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Seabird researcher at Aarhus University. Endlessly fascinated by the diversity of life
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cow tools daily
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BRAND NEW Far Side from Gary Larson just dropped
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Marine Ornithology
about 1 month ago
New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By
@bennett-sophie.bsky.social
et al.
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...
#seabirds
#OpenAccess
#biologging
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology
about 1 month ago
1/ New study!
#Seabirds
are among the most threatened groups of birds globally, and a new study looked at how emerging technologies can be optimally harnessed in seabird monitoring. ➡️
www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring
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Rebecca R Helm
about 2 months ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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ICES - International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
about 2 months ago
📡 New insights for seabird monitoring New tech could reshape how we track seabird populations in a changing world. ✍️ New Editor’s Choice in
#IJMS
www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
👉 Read the paper
doi.org/10.1093/ices...
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New paper alert! How can new technologies improve seabid population monitoring? Output from a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference in Coimbra last year.
academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...
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Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/82/9/fsaf115/8261394
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Jeff Day
2 months ago
shoutout to this iNaturalist user who appears to be an ROV pilot in the gulf of mexico and posts occasional biological observations, including A GODDAMN TANINGIA ATTACKING THE ROBOT ARM OF THE ROV
www.inaturalist.org/observations...
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Dana Octopus-Squid (Taningia danae)
Dana Octopus-Squid from Golfo de México (Golfo de América) on August 24, 2025 at 06:43 PM by Daniel Godínez
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/308885877
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Just received copies of our forthcoming book on the seabirds of Greenland - in three languages! Official publication date 1 September.
www.carstenegevang.com/seabirdbook
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Paige Byerly, PhD
5 months ago
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite
@waterbirdsociety.bsky.social
papers I've ever handled as managing editor
#ornithology
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David Lea Kenney Wildlife Photography
7 months ago
Who wants some nightmare fuel? 😅. Caught this Gull swallowing a crab at just the right moment.
#ukwildlife
#seabirds
#birds
#birdphotography
#photography
#nature
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Richard K Broughton
8 months ago
Special Issue of
#BirdStudy
is now published: The impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on birds: part 1 10 papers (5
#OpenAccess
) plus Editorial on the impacts of
#birdflu
#HPAI
outbreak in Europe, Canada, Antarctica:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7...
#ornithology
#ukbirding
#seabirds
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Wild Justice
8 months ago
Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!
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Jonas Wisser
8 months ago
The Scottish have won the AI Wars.
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Auke-Florian 🪹
9 months ago
JUST OUT! 🚨 Time capsule birds' nests! 🪹 I'm proud to share our discovery of layers of vintage plastic in urban birds’ nests... going back decades in time! 👀 “You flip through these nests like through pages of a history book, uncovering the past.” 📚 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
#scicomm
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Carausius
9 months ago
Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻
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Kevin Anderson
9 months ago
I was asked for my view on the new paper from Jim Hansen "Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the United Nations & the Public Well-Informed?" My full quote is at:
climateuncensored.com/has-global-w...
Jim's paper is at:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Has Global Warming Accelerated – a short response to Hansen et al - Climate Uncensored
I was asked by Bob Berwyn of Inside Climate News for my thoughts on James Hansen and colleagues’ recent paper Global Warming Has Accelerated: Are the
https://climateuncensored.com/has-global-warming-accelerated-a-short-response-to-hansen-et-al/
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RSPB
9 months ago
How different birds would act on a first date...a thread. (From us to you this
#ValentinesDay
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Svenja Tidau
9 months ago
🧪 open letter by
@scurry.bsky.social
calling on the
@royalsociety.org
to stand up for its values & deal with the widespread concerns raised by Elon Musk's Fellowship 2 fellows have resigned…
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Martin George
11 months ago
Wisdom the Laysan Albatross is the oldest known wild bird and she recently laid a new egg at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in Hawaii. The announcement came via the United States Fish & Wildlife Service's social media on 3 December.
#Seabirds
www.forbes.com/sites/amanda...
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World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays Egg At Age 74
Wisdom the albatross returned to Midway Atoll with a new mate and her first egg in years. The long-lived seabird is still alive and is estimated to be 74 years old.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amandakooser/2024/12/03/worlds-oldest-known-wild-bird-lays-egg-at-age-74/
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The Waterbird Society
12 months ago
We're thankful to hear that Wisdom, the world's oldest banded bird, has returned to Midway Atoll for the breeding season AND has already laid an egg! At 74+ years old, Wisdom is changing our understanding of
#seabird
biology. Welcome back & congrats!
#ornithology
friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-s...
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Wisdom was sighted near her usual nest site on Kuaihelani (Midway Atoll) on November 26, 2024. Her new mate is now incubating their egg!
The oldest known banded bird in the wild, a Mōlī or Laysan albatross known as Wisdom and who is at least 74 years old, has once again mystified biologists. Being able to reproduce and develop an eg…
https://friendsofmidway.org/wisdom-was-sighted-near-her-usual-nest-site-on-kuaihelani-midway-atoll-on-november-25-2024-the-next-day-she-lays-an-egg/
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Chloe Cargill (She/Her)
12 months ago
👋I am an ECR
#seabirds
researcher! Currently a SUPER DTP
#PhD
student
@uniofaberdeen.bsky.social
studying kittiwake pop connectivity. Previously penguins, shearwaters. Active in science
#outreach
and
#STEM
, linking researchers, industry, educators, learners at
www.ukstem.uk
. PhULMaR info to follow.
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How do the two sibling species of murres/guillemots coexist in their zone of overlap? Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun explored this in our recent paper.
#seabirds
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Drivers of Interspecific Spatial Segregation in Two Closely‐Related Seabird Species at a Pan‐Atlantic Scale
Aim Ecologically similar species living in sympatry are expected to segregate to reduce the effects of competition where resources are limiting. Segregation from heterospecifics commonly occurs in s...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jbi.15042
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Our recent review paper outlines how climate change affects migration of Arctic fish,
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and marine mammals. There's still much we don't know ...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
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Frontiers | A review of climate change impacts on migration patterns of marine vertebrates in Arctic and Subarctic ecosystems
Climate change is impacting marine ecosystems throughout the circumpolar Arctic, altering seasonal habitats and the food bases for fishes, seabirds, and mari...
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1434549/full
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I guess it's time to reintroduce myself, with all the new people here. I'm Morten, professor of seabird ecology at Aarhus University. The key theme in my research is understanding the causes of population change. I mainly work on
#seabirds
in the Arctic and North Atlantic.
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This colour-ringed juvenile kittiwake was observed yesterday in Northern Jutland, Denmark. Can anybody help identify its origin?
#seabirds
about 1 year ago
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