Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project? We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣 🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️ #research #seabirds

After 8 years & 400 Black-headed Gulls caught & ringed at Center Parcs Sherwood, on Saturday we had our first ever control. Not got the full details yet but we do know it was ringed in June 2003 making it 22 years old. Ringed under BTO licence. #ornithology #birdringing #gulls #colourringing

Yes please

Purple Sandpipers on the Northumberland coast. #nebirding @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @wadertales.bsky.social

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. This is my contribution; a family of Razorbills on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

Want a FREE resource pack with an ID guide to 30 species you’re likely to see in your local greenspace? 🐦🌳 Sign up to our Birds in #Greenspaces newsletter to receive one! ➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces #Ornithology 🪶 Illustrations by @willrose.bsky.social

There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Are you an MSc student based at a UK university? Or do you know one? RSPB @rspbscience.bsky.social have just released their list of research projects for 2026: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #ornithology #conservationscience 🌍

Behavioural responses of the Little Tern (Sternula albifrons) to different human disturbances | link.springer.com/ar... | Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Pairing weather radars with eBird data for large-scale monitoring of swallow and martin communal roosts | doi.org/10.1093/orni... | Ornithological Applications | #ornithology 🪶

If destroying our life support system were human nature there would be no need to corrupt governments, deny science, and weaken media to keep the fossil fuel industry going.

Climate variations over the last 2000 years provide valuable context and help answer questions about how unusual the recent changes are. Now with added global sea level rise: climatelabbook.substack.com/p/climate-ch... Graphics: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...

From seabirds to sea turtles: the fatal toll of plastic revealed #Environment #Pollution #MarineLife #PlasticPollution #Study #DeathToll #Seabirds #MarineMammals #BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In case anyone’s wondering what to get me for Christmas 😍

NEW on #theBOUblog from Anya Shackleton-Jones A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland bou.org.uk/blog-shac...#theBOUblog #ornithology 🪶

This is why I advise in The Language of Climate Politics that saying we’re better off now than we were before the Paris Agreement only lowers urgency & helps fossil fuel interests: the IMPACTS of lower levels of heating are proving to be so much worse than we thought even just ten years ago. 3/4

Yes

THIS IS THE WAY

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

PSA! leaf litter on your lawn can house thousands of babies🧐 - some hoverfly babies (larvae) i spotted earlier today. (plus old hoverfly pic for info) Don't put leaf litter in the bin- it's a precious, nutrient-filled habitat..Pile it up, compost it or just leave it... 😁🌿🍁🍂

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are some fearless Arctic Terns attacking as I move through their colony #SuperSeabirdSunday

#ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

Every now and then I remember that sponges are ANIMALS — that these seeming hybrids of plant and rock; these sessile, porous, tissue-and-organ-less barrels, tubes, and blobs are just as much an animal as a falcon, wolf, or shark — and marvel once more at the wonderful weirdness of life on Earth.

"while a handful of puffins on a tiny island may seem small, this moment is huge – it proves that seabird restoration works" A fantastic success story for puffins in Antrim! www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

NEW PAPER in #ornithology and #conservation reviews the marine threats to #seabirds and other marine #megafauna and confirms that #fisheries are a severe problem: buff.ly/5SXNdqr

From Spurious Interference to Biological Signal: Repurposing Weather Radars to Monitor and Study the Amazonian Avifauna | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

NEW PAPER: As direct persecution declines, yellow-legged gulls abandon remote refuges for human-accessible habitats, driving new colony growth and fostering multispecies waterbird communities of unexpected conservation value. ➡️ vist.ly/4db9c #ornithology #birds #colonisation 🪶

Bird flu outbreaks in domestic poultry are creeping back into the headlines... but let's not forget the virus's devastating impact on wild birds. #ornithology

In a world torn by wars and crises, bird conservation can seem irrelevant. Yet to protect life itself is not indulgence – it’s resistance. theornithologist.org/in-defence-o... #TheOrnithologist #ornithology #redlist #IUCN

The Wind of Change: Mapping Wind Energy Growth and Multi-Species Vulnerability in Sardinia, Mediterranean | doi.org/10.1111/acv.... | Animal Conservation | #ornithology #RaptorResearch 🪶

Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣. See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪

Rubeena et al. Mercury contamination: a hidden threat to long-distance migrant shorebirds in critical wintering sites on the west coast of India academic.oup.com/etc/article-... #ornithology

NEW PAPER: Female wild turkeys produce fewer male offspring where hunting increases male mortality, suggesting adaptive adjustment of brood sex ratios to enhance reproductive success under harvest pressure. ➡️ vist.ly/4cff4 #ornithology #birds #adaptive #sexratio 🪶

Always fascinating to see new @btobirds.bsky.social Ringing & Nest Recording report. Willow Tits at new low, no nestlings ringed at all, just 6 nests monitored. Ringed Marsh Tit halved from 2010. No Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers ringed in UK for 2nd yr running. www.bto.org/get-involved... #ornithology

The Seabird Monitoring Programmes' breeding seabird data submission deadline is fast approaching - have you submitted your data!? #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

NEW PAPER: Artificial nest boxes trap more heat than natural burrows, pushing little penguins beyond safe thermal limits. As temperatures increase, nest box design improvements are critical to prevent population declines. ➡️ vist.ly/4bz8w #ornithology #birds #climate 🪶

Time's ticking... Submit your breeding seabird data to the Seabird Monitoring Programme now! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

New online! The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people

Brittle star swimming! Love this movement.

Red Kite nesting in Sherwood Forest! I grew up about 30mins away from there. I could never of dreamt of being able to see them when I was a kids. So amazing that kids around there will now be able to experience them. Well done to all involved with there recovery.

Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data. Info and application at emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details #postdoc #seabirds #Genomics

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines like this young Puffling out of it’s underground burrow stretching its wings #SuperSeabirdSunday

It's Friday... start the weekend with this fascinating exploration of aeroecology, the study of the sky as habitat. #ornithology www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

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...

On the importance of incorporating behavioural-state differentiation when identifying key spatial areas for seabirds. #seabirds animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Look at those nasty and lovely birds! Assessing preferences and emotional responses of visitors to a National Park | www.sciencedirect.co... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology 🪶

We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology. The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus. Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social uol.de/job788en #ornithology