The Seabird Tracking Database has been updated! With lots of new features, these updates improve user experience and ensure dataset legacy To learn more visit ➡️ seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac... and go to data.seabirdtracking.org to try out the new search and mapping features!

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/...

#Wisdom is back! The world’s oldest known living banded bird, Mōlī (Laysan albatross) queen, has returned to Kuailhelani (Midway Atoll). #Birds

Our new renewable energy sensitivity maps for Australia show where birds are most sensitive to energy infrastructure on land and at sea.🌏 Produced in collaboration with @birdlifeoz.bsky.social. Many thanks to Australian bird experts who gave data & feedback! www.seabirdtracking.org/avian-sensit...

BirdLife are hosting a workshop on a project we are leading to identify #KBAs in the Lord Howe Rise and South Tasman Sea region on the 6th Nov at 07:00 UTC. For more details and registration visit: www.seabirdtracking.org/lord-howe-ri... #HighSeas #seabirdtracking #Tasman

"Commuting in crosswinds and foraging in fast winds: the foraging ecology of a flying fish specialist" 💨🐦🐟 New @iomarinescience.bsky.social research out now in @royalsocietypublishing.org: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 📸 @robinfreeman.bsky.social 🧪🌍🪶

🐦 The true meaning of a birds-eye view! Scientists use lightweight cameras fitted to the wing of red-footed boobies to capture feeding behaviour for the first time 📽️ @ruthedunn.bsky.social

@birdwatchireland.bsky.social, with support from @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social , @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social and collaborators, have published 73 Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for Seabirds. Learn more➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/birdwatch-ir... With massive thanks to all involved!

It’s World Albatross Day! 🗺️ Albatrosses are iconic, long-lived birds that travel huge distances across oceans! 🌊 From chicks to migrating adults, we can tackle the threats facing these birds.🌏 Read more in our article here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/06...

Happy #WorldAlbatrossDay 2025! To celebrate we are highlighting some of the dedicated work of many, that has positively impacted the world’s 22 albatross species Check out our new blogpost: ➡️ tinyurl.com/yu5x6s8z @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social 1/4

*Job Opportunity* #Seabird #Ecologist with @n-t-s.bsky.social. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social #ornithology #biosecurity #seabirdersaturday www.nts.org.uk/volunteering-jobs/job-search/highlands-islands

📢New blog is out! Joshua Coste shares details about his research on Red-footed Booby homing behaviour in the Indian Ocean 🌊 ➡️ tinyurl.com/RFB-navigation Full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.an... @iomarinescience.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social

🐧Happy World Penguin Day! These species offer more than just their charisma! Their study and protection benefit whole ecosystems 🌎 Did you know that...? 🧵👇 #WorldPenguinDay

🌊 Excited to share the Marine Megafauna Conservation Toolkit! 🐧 It contains step-by-step methods with R code (including for tracking data) for identifying critical sites (e.g. Key Biodiversity Areas) & guidance for conservation practice, policy & advocacy. ➡️tinyurl.com/MMFCToolkit

Introducing our new BirdLife DataZone! 💻 The DataZone brings together everything on bird populations, important sites for conservation, urgent threats and actions required, and policies needed to sustain nature.🌎🐦 Discover the science underpinning global bird conservation 👉 datazone.birdlife.org

#DPLUS195 #seabird #conservation

It's great to be working with Ascension Island Government again after visiting to track #seabirds in 2018! 🗺️ Read about our project here:

This will take you only a few seconds to sign but will benefit birds, other biodiversity and people for generations to come. banleadnow.com/get-involved/

A good Friday afternoon read 📙 on how @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Seabird Tracking Database has changed the face of marine conservation! MPAs, bycatch, policy and more 🕊️📈 #Seabird #SeabirdTracking

Great news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧 South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙 Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our new @adriftlab.bsky.social paper is out, lead by @alixdejersey.bsky.social showing the insidious impacts of plastics on seemingly health birds (1/5) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢New blog is out! @tcansse.bsky.social shares their research on Black-faced Cormorant foraging behaviours seabirdtracking.org/foraging-efficiency-related-to-site-fidelity-in-black-faced-cormorants/ Full paper here: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13371

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

So excited that the #MarineFlyways paper is finally out - what an incredible and exciting project to be a part of!

For first post on @bsky.app seems fitting to share our blue sky and #marine flyways 🌊 paper out yesterday. A global collaboration of researchers led by @birdlifemarine.bsky.social sharing #tracking data to describe common #seabird #migration routes over the #ocean.

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project 🧵1/5

Got some artistic skills? Enter our Seabird Pride t-shirt competition! 🕊️🏳️‍🌈🎽 Details below ⬇️ #SeabirdPride2025

The next round of our Research Grants are open now for applications! If you have something you'd like funded why not apply? It could be for ringing studies, productivity assessments, seawatching projects, tracking studies, or others 🕊️💍🥚🌊 Details -> www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants (closes 28th Feb).

