My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟 Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🐦✨ WSC4 Keynote Nominations Open! Share your vision for seabird conservation. Early-career & international voices encouraged! 📍WSC4 In-person & Hybrid: 7–11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 🔗 bit.ly/3Jv71c9 #WSC4 #SeabirdScience

See you tomorrow!! #seabirds

Can't make it to Hobart? Participate in the WSC4 Hybrid Day online! 🌍 Connect with global seabird experts and contribute to conservation's future. 🐧 📅 11 Sept 2026 (AEST) | 10 Sept 2026 (UTC) 🔗 bit.ly/4opYfet #WSC4 #HybridConference #MarineScience

🐦 Got questions about the 4th World Seabird Conference? Dive into the FAQ page for all the details — from abstracts to travel tips! worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4 #Seabirds #Conservation

Are you looking for a #postdoc? with #seabirds or #raptors? at the @mncn-csic.bsky.social & @csic.es? Please send me an email and consider applying for a #JldC fellowship #ornithology Requirements: completed PhD within the last 2 years & competitive CV. www.infosubvenciones.es/bdnstrans/GE...

Don't be shy, you will be working with great people! #seabirds

Omw to record some grebes I guess? Interesting work on who do we study when we study seabirds, @ingridpollet.bsky.social and colleagues: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Have you ever wondered about the disparities in #seabirds species at conferences? Are we talking about all the species? Wonder no more. We (@thelabandfield.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social) have the answer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

‘Some of the most remarkable creatures on the planet’ This summer a team from the RSPB travelled to North Rona – an uninhabited island about 44 miles north of Lewis – to survey one of Scotland’s most incredible birds: Leach’s Storm Petrel. 🌊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

Another day, another #auk. The Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is born black+fluffy, with several years before developing its bright red feet fully. These are associated with sexual maturity @2-4 y/o 👣 Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

You know the Laughing gull, but do you know the Laughing Razorbill? This one was encountered in Newfoundland in 2023. #seabirds #Auktober

"Did someone say.... euphausiid shrimp?" 👀 Crested Auklet to continue the #Auktober celebrations

By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩 This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣 We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐

8 months and 1 week since I submitted a manuscript to Wetlands Ecology and Management @springernature.com @springer.springernature.com. At least 4 weeks since they received reports from 3 reviewers. You'd think they would have a decision by now. Nope. Still waiting.

I've been remiss in celebrating #Auktober, so here are four delightful pics of the smollest one, the Least Auklet from Kiska Island, Alaska (where there are 1.2 million PAIRS in about 2 km sq). Bonus early PhD Alex for scale.

Website Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Websit... Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩 [Common tern image: Debs Allbrook] #seabirds #teamtern #WebManager

Newsletter/ Social Media Support position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Newsle... Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩 [White tern image: Hayley McLennan] #seabirds #teamtern #AssistantEditor

Social Media Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Social... Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩 [Humboldt penguin image: Ahmet Yüksek] #seabirds #penguins #SocialMedia

Come and have fun with me! #seabirds

Secretary position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Secret... Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩 [Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info] #seabirds #guillemot #auktober

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

Pour yourself a coffee and have a read of this tragic story about the last pair of Great Auks for #Auktober ♥️

Come work with me!! It will be fun. #seabirds

Important date for your diaries ‼️ Our AGM is Wed 12 Nov - 12 midday (online) 📔👩‍💻 ALL our members are welcome & we'd love you to join us if you can. A number of roles have also come up within the committee - details on how to apply to follow. Not yet signed up? www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership

Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏 🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026 Click the link for all the info 🤓 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4

Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)! 📅 7–11 Sept 2026 📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology

🎉BIG NEWS 🎉 the “Art for Oceans” Surfboard Auction will go live this Friday, 3rd October Funds raised will support whale conservation & Adrift Lab’s #plastics research on #LordHoweIsland Explore the collection 👉 www.artforoceans.org.au

For #SeabirdSaturday, please enjoy this adorably grumpy Kermadec Petrel chick on #OenoAtoll 🥰 @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social

Monday mood.

According to river otters, burrow-nesting seabirds are otter-ly delicious! #seabirds

New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands! 🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds 🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies 🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

#SeabirdSeptember - thankful for another finished fieldseason and no #HPAI casualties among the great skuas on Skúgvoy #SkuaIsland #seabirds

Age at first return of Sable Shearwaters (Ardenna carneipes) | www.tandfonline.com/... | Emu | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

That exciting moment when the lattice has been knocked down during the night (image 1), you know you will get an adult (image 2). #SeabirdSeptember #seabirds All birds handled with appropriate scientific permits.

It was a pleasure to be part of this panel. I hope it was beneficial to all attendees. #seabirds

An immaculate, pre-breeding Roseate #tern for #SuperSeabirdSunday #TeamTern

Brown booby in flight at Île Fourchue in the French West Indies for #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #photography

#superSeabirdSunday Large-billed Tern excavating a nest site in Brazil. @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Great Shearwater off Shetland last weekend. (Rare to get views like this in Scotland!) #YellBirding #Shetland #SuperSeabirdSunday

Here is my contribution to #superseabirdsunday

Christmas #Shearwater chick (Ducie Atoll) for #SuperSeabirdSaturday

Thinking about these White Terns on Ducie Atoll that would follow us around. We called them our little Sputniks because they sounded like data being sent back from space @adriftlab.bsky.social #SuperSeabirdSunday

An adorable Providence petrel for #SuperSeabirdSunday. Bird was observed at its colony a few months ago on Lord Howe Island with the team from @adriftlab.bsky.social. #seabirds #Pterodroma