#urbanbiodiversity — Public Fediverse posts

UK gardens cover more ground than all nature reserves and could become one vast rewilding zone https://www.allforgardening.com/1772847/uk-gardens-cover-more-ground-than-all-nature-reserves-and-could-become-one-vast-rewilding-zone/ #garden #gardening #gardens #LettsSafari #nature #NatureFriendly #UrbanBiodiversity #WildlifeHabitat

A heartfelt moment for us 💚
A resident from Umachikulam, Madurai shared the real impact of the Koodugal Sparrow Initiative.

Seeing sparrows return and thrive in spaces we helped create reminds us why we started this journey. These small wins are powerful—they push us to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #NatureRestoration #EcoInitiative #Sustainability #BringBackSparrows #CommunityImpact #Madurai #Umachikulam #Koodugal #SparrowConservation

A heartfelt moment for us 💚
A resident from Umachikulam, Madurai shared the real impact of the Koodugal Sparrow Initiative.

Seeing sparrows return and thrive in spaces we helped create reminds us why we started this journey. These small wins are powerful—they push us to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #NatureRestoration #EcoInitiative #Sustainability #BringBackSparrows #CommunityImpact #Madurai #Umachikulam #Koodugal #SparrowConservation

A heartfelt moment for us 💚
A resident from Umachikulam, Madurai shared the real impact of the Koodugal Sparrow Initiative.

Seeing sparrows return and thrive in spaces we helped create reminds us why we started this journey. These small wins are powerful—they push us to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #NatureRestoration #EcoInitiative #Sustainability #BringBackSparrows #CommunityImpact #Madurai #Umachikulam #Koodugal #SparrowConservation

A heartfelt moment for us 💚
A resident from Umachikulam, Madurai shared the real impact of the Koodugal Sparrow Initiative.

Seeing sparrows return and thrive in spaces we helped create reminds us why we started this journey. These small wins are powerful—they push us to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #NatureRestoration #EcoInitiative #Sustainability #BringBackSparrows #CommunityImpact #Madurai #Umachikulam #Koodugal #SparrowConservation

A heartfelt moment for us 💚
A resident from Umachikulam, Madurai shared the real impact of the Koodugal Sparrow Initiative.

Seeing sparrows return and thrive in spaces we helped create reminds us why we started this journey. These small wins are powerful—they push us to work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
#SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #NatureRestoration #EcoInitiative #Sustainability #BringBackSparrows #CommunityImpact #Madurai #Umachikulam #Koodugal #SparrowConservation

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

Early morning is feeding time. The mother sparrow is actively searching for insects and soft food, many of which are not even visible to us. This is nature at its best.
#Koodugal #SparrowConservation #SaveSparrows #UrbanBiodiversity #BirdConservation #NatureConservation #WildlifeAwareness

The #park of #CharlottenburgPalace #Berlin is #historically and #biologically significant. The #baroque #garden was first laid out in 1697 by landscape architect #SiméonGodeau, based on French models. Today's #naturalarea behind it is a haven of #biodiversity. In his article on #pioneeringresearch about Berlin's #urbanbiodiversity, G. Popkin (2023) summarizes the increasing interest in #speciesdiversity in #Berlin.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Ref
https://www.science.org/content/article/pioneering-urban-ecology-finds-surprising-biodiversity-berlin-s-green-spaces

#Photos
© S.F. Wirth

The Icaricia arrived today, helping me remember the small joys

Sharing so we can co-regulate together

It's visiting a native Eriogonum with small pink and white flowers in pom pom like clusters.

#butterflies #urbanBiodiversity

Create a Sanctuary for Birds, Bees, and Butterflies https://www.allforgardening.com/1329158/create-a-sanctuary-for-birds-bees-and-butterflies/ #BirdSanctuary #ClimateAction #EcoFriendlyGardening #garden #gardening #GardeningAustralia #MonsoonGarden #NativePlants #NatureConservation #UrbanBiodiversity #WildlifeGardening

#BiodiversitySensitive #UrbanDesign

Biodiversity focused design protocols in urban planning and development

by Peter Miles, Mar 30, 2022

"The cooling benefits of the greening of urban areas probably need little introduction and are widely known to help improve human physical and psychological health.

