New paper alert: Plumage aberration on a Razorbill by Danial Oliker, Tony Diamond, and @heathermajor.bsky.social. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...

Thousands of seabirds dying on western Europe’s coasts Puffins, guillemots and razorbills are being washed up dead or dying on Europe’s Atlantic coast in what scientists call a ‘wreck’ www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma... 🦑 🧪 🌍️

Extremely happy that my Master's thesis is published! Thank you @mariemrouyer.bsky.social and @ana-sl-rodrigues.bsky.social for your guidance, as well as thanks to all the co-authors!

New paper from PhD candidate Sarah Durham using IPMs found that "specific warming-related factors, such as summer length and winter sea surface temperature anomalies have negatively impacted ATPU (Atlantic Puffin) and RAZO (Razorbill) demographic rates". 🪶🧪🦑 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets. The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is… theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...

Check out this blog post about ALAR graduate student Amanda's research! nsnt.ca/blog/underst...

Check out the newest paper from our lab! 🧪🦑🪶

Warming oceans are having widespread and often negative effects on migratory seabirds, new research involving UKCEH shows. The study compared seasonal sea surface temperatures with seabird numbers to quantify effects on reproduction, survival & population trends. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪1/

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

New paper assessing the use of seabird diet data into fisheries stock assessment. We found that the integration of predator (i.e., seabird) diet data into an assessment model can improve assessment outcomes by filling in critical data gaps where appropriate. 🧪🪶🦑 doi.org/10.1016/j.fi...

🪶Diet diversity across northern hemisphere ecosystems affects seabird responses to climate change, with breeding productivity declining in the Arctic and North Atlantic but not in the Pacific from 1963 to 2020. 👉Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

New paper!! Geolocator error decreases with an increase in the number of days of data. By @bennett-sophie.bsky.social et al. www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_... #seabirds #OpenAccess #biologging

New paper alert: Behavioral response of Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica to marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Maine, USA: A webcam study. By Julie Wallace et al. #seabirds #OpenAccess #HeatWaves www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

New paper alert! How can new technologies improve seabid population monitoring? Output from a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference in Coimbra last year. academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

New post at ecolightsforseabirds website! Pufflings navigating the lit night About a recent study by @tbrownbirds.bsky.social on the Atlantic Puffin ecolightsforseabirds.weebly.com/news/pufflin... #ornithology #seabirds

New @adriftlab.bsky.social paper in Emu-Austral Ornithology with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social on the age of first return of Sable Shearwaters #seabirds #ornithology 🪶🧪 doi.org/10.1080/0158...

I've watched the first 5 episodes and they are great. You should watch them and if you watch the 6th you might just see me!

Heads up Canada folks. My mug and dulcet tones are likely to grace the CBC tomorrow, talking about the global plastics treaty, and our research in Nunatsiavut (and plastics generally)

So excited to share our massive review on #alienspecies, now published! It was an honor to collaborate with a team of 65 authors on this project. We show how #biologicalinvasions are accelerating globally and what we still need to learn to halt them. 👾 #BiologicalReviews #Ecology #IPBES

Long term monitoring is essential to understanding seabird populations - especially in the context of climate change. A 68-year study on Leach’s storm-petrels showed that survival is inversely related to the AMO index #Seabirds #Ornithology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

MSc candidate and current field lead at Machias Seal Island spoke with Khalil Aktar on CBC Information Morning this morning about the 33-year old puffin captured on July 8th. You can listen here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... 🧪🦑🪶

We haven't done a full check, but we might have captured the oldest puffin on Machias Seal Island. While the longevity record for Atlantic Puffin is 45 years (from Iceland), the North American record is 33 years. Last night we captured a bird banded as a chick in 1992, making it 33!🧪🪶

Shape-Shifting Shorebirds: How Wing Length Is Responding to a Warming World We’re excited to share the publication of a new paper in Ecography, led by PhD candidate Sara Ryding (Deakin University, collaboration with Matt Symonds Lab), which explores how climate change may be reshaping the…

After years of seeing the faded plastic band on this puffin and being unable to re-sight it, we finally re-captured it and replaced its bands. This bird was first banded as chick in 1996 making it 29 years old (!) and among the oldest in our records. 🦑🪶🧪

Seabirds are our compass!🌊 Did you know the largest High Seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) outside Antarctica was identified from seabird tracking data?🌍 The NACES MPA is used by up to five million birds, such as Arctic Tern and Atlantic Puffin. Learn more👉 www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies...

