So ill be posting the good and bad news from Kittiwakery ANS 2025 season over the next few weeks... First, we have been over-run with corvids in 2025 inc jackdaws, carrion crows and magpies.. see exhibit no 1 - if you look very carefully you can see 4 jackdaws inside and outside Kittiwakery...

So a wee reminder of the videos from 2024 on the Kittiwakery ANS.. we will be posting 2025 videos soon. The key 2024 videos are here: www.youtube.com/@ShoneyWind_...

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout ([email protected]) 🐦💍💛 (Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑) #Seabirds #IrishSea

Anthropomorphized comments. #UrbanKittiwake #seabirds #kittiwake #kittiwakehotels #RissaTridactyla www.shoneywind.com/kittiwakery-...

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨 Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team. Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec... 📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025 #StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

Amuses me no end!

Good opportunity for someone

Identifying urban hotspots of potential bird and pedestrian encounters through corridor overlap | link.springer.com/ar... | Urban Ecosystems | #ornithology 🪶

The UK Government has rejected a request for the emergency application of an insect-killing pesticide to crops in 2025:

Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested. #seabirds #conservation #arctic

Deadline for these exciting seasonal roles with RSPB is fast approaching! Go, go, go 🏃 #ornithology #seabirds #ukbirding #birdingScotland #BirdingWales

Seabirds need your help. Check out the Seabird Action plan consultation which was recently released by the Scottish Government and more importantly they want your feedback on the subject. Check out the blog for the details: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Kittiwake #northumbria #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #photography #blueskybirds

Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference? | besjournals.onlineli... | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74. Go on girl. 😍

Breaking news! November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline. Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.

Exciting PhD opportunity to investigate tropical seabird migration strategies with Malcolm Nicoll at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ornithology #seabird #PhDopportunity

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

No5 #seabirds #kittiwake So you can go here to view example playlists by face or behaviour, so far, ive only added 48 videos that takes about 8 mins to view them all. You can click on different playlists by behaviour, or click on SSE v NNW face etc... up to you m.youtube.com/@ShoneyWind_...

No4 #seabirds #kittiwake To give you an idea of how many days it took to go through ‘real’ motion detections.. between us, it was 26 days. We had estimated 37 videos per hoir and it actually translated to 14 videos p/h .. again a serious underestimate of effort.. CPUEK might be a new metric..

No3 #seabirds #kittiwake From our rapid subsampling of videos half way through the season, SWL had estimated 40% of videos had 'real' kittiwake in them. Erm. No. 70% of videos had 'real' kittiwake in, so we underestimated the task ahead of us...

No2 #seabirds #kittiwake Of the 1268 false motion detections, most were either a) vessels on the Tyne b) feathers on fake-fluffy chicks waving in the wind or c) flies. Thank goodness we didnt have more cameras in place! More to follow..

#seabirds No1. Kittiwakery camera/videos update: So Biodiverse Consulting installed 2 cameras on 2 ledges of 20 possible ledges on the Shoney Wind Ltd & FLI Structures Kittiwakery on the NNW and SSE faces...... So 4236 motion detection videos later.. of those, 2968 videos had kittiwake.

Kittiwake warden job in Dunbar.. will be a really interesting job. please share. myjobscotland.gov.uk/404495

Hello #seabirds PhD students in the UK and Ireland. We are a supportive cross-university group of ECRs. Online get togethers on the last Friday of every month on Teams. Contact email below 👇 Develop collabs; share data, methods, problems, code; guest speakers... come say hi! Please share - thanks!

A close look at the fine details of a Kittiwake

#Seabirds Assumed male #kittiwake “ACH” was ringed as an adult at Saltmeadows by NRG in 2019. ACH was seen by @andyrickeard.bsky.social on the Nface Saltmeadows 24 Mar-8 May 24. #Kittiwakery ANS trail cam saw ACH almost daily, earlyJune-25 July. Ring at 11 sec. See youtu.be/co0t6PW8VkE

Do you like #petrels, islands and data analysis? Well the RSPB’s Conservation Scientist role could be the one for you! Deadline closing very soon (20 Nov) ⚠️ Please get in touch if you have any questions #seabirds #ornithology app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

#Seabirds: strategic ornithological compensatory measures: review Published 18 November 2024 A review of potential strategic ornithological compensatory measures, assessing their practical and ecological feasibility in the Scottish context. www.gov.scot/publications...

Social learning is triggered by environmental cues in immigrant birds | doi.org/10.1371/jour... | PLOS Biology | #ornithology 🪶

This is very much a) a rough first cut and b) my first EVER attempt at using Canva video...It gives a direction of kittiwake travel in terms of manual v digital... we have client approval to move to a machine learning/AI in 2025...so take this as a teaser.. www.dropbox.com/s/a32gmg6yxi...

In the process of migrating away from Twitter... Meanwhile we are building a video library from 2 motion detection cameras installed on Ledge D on the SSE and the NNW face of Kittiwakery. We will be creating playlists of different behaviours.. watch this space www.youtube.com/@ShoneyWind_...