Good evening from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

Good news everybody! The Independent Planning Commission just REFUSED the bid to restart Redbank Power Station, noting unacceptable negative impacts on native flora and fauna. Common Sense prevails! www.ipcn.nsw.gov.au/cases/restar...

Good morning!

Good morning from #BritishColumbia if you zoom in you can see the dorsal of a bull transient killer whale

Good evening from Hartley Bay #BritishColumbia

Cracker of a waterfall on the #britishcolumbia central coast 🇨🇦

Good morning!

Estuary goodness on the #britishcolumbia central coast

Steller sea lions in the beautiful Pacific Northwest #britishcolumbia #Canada

In Singleton to address the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding a proposal to clear half a million hectares of woodlands in Western NSW, intended as biomass feedstock for Redbank Power Station. In my professional opinion this will push embattled outback flora and fauna closer to extinction

New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Talk about a long-term study! The dataset for our fresh-off-the-press survival paper on Leach's storm-petrel was started before most of the authors were even born! #seabirds #itsnevertoolatetostartalongtermstudy doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Little Corellas against flag flying. #AusBirds #Cockatoos

Pretty good day at sea in Bass Strait with some nice #seabirds and a few Antarctic Minke #Whales among other cetaceans. 🐋 🐦

Crocs are in! #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #albatross #MidwayAtoll

All the way across the sky!

Our new paper (early view out now!) details an unexpected triangular pattern of migration for Crested Auklets. 95% of our tagged birds spent time in the Chukchi Sea and Sea of Okhotsk before returning to their nesting site. Is it time to re-write the distribution maps? 🧪🐧🦑 doi.org/10.1093/orni...

New #seabird paper by @gannetguy.bsky.social et al. finds "...discrete areas of co-occurring prey consumption by seabirds and fishing effort..." academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

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Third paper from our #Seabird Journal #37 - @bennett-sophie.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social 📄📘 "Growth of seaweed species on GLS logger attachments" (short note) 🌱⌚ Check it out here! -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

An obligate nocturnal foraging seabird: the Swallow-tailed Gull. Happy to have been part of Sebastian Cruz’s research on this topic: www.marineornithology.org/article?rn=1... #seabirds #gulls #Galapagos 🇪🇨

Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

Ok #superseabirdsunday, I'll play! Here are some northern #fulmars doing what they do best at the flow edge of Admiralty Inlet in #Nunavut #Arctic #Canada

Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

Cape Barren Geese seem pretty smart…

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Really important read about the extinction of experience among ecologists - and the barriers to doing fieldwork - both in teaching & research. @kevinjgaston.bsky.social Likely to hinder our efforts to address the biodiversity crisis doi.org/10.1016/j.tr... 🌏🧪

In 2016 when I started working intensively on orange-bellied parrots there were only 3 females & 14 males left in the wild - today there’s many more. Makes me so happy seeing their busy little flocks these days 🤩🦜🪶🧪

A day late to #throwbackThursday so enjoy a little end of the week cuteness from this incredibly cuddly Helena gum moth, Austrocaligula helena. #wildAus #TeamMoth 🌏 Photo taken on Wandergarup, Bibbulmun Noongar Country

Yet another proof that @elsevierconnect.bsky.social has given up on the quality of all forms of editorial work. There's obviously no copy editing anymore. So, what are we really paying for with subscription-/open access fees??

Last night I watched Australian Flatback Turtles nesting under a full moon in the Pilbara. What a great experience! #WildOz #SeaTurtles

A very young Bridled Tern chick. It’s a wonder how seabirds manage in the extreme heat of the islands off the Pilbara #WildOz #Australia #Seabirds

Stilt Sandpipers foraging up in the Canadian #Arctic #Canada #Shorebirds

My PhD thesis has been published! pub.uni-bielefeld.de/record/2993613 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Throwback to my time in the Canadian Arctic. This was a good day! Semipalmated Plover chick still fuzzy on Herschel Island, #Yukon #Shorebirds #WildCanada

Wisdom (Laysan Albatross on Midway Atoll (Papahānaumokuākea) - the oldest known wild bird), European Storm-petrels (Skomer Island, Wales), Polar Bear on ice floe (NWT, Canada), frolicking humpback whales in Gwaii Haanas (Haida Gwaii), Pronghorn Antelope (Montana)

Please follow and retweet this starterpack if you're mad about #seabirds 🐧🧪🌍 go.bsky.app/MPUTnm

This pair of Snowy Sheathbills (Chionis albus) was one of the last images I posted on X before moving to Bluesky. I thought it was very appropriate. Their wings are forming an X and they are flying away. 😄 #BirdingAntarctica #birds #birding #seabirds #antarctica

Mind the #shark #seabirds

Blue Petrel (Halobaena caerulea). Small, fast, erratic flyers so tough to get a bead on them. Size, colouration & pattern like a prion but separated by white tail end. All #prions have black at the end of the tail. #birds #pelagicbirding #birding #petrels #seabirds #BirdingSouthAtlantic

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Mortality of Elephant Seals, pengiuns, and albatross in the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelago confirmed as HPAI. This constitutes a substantial range expansion for the virus. Looking forward to seeing the genome sequences. 👉 scar.org/library-data...

Happy Tuesday! Fork-tailed Storm-petrel chick on northern #VancouverIsland #Canada #Seabirds

After a big day of #seabird transects in Bass Strait #Australia we managed to get a good look at some stunning rock formations around Wilson’s Promontory! An excellent #SeabirdSaturday #WildOz

@martinemaron.bsky.social at #ESAus2024: Australia is a global biodiversity loss hotspot. Half a million hectares of habitat is cleared in Qld each yr by destructive chain clearing (invented in Qld.) 180k ha of remnant old-growth! We need to halt illegal clearing & have a panel to oversee it.

@drdave.bsky.social ponders the rare (or is it not rare?) ecological interactions we can garner from machine-based monitoring data. ‘The more u look, the more u find.’ Billions of images & 1000s of yrs of acoustic recordings made every yr. Let’s collaborate & use treasure troves of data #ESAus2024