"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design (BSUD), is a protocol with the aim of transforming urban areas to have increased habitat and food resources for native species and ecological communities.

"Biodiversity, or loss of biodiversity, has become an often-used descriptive term.

"A shortening of biological diversity, it refers to the sum of genetic diversity in an area. With one measure being the species diversity, ie, the number of different species.

"Speciation is the process of creating new species, and this leads to an increase in biodiversity.

"Urban biodiversity generally refers to the remnant of plant and animal species left after the impact of developing a built environment, eg buildings, and roads.

"By attempting to understand the changes caused by urbanization, and what was previously living in an area, from remnants, we can try and predict revegetation species and species density, and animal requirements to attract birds and animals from surrounding remnant habitats.

"BSUD is a new approach to on-site biodiversity conservation and restoration in urban areas (Garrard et al., 2018), to encourage an increase in biodiversity, to be larger in area, including in much of the urban matrix, and together with help from engaged residents leading to an overall biodiversity increase."

[...]

"Biodiversity Sensitive Urban Design is a useful tool in establishing more biodiversity in urban areas with 5 main principles:

- Maintain and introduce habitat by revegetation with local species.

- Enable spread of plants and animals, eg by allowing bare soil for burrowing insects and seed germination, control of weeds, and removal of fences.

- Minimize threats and human disturbances, eg herbicide drift, foot traffic, off-leash dogs.

- Allow natural ecological processes, maybe as simple as letting dead logs remain, through to periodic burning.

- Provide for an increase in positive human and natural interaction, eg bird hides, but also no access islands, and no dog areas (Kirk et al., 2021)."

Read more (registration required):
https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/biodiversity-sensitive-urban-design-77089ed97d45

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/5allx

#Rewilding #Australia #SolarPunkSunday #Revegetation #BSUD #NativeSpecies #Restoration #BiodiversitySensitiveUrbanDesign #UrbanBiodiversity

Brenda Maria Zoderer from #BOKU reports at #gfoe2024 that citizens of #Vienna accept urban #rewilding more than expected, #biodiversity #urbannature #gfoe #urbanecology #UrbanBiodiversity

📢 Our new OA research shows spatially targeting new green spaces to connect bigger patches of habitat can maximise investment for #urbanBiodiversity

This handy video explains it nicely!
https://vimeo.com/941090209
🌱🗺️🐝🐦🦗🧪🌏

Paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204624001683
#urbanNature #urbanPlanning #naturebasedsolutions

A good news story: Making merry: how we brought Melbourne’s Merri Creek back from pollution, neglect and weeds.

I often walk and cycle along Merri Creek, do birdwatching, have seen kangaroos and swamp wallabies.

#MerriCreek #Restoration #Biodiversity #StoriesOfHope #urbanBiodiversity

https://theconversation.com/making-merry-how-we-brought-melbournes-merri-creek-back-from-pollution-neglect-and-weeds-226231

A sheltered #ivy is a magnet for late insects: bluebottles, wasps, droneflies and three Red Admirals still about in the November sunshine #UrbanBiodiversity #Hull

So, species 1,800 is a caterpillar (larva) of the Virginia tiger moth, Spilosoma virginica, I found 5 years ago at my sister's old place in the Pine Barrens area of New Jersey.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/17288591

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

cc: @darwin

2/2 And the other, a small moth that looks exactly like a broken-off piece of a twig.

Ipsilon dart, Agrotis ipsilon.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189965114

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

My two most recent new (to me) species were from my own backyard, barely a month ago. (These are my IDs, so subject to correction!)

1/2

Star jelly, Nostoc commune. Looks like other jelly fungi, but this erupted from the ground, rather than a tree branch.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189964010

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature #iNaturalist

Forget follower counts.

Who will be my 1800th species on #iNaturalist?!

