Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ❄️ #seabirds #ukwildlife #photography #SuperSeabirdSunday @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Different species are hiding in our second Christmas quiz! Let us know who they are in the comments. Answers and our final quiz tomorrow! Yesterday's answers are: A - Fulmar, B - Razorbill, C - Cormorant, D - Common Gull #birds #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

🌊 Share your seabird research at #WSC4! Submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations by 15 Jan 2026. Travel awards available for students & early-career researchers. Connect globally & shape seabird science! 🐦✈️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8cjmsk #SeabirdScience #MarineConservation #WSC4

BirdWatch Ireland is hiring a Marine Advocacy and Campaigns Officer to help secure a better future for Ireland's seabirds. Deadline 5pm Jan 7th 2026 for applications and cover letter. Full details including job description is here birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved... (pic Brenda Sheridan)

Fantastic to see this outcome of Francis’ internship at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk being out now Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies #seabirds #ornithology doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Attention any of our Australian members 🚨📣 #Australia #Seabirds

A mass of sooty shearwaters coming into their nests on Kidney Island as dusk falls, in the Falklands #kidneyisland #seabirds #birds #shearwaters #sootyshearwater #falklandislands #kidneyisland #nature #wildlife #southatlantic

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What a 2025 it has been for the Seabird Tracking Database, some highlights in the image! 📈 See our latest blog post for even more details➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac... A massive thank you to the 363 seabird researchers who have contributed their data over the last 21 years 🐧🌊🌏

A huge thank you to our panel today on Seabird Careers - @robthomasbirds.bsky.social, Helen Wade, @jaycee161.bsky.social & @seabirdshearer.bsky.social 👏 Many insights, interesting backstories, tips on applying for jobs & more! The session was recorded & will be available to watch if you missed it 🍿

🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirds

Can GPS tracking reveal how #seabirds make use of tidal mixing fronts when foraging? 🧪 New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas Read on for more Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002... @ellingbry.bsky.social

The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds! We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮 #ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds

Seasonal field staff needed for @rspbscience.bsky.social projects in 2026 - advert live, closing date 11 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities! Get in touch if you’d like to know more about any of the #seabird roles 🌊🐦 app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology

Inspector Gannet making sure this stoat trap is set and baited to protect the colony from invasive ferrets, weasels, and stoats. #gannet #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #NewZealand #Aotearoa #seabirds #birdsofbluesky #photography #ocean #conservation

We can now announce our panel of #Seabird Career experts for this Friday's online panel session 📣 👩‍🔬 Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social 👩‍🔬 Helen Wade 👩‍🔬 Jenny Coomes @jaycee161.bsky.social 👨‍🔬 Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social Sign up here by Weds to attend! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Day 7 of #artadventcalendar I can relate to terns. They will fly thousands of miles to enjoy summer. I do the same. Painting of a common tern flying. Mixed media on canvas #painting #superseabirdsunday #seabird

#SuperSeabirdSunday Yearning for a bit of blue sky. Common Terns on the #Northumberland coast, taken with my phone David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

A pair of ring-billed gulls were 'kissing' along the shores of a local river. It was very adorable. #SeaBirds #BirdOfTheDay #Manitoba #BirdPhotograhy #Birds

Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼 📆 Fri 12 December 🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK) 📍 Online Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀

As I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds

On the move! An Isle of May Kittiwake has just been recovered from Peamiut, Greenland, some 1,710 miles away as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Doing research on #Arctic #seabirds? Consider submitting an abstract to the session 'Safeguarding seabird populations in a rapidly changing Arctic' at www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 26-29 May 2026

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

We're delighted to announce that our Scottish Seabird Photography Exhibition is now open!🙌 Featuring the best images from our recent competition, this exhibition includes at least one image of every seabird which breeds in Scotland🪶🌊

#biologging #research is booming - but do #loggers actually impact the birds? Yes, they do - depending on the mass and attachment location. If you work with biologging, you should read our latest publication seapop.no/en/2025/11/l... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds

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...

The Arctic Skua, one of two Skua species covered by the SMP. Look out for the adult's prominent 'pointed tail spike' and their variable colour gradations, caused by mixed breeding pairs of pale and dark morph individuals! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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/...

#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...

Happy Seabird Sunday! A new Kittiwake illustration inspired by watching them dive for capelin over the summer... A little appreciation for one of our smaller black and white seabirds. find it here: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1758... #seabird #superseabirdsunday #seabirdsunday #kittiwake

Drones and deep learning are rewriting how we count seabirds. On the remote Bounty Islands, AI and 3D mapping reveal colonies with new clarity. Read more in The Ornithologist. theornithologist.org/automating-t... #TheOrnithologist #seabirds #ornithology

Surveying Lord Howe geckos between the two mountains here, showcased this year’s production of Providence Petrel fledglings- some still needing a good preen. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds

🐦✨ WSC4 Keynote Nominations Open! Share your vision for seabird conservation. Early-career & international voices encouraged! 📍WSC4 In-person & Hybrid: 7–11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 🔗 bit.ly/3Jv71c9 #WSC4 #SeabirdScience

"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/...

On the move...to Porto, Portugal! One of the islands Lesser Black-backed Gull chicks from this year has just been resighted in Portugal. The blog has the news: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Great black-backed gull chicks, taken on The Skerries, Anglesey, Wales #birds #gulls #seabirds #RPSB #Anglesey #wales #wildlife #coast #theskerries #coastalbirds #nature #greatblackbackedgull

It's tomorrow! Remember to join us at 12 midday (GMT)

If you're a Seabird Group member, remember to check your inbox for the link to join our #AGM next Weds (12th Nov) at 12 noon 📅🕊️ Come along and hear what we've been working on this past year. You can also vote for the incoming Executive Committee members using the link in the email! 👥🗳️ #seabirds

Any students/ ECRs dreaming of attending #WSC4 in Tasmania next year but not sure their budget can stretch? 💰🚫 No worries, @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social have got you covered! Apply for a travel award today 😊🙌✈️ See you in Australia! 🦘

Granger et al. Multispecies sensory networks and social foraging strategies: Implications for population decline in procellariiform seabirds www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #ornithology #seabirds

NEW PAPER in #ornithology summarizes why #seabirds are so important to the ecosystem of #islands and what knowledge gaps remain: buff.ly/rHuNnOr

🐦 Got questions about the 4th World Seabird Conference? Dive into the FAQ page for all the details — from abstracts to travel tips! worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4 #Seabirds #Conservation

A good news story after almost 10 years of working towards a local population recovery: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #Seabirds

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8

Quite a few of the seabirds covered by the SMP share similar features! We previously covered Shags and Cormorants, and today we're looking at distinguishing Mediterranean Gulls from Black-headed Gulls #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Here's today's #MysterySeabirdDistribution (it's an occasional series). Who might this be? Answers on a postcard... #seabirds #ornithology

Great and Manx shearwater for comparison. #SuperSeabirdSunday

I have 3 spaces available for the 2026 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in British waters. See images below for more information, dates and contact details… #seabirds #UKbirding

Still time to apply for this great opportunity with @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Get in touch if you have any questions! Dealine tomorrow 🐧 #ornithology #seabirds