Come along and join us this Sunday for a discussion on how BSL can highlight the interesting features of ten key seabird species. This is a free event and includes free entry to the Discovery Experience and to the Scottish Seabird Photography Competition Exhibition.

🔊 KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS Who would you like to see deliver a keynote at #BOU2027 ? Avian disease ecology | 6 - 8 April 2027 | Nottingham, UK & Zoom & Bluesky Nominate via link ⬇️ bou.org.uk/event/avi...#BOU2027 #ornithology 🪶

NEW JOB in #ornithology chasing #nutcrackers in Switzerland to understand seed dispersal patterns: buff.ly/Cx0OOQy

In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification. zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old! #stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My story for @biographic.bsky.social on the aftermath of HPAI in Northern Gannett colonies was picked up by Smithsonian Magazine! A nice thing to see while resurfacing briefly during another round of kid sick days...

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Come for the Barkleys and @keithdunn.bsky.social’s brilliant commentary. Stay for The Green Runners, whose co-founders include Jasmin Paris & Damian Hall @ultradamo.bsky.social thegreenrunners.com

Last chance to apply for this PhD opportunity ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD Closing date: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

We're looking for volunteers to join us on Mousa, Shetland this July! 🌊⛺🔊 Feel free to get in touch if you'd like to know more. And perhaps worth looking into @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social's 2026 Training Grants if you need financial support: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants 🔗

This #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience meet just six of the inspiring women in our Conservation Science department and hear about some of their most memorable moments at the RSPB 🧪 Read the full story here: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

After the Outbreak A northern gannet colony devastated by avian influenza is slowly recovering—and so are the researchers who witnessed the virus’s wrath. by @rheisman.bsky.social www.biographic.com/after-the-ou...

A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social #ornithology

Restoring Hardknott Forest Winter 2026 Newsletter out now: peat restoration, carcass ecology, new staff start with us, extra volunteering dates, farmer points at a post. mailchi.mp/leeds.ac.uk/...

We're currently curating our winter newsletter, out soon. What to expect? A farmer pointing at a post, carcass ecology, new staff start, we're the topic of "Wildwood" a photographic talk. Plus volunteer dates & wildlife videos. Sign up▶️ mailchi.mp/1dd189bd3314...

This week we're excitedly preparing for LEAF Day 2026 - our one day annual meeting for folks interested in trees and woodlands! If you're based at the Uni of Leeds, are free on Friday, and that sounds like you, then check out the programme and register at leaf.leeds.ac.uk/events/leaf-...

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years. 📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

Join our Marine Team on an expedition to track the Leach's Petrel 🪶 These birds can travel over 2000km during a single foraging trip, but are only the size of a starling! Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrXB... All birds were caught and handled under licence by RSPB staff

Want to see our conservation scientists in action? Join them on an expedition to North Rona and the Flannan Isles where this summer they were surveying Leach's Petrel populations 🧪🌍🪶 Watch the film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEQm...

📢 Fantastic job opportunity! Interested in equipment used for nature conservation research? @rspbscience.bsky.social are looking for someone to design, develop, assemble, procure, and maintain equipment to support science work at the RSPB. DEADLINE - 21 Nov 💻🐦🎧🌳📸🦅🔋📹🐾

We're hiring 🧪🌍 Two amazing senior science opportunities in Northern Ireland Seabird Scientist: Tagging, tracking and monitoring to inform marine policy in NI tinyurl.com/yeuw5znd Conservation Scientist: Restoration of key habitats and priority species tinyurl.com/4rj43dfp

📣You really couldn't make this up! On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

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

JOB ALERT: We have an exciting Senior Research Assistant post available for a project tracking predators and prey simultaneously starting early 2026. We need someone with experience tagging adult raptors or wader chicks. This you? app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

Productivity 🐣 of gannets that have survived #avianflu does not differ from those that have never been infected - BUT productivity since the 2022 HPAI outbreak is worryingly low. New paper in IBIS @bou.org.uk 👇 #seabirds #hpai #wildlifedisease @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Very pleased to be a part of this research contribution into the ongoing impact of HPAI on seabirds; led by @sue-lewis.bsky.social alongside fellow authors from @rspbscience.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social & @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

New technology may aid seabird monitoring in difficult to access populations but managing high volumes of data output is essential 🪶 Read the new paper here: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

🦠 SAVE THE DATE! 🦜 I'm excited to announce that the theme of the 2027 BOU conference is Avian Disease Ecology! 📍 Nottingham, UK 📅 6–8 April 2027 🔗 Full details: lnkd.in/gPvFFDJe Please share widely! #BOU2027 #Ornithology #WildlifeDisease #AvianDisease #EcoHealth

📢A MegaMove milestone has just been published in @ScienceMagazine! With ~380 collaborators from 50 countries, we mapped the movements of 12k+ marine megafauna to identify key habitats 🌊🐋🦈 @pewenvironment.bsky.social @uwaoceans.bsky.social www.sequeiralab.com/news/megamov...

