We focus on the benefits to #seabirds of keeping #islands free of invasive non-native mammalian predators but removing invasive predators from islands or ideally using #biosecurity to prevent them reaching islands in the 1st place benefits the entire #ecosystem www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today is #WorldOceanDay ! 🌊 Seabirds navigate vast, predictable marine flyways – superhighways in the sky – across the open ocean, linking nations, ecosystems and hemispheres.🌏 Six marine flyways are used by more than 150 migratory seabird species.🗺️📍 Find out more👉 www.seabirdtracking.org

Cis folks - this is what I mean when I say allyship is having skin in the game.

Laurianne has joined our Leach's Storm-petrel research team! This summer she is conducting field research on Kent Island. In September she will begin a Master's degree, co-supervised by myself and Dr. Ingrid Pollet. Welcome to our team Laurianne! @ingridpollet.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible

It has been an honour to work with the long-term data set from Kent Isl. After a survival paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2710), here is a mate-switching paper. Huge thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social on this one! A third one is under review. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just a just days late for #WorldBeeDay, a swarm of bees circled our garden today!

Do you know of an inland or coastal Common Gull colony? Any abundance or productivity data on this under-monitored gull would be incredibly valuable for the @smp-seabirds.bsky.social #seabirds #ornithology #ScottishBirds

strom-eptrel , storm-eptrel, sotrm-peltre, storm-petrel!!! All those years working on storm-petrels and I still struggle to coordinate my fingers to type it correctly on the first try! #seabirds

What must the average lifespan of a seabird species be for it not to be considered long-lived? Asking for all those "long-lived seabirds" I read all the time! #seabirds

Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Watch our local organising committee preview what you can expect at WSC4, from albatrosses and shearwaters to little penguins, all within reach of Hobart. bit.ly/4vnwNBU WSC4 | Hobart, Australia | 7–11 September 2026 #WSC4 #MeetInAus

Rats.... the worst nightmare for any storm-petrel researchers. #seabirds

🚨 New paper: Comparing counts made from drone-based and boat-based photography for surveying Thick-billed murre cliff colonies. By Ewan MacDonnell, @halibirdnerd.bsky.social and @movementecology.bsky.social. #seabirds #drone #OpenAccess #survey www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...

🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺 Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland. 👇 Read all about it here 👇 seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2

I was honoured to join the @adriftlab.bsky.social for a field season on Lord Howe Island. Something that will stay with me forever. #seabirds

How many "Green Islands" are there in Newfoundland and Labrador that turn out to be Leach’s storm-petrel colonies?

‼️🚨New Paper Alert! 🚨‼️ Using a decades-long dataset on puffins in the Faroe Islands, we show a change in population age structure and relate the increase in older birds/decrease in cohort sizes to (pre-)hatch year food availability. doi.org/10.1002/wlb3... @kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social

🗞️❗ Another early release from Seabird #38❗🗞️ Scotwin et al. investigate feeding rate and breeding success in Atlantic puffins. Have a read here 👇: seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-1

New paper with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social in ES&T: We know Sable Shearwaters show measurable harm from plastic ingestion but this isn't just a story about one species. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Sable Shearwaters aren't an outlier—they're a preview. Chick maximum plastic loads rose from ~200 pieces in 2011 to ~900 in 2025. And the plastics treaty has stalled. More: adriftlab.org/news/the-can... 3/3 #ornithology #PlasticPollution #WildOz #seabirds

Attending #WSC2026 and have some spectacular seabird photos? 📸 Enter the Seabird Photo Contest below! ⬇️

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_...

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡🦆🦅 . 🗓️ Deadline within next 7 weeks (~25th of May). 🔗link: lnkd.in/eKgPNX2m info below!! 👇 #ornithology #biologging #birds #birdresearch #birdtracking

For #SuperSeabirdSunday why not answering this survey about tracking device failure. Thank you!

We would be grateful if you could take part in our 2026 Diversity and Inclusion survey 💙 Within The Seabird Group, we're tracking our progress and working to build a more diverse, inclusive community 👥 It takes just 5-10 minutes to complete ⏲️ Take the survey here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check it out @dmennill.bsky.social !

First papers from volume 54(1) of @marineorno.bsky.social are coming! Atlantic Puffin mortality along the Portuguese West Coast in early 2023. by Rute A. Costa et al. www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_... #seabirds #OpenAccess

For #SuperSeabirdSunday why not answering this survey about tracking device failure. Thank you!

You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆 Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆 Survey link is in our bio 🔗 If you have questions please email [email protected] 📧

Check out the new guidelines for Seabird. You can have your abstract in any language you want (in addition to the mandatory english one)! #seabirds

The AOS is providing Travel & Caregiver Grants to help defray expenses & accommodate various dependent-care needs to attend #AOS26 in Amherst, MA. **Applications due 3/15/26.** Travel: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/... Caregiver: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...

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-...

And….. submitted! Why does it always take so much energy to submit a manuscript. My current brain status:🪫 #seabirds

Issue #161 of our newsletter should have hit your inbox or doormat! 💌 We call for hosts for our 2027 conference, hear about an ancient storm petrel specimen and are updated on one of Europe's largest Sandwich tern colonies. 🎙️🐣

Discarded fishing hooks, lines, etc. are deadly for waterbirds. Although there's no US law, many state/local regulations require signs and recycling containers in fishing areas for discarding fishing line, etc. Contact your local Parks & Rec or state Fish & Wildlife for help in your area. 🌎 #birds

⚠️ There's just one week left to apply for both our Research Grants and Training Grants ⚠️ Deadline for both is 28th February! More details can be found on our website here: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

❗🐧👀 Two new "early-release" papers from the Seabird 38 journal are now available on our website 👀🐧❗ 1. Kühn et al. 2025 Group feeding of Northern Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis on the hydrozoan Sarsia princeps on Svalbard doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

Thank you to @thelabandfield.bsky.social and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social , @adriftlab.bsky.social for the engaging conversations! #seabirds

Kirsty Franklin – Seabird ecologist Last summer I led an all-female field team on Mousa, Shetland. We had been up all night waiting for our tagged bird to return, and at the end of a successful night, we were rewarded with a spectacular Aurora Borealis!

Thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social for his huge help on this one ! #seabirds

Two manuscripts were sent to co-authors this week. One manuscript was accepted today ! 🎉 One more meeting and then it's time to close the computer for 8 consecutive days !!!

As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛 ❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments) 👥: All welcome to apply 💲: Up to £500 📅: Deadline 28 Feb Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

It will be a travel and work in peace day. #SwissTrains

Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃 We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training! We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋 For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Deadline: 28 Feb

Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland

Can we communicate our reaserch in more fun and accessible ways? I loved working with Anna @btobirds.bsky.social on her fantastic comic illustrating our recent work using seabird poo to look at their diet! Find out more at www.bto.org/our-work/new... #ornithology #seabirds #SciArt

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project. Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour. drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

“There are signs seabird colonies are beginning to recover in Alderney after their numbers were devastated by avian flu, conservationists have said. “The Alderney Wildlife Trust (AWT) said the island's Northern Gannet colony had grown by 11% since 2023.” #Seabirds www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...