Encountering this godwit always makes me think about the changes we have both seen in the 29 years since we first met, especially the planting of non-native trees all over Iceland wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/06/18/i...

We're hiring 🧪🌍 Two amazing senior science opportunities in Northern Ireland Seabird Scientist: Tagging, tracking and monitoring to inform marine policy in NI tinyurl.com/yeuw5znd Conservation Scientist: Restoration of key habitats and priority species tinyurl.com/4rj43dfp

📢 BOU COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN ➡️ Awards Nominations Committee ➡️ Engagement Committee ➡️ IBIS Management Committee ➡️ Meetings Committee ➡️ Records Committee Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the... #ornithology 🪶

The Seabird Monitoring Programmes' breeding seabird data submission deadline is fast approaching - have you submitted your data!? #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Exciting news! We’re planning the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31, and have met with @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social and @birdsinwales.bsky.social to discuss how we can work together on what we hope will be the most productive Atlas yet. #Ornithology #UKBirding

When your 11 year old asks his scientist mum for help with his science homework and gets a much more detailed explanation than he bargained for, because using the right type of graph for the right type of data is one of mum's favourite topics...

Productivity 🐣 of gannets that have survived #avianflu does not differ from those that have never been infected - BUT productivity since the 2022 HPAI outbreak is worryingly low. New paper in IBIS @bou.org.uk 👇 #seabirds #hpai #wildlifedisease @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣 Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology

@freddiemckendrick.bsky.social has prepared your next coffee break paper read (you're welcome)

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶

🚨New paper alert (2nd one in as many days!) Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets

🚨New paper alert! Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring

Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻 Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices... Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... #seabirds #ornithology

New job alert: An amazing opportunity - our International science team are hiring for a 2yr position (initially) for an experienced scientist to work on tropical forest conservation 🌍🧪 Full details here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Nick Williams/RSPB

We're looking for a new postdoc on our new BBSCR grant (Graham Taylor/Tim Guilford/Cait Newport). See link below! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Take a look at the programme for our 2026 Annual Conference in Northampton! ➡️ www.bto.org/BTOConfe... From enigmatic Nightjars & disappearing Blackbirds to adventures with seabirds, the programme is packed with inspiring talks from BTO staff & special guests. 🐦 Book your place! #Ornithology

Hey you. Wanna apply for a fellowship on collections? the AHRC Early career fellowships in cultural & heritage institutions are open! The Natural History Museum priorities are below. If you wanna talk birds, hit me up. Collectors, colonialism, Canada, Australia & more www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Fully funded PhD working on insectivorous bird declines with a broad range of stakeholders. Starting ASAP #ornithology #zoology #biodiversity #science #ecology www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

📣 Nominations for this year's round of @bou.org.uk awards are currently OPEN! Your chance to recognise those key people in #ornithology 👏 Find out more and make your nominations here: bou.org.uk/about-the-bo... 📆 Deadline 15th Sept 2025 1/5

These two studies do not contradict each other but reinforce the desperate need to get strongly regulated and strictly enforced MPAs in place - not just boxes on a map with little effect

How is that possible? Quite simple - the second paper only looks at a small subset of strictly regulated MPAs. They have good enforcement, and may never had any fishing in the first place - so very little occurs there now

The second paper finds very little industrial fishing in the highly regulated and strictly protected MPAs: buff.ly/HYHfwwh

The first paper finds a lot of industrial fishing in all coastal MPAs, which is alarming because there does not seem to be much protection at all: buff.ly/S9IIg0t

NEW PAPERS in #conservation that seem to contradict each other about whether marine protected areas (MPAs) effectively reduce industrial fishing

Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

This year, we’ll also be presenting a BTO Award of £500 for the best work in the show that celebrates the wonder of birds. 📆 Submissions are online only and close on Friday 22 August 2025 at 12 noon. 🎨 Preening Black-headed Gulls by Ben Woodhams.

Attention wildlife artists! 🎨 🪶 Last chance to submit your work for the Society of Wildlife Artists 62nd Annual Exhibition: The Natural Eye 2025! Sign up➡️ www.mallgalleries.or... 🎨 Gannets around the Bass by Kittie Jones.

💰 RESEARCH GRANTS & CAREER DEVELOPMENT BURSARIES 💰 Applications are OPEN for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries. Find out more now: Grants ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/s... Bursaries ➡️ bou.org.uk/funding/c... DEADLINE 31 Oct 2025 ⌛ #ornithology 🪶

Want to join our friendly and supportive #marine #science team @rspbscience.bsky.social? #conservationjobs for a scientist to provide scientific advice and contribute to applied #research affecting real world decisions about marine development and #seabird #conservation. shorturl.at/kdthM

The amazing @heyjooode.bsky.social is now ~90 miles into the 108-mile Pennine Spine race, which started on Saturday morning in the snow (>50% of participants have already dropped out), raising money for mountain rescue equipment. To give her a fundraising boost see www.justgiving.com/page/cro-win...

As the year ends, it was great to see four CEOs from BTO, RSPB, JNCC and WWT find the time to reflect on 2024 and share their ambitions to do even more, together, for nature in the coming year ahead! 🐦🌍 #Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @jncc-ceo.bsky.social

Common Guillemots suffered catastrophic losses following a marine heat wave in 2015 and 2016, and may have permanently altered northern Pacific ecosystem www.science.org/content/arti... #ornithology #seabirds

There's still room in this seabirder starterpack go.bsky.app/MPUTnm - please reskeet and let me know if you'd like to be included on this starterpack

🔈 ANNOUNCING! BOU Summer Placement Scheme Financially supporting undergraduate students to carry out summer #ornithology research placements Applications open Jan 2025 More details: bou.org.uk/funding/s...#ornithology 🪶

PhD opportunity with a brilliant team of supervisors including my fab colleague @heyjooode.bsky.social for someone who likes seabirds and data science - whoever gets this will develop a very employable skillset!

The Marine & Freshwater Research Institute in Iceland seeks a PhD student (funded 4 yr position) to research bycatch of #marinemammals & #seabirds in Icelandic fisheries (with some cross over with us here at SLU on EU projects on bycatch of sensitive species). 🐟🧪🦑🌎 www.hafogvatn.is/en/about/new...

JOB VACANCIES! We're seeking 3 Conservation Scientists to join our friendly team of #seabirders at the RSPB. We're an inclusive team where everyone is welcome. DEADLINE: Friday 3rd January. #conservationjobs #ornithology #seabirds #science Details: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Welcome to my Bluesky account. For my first post I'd like to share this wonderful article written by Paul del Giorgio and shared with me earlier this week by @odocokate.bsky.social, who described it as a "scientific hug". I think this should be required reading for all scientists. shorturl.at/hXbGf