What to eat when far from home? A vagrant seabird selects novel but analogous prey | http://www.marineorn... | Marine Ornithology | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

This month’s blog dives into underwater cables in the German North Sea. Using EMODnet data and R, I mapped telecom & power cables, exploring, cleaning, and visualizing the data to reveal these hidden seafloor infrastructures. #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis #DataVisualization #cables #Rmaps

Using lightweight bird-borne cameras, scientists have captured unique footage of Indian Ocean seabirds speeding just above the waves to catch flying fish. Dr Ruth Dunn (@ruthedunn.bsky.social) of @lec-reefs.bsky.social is lead author of the study. 📰: https://tinyurl.com/yezeyxu2

In this post, we'll explore oil and gas infrastructure in the German North Sea. Using EMODnet geospatial data to map offshore installations and pipelines, as well as focusing on a site near the ecologically sensitive Borkum Reef, revealing why recent projects there have sparked environmental concern

Decision relating to the #BritishList Great-tailed Grackle Quiscalus mexicanus has been added to Category E bou.org.uk/british-l...#BritishList The British List stands at 640 species #ornithology

NEW PAPER: Same-sex partnerships in birds: a review of the current literature and a call for more data. ➡️ vist.ly/3n99bk6 #ornithology #birds #same-sexbehaviour #review #partnerships @tashgillies.bsky.social @katrina-siddiqi.bsky.social Illustration: @bertillemohring.bsky.social

Curious about mapping offshore wind farms with R? This month, we explore EMODnet data from the German North Sea, create maps with ggplot2, and track wind farm growth before 2016. Perfect if you're into data, maps, or the ocean. #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis #DataVisualization #OWF

🪶 Seabird scientists & managers! 🌊 Propose a symposium or workshop for #WSC4: "Wings of Adaptation: Seabirds in a Changing Climate." Submit a 1-page summary by 01 August 2025. 🔗 Details on our website bit.ly/4e6wQdc #Seabirds #ClimateChange #Ornithology #WSC2025

🐦 Why are five booby species showing up in the California Current Ecosystem? Using data from CalCOFI, eBird and more, Scripps Oceanography alumna and postdoc Tammy Russell uncovered the major shift. 🌊 Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh

Yellow-billed loon (**Gavia adamsii**) in our ship surveys!! 🤩 #ornithology #shipsurveys #sas

In this month's blog post, I demonstrate how to visualize shipping traffic data using R. The tutorial covers downloading the dataset from EMODnet, performing exploratory data analysis, and creating a map using ggplot2. #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis #DataVisualization #ShippingTraffic

La pesca de arrastre es de las mayores salvajadas que hemos inventao

‘It’s like putting a whale in a blender’: the rise of deadly ship collisions in Chile

In this month's post, I’ll show you how to create a map using radiance data, often associated with light pollution, collected by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2025-0... #DataVisualization #Rstats #LightPollution #ggplot #DataScience

Now online in Journal of #Ornithology The role of nest-site interference competition with Cape Verde Shearwater in explaining breeding success of Red-billed Tropicbird on Raso Islet, Cape Verde archipelago Short Communication link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this blog post, I walk you through the process of visualizing sea surface temperature in R. From downloading the dataset to reading it and creating a map using ggplot. Check it out and share your thoughts! #DataVisualization #Rstats #SeaSurfaceTemperature #ggplot #DataScience

New post 🎉 In this post, I share considerations on journal scope and open access fees. This guide is aimed at those submitting their first paper to ornithological journals (includes links). #ornithology #research www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2025-0...

Lovely film about Tim Birkhead's long-term study of Guillemots on Skomer. More than half a century of study of this population: this kind of continuity critical for understanding vitality of these important populations. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... vimeo.com/1063680641/2...

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 🪶

🚨 Cruising for data: Defining the seabird community from vessels of opportunity in Canada’s Eastern Arctic by Carina Gjerdrum et al. #seabirds #AtSeaSurvey #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_1/53_...

The owl gull: exclusively nocturnal foraging by the Swallow-tailed Gull Creagrus furcatus in Galápagos. by Sebastian M. Cruz et al. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_1/53_...

