Conor Ryan
Here for whale/fungi/sea kayaking/queer 🏳️🌈/marine science chat. 🇮🇪living in🏴
- It has been such an honour to sail around Ireland with U.N. Elder, Mary Robinson. Quoting Archbishop Desmund Tutu, she said she is "Not an optimist, but a prisoner of hope" #ClimateEmergency #BiodiversityCrisis
- Here are some macaroni penguins (and a lone gentoo) with a humpback whale bearing down on them off Cooper Island, South Georgia... for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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- I had no idea that we have water shrews in #Mull. Neighbour's cat killed two in under an hour. #shrew #watershrew
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- On Compost. "...what matters is not the individual ingredients but the fertile new thing they can become." A beautiful article on why we should cherish our 'waste' @frasermacdonald.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- New #seabird paper by @gannetguy.bsky.social et al. finds "...discrete areas of co-occurring prey consumption by seabirds and fishing effort..." academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
- 10 years ago today, my work was cited by an expert IWC panel to demonstrate that Japan's proposed new scientific whaling program was not scientifically justified because non-lethal alternatives had been proven to work. Proud moment (which I'd forgotten about until FB reminded me) #whaling
- Finally found a reference for the population control attempts on killer whales by the US military, at the request of the Icelandic Government in the 1950s (Naval Aviation News, 1956). #whaling
- These beautiful and honest essay was published recently by my dear friend Rose Skelton. #queerfamily #spermdonation #mushrooms #love & #friendship. newohioreview.org/2025/03/04/f...
- Barnacle geese or pink-footed? I am leaning towards the former, as i think pink footed have more of a flutes or whistling call? Migrating north over Mull today with a nice tail wind #migration
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- Antarctic minke whale drive-by in Lazarev Bay
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- I want to see a malleider duck
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- Commerson's dolphins: contender for the smallest marine dolphin in the world. These spent hours swimming into our prop-wash while the ship held position off Saunders Island, Falkland
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- SPRING NEWS. I saw my first sand martin over the Mishnish Lochs, Mull the day after the Equinox (last Friday). #birds #wildlife #seasons #theresagrandstretch
- I found the beautiful yellow specklebelly in Mull today (Pseudocyphellaria citrina). Like a sheet of hammered copper, studded with golden stars. A rare treasure. #fungifriends #lichen #temperaterainforest
- Excited to report that @andrewfoote.bsky.social and I have a new note in the next issue of Irish Naturalists Journal irishnaturalistsjournal.org (please subscribe!). We believe that Dopey Dick (Derry 1977) was Comet (Hebrides & Ireland 1992-2014), now presumed dead #WestCoastCommunity #killerwhale.
- The genocide continues. It is so utterly heart-breaking
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- Reposted by Conor Ryan(1/) If you are looking for an adventure, why not consider signing up for an Upland Rovers square? You can sign up for a single visit, and there are vacant squares in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and England. Scan the QR code or click here for more details: www.bto.org/our-science/...
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- Keeping animals in unnaturally high densities is putting us all at risk. #eatplants
- Colleagues have told me that cloudy eyes is a suspected symptom of HPAI in Antarctic fur seals. I saw several adults and pups with both or single cloudy eyes in South Georgia last week. This one was at Maiviken @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social
- This is a heavy read 😟
- Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- West Point Island. Always a warm welcome from Tees and Kiki who have devoted so much time to making this island a haven for wildlife. #Falklands #rainbows
- So many whale bones on Barren Island in #FalklandIslands🇫🇰. Highlights were a beaked whale vertebra and a sei or minke whale skull (help with species id would be great! @paoloviscardi.bsky.social)
- Puppies #antarcticfurseal
- Pipe dream
- Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds
- Reposted by Conor Ryan“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
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- Antarctic minke #whale lips👄
- Some whale pictures from an incredible week around the Antarctic Peninsula: pack-ice killer whale, humpback whale blow, long-finned pilot whale and humpback whale dorsal fin
- Can anyone help with the species ID for this crazy-looking #lichen please? On a Nothofagus at 300m elevation near Ushuaia, Patagonia.
- Fin and blue whales together off Adelaide Island, Antarctica. They began to porpoise in response to the ship - I estimate 15 knots.