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&user_id=xris&verifiable=any&view=species

#BioDiversity #NaturePhotography #CitizenScience #CommunityScience #MacroPhotography #Naturalists #UrbanNaturalist #UrbanEcology #UrbanBiodiversity #UrbanNature

@NovaHellion
P.S. Per our subway ride conversation, here's my garden's 63 species of bees:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=125348&taxon_id=630955&verifiable=any&view=species

#iNaturalist #Bees #Anthophila #UrbanBiodiversity #HabitatGardening #UrbanGardening

A nifty pic for #ThickTrunkThursday off of our #Seattle front deck. This little lady is making an impressive #spider web backlit in front of our Douglas Fir.

#arachnid #UrbanBiodiversity #WebBrowsing

Hakea actites in my garden. A beautiful native shrub that grows locally. #NativePlants #NativeGardening #WildlifeGardening #UrbanBiodiversity

Big respect to the Ravenscourt Park management team - they clearly put a lot of thinking & effort into keeping lots of dead wood here and there about the park. Lots of habitat for stag beetles

http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/165743508

#iNaturalist #UrbanBiodiversity

My first odonata of the year, a teneral blue-tailed damselfly (I think), I momentarily looked away as I heard toads, and when I turned round a Carrion Crow had picked it up, probably for its chicks! #dragonflies #UrbanBiodiversity #Hull #EastPark

Some highlights from a sunny morning at #EastPark #Hull: Pink-footed Goose still around, many Canada and Greylag Goslings, two Mallard families. Noisy male Sparrowhawk, 3 Swifts chasing, two Swallows, 36 bird species, somehow missed Robin #UrbanBiodiversity #LowCarbonBirding

Some visitors during our sushi al fresco

#UrbanBiodiversity #Seattle

Back to the #Sculcoates #patch early today for a spot of #UrbanBiodiversity. Two playful foxes, a pair of Mute Swans parading along the drain prospecting for a territory, singing Reed Warbler and my first zebra spider of the year #LowCarbonBirding #Hull

Back to the #Sculcoates #patch early today for a spot of #UrbanBiodiversity. Two playful foxes, a pair of Mute Swans parading along the drain prospecting for a territory, singing Reed Warbler and my first zebra spider of the year #LowCarbonBirding #Hull

Back to the #Sculcoates #patch early today for a spot of #UrbanBiodiversity. Two playful foxes, a pair of Mute Swans parading along the drain prospecting for a territory, singing Reed Warbler and my first zebra spider of the year #LowCarbonBirding #Hull

Back to the #Sculcoates #patch early today for a spot of #UrbanBiodiversity. Two playful foxes, a pair of Mute Swans parading along the drain prospecting for a territory, singing Reed Warbler and my first zebra spider of the year #LowCarbonBirding #Hull

Back to the #Sculcoates #patch early today for a spot of #UrbanBiodiversity. Two playful foxes, a pair of Mute Swans parading along the drain prospecting for a territory, singing Reed Warbler and my first zebra spider of the year #LowCarbonBirding #Hull

#FirstSeenAndHeard Fab Friday! #Bird Nerds! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - New Holland Honeyeater. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdTooters #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Fab Friday! #Bird Nerds! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - New Holland Honeyeater. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdTooters #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Fab Friday! #Bird Nerds! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - New Holland Honeyeater. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdTooters #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Another Hump Day! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Another Hump Day! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Another Hump Day! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Another Hump Day! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Another Hump Day! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Is Tuesday the best day? #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Is Tuesday the best day? #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Is Tuesday the best day? #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard A new week! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! (Video won’t upload yet again, so annoying!) I will try to get it added to this Toot a little later! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Australian Magpie. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOf Mastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard A new week! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! (Video won’t upload yet again, so annoying!) I will try to get it added to this Toot a little later! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Australian Magpie. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOf Mastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard A new week! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! (Video won’t upload yet again, so annoying!) I will try to get it added to this Toot a little later! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Australian Magpie. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOf Mastodon

#FirstSeenAndHeard Weekend Day 2 - Sunday! #Bird Nerds and #BirdTooters! First Heard - Australian Magpie. First Seen - Crested Pigeon. #birdwatching #urbanbirds #urbanbiodiversity #birdsinbackyards #wildoz #DawnChorus #birds #MyFirstBird #BirdsOfMastodon