In this blog post, I walk you through the process of visualizing Global Fishing Watch data in R, covering from downloading the dataset to reading it and creating a map using ggplot. www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2025-0... #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis

A Masked Booby grabbing a Flying Fish. Pretty awesome to watch them dive over and over. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #seabirds

In this blog post, I share a step-by-step guide on how to use raster data from distance to the coast. I walk you through the steps I used using the North German Sea as an example. #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2025-0...

Here are the steps I used for creating a bathymetric map in R. From where to download bathymetric data to how to read it and plot it in R. #Rstats #GeospatialAnalysis www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2025-0...

Fab talk on the Heerman's Gull in California; 95% nest on Isla Rasa in the Gulf of California but a small colony has appeared in the seaside town of Seaside, on Monterery Bay www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dUH... #Seabirds #Gulls

There are numerous tools available for analyzing tracking data, here I share a curated collection of my blog entries that focus specifically on movement analysis. I’ve also included a brief list of related papers. #animalmovement #biologging #tracking www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2024-1...

I’m currently involved in #seabirds at-sea monitoring program in Germany 🇩🇪, analyzing Digital Aerial Surveys #DAS I’m also involved in #tracking projects in Chile 🇨🇱 and Mexico 🇲🇽 If this was not confusing enough, I relocated to the UK 🇬🇧 and I am a freelancer for fieldwork and data analysis 😅☝️

When analyzing tracking data in R, you may want to explore the locations. R also offers interactive mapping features. In this post, I’ll walk you through the steps I used to create interactive maps using #tmap www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2024-1... #rstats #GIS #tracking

I'm migrating all my old posts to BlueSky. For this project, we analyzed heavy metals (Cd, Pb, and Hg) in adult and chick Blue-footed boobies." #ornithology #seabirds #heavymetals Here is what we found -> Read the link for the abstract and publication link: www.miriam-lerma.com/publications...

On the most remote island in Mexico #revillagigedo, we studied the isotopic niche of red-footed and masked boobies. This is what we found: "Variations in inter‐specific and sex‐related niche partitioning in pelagic boobies during their annual cycle" t.co/ZPVFbxmvAt #seabirds 🇲🇽 #Mexico

For this project, we studied sexual segregation in foraging in relation to the breeding stage in masked boobies by simultaneously tracking incubating and chick-rearing birds. Abstract and link: www.miriam-lerma.com/publications... #seabirds #Chile

Estoy migrando mis post a BlueSky. Excelente oportunidad para empezar de cero. En este proyecto, estudiamos la ecología de alimentación del Kena en Rapa Nui Para el resumen y enlace: www.miriam-lerma.com/publications... #investigacion #avesmarinas

I'm migrating all my old posts from my publications to BlueSky. A great chance to start fresh! For this project back in Mexico, we analyzed Zn in Blue-footed boobies, comparing eggs, chicks, females, and males. Here are the abstract and the link: www.miriam-lerma.com/publications... #seabirds

When I was still living in Sinaloa, I followed the reproduction and assessed the nutritional status of blue-footed boobies, want to see what we found? #seabirds #research #tropical See our publication : t.co/pQ9IKHbmii

Pingüinos de Humboldt del Norte de Chile: - estrés fisiológico:♀️= ♂️, - comportamiento alimenticio ♀️= ♂️, - buceo♂️>♀️ ! #aves #investigacion #Chile #pinguinos Mira nuestra publicacion aqui: t.co/dIh1tehXGr

My new blog post includes calculating the distance between points and making a map to show relevant distances using R. #rstats #ggplot2 Check it out at: www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2024-0...

When studying movement of animals we can have some gaps. In my new blogpost, I share a function I created in R to interpolate the data to fill those gaps. I also share link to other packages that also do the job. Check the post here: www.miriam-lerma.com/posts/2024-0... #rstats #seabirds

Certain locations need to be excluded when conducting spatial analyses, such as those near the nests. In this blog post, I share how I create a buffer in R #rstats to remove these locations. t.co/2YC6tkI3un

When tracking animals, there may be times when they enter areas with no reception. In this post, I’ll walk you through the steps I used to determine whether trips are complete or incomplete. lnkd.in/eAgz9rQE

How far is it? When studying animal movement, we often need to calculate the distance an animal covers from one location to another. In this post, I share the code I use to calculate the distance between consecutive locations. #seabirds #rstat #movementecology lnkd.in/eBC9vJwF