New article out on #plastics in #fulmars. Thanks to my wonderful Master student & great colleagues in Norway & Iceland, as well as fishers in both countries, we now sit with a lot more knowledge about plastics in #seabirds in the North Atlantic. www.nina.no/english/Abou...

In our #NewPaper, we developed a minimally invasive test to detect the hidden harm from plastic ingestion in live #seabirds. By looking at proteins in the blood, we identified a biological signature of plastic-associated damage doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee....

A fascinating story, with some gorgeous artwork, too. #Seabirds

Variation in food availability affects the population age structure of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica in the Faroe Islands vist.ly/42u2s #JuvenileFishIndex #SeaBirds

🚨 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_...

As a #seabird #biologist, I know all to well how difficult it can be to deploy tracking devices that last long enough on the #bird! This new study uses 3D-printed clamp systems to deploy tracking devices on #seabirds. Read the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Massive wreck of #puffins #seabirds in France, Spain and Portugal after successive storms (same period as the 2014 event) All age classes founded: 1st winter, immature and adults

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

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

#biologging #research is booming - but do #loggers actually impact the birds? Yes, they do - depending on the mass and attachment location. If you work with biologging, you should read our latest publication seapop.no/en/2025/11/l... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds

Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣. See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪

🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨 Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣 Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology doi.org/10.1093/ices...

Older #stormies are close to fledge in Brittany, Western France, youngest are fluffy, and a few adults are still brooding their chick or incubating their egg #seabirds #stormpetrels

Using an automated recognition system to monitor endangered seabird breeding colonies 🌍 #Seabirds #AI #RecognitionSystems #Ecology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🍽️🐦 Proteomic studies reveals that #Seabirds with plastic in their stomachs had signs of neurodegenerative disease, kidney and liver disease as well as damage to the lining of the stomach ☠️While not always lethal, microplastics will undoubtedly have long-term effects on populations.

To protect wildlife as offshore wind grows, we need the best ecological data. Monash University researchers created a practical guide to seabird flight—how high, how fast & when they fly. 📄 Journal of Applied Ecology: bit.ly/4eXfqQw #Seabirds #ClimateAndNature

1st jumps of the oldest young guillemots at cap Frehel, Brittany

Hatching time for gulls in Brittany #TeamGull

NEW PAPER in #ornithology provides a tool to inspect connectivity of #seabirds and other marine megafauna in the #oceans: buff.ly/C2ZBHwD Tool is here: buff.ly/Mh64gTo

EDEC SA works for #CaboVerde govern and changed Brava street & port lights from yellow to strong white LED. A few days later >150 Cape Verde, Leach and WF #StormPetrels & Boyd's #shearwaters collisioned and died. Despite #ProjectoVito warned DNA, 3d later lights are on m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

History repeats itself

Albatross Chick Alert! 😍 The world's oldest known banded wild #bird, a Laysan Albatross affectionately known as Wisdom, is officially parent to another chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! @friendsofmidway.bsky.social

Fuck. #SpurnBirds

Lockwood et al. What the Cat Dragged in: Quantifying Prey Return Rates of Pet Cats (Felis catus) With Outdoor Access in the UK onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #CitizenScience

In France, gulls and gannets infected with different genotypes. In gannets, a single wave, but in gulls long and repeated outbreaks. Really interesting dive into the nitty gritty of the seabird outbreaks in Europe. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

5 years ago we learnt which Oystercatchers cross the Atlantic 🎂5️⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/2020/02/21/w... Then we learnt about the role of fathers: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/o... And discovered how migrancy/residency affects success: wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/w... #ornithology

Les Bretons en train de négocier avec @ignfrance.bsky.social 😆 Golfe de Bretagne

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

Avec l'accord de Marine Joumard, la fabuleuse illustratrice de "l'éthologie (presque) facile", j'ai eu envie de vous présenter les étapes de création de la couverture du livre. Et pour fuir les algos, je l'ai écrit sur MON BLOG (ET OUAIS): www.leniddepie.com/2025/02/07/u...

Je crois qu'il devient clair que nous, scientifiques, avons un rôle majeur à jouer pour former et informer les citoyens. Il faut plus de culture scientifique !

New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas @sosbangor.bsky.social

The researchers “investigated how breeding timing affects migratory strategies in the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), a trans-hemispheric migratory seabird with large temporal variation in the onset of breeding.” #Seabirds www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Paper alert 🚨🐦‍⬛📣 Here, we characterize the #plasticpollution present in #gull chicks stomachs... #seabirds #Barcelona @jnavarro.bsky.social @tmontal.bsky.social @odeigg.bsky.social SPOILER: sadly, all samples showed #microplastics...👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1st #stormies of the season with a Portuguese ring in #molene archipelago

here is the smallest egg of storm petrel ever recorded in the #Molene archipelago: about 16x13mm instead of 28x21mm! small eggs regularly seen in clutches of gulls or oystercatchers but not in #stormies

Catching guillemots and razorbills for GPS tracking at cap Frehel, Brittany #ailesmarines #MIGRATLANE

1st ringing session of #stormies in Molene archipelago: strange result... only 356 captures during 3 consecutive nights; mainly breeders, wandering prebreeders aged 2-3 years old were absent!

1st razorbill and guillemot chicks at cap Frehel, Brittany 🐣 not on the photo but one of the few briddled individuals (about 1% of the breeders are briddled

1st chicks yesterday for GBB and H Gulls at cap Frehel, Brittany in recent years always beetween 5 and 9 May, a few days earlier than before

les tridacs capistes ont le blues... merci Jean-Yves pour ces années à te côtoyer et à apprendre à tes côtés... kittikiwake!!!! ;o x.com/BretagneVivant…

Soutien aux scientifiques en procès le 30/11 pour avoir alerté sur la crise écologique ! - Signez la pétition !via @ChangeFrance chng.it/kLCqzQqX

2/2 ... leading to a highly unusual situation with only 90 #stormies mist-netted during 3 consecutive nights!

1/2 breeding success expected to be low or very low for #stormies in #Molene archipelago: abandonned eggs and dead chicks recorded, probably effect of warmer SST and additionnal impact of storm 'Patricia' with submersion of tens of breeding sites...

new longevity record for #stormies in #Molene archipelago: 1 mist-netted in 1989 and retrapped in 2023, 34 years since ringing and at least 36 years old! 😃

funny fact: a british or irish ringer still don't know that french (as well as spanish) rings on #stormies are above the knee... look carefully before fitting a ring😅 does anyone know bird 2780813?... also known as SE44879 ringed in July 2022 in #Molene archipelago

2/2 - and 1st chicks ringed, smelly fluffy #stormies 😃

1/2 - 494 #stormies mist-netted during 3 nights in #Molene archipelago: 1 Spanish ring, 1 Jersey, 1 British

#HPAI #avianinfluenza on the largest tern colony in Brittany, France ca 2500 breeding pairs sandwich, 150 common and 30 roseate terns mass mortality of chicks at various age, from hatching to fledging, as well as some adults