The 2024 Bass Rock Gannet Count is complete✅ A high-resolution drone survey - carried out in partnership with @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social School of Geosciences, @ukceh.bsky.social & @edinburghnapier.bsky.social in July 2024 - provided a detailed new look at the Bass Rock gannet colony. 📷©️G Macvean

Public consultation closes this Sunday (25 May 2025) at 11.59pm. There are only 10 relevant questions & Wild Justice has provided an easy-to-follow guide for each one. raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/22/h...

#Bass looking good Quite a few eggs seen at due date. All the behaviour we expect Gaping bowing jabbing bonding, nest building and thieving! Looking.good It will take years to recover from HPAI but exciting to watch new birds take to sites @seabirdcentre.bsky.social

The @wildjustice.bsky.social petition to ban driven grouse shooting has passed 97,000 signatures thanks to you. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Even I am fairly confident that we'll get 100,000 signatures, triggering a Westminster parliament debate, by 22 May. 22 April would be even better!

#Bass. 1000's of Gannets retuned this wkend on live cam @seabird web. Wonderful to see them settling bowing, bill fencing and that gannet jabbing ! Poor photo (off cam) This was a dense beeding area.It will take time to recover(HPAI) Exciting to monitor, but look at that sea! No landing today😔

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

Breaking: gamekeeper guilty of poison and trap-related offences, ordered to pay £7,449 in total. Three poisoned birds of prey sparked a police investigation in Lincolnshire. Full story: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... Something has to change – time to license gamebird shooting.

Special Issue of #BirdStudy is now published: The impacts of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza on birds: part 1 10 papers (5 #OpenAccess) plus Editorial on the impacts of #birdflu #HPAI outbreak in Europe, Canada, Antarctica: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/7... #ornithology #ukbirding #seabirds

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Absence of negative effect of GPS-tags on survival and breeding success in a long-lived territorial raptor | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Lise Viollat, Roger Pradel, Cécile Ponchon, Alain Ravayrol, Alexandre Millon, Aurélien Besnard | #ornithology 🪶

Happy St.Cuthbert’s Day everyone. The northern saint died on Inner Farne, Farne Islands on this day in 687. During his life it was believed that he offered protection to nesting Eider ducks on the islands, the first protection they’d received.

You asked, we delivered! We've hooked up a second cam at Foulshaw Moss so that you'll be able to watch the ospreys in their perching tree 🙌🌳 For those who don't know, the #FoulshawOspreys like to get a bit of a breather from the nest by flying over to another tree. Here's Kez to explain more!

Releasing helium balloons is pretty much just fancy & expensive littering (except you can get fined for littering). They all end up somewhere, & are sometimes eaten by wildlife. #dontletgo www.wildlifewatch.org.uk/problem-ball... @envleeds.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social

The Isle of May breeding season is officially underway.We have our first shag on eggs!A clutch of three was seen putting first egg date back a week.This is the joint third earliest on record and 28 days earlier than the long term average (& 39 days earlier than last year).They have had a good winter

Someone has quit by now. We don’t know who, we don’t know where, we don’t know why. But for sure someone has quit. We’ll find out who/when/why when they get back to camp. #BM100

After a brief memorial, laz lit the cigarette at 11:37. The 2025 Barkley Marathons has begun. #BM100

That's 70.000 people who want to see driven grouse shooting banned. We're nearly 3/4 of the way there to our target of 100,000 signatures. Do you want a ban? If so, please like & share this post! Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

This is the grim story of Asta , a young satellite-tagged hen harrier . Wildlife is just collateral when it comes to driven grouse shooting – it must be banned . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Excellent work @wwtworldwide.bsky.social 👏👏👏 "The Toxic Restaurant" - spoof video highlighting toxic lead ammunition sends BASC into meltdown raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/02/11/t...

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share Don't let science be hidden

Hi everyone. We're currently at £230 of our £1000 target for the tree nursery. Thanks to all who have donated, it would be great if we could get to £500 by the end of the week. Anything you can afford is a big help. Thanks. @envleeds.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social gofund.me/9671d159

Wolf reintroduction to Scotland could support native woodland expansion and carbon sequestration. @domspracklen.bsky.social's new study is out today! 🌳🐺🧪 doi.org/10.1002/2688...