@solvirunar

Biologist with special interest in waders, littoral ecology and bird migration. Oystercatcher-Phd student at @uni_iceland, Setter owner and a father.

 Iceland
Joined September 2009
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What did you do over the easter? This Oystercatcher decided it was time to leave its wintering ground in Pontedeume 🇪🇸 and head back to 🇮🇸 with a easter stop in 🇮🇪! Been a week now so lets see when it takes on the last leg of the trip! #ornithology
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Meanwhile, its partner is spending the winter at a much colder climate! It never left 🇮🇸, not even the capital area. Let’s see if they will see each other on the breeding site in a few days. 💍
The heat map shows locations for the whole year. Yea the blue dot is my home.

ALT The heat map shows locations for the whole year. Yea the blue dot is my home.

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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton2 Oct 2023
What do we know about #Oystercatcher migration? On this day in 2015, this #WaderTales blog was published, encouraging people to look out for colour rings. 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/201… Thread about what we now know, thanks to birdwatchers 👇 #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton2 Oct 2023
The research is continuing, as @solvirunar tries to work out more about the behaviour of youngsters and their recruitment to the breeding population. Please keep reporting colour-rings! Thanks! #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton22 Sep 2023
"There's a lot to fit into a year if you're a #Whimbrel" A summary of seven years of fascinating research by @Camilo_Carneiro, published on 22 Sep 22 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #waders #shorebirds #ornithology #phenology
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@solvirunar reporting from Alaska @INTERACT66
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What if scientific journals would have such nice photos?! @gollmundur joined me in the field this summer to caputure photos of my little furballs and their parents. I might just copy paste Erik’s Pomrenke story at @Iceland_Review into my Phd intro! What a writer!
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This article could be copy/pasted with minor change, Iceland instead of Norway. Poultry is not the concern… the populations we are legally obligated to protect are! We are barely monitoring the populations nor taking AI samples from dead birds. birdlife.org/news/2023/08/09…

Norway is failing its seabirds

There is currently a very serious outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in Finnmark, in the north of Norway. Several thousand seabirds, primarily kittiwakes, have been found dead.

birdlife.org
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Not an oystercatcher but nice little add on to the field season.
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton5 Jul 2023
Looks like there is going to be another #volcanic #eruption in #Iceland. It's not going to be under a glacier so no ash - this time. Volcanic ash fertilizes central Iceland - good news for breeding #waders: wadertales.wordpress.com/201… But not at the time! wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
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Jeroen Reneerkens@J_Reneerkens3 Jul 2023
Can anyone tell me to which scheme this colour-ringed #sanderling belongs? It's not registered with @WaderStudy and not on cr-birding.org either. Two orange rings left, one tall orange ring right tibia. Photo: Rob Speirs, 14 April 2023, Landguard Point, Suffolk, UK.
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Camilo Carneiro@Camilo_Carneiro24 Jun 2023
Please keep cats indoors.
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton18 Jun 2023
Celebrating 'Father's Day' with an #Icelandic #Oystercatcher. Dad has a huge impact on his chicks' lives: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #waders #shorebirds #ornithology Blog based on paper by @VMendezAragon et al
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Now our lost Oystercatcher is travelling around Lofoten Norway! Second summer of being lost in Norway looking for his love from Keflavík. #lofoten #migration #shorebirds
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton12 Jun 2023
Many birdwatchers visit #Iceland in the summer. Winter birding is somewhat different! Results of national #Oystercatcher count became #WaderTales blog on 12 June 2018 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/201… #waders #shorebirds #ornithology #phenology
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton10 Jun 2023
'Soga' the Whimbrel arrived in #Iceland at 0513 on 9 June. What an adventure! Will it now fly west to the breeding site used in 2020 and 2021? Blog about #Icelandic #Whimbrel research by @Camilo_Carneiro: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… @GlobalFlyway website: globalflywaynetwork.org/trac…
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@solvirunar on the massive amount of. various species being found dead on Icelandic shores this season. #puffin #kittiwake #Iceland #stöð2
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Camilo Carneiro@Camilo_Carneiro20 May 2023
There are (increasingly) more tree plantations in #Iceland than you may think! It has been stimulating to visit them & record the bird life there. #fieldwork #ornithology
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Graham Appleton@GrahamFAppleton17 May 2023
First Oystercatcher chicks have hatched in Iceland, according to @solvirunar. Will these fluffies migrate in the autumn? It depends on what their Dad does. Blog about fascinating paper by @VMendezAragon wadertales.wordpress.com/202… #waders #shorebirds #ornithology
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