Little auks are small Arctic #seabirds that need to find enough food to raise their chicks in a rapidly changing ocean. This #RSOS paper studied their feeding behaviour over seven breeding seasons in Svalbard using GPS tracking, ocean data, and diet samples: doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Our new research shows that HPAI increased Northern Gannet mortality by a factor of ~6 and ~4 at two of the world’s largest colonies. We predict this impact will take almost two decades to recover from. #biologicalconservation #seabirds #hpai Full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2026.111887

Puffins are counted! The entire Puffin population has been counted on the Isle of May although it will be some time before we know the final result as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

How do we know our research results are REAL? We replicate them! Most folks agree but lament on how hard it is to publish these replications. My dearest gentle reader, lament no more! Delighted to unveil: Replication Studies, a new section of Behavioral Ecology 1/ academic.oup.com/beheco/artic...

Just released mori 0.1.0 on CRAN — a new R package for shared memory across processes. Parallel R no longer has to mean duplicating your dataset in every worker's RAM. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... 🧵 1/3

📃New paper in Ecology letters 🐦 I’m delighted to share the publication of the first paper from my #postdoc with @samanthacpatrick.bsky.social looking at life-history trade-offs and #senescence in black-browed #albatrosses from Kerguelen and Bird Island doi.org/10.1111/ele.70384

🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺 Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland. 👇 Read all about it here 👇 seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2

‼️🚨New Paper Alert! 🚨‼️ Using a decades-long dataset on puffins in the Faroe Islands, we show a change in population age structure and relate the increase in older birds/decrease in cohort sizes to (pre-)hatch year food availability. doi.org/10.1002/wlb3... @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social

🚨 In press: Seasonal variation in trophic niche and resource use in Great Black-backed Gulls by Langlois-Lopez et al. #seabirds #TeamGull #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...

Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5

Last but not least in our 2025 Isle of May breeding summary: Puffins nest in burrows, raising a single chick each summer before spending winter at sea. They take ~3 years to mature & can live for >30 years. 📊Breeding success: 0.75, above average 📉Adult survival: 82%, average #IsleOfMay #Seabirds

🌍 Find out about the surprising movements of Lesser Black-backed Gulls! BTO’s Senior Research Ecologist Daniel Johnston will talk about GPS tagging Lesser Black-backed Gulls on Lough Neagh at the Seabird Report Launch on 26th March Registration closes 19th March! 👇 bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport-2025

Delighted to see our paper out today in Proceedings B @royalsocietypublishing.org! We investigated how kittiwakes adapt their activity patterns across latitudes in response to the changing day-night cycle ☀️🌃 In short - we find that Arctic kittiwakes don't have bedtimes.. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧵1/4

This survey is looking for more participants outside of France and honestly looking at photos of forests for 10 minutes is a great way to procrastinate 🌳

🚨 new research! 🪽 "environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes" 🔍️ read it here: buff.ly/Zj9b7z0

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old! #stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social #ornithology

Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation! We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice. Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions! Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

!📃New paper📃! My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social ! Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #move

I’m excited to share our new paper in Ecology! Our 9‑year study across an urban–rural gradient shows native trees, especially oaks, boost blue tit breeding success. More native foliage supports more of the birds preferred prey and improves reproductive success. 📃 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #ornithology

✨New paper!✨ An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds doi.org/10.1002/2688... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social @seatrackscience.bsky.social @signecd.bsky.social @masden.bsky.social

One year field technician position to work on White Storks in Portugal. Deadline 3 Feb 2026! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402634

🚨NEW PAPER🚨🦊 The main thing I learned during my PhD is that foxes are smarter than me. We had gotten funding, we were collaborating with management authorities, we had the fancy collars... We were ready to investigate fox movement ecology. But we weren't catching any foxes. (1/5) 🧪🌍

Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...

Looking at pictures taken during fieldwork on the Isle of May, including this disgruntled fulmar, and excited to feel the warmth of the sun during longer days 😎

Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.

A new study in Marine Biology shows that black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) from two Norwegian colonies adopt distinctly different winter migration strategies. Researchers provide valuable insight for coastal conservation. 🔗 bit.ly/4pEyEya

Our latest blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada”, authored by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra. buff.ly/wMtD5JT

Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?! #seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU

New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds! We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮 #ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds

We have a preprint about modelling three-dimensional movement tracks, led by @njklappstein.bsky.social. The model takes the form of a step selection function and, just like in 2D, it can include directional persistence, attraction to targets, and habitat selection. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

NEW on #theBOUblog from Anya Shackleton-Jones A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland bou.org.uk/blog-shac...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

ECOCHANGE Research Associate #foodwebs #offshorewind #stableisotopes For more info see www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸 vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...

Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

🐦‍⬛ | Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a newly published study led by #EdNapier. The paper reveals that environmental conditions before the breeding season appear to have an impact on mate faithfulness. Full story ➡️ orlo.uk/Zfiqf #MustBeNapier

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

📢 JOB VACANCY Marine Ornithologist - Scottish Government Application deadline: 7 Nov shorturl.at/tXeHn #ornithology

Great PhD linking kittiwake tracking, energetics and changing oceans. Based @ukceh.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social collaborating with oceanographers at @unistrathclyde.bsky.social 🌊 Includes fieldwork, stats training and some very cool open-ended research questions. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Have you ever wondered about the disparities in #seabirds species at conferences? Are we talking about all the species? Wonder no more. We (@thelabandfield.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social) have the answer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And our paper is out! One curve to rule them all: a simple universal thermal performance curve for ectotherms that explains at least 2700 datasets across 39 phyla and myriad measures of performance. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...