A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

Yes, that's right! You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Absolutely this 👇

This lekking season, please don’t go out looking for Capercaillie. Instead, stay at home and watch them on the live dust bath camera at our Abernethy nature reserve! Tune in here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRR2... #LekItBe 🎥 Male Capercaillie at the dust bath

Anthropogenic solid waste is ubiquitous in bird nests in coastal multiple use protected areas | Marine Pollution Bulletin | www.sciencedirect.co... | #ornithology 🧪🪶 #seabirds #shorebirds

Our #CormorantCams are up and running to explore how our breeding Cormorants are doing on Sheep Island and Strangford Lough! Few sites in the UK and Ireland are consistently monitored for Cormorant productivity, so we’re excited to see what our nest cameras capture! 🌊📸 Find out more ⬇️ #ornithology

It's time to say goodbye until next winter to some of Northern Ireland's wetland wonders. Find out why NI is so special for this winter waterbird ⬇️ #ukbirding

⚠️ Passionate about making #ornithology inclusive and diverse? Join our team! We are looking for the next Equality and Diversity support officer to advance our work in ornithology. 🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the...#ornithology ⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025 🪶🧪 Please repost!

Relax in a local greenspace and make your birdwatching count with our new Birds in Greenspaces survey - for all experience levels, anywhere in NI! If you're in Derry-Londonderry we'd especially love your feedback to help us improve this programme. More here ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces-... #ukbirding

⚠️ Passionate about science communication? Join our team! We are looking for the next Social Media support officer 🔗 bou.org.uk/about-the... ⏰ Deadline 25 April 2025 Get in touch with our current officer if you have questions @natbzielonka.bsky.social #ornithology 🪶 Please repost!

"Dogs catch many types of wildlife and can injure or kill them. Their scent and droppings scare smaller animals. Then there’s the huge environmental cost of feeding these carnivores and the sheer quantity of their poo. We love our pet dogs, but they come with a very real cost." tinyurl.com/5btdthby

A good Friday afternoon read 📙 on how @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Seabird Tracking Database has changed the face of marine conservation! MPAs, bycatch, policy and more 🕊️📈 #Seabird #SeabirdTracking

Do you have hours of videos📹with animals? Speed up your watching by using BEHAVE - a user-friendly, open-source, free, zero-install tool for coding animal behaviour in video recordings! Try BEHAVE here: behave.claude-apps.com Read more: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The US Christian right's agenda is arriving on UK shores with alarming momentum. Over $50m from US Christian right foundations flowed into Europe between 2008-2017. Now, in 2025, these groups – emboldened by evangelism in the White House – are upping their game. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout ([email protected]) 🐦💍💛 (Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑) #Seabirds #IrishSea

The 2024 Northern Ireland Seabird Report by the @btobirds.bsky.social alongside a wonderful team of volunteers and conservation groups, gives an insightful look at seabird breeding trends in the area. The report underscores encouraging recoveries and worrying declines. bit.ly/41ZTcsx

NEW BLOG in #ornithology shows why we need dedicated people on #islands to count #seabirds - we can't do it from space: buff.ly/fmntPtk The corresponding paper is here: buff.ly/0D2gi1F

1/7 Variation between individuals is important as it determines how adaptable to change a population might be. Even generalist spp are often comprised of specialist individuals, but specialisation is often only studied across single traits which is limiting. #BOU2025 #ornithology #seabirds #ecology

🧵1/8 Welcome to #BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology, our annual conference. Over the next 3 days, we’ll be in-person in Nottingham, and here on Bluesky Follow the #BOU2025 for conference threads and to join in! #ornithology 🪶🧪

It's finally out. The migration of Long-tailed ducks from 3 Russian breeding sites. Is the observed decline in the Baltic because ducks are staying further north? Read to find out! doi.org/10.1002/ece3... #OpenAccess

1/ 🧵Bird songs and calls are an important way that people experience the natural world. They’re also one of the key means of surveying bird populations. In this #BOU2025 talk I will review @btobirds.bsky.social research to explore opportunities and challenges of #bioacoustics in #ornithology

1/6 Monitoring some #seabird species using observer-based methods is difficult, this can lead to infrequent data collection, or none at all Little data on populations= limited ability to understand how threats may impact these species #BOU2025

1/ We had a brilliant evening last Thursday at the launch of 2024’s #BTONISeabirdReport 🌊 We heard from fantastic speakers and celebrated the efforts of all of our invaluable #seabird counters this year Read on ⬇️🧵

🌊The Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2024 is out now! Published by @bto-ni.bsky.social, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the state of #seabirds in #NorthernIreland long-term.🐣 @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology #BTONISeabirdReport 🧵⬇️

