Abstract submission has been extended until 23rd January 📣 Good luck to all those applying!

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...

Moonrise last night, from the heli deck of RSV Nuyina at Heard Island #subantarctic #MarineScience 🧪🧬

𝐒𝐰𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐲 𝐎𝐰𝐥. 💔 For the first time in 20 years, a bird species has disappeared from the country.

Iceberg earthquakes in #Antarctica 2/3rds detected at Doomsday glacier – 245 out of 362 – were located near the marine end of Thwaites. Most of these events are likely glacial earthquakes due to capsizing icebergs.

#Glyphosate - how much damage done in those 25 years, to #PublicHealth and #biodiversity. We have to stop this #pesticide merry-go-round of new-wonder-chemical, concerns, then obvious disaster. We need #agroecology www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...

PSA!!!!!! 🚨 White tern chick!!!!!! 🪶

Record-breaking 75-year-old mother #bird prepares to nest. Wisdom has been laying #eggs since the Eisenhower Administration. #Albatross #WorldsOldestBreedingBird #Bird Link for more info, #photos & video: www.popsci.com/environment/...

#CriticallyEndangered Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) 🐧 vs. Fisheries in South Africa 🇿🇦 - Penguins lose 🌍 #Birds #Ornithology #MarineEcology phys.org/news/2025-11...

Honestly, when will unis and other research orgs collectively say enough is enough, and invoice them for all our unpaid labour that drives publishers MASSIVE profits? The Money in Scientific Publishing danielroelfs.com/posts/the-mo... @danielroelfs.com #KnowledgeSlavery

HUGE outbreak of HPAI in Norwegian seabirds, w "environmental contamination" of sheep grazing areas. 1/220 sheep tested positive by serology. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Sometimes I pay attention to birds that are not seabirds!

"A formal cockatoo survey report was not prepared...length of time spent in the burn block assessing the area was...not logged by the department...Asked if...staff...assessed...nests or hollows on foot...DBCA did not respond & declined to provide...data & assessments." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Unsurprisingly, the suspected cases of HPAI H5N1 in elephant seals on Australia's subAntarctic island (Heard Island) have been confirmed. 👉 minister.agriculture.gov.au/collins/medi...

Proximity to seabird colonies and water availability shape moss distributions in Antarctica vist.ly/4fqxk #SDM #Mosses #Biogeography

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

#SuperSeabirdSunday Magnificent Frigatebird in Costa Rica. @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Common Noddy at Christmas Island in 2023. #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

🌊🧵 1/ Vanderford Glacier, holding more than half-a-metre of global sea level rise, is retreating faster than any other in East #Antarctica (18.6 km of grounding line retreat 1996-2020!) It’s one of a number of glaciers in Vincennes Bay melted by deep warm water getting underneath. 📸 P. Harmsen/AAD

#orithology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every once in a while, I write a paper that is not about #seabirds! Data from 2012, published today! rdcu.be/eQJkK

I'll be talking about all this at #AOC2025 tomorrow afternoon. #seabirds

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

Winter tightens its hold in Lapland. At the moment -28.3 °C in Savukoski Tulppio with > 20 cm of snow. The coldest so far this winter in Finland. However, much like in 2023, large parts of the northern hemisphere are unusually warm again (except Fennoscandia).

I spent my final evening in Florida at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park watching royal terns hunt at sunset 🪶🌞🦑🌿

Fledging cuteness 🥰🩵🩵🩵

There’s one month left to apply for the PhD position on interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns, co-supervised by @alicecarravieri.bsky.social, Bernd Sures from @unidue.bsky.social and myself. You can do so here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142

In Rouzic, France, 1 year post HPAI outbreak, the breeding gannet population 🔻 by 38 %, 22.3% of surviving breeders were had black eyes. black eyes birds not associated with differences in foraging behaviour + habitat use 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

SAD news, almost beyond words!! But I will use them …. The #bird the slender-billed curlew is now #extinct @davegoulson.bsky.social

Brilliant story-telling and visuals, despite the tragic impacts of feral cats www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

October 2025 Globally,according to Copernicus, had an average temperature of 15.14C which is +0.70C above the 1991/2020 normal and was the 3rd warmest on record behind 2023 and 2024. The most above average country was Canada,the most below was Albania.

Spots the crested tern chicks! #seabirds

In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.

I'm excited to finally have a preprint of this paper up, a few years in the making. In it we argue that industry-driven manipulation of social media research is well underway and that norms and institutions in the field are ill-prepared to resist tech's influence. arxiv.org/abs/2510.19894

H5 strain of bird flu on Heard Island? Samples are yet to be tested. "The majority of mortalities were detected in elephant seal pups and in a small number of adults." — Dr Julie McInnes, wildlife ecologist with AAD and @imas-utas.bsky.social ▶️ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10... 📸 Matt Curnock

"The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has received reports of groups of dead black vultures across the state, with preliminary testing indicating that the likely cause is Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), also called bird flu." (wric.com) #collapse

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is what Adélie penguins attempting to nest on ice looks like. They aren’t supposed to do that. 🌎🧪🦑🦉 ACA 2019-006

The study “Tracking HPAIV H5 through a geographic survey of Antarctic seabird populations” surveyed 13 breeding sites in the Antarctic from Dec 2023–Jan 2024. Findings suggest the first suspected HPAI H5 cases on the continent, potentially in two new seabird species. bit.ly/4pkI4Aa

We suggest that daily carcass removal may have kept environmental transmission at bay, and that increased immunity and/or a change of the strain of HPAI may have caused the drop in mortality among the outbreak years.

Pretty freaking wild to hear "actually AI is useful for climate change" constantly and from people who should know better when the people deciding how the massive resources it consumes are used are saying stuff like this

If you’re in Australia, report your #BeachedBird observations here (especially important over the next 4-6 weeks) adriftlab.org/beached-bird...

A passenger aboard the ‘Spirit of #Tasmania’ recorded this video yesterday as the ferry entered the #BassStrait The seas were ~6 m & wind gusting ~75 km/hr. It is glorious to see flocks of Short-tailed #Shearwaters (just returned from the Bering Sea) absolutely in their element 🐦💨

🪹 | Seabirds that survived recent bird flu outbreaks have continued to reproduce, although overall breeding performance remains notably low, according to a new study. The study has looked at breeding success in Northern Gannets at two locations during 2023. 🔗 orlo.uk/44CaS 📸 Dave Pressland

#birds#birdingwales Gannets again today at Ynysbadrig, now 20 young remaining. Richard Arnold and I reckon 13 have left, this equals the total we think for last year, so this small but thriving recent second Wales colony seems to be established despite the ravages of HPAI.

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦 We are recruiting for 5 roles: Secretary 👩‍🏫 Assistant Journal Editor 📉 Social Media Lead 🤳 Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝 Website Officer 🧑‍💻 Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

After decades of absence, the nocturnal calls of shearwaters once more echo from burrows on Northern Ireland's seabird island. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/M...

Multiple species of #shearwater have begun arriving in Australian waters after completing their southward migration. We need your help recording if/when #seabirds start washing up on your local beaches #citizenscience