Laura Shearer
@seabirdshearer.bsky.social
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Seabird Scientist and Coastal Reserves Manager on Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean
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Jeff White
8 months ago
Steeple Jason Island. Home to the largest Black-browed Albatross colony in the world. I spent a week in March sampling albatrosses, penguins, giant petrels, shags, and more as part of our work to understand the dynamics of HPAI in the Falklands seabird community
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Red footed boobies do not currently nest on mainland Ascension but this season we have seen significantly more around the Letterbox NR... maybe in the next few years... ๐ค
#SuperSeabirdSunday
8 months ago
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Easter weekend spent
#SCUBA
diving on Ascension Island. Loads of fry around, these pics were taken just as we were leaving the water...
8 months ago
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One of my favourite things is getting others involved in our seabird research... here's a juvenile masked booby learning about drone surveys
#education
#seabirds
9 months ago
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BirdLife Marine
9 months ago
Tracking Ascension Islandโs seabirds across borders: Learn how our Darwin+ project will help us understand how seabirds & fisheries overlap in the High Seas ๐ Led by Ascension Island Gov with
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
, GFW, MMO &
@cefasgovuk.bsky.social
www.seabirdtracking.org/tracking-asc...
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Tracking Ascension Island's seabirds across borders - Seabird Tracking Database
Protected areas are a vital tool for safeguarding marine wildlife, but seabirds and other marine species often travel beyond these havens.
https://www.seabirdtracking.org/tracking-ascension-islands-seabirds-across-borders/
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Robert Boessenecker, Dr. of Whaleontology โข๏ธ
9 months ago
New pub: beautiful new ~35 myo skull of a flightless plotopterid bird (possibly Klallamornis) described from Washington state. Acid prepared! And big - 28 cm long! Same rock unit as some of the oldest known baleen whales on earth. Discovered by Jim Goedert.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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It's been a delight to monitor this brown noddy nest! When we checked it out yesterday, it had already fledged- they grow so quick! โบ๏ธ
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