Migration route of #seabirds (Swedish Caspian Terns) in Baltic Sea overlaps with operating/planned offshore wind farms. Mitigation is challenging, but harmonized marine spatial planning across national borders could minimise adverse ecological effects of OWF. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"It is never too late to start a long term monitoring survey, but it is always too early to stop it" I have start a ringing programme on European storm-petrels in 1997 and ring my 30,000 birds this week 😀 #seabirds

Lesser black-backed gulls avoid offshore wind farms - but not because they are attracted by the fishing boats outside of those windfarms New article on #seabirds #ornithology besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social, @judyshamounb.bsky.social

Record numbers of breeding Mediterranean Gulls in Germany 2026: almost 500 breeding pairs in northern Germany alone, with 329 pairs in the biggest colony - on a small island in River Elbe near Hamburg.

#Seabird surveys in German North Sea: Many Northern Fulmars around Dogger Bank in late May 2026. Read more: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...

#Seabird surveys in German North Sea: high abundance of Little Gulls in April 2026. Read more: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...

#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...

Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe? Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables? Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Wie geht es den Vögeln in Deutschland? Welche Arten nehmen zu, welche verschwinden? Der neue Bericht „Vögel in Deutschland – Bestandssituation 2025“ stellt die Bestandsveränderungen von in Deutschland brütenden und rastenden Vogelarten vor. Hier kostenlos lesen: www.dda-web.de/downloads/pu...

International bedeutendes Vorkommen von Gelbschnabeltauchern im Bereich der Doggerbank entdeckt www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/me... Es deutet sich an, dass hier ein wichtiges Frühjahrs-Rastgebiet vor dem Zug in das sibirische Brutgebiet entdeckt wurde. Foto des Tauchers: L. Ehmke

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

DDA #Seabird Monitoring Team discovered spring staging of White-billed Divers at Dogger Bank - 13 birds (and another 5 large divers) in late April 2025: www.dda-web.de/aktuelles/me...

🌊 Gefahr für unsere Meere: Der neue #FEP nimmt massive Lebensraumverluste geschützter Arten wie Trottellummen in Kauf, um Offshore-Windparks zu bauen. Das verstößt gegen Naturschutzrecht! Es braucht eine neue marine Raumordnung, die Schutz & Nutzung in Einklang bringt. 👉 www.nabu.de/natur-und-la...

Longevity in #seabirds: nearly 25-year-old Herring Gull Green AH75 (ringed as a chick on #Helgoland in July 2000) was spotted by Bernhard near Cuxhaven, Germany. Same place as in January 2024 and February 2023, but before it was last seen in 2004 (hidden for almost 19 years).

Now online in Journal of #ornithology OPEN ACCESS Urban life of an elusive species: population trends, movement patterns, foraging habitats, and prospecting in Mediterranean Gulls (Ichthyaetus melanocephalus) breeding in Hamburg, northern Germany link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Interesting #seabird: new telemetry study about #Medgull foraging flights and prospecting behaviour in urban colonies in and around Hamburg: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Old #seabird: More than 21 years after hatching in Hamburg: #Medgull male green AKJC recorded the 10th winter at Ciboure, SW France (6 January). In between seen in one of the three Hamburg breeding colonies in 11 years.

Das Wunder von Paris illustriert: Noch 2017 herrschte dicke Luft. Heute nur noch auf den größten Straßen. Der Grund: Hunderte Km neue Radwege, Tempo 30, der Wegfall zehntausender Parkplätze und die Sperrung des Zentrums für den Durchgangsverkehr. Wann finden wir in 🇩🇪 den Mut es Paris gleichzutun?

Happy to have contributed to a study that shows that wind farms jeopardize the conservation targets of a Marine Protected Area in the German North Sea. #loons www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Die CDU plant offenbar, die deutsche Wärmepumpenindustrie zu schreddern. Künftig kommen dann #Wärmepumpen wie Solarzellen nur noch aus China. Bis dahin importieren wir Flüssiggas von Donald Trump. So soll Deutschland also zukunftsfähig werden? www.focus.de/earth/report...

Sogar Seevogel-Hotspots sind bedroht! #DDA zeigt, wie sich der #Offshore-Ausbau in der deutschen Nordsee auf Seevögel auswirkt. Fazit: Die 🚦 will mit WindSeeG an falscher Stelle beschleunigen. Umweltstandards müssen erhalten bleiben! Das verlangt auch die EU mit REDIII: www.nabu.de/natur-und-la...

🚨 EU Commission challenges UK sandeel fishery closures 🚨 This is a direct threat to our struggling seabirds. Sandeels should end up in Puffling beaks, not be hoovered up for livestock. We're calling on the UK Government to stand firm. The closures must remain!

Offshore wind energy development is needed to balance the #ClimateCrisis - but it is a threat to biodiversity, including #seabirds. New maps are now available that show seabird #vulnerability in Norwegian waters, produced with SEAPOP data and by Norwegian Institute for Nature Research

Large-scale expansion of offshore wind farms is causing large-scale habitat loss for #seabirds in the North Sea, here the guillemot. Important study from Kiel University as a warning signal for the marine environment : link.springer.com/article/10.1...