Weather is getting warmer and our work is ramping up. First puffin chicks hatched this weekend! The colony is noisy with the peeps of chicks (some being described as sounding like tea kettles). 🦑🪶🐧🧪

NEW PAPER relevant for #ornithology provides guidance how to interpret #bioacoustics indices to characterize populations such as #seabirds. Paper is here: buff.ly/phErViS ShinyApp is here: buff.ly/IechtSX

First Razorbill chicks have hatched! This is a little later than the last three years (first chicks hatched in the last week of May), right on the average for the last 10 years, and a full 2 weeks earlier than 1995-2004! 🪶🦑

Systematic assessment of the increasing presence of white sharks in Atlantic Canadian waters www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

Expanded Marine Protections Around South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Take Effect Major move will help region’s rich biodiversity: Almost half a million square kilometers of ocean is now closed to fishing www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/research-... 🦑🧪🌎

Another week has flown by, highlights include warbler fallout (!), resightings, adult puffin and razorbill banding, getting our last research blind built (its a bit wonky but safe and will work for the time being), and the start of tourist season. 🦑🪶

Excellent, epic review of HPAI H5N1! 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Week one is done! Our first week was spent getting things set-up and training/orienting new crew members. We've also been banding adult puffins and Razorbills, checking our productivity nests, and re-sighting. If that's not enough we retrieved our first GLS logger of the season! 🐧🦑🧪

Deployed the Machias Seal Island crew yesterday. Looking forward to a great summer of field research focused on responses to seabirds to ocean warming. 🐧🧪🦑

Here is our latest paper on plastic debris in herring gulls in the St. Lawrence led by Sofia Higgs. We found that plastic occurrence is linked to breeding stage. Thanks to Christina Petalas, @movementecology.bsky.social and Jennifer Provencher authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EHn,as...

Please share: (competitive) PhD funding in Strasbourg (France) to work on 🐧🔥: Physiological and reproductive consequences of ‘warm’ environmental conditions on land in a sub-polar penguin species Fieldwork in Crozet 🇹🇫 is forecasted (pending on HPAI situation) amethis3.unistra.fr/amethis-clie...

I want to take a minute and highlight the non-academic work that graduate students in ALAR are helping to organize and lead. We are so lucky to have you as part of our lab and community. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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

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 paper on #Puffling growth rate models in Journal of Marine Ornithology @marineorno.bsky.social 🐧📏 (Photo: Bob Shand) - www.marineornithology.org/article?rn=1...

As well as his perspective as an entomologist who studies pollinators and food security, Bobiwash provides suggestions for scientists who want to integrate Indigenous perspectives in their work. news.umanitoba.ca/why-are-poll...

@katharinehayhoe.com probably knows all about this, but the rest of us, particularly those writing in the “climate space” ought to pay attention. eos.org/opinions/whe...

Sandeels vs the EU: how the puffin’s favourite food sparked first post-Brexit courtroom trade battle

NEW PAPER in #ornithology examines the effect of winter storms on #seabirds, and suggests that #puffins are less affected by storminess than other auks: https://buff.ly/3Wo400p

Our paper, "Breeding Ammospiza nelsoni (Nelson’s Sparrow) exploits both saltmarsh and hayfields in northern habitats" is now fully available online in @amornith.bsky.social's journal "Ornithology" #OpenAccess Read it here 👉 academic.oup.com/condor/advan...

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

My youngest has been questioning Santa. Her test was to ask for something only Santa could give (something that can’t be bought), snow. This is what it looks like outside today. Christmas magic is back for at least one more year.

New Brunswick's acting chief medical officer of health, Dr. Yves Léger, is encouraging people to mask "if going out in public", given spikes in whooping cough, COVID, flu, and RSV. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...