2017 in birding and ornithology
The year 2017 in birding and ornithology.
Worldwide
New species
- See also Bird species new to science described in the 2010s
Taxonomic developments
The British Ornithologists' Union announced that it would adopt the IOC World Bird List from 1 January 2018.[1]
Ornithologists
Deaths
- James Ferguson-Lees (born 1929)[2]
World listing
Europe
Britain
Breeding birds
- Night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) recorded successfully breeding for the first time in Britain. Two birds fledged at the Westhay Moor National Nature Reserve, managed by the Somerset Wildlife Trust.[3]
- A number of hen harriers (Circus cyaneus) disappeared in suspicious circumstances over land managed for grouse shooting. There were only three successful nests in England.[4]
Migrant and wintering birds
Rare birds
Other events
- According to the RSPB's Birdcrime report, there were 68 confirmed incidents of raptor persecution in the UK, with shooting the most common method. There was four prosecutions and one conviction.[4]
Ireland
North America
To be completed
gollark: Int8 apparently causes it to just output random noise and I never got round to trying quantisation aware training for it.
gollark: It's quite strange that apparently BERT can be statically quantized without any extra training and retains decent accuracy but GPT-Neo emits nonsense going through the same process.
gollark: I was looking into quantization-aware training a while ago, but on the 125M model, and running that for a bit made it produce English-looking nonsense instead of random noise.
gollark: I think there's technically a way to swap bits of the model in and out of VRAM but it would still be quite slow.
gollark: You need a recent GPU with something like 16GB of VRAM.
References
- "BOU to adopt IOC World Bird List". British Ornithologists' Union. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
- "Farewell to IJFL". British Birds. 110: 76. February 2017.
- Carrington, Damian (2 August 2017). "'Incredible': night herons breed for first time in UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
- Anon (Winter 2018). "Birdcrime reveals persecution". Nature's Home. p. 38.
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