafted and thoughtful, meticulously researched and charmingly illustrated’ Country Life. ‘Readable, highly informed and heartfelt, Colwell has lovely poetic insights’ Mark Cocker, Spectator. #CurlewMoon
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RT @ed_keeble: Its that tricky week when there don't seem to be any waders going north or south, so attention wanders to other things. Her….
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#Lapwing v #Curlew in the #YorkshireDales this week. Both have chicks to defend - against anyone! @CurlewSLakes @curlewcalls @Britnatureguide @purm @waderquest @WaderStudy @nybirdnews @BradfordNature #BirdsOfTwitter #birds
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Fantastic art from @AnnieBookerArt below & my own encounter - an alarm calling #curlew. Chicks nearby for sure! But we need 10,000 more chicks/year just to level off the decline. @curlewcalls @CurlewSLakes @waderquest @CurlewCountry @CurlewLIFE @GrahamFAppleton #BirdsOfTwitter
Eurasian Curlew radio-tagging. A huge effort being done to project these breeding birds. Thanks for all the hard work protecting these birds ❤️
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Gobsmacking views of Marsh Harriers preparing to nest at Trimley marshes @suffolkwildlife reserve y’day. @BBS_birds @BBCSuffolk @BtoSuffolk @EBwSTweets @ed_keeble @coastandheaths #BirdsOfTwitter #BIRDSTORY #birds
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Reed buntings are a tad under appreciated IMHO - some great photos 👇 and my little vid - adult male with mouthful for chicks, along Leeds Liverpool Canal this week. @nybirdnews @Britnatureguide @Natures_Voice @CanalRiverTrust @BradfordNature @BBS_birds #BirdsOfTwitter #BirdsUp
This Reed Bunting, perched very close in front of the Pioneer hide at Summer Leys today. #Northantsbirds @NatureUK #TwitterNatureCommunity @wildlifebcn @Britnatureguide @Natures_Voice
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Please can we support farmers to lift more mowers for #curlew? This nest (#YorkshireDales) mown out in a flash, curlew returned secs later to nest gone. @curlewcalls @CurlewSLakes @CurlewCountry @CurlewLIFE @waderquest @WaderStudy #BirdsOfTwitter @nybirdnews
🚜Last night a #farmer saved my life .Bruce 🦸♂️😇(contractor) lifted mower while cutting when a #curlew flew up in front of him. Nice one Bruce 💪#Respect #nest_24 #FarmingHeroes
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A fitting endorsement for a great young campaigner - who really shouldn’t have to take on water companies and politicians but does so with energy, intelligence, laser focus and creativity! @Feargal_Sharkey.
Incredibly honoured to be named on the 2025 @TheENDSReport List, alongside 18 other environmental campaigners who have made the greatest national impact on green policy and legislation over the last two years. Most notably in the last year, we have secured a commitment from
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Great poster 👇 - so imp to protect ground nesting birds by responsible behaviour. Eggs can be practically invisible! This avocado sized #curlew egg from my vol @Natures_Voice survey last week. @curlewcalls @CurlewSLakes @hilltopfarmgirl @waderquest @CurlewCountry @CurlewEIP
It was nice to be watched by a nesting pair of Curlew on Melbourne Ings earlier in the week whilst our team were busy putting up posters about responsible use of the Public Rights of Way over the #LDV meadows – help us help our Curlew by reading the signs and acting responsibly.
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