The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland. We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

🚨 We’re recruiting! We’re looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect the Beacon Ponds Little Tern colony at Spurn. 👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

#Seabird Journal issue #37 is complete and has been sent out to those who requested a physical copy 😊 Remember to check your mailboxes! It is also available to read online here ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37 #science #seabirds

BSc summer internships with Onni Talas Foundation (that pay better than my first 2 postdocs): www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...

If you're looking for an adventure this year, we've got some fantastic opportunities to volunteer on Handa Island! These are unique opportunities to join a close knit-team in a wild and remote location! 🌊 Visit our website to find out more and apply today bit.ly/4bFytiH

Delighted to be at @btobirds.bsky.social today working on the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social archive - starting with our journal's first issue 60 years ago!

As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛 ❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments) 👥: All welcome to apply 💲: Up to £500 📅: Deadline 28 Feb Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃 We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training! We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋 For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Deadline: 28 Feb

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

If along with many others you've already given up on your New Years Resolution, here's a simple and achievable one you can easily stick to. Help save our #seabirds from invasive predators like rats by checking your bag, vehicle, cargo and boat for signs every time you get out on the waves this year

2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️ Are you: 📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work? 🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too) 💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food) Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant Apply by 28 Feb 💌

What do #seabirds have to do with #sharks? New research shows that seasonal seabird activity draws #tigersharks into certain habitats, prompting other sharks to shift their movements - reshaping habitat use across entire ecosystems. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦 ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca... Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland

Regular reminder that keynote nominations are open for our conference on avian disease ecology. Pls repost or forward to anyone researching avian disease! We are keen to get nominations from underrepresented groups or regions - if you know someone like that please nominate them! #ornithology

Can we communicate our reaserch in more fun and accessible ways? I loved working with Anna @btobirds.bsky.social on her fantastic comic illustrating our recent work using seabird poo to look at their diet! Find out more at www.bto.org/our-work/new... #ornithology #seabirds #SciArt

Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?! #seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

Looking for an amazing opportunity to work with Manxies this summer?? 👀 #seabirds #fieldwork

Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖 Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology ✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree

Isle of May avian ecologist #job #seabirds - come join our team, we’d love to chat if you have questions, please just get in touch ⬇️

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