Big win for our oceans!🌍 Spain & France becomes some of the first countries in Europe to ratify the High Seas Treaty, bringing us closer to protecting 30% of the seas by 2030 Let’s keep up the momentum—urge your leaders to act now👉 highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif... @highseasalliance.bsky.social

New to Bluesky. Usually posting about birds, nature, or my artwork. Say 👋 Just for fun here are some #hiddengems pieces. Spot the odd one out! Marsh tits/willow tit, black-headed gulls/Bonaparte's gull, snipe/jack snipe, golcrests/firecrest #birds #nature #art #hiddengems

NEW PAPER in #ornithology examines the effect of winter storms on #seabirds, and suggests that #puffins are less affected by storminess than other auks: https://buff.ly/3Wo400p

By 2035, African Penguins could be extinct in the wild. 🐧 In the last century, their numbers have diminished by 97%. Make your voice heard and help us save this iconic species: only.one/act/save-afr... #PenguinAwarenessDay

Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth. www.nature.com/articles/s41... New article from Davidson et al. explains the need and pathways for improving tracking data archiving and sharing tools @movebank.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

New year, new vision for #biologging @connieykot.bsky.social @jdpye.bsky.social @peterdesmet.bsky.social @duke-mgel.bsky.social @movebank.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social @inbo.bsky.social @birdlifemarine.bsky.social @birdscanada.bsky.social @oceantracking.bsky.social @imos-aus.bsky.social

20 yrs ago I started comparing the 3 lists of threatened birds BirdLife had published and working out overall trends. The Red List Index resulted from the ensuing collaboration & is now used by the world's governments & UN. Our new paper reviews the history royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

New in #BirdStudy #Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu. Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

Check out our new paper! We compare indicators for monitoring the impacts of island restoration on coral reefs. Massive thanks to our huge list of collaborators, which enabled us to look at seabirds, nutrients, microbes, algae, corals, and fish! 🐦🦠🌱🪸🐠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨Calling for seabird tracking data! 🚢We are collating seabird data for the Humboldt Current region to assess fisheries bycatch risk. 🤝This is a collaborative project with Global Fishing Watch funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social. You can be part of it! Go to: www.seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur...

Postdoc opportunity to study tropical seabird connectivity & population genetics in the Indian Ocean! With @malcnicoll.bsky.social & collaborators as part of the @iomarinescience.bsky.social seabird project 📍University of La Reunion Apply by Jan 15th #jobopportunity #seabird #ornithology

🐧BirdLife needs seabird tracking data! We're looking for Humboldt Current region data for assessing fisheries bycatch risk🎣 seabirdtracking.org/humboldt-cur... This project with Global Fishing Watch is funded by @nfwfnews.bsky.social. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social

NEWS!!! #SeabirdSessions are BACK!!! DEC 16, 2024 on ZOOM! An E-mail will go out to the E-list soon with more details! In the meantime, if you're NOT on the e-list and want including, do DM me! #Seabirds #Science #Conservation #SciComm #GrantsHat

In "Global assessment of marine plastic exposure risk for oceanic birds" @bethanyclark.bsky.social, @mariemrouyer.bsky.social, @katboothjones.bsky.social, et al. note that understanding where #seabirds encounter plastic is crucial. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❤️Thanks to everyone who joined the event and to those involved with the STDB during the past 20 years! 💪This is a true collaborative effort for the conservation of seabirds. Super fans can even get a t-shirt ;) birdlifestore.com/search/?sear...

Norm Ratcliffe, Seabird Ecologist from @bas.ac.uk, followed. He shared a case study from the extremely remote Zavodovski Island, South Sandwich Islands. 🐧 Did you know Zavodovski Island holds the largest penguin’s colony in the world?

Next was Martin Beal @amigodeaves.bsky.social, Post-doc at University of Lisbon, who showed a case study & how seabirds connect countries & people🤝 Martin was key to developing track2KBA, an R package for identifying important sites for biodiversity from tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/2041...

We then had Ana Carneiro who led a review of results and conservation successes of the STDB. 👀You can find this and more in the recently published article on 20 years of collaboration for marine conservation with the STDB: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

We then had a set of amazing talks hosted by @tammyedavies.bsky.social. 🚀 The first speaker was John Croxall, former Chair of Global Seabird Programme of BirdLife International, CBE & Fellow of the Royal Society. He shared the history and original motivations behind creating the STDB.

We also had Jono Handley showcasing the Marine Megafauna Toolkit. 🐋 This is an open-access resource that facilitates the identification of important sites for marine megafauna and pathways to advocate for their conservation: birdlifeinternational.github.io/Marine-Megaf...

🎂This week we celebrated 20 years of the Seabird Tracking Database (STDB) at @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social! seabirdtracking.org We had many activities with people attending online and in person. Here is a recap on everything that went on🧵:

🚨Puffins are starving! We urged Commissioner Costas Kadis to back the sandeel fishing ban in UK & Scottish waters. Sandeels are vanishing, leaving seabirds like Atlantic Puffins without food The EU is challenging the ban, risking declines & fragile ecosystems www.birdlife.org/news/2024/12... #birds