Kate Vincent
@housesparrows
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Ecologist/conservationist and nature lover with a special affection for house sparrows (the subject of my PhD). + passionate about nature-based solutions
Derbyshire
Joined February 2010
My amazing stepbrother is cycling from Lands End to John O’Groats for charity. He’s on day 3 - he’s already in Scotland!! I’d appreciate it if you headed over to his justgiving page https://t.co/kiQXOLE88W to support and donate to this fantastic cause @macmillancancer
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Help Oli Hall raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support
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Never thought we’d see this in the UK in my lifetime. Brilliant news
We had some amazing visitors this afternoon - a large flock of storks flew over our site for about 15 minutes. @KneppWilding @ProjectStork
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Perseid meteor shower: When and how to watch
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The Perseids meteor shower peaks between August 11th and 13th this year.
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‘Some absolute gems’: £1.5m appeal to save rewilding haven Strawberry Hill | Rewilding | The Guardian
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Crowdfunding aims to protect central England’s largest area of scrubland in heart of intensively farmed Bedfordshire
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Campaign week aims to tackle falling swift numbers
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Swifts fly to the UK to mate, but a wildlife trust says their nesting spaces are being blocked up.
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Hello! Please help if you can. We don't have any accommodation when we pass through Wolverhampton on the night of June 10th. Do you live or know any people who live in Wolverhampton? Pls rt, TIA!
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EIGHTEEN MONTHS into my campaign. The proposal to add a swift brick requirement to Building Regulations is ready, approved & recommended by ALL experts. Without swift bricks there’s no guaranteed nesting habitat for swifts&there never will be. The govt CAN give them a future. ⏳
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I politely asked if this was the queue for business class. She took a second look at my ticket. I remain polite. I go through customs and onwards to the business lounge. I am there now. What folks call unconscious bias was once called racism. The question is this should I ...
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We went fossil hunting at Barton on Sea, New Forest yesterday and my 8yo daughter found this. Anyone out there who’s able to confirm if it’s a fossil bone and if so, what it might be from? Please RT #fossil #prehistoric #palaeontology
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Back again. With my #swift brick which is now known by most of the security guards in the Houses of Parliament. ‘Oh it’s ok. That’s the swift brick woman and that’s her swift brick,’ they say to any suspicious colleagues yet to meet me and the brick 🧱 ‘she’s here all the time’
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This is the Japanese Puffer Fish - one of #nature's greatest artists. To grab a female’s attention he creates something that defies belief. Nature is more amazing than we will ever know. Protect it in all its forms. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #rewilding #biodiversity
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Patrick Vallance, now chair of natural History Museum, giving @CSciPol lecture. Impressed by excellent account of climate change and biodiversity science and policy. Even mentioned how decline of horseshoe crabs affects migrating red knot, who feed on crab eggs.
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Resightings of colour-ringed Waxwings have been pouring in over the holidays! Always interesting to see how birds filter south through the country as the winter progresses and berries run out in the north - check out their movements! @_BTO
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Growing Me was born out of a mother's love for her child Find out more at https://t.co/isw3HOK4m2
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Part of sea wall removed to help Northey Island saltmarsh
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The National Trust says taking down some of the wall will help protect the marsh from being eroded.
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Sad to learn that Benjamin Zephaniah has died. He was always so kind and generous to me... to so very many people. Loved making this with Benjamin. "I need more trees please I think more nature would be greater so what if we made more space for nature"
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Can anyone help me out and identify this fungi for me? Found in my parents garden in north Lincolnshire.
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First ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct
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Sir David Attenborough "delighted" as mammal named after him is filmed for the first time.
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UK forests face catastrophic ecosystem collapse within 50 years, study says
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‘Alarming’ new research warns of risk to British woodlands from disease, extreme weather and wildfires, unless ‘call to action’ is heeded now
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