How does the offshore wind development in Norway affect seabirds and how do SEAPOP and SEATRACK respond to knowledge needs? Have a look at the recordings of our webinar (in Norwegian language) seapop.no/2025/10/havv...

Going west or going east? Wintering strategies impact population trends in Brünnich’s guillemots from Svalbard - work by the Norwegian Polar Institute #seabirds seapop.no/en/2025/10/d...

#Seabird monitoring used to happen with tally counters, binoculars and telescopes – but times are changing. #Drones and fixed #cameras have been implemented for monitoring in many national programs, also SEAPOP. Our latest publication sums up the advantages and challenges. seapop.no/en/2025/10/c...

SEAPOP launches new data products that show #seabird distribution, environmental value and vulnerability to offshore wind farms. Data can be downloaded free of charge in form of maps (raster or vector format) seapop.no/en/2025/08/n...

Our annual key-site monitoring report is out, with information about breeding success, changes in population numbers etc. per monitored colony. seapop.no/en/2025/07/r... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social & Norsk Polarinstitutt

Our annual pamphlet with a summary of last year's breeding season and updates about survival and other news from the Norwegian colonies is out (in Norwegian only). A shorter version in English is coming soon. #seabirds seapop.no/2025/06/ny-a...

Counting kittiwakes in Rørvik with @bksandercock.bsky.social. #Fieldwork for @seapop.bsky.social has started. #seabird #research @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

Using 40 years of data from Svalbard, our latest study shows that early break-up of sea ice due to #globalwarming contributes to making some of the islands safer for common eider ducks to breed, as Arctic foxes cannot reach them. seapop.no/en/2025/04/s...

SEATRACK got a new website with better functionality and better access to documents: seatrack.net Click yourself through and learn more about the non-breeding distribution of north-Atlantic seabirds! seapop.no/en/2024/12/n...

New report about seaweed harvesting on possible effects on #seabirds and #shorebirds from @ninadehnhard.bsky.social & colleagues at Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. GPS #tracking data from SEAPOP showed overlap in area use for some coastal seabird populations with areas that are trawled.

New article on #plastics in #faeces samples of shag chicks. 25 out of 36 samples contained microplastics > 100 µm; we found 17 particles per g dry mass and clear evidence for parental transfer of plastics. #seabirds #pollution @seapop.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every other year, SEAPOP organizes a seminar and gives a run-through the topics we are working with. The presentations of this years' seminar (in Norwegian) are now accessible here: seapop.no/2024/10/vell...

Stark viewing: before-and-after photographs showing dramatic change to Norway's coastlines as seabirds have vanished: www.theguardian.com/environment/... Rob Barrett and Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard @seapop.bsky.social Arcgis story map: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/0906... #birding #ecology

New study investigates the impact of multiple #threats ( #pollutants and #climate) to #seabirds and investigates causes of decline in great black-backed #gulls seapop.no/en/2024/09/m...

The fieldseason on Sklinna was a success also this year. Lots of data collected, lots of loggers deployed. Want to know more? - read my blog post: ninadehnhard.wordpress.com/2024/07/20/y... @seapop.bsky.social #seabirds #biotracking #fieldwork

GPS #biotracking of #shags on Sklinna done for this season. We got 59 of 60 trackers back. GPS & dive loggers help us identify important foraging areas, critical for marine spatial planning. #seabirds #mpa @seapop.bsky.social

#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø. Apply by 1st September. nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post... #jobs

Are you joining us in Asker 25-26 September to the SEAPOP Seminar? The title this year: Stille kyst - status og trusler for norske sjøfugl. The seminar will be in Norwegian. More info and link to registration: seapop.no/2024/06/velk...

Another encounter with #fishing nets that are killing #seabirds. We couldn't save the shag anymore, but the guillemot got to live. #fieldwork at Sklinna #Norway for @seapop.bsky.social

Kittiwake count in Rørvik. #Seabirds #fieldwork for NINA & @seapop.bsky.social. Looks like the #avianinfluenza outbreak last year had no major impact on this population #HPAI #H5N1

Several #seabird species, especially common guillemots and #puffins in the SEAPOP-colony Hornøya, are currently affected by an #oilspill. The source of the oil is unknown. Article in Norwegian - pictures speaking for themselves #pollution www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

Great #scicomm project led by my colleague Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard illustrating the dramatic declines of #seabird populations in Norway. The article is in Norwegian but the photos speak for themselves. www.nrk.no/trondelag/xl... #ornithology #birds

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

Fresh off the press: new study on winter-feeding and migratory strategies of Atlantic puffins and black-legged kittiwakes from Røst, Norway #seabirds #migration #stableisotopes link.springer.com/article/10.1...