1/ How did Northern Ireland’s breeding #seabirds fare in 2024? Thanks to mammoth monitoring efforts of volunteers, researchers, & organisations, we report annually on our current knowledge of NI's breeding seabirds. #BTONISeabirdReport #Ornithology Report here bit.ly/NISeabirdRep... Highlights⬇️🧵

Stable isotopes reveal synchronous primary flight feather moult pattern of Atlantic Puffins (Fratercula arctica) | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Two Senior Marine Ornithologist posts at the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government. Deadline for applications is 21/04/2025, 23:59 #seabirds #ornithology #renewables fa-evxn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Fieldwork for @bbs-birds.bsky.social starts next week! Whether it is out on surveys, or just a walk in the countryside, make sure to guard against tick bites! #TickAwarenessWeek

This Monday, we joined BTO Senior Research Ecologist Daniel & National Trust staff at Sheep Island to install nest cameras for monitoring Cormorants 🌍🌞 Very few sites in the UK & Ireland are monitored for Cormorant productivity so we can't wait to see what our cameras capture! 🌊📸 #seabirds

The astonishing story of one of the great icons of extinction - the Great Auk. Out now!

Sad to find this pristine 3cy Common Gull dead on my patch this morning. Reported to Defra for possible collection and testing for HPAI and to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring. Please report all dead birds you find to Defra/Daera AND to BirdTrack. #UKBirding

Any day now, ducklings will begin to appear, and we need your help to monitor them. We are asking for records of mallard broods anywhere in the UK this year to help us understand how many ducklings make it to adulthood. Submit your sightings here: citsci.org/projects/ducklingwatch Please share!

‘which came first, the pun, or the research project?’ *academics, head hung low, whispering* ‘the… the pun’

🔈 SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT NOW! #BOUasm25 | A day at the museum: collections-based ornithological research in a changing world | 18 Nov 2025 | Natural History Museum, London bou.org.uk/event/a-d...#BOUasm25 Deadline: 15 April #ornithology 🪶

A nice wee collaboration between myself and Ewan Weston tl;dr- please trim the self-amalgamating tape on your device attachments or small seaweed forests may grow!

👇 support your societies, publish in their journals!

Baby seabirds often mistake bits of trash for food. New research in the journal Science Advances shows that ingesting plastic can harm them in unseen ways. www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...

Early in the breeding season Cormorants are often seen on their nest "wing flapping" and this clip ends with "sky pointing". Great close views from a hide at Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #superseabirdsunday #cormorant

A graphic consequence of the mass birdfeeding industry. Sights like this were virtually unknown before aggressive marketing for more year-round feeding everywhere. Now feeders are main hotspots of disease transmission that causes Chaffinches to lose their legs. If a pesticide did this, we’d ban it.

There is also a nice accompanying gallery article in the @theguardian.com highlighting the photos submitted to project - unfortunately not credited to the Gulls Eating Stuff project though! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The White-bellied Storm-petrel trip also gave up one of two deployed GLS loggers. 1st ever track. Aust. to Chile (10K km) and down towards the Antarctica coast. Unprecedented?! So hard to access remote colonies with over 80 island-days available (2009-2025) but only 8 landings possible.#Seabirds 🪶

We’d love to see you at our Seabird Report Launch next week - whether you’re new to birds or a long-time seabird enthusiast. 📅 Thursday 27th March 🕐 6-8pm 📍 Bangor Castle 💷 Free! Book your place bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport2024 P.S. Spot the Brent Geese in the background! @smp-seabirds.bsky.social

Join the brilliant @bto-ni.bsky.social team for the launch of the 2024 Northern Ireland Seabird Report! Book your place ➡️ bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport2024 Plus it's free to attend. 😀 #Ornithology

Proud to share our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper published in Science Advances! We explored the sub-lethal impacts of plastic ingestion on birds using tools from medical research rarely applied in wildlife conservation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A bird might look and act outwardly healthy – but on the inside, ingested plastics are slowly wreaking havoc.

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the survival of migratory #seabirds (Arctic skuas) has decreased in the last decades, but is not related to large-scale ocean indices: www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

‼️ LESS THAN 1 WEEK TO REGISTER #BOU2025 | Frontiers in ornithology | 1 - 3 April 2025 | University of Nottingham, UK Registration deadline: 17 March (23:59 GMT) Programme & registration: bou.org.uk/event/fro...#BOU2025 #ornithology 🪶

Ever wondered what Manx Shearwaters eat? 'Course you have! Find out what the DNA reveals in this new paper in #Seabird 37.

The second paper from #Seabird 37, from our own @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social et al.! ✍️ "First description of Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus diet using DNA metabarcoding" 🐦🌊 Click on the link here to have a read ➡️ doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

Join the @bto-ni.bsky.social team at the launch of the #BTONISeabirdReport on Thursday 27 March at Bangor Castle. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport2024 #Ornithology