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

Please check out this interesting presentation on #stormpetrels and #lightpollution in the Faroes by collaborator and PhD student @bardseyben.bsky.social #seabirds 🧪🌍 kvf.fo/sjon/sending...

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

Do you like using social media? 🗣️ Are you a bit of a TikTok Queen (or King)? 🤳 Do you want to help support #seabirds? 🕊️ We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚

That's right - you only have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the Seabird Monitoring Programme! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

It’s #Auktober! Here’s a Little Auk from Svalbard. #birds

For #SuperSeabirdSunday and #Auktober here's a photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. If you look closely you can just about see there is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag 🥰🥚🐣🐥

Hey seabird folks - have you ever thought "*ANOTHER* talk about <species X>?!" So did we. So we reviewed 3000 conference abstracts to see which species get the spotlight. Huge work from @ingridpollet.bsky.social with me and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com: our review of the influence of #seabirds, via their nutrient transfer, on islands & adjacent marine ecosystems 🐦🏝️🪸 We highlight knowledge gaps & future directions ✨ "The circular seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people": doi.org/10.1038/s443...

📢 PhD opportunity at @cebc-chizelab.bsky.social @ifv-whv.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social 🎓 Interactions between contaminants and parasites in common terns 📅 Apply by 12/12/2025 at euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380142 #seabirds #ecotoxicology @univ-larochelle.fr @commonternproject.bsky.social

📢 Paper alert! A new study led by Miriam Gimeno reveals how cumulative extreme events are threatening penguin habitats across the Southern Hemisphere. 🧊 Published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social 🔗 https://short.do/SEwQ74 #ClimateChange #Penguins @icmcsic.bsky.social

Have you ever wondered about the disparities in #seabirds species at conferences? Are we talking about all the species? Wonder no more. We (@thelabandfield.bsky.social @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social @ingridpollet.bsky.social) have the answer! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Post-doc position at CEBC to work on quantitative genetics of albatross populations using pedigree and genomic data. Info and application at emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Contact Timothée Bonnet for more details #postdoc #seabirds #Genomics

Reading about the decline and ultimate extinction of the Great Auk upset me so much that it brought me to tears. So much so that I made a pilgrimage to the NHM to see one of the few remaining specimens. #Auktober

A collection of puffins for #Auktober! 🪶 #birds #birding #puffin #birdsky #auks #puffin #seabirds

On the importance of incorporating behavioural-state differentiation when identifying key spatial areas for seabirds. #seabirds animalbiotelemetry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Another day, another #auk. The Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is born black+fluffy, with several years before developing its bright red feet fully. These are associated with sexual maturity @2-4 y/o 👣 Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober

A puffin fly past. Taken on the Isle of May a few years ago. #SuperSeabirdSunday

#Auktober 😎

"Did someone say.... euphausiid shrimp?" 👀 Crested Auklet to continue the #Auktober celebrations

An #auktober pair of Razorbills (Alca torda) 🖤🤍🖤🤍 These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝 #seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen

study looks at #hook availability to #seabirds during pelagic #longline soak. Gear configurations, setting speed, implications for #leatherback #seaturtles #bycatch cross-taxa effects. Goad et al 2025 www.bmis-bycatch.org/references/r...

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The first paper from our #kittiwake/ oil platform work has been published! 🕊️🗼 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 2387 AONs were recorded on 14 (28%) assets. Could equate to 16,382 across pictured assets 🔺 or 7% of UK/ Ireland population, but not currently incl. in #seabird census!

Conservation Pays Off for England's Smallest Seabird RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...

#auktober 🐧

🌍🐧 Fully-funded PhD Opportunity joined between La Rochelle University (France) & @sosbangor.bsky.social (UK): Understanding Antarctic Ecosystem Resilience through Penguin Energetics ❄️🎓 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114

🌍🐧 PhD: Study how Adélie penguins reveal Antarctic ecosystem resilience. (based in FR+UK) Use AI + bio-logging (GPS, video, sensors) to link climate change, fisheries & conservation. 👉 Apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380114 #PhD #Antarctica #Ecology #AI #ClimateChange @sosbangor.bsky.social

You know the Laughing gull, but do you know the Laughing Razorbill? This one was encountered in Newfoundland in 2023. #seabirds #Auktober

#Auktober Ringing and geolocator-tagging Guillemots, Colonsay 2024. We had a great retrieval rate this summer. And John Hegley has a great poem/song about giillemots, a song shared with me by the late Dave Fox www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

New short communication: First Common Murre seen off the Azores, by Luis Barcelos et al. #Auktober #seabirds #ornithology #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

The Least auklet (Aethia pusilla) everybody! *SO* tiny 👏 #leastbutnotlast #auktober

I've been remiss in celebrating #Auktober, so here are four delightful pics of the smollest one, the Least Auklet from Kiska Island, Alaska (where there are 1.2 million PAIRS in about 2 km sq). Bonus early PhD Alex for scale.

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Celebrating all-things auk for #AUKTOBER 🐧

My daughter, who doesn't have social media, is writing an article on the expansion of Neotropic Cormorants in Ontario, Canada & hybrids between Double-crested & Neotropic Cormorants. She's struggling w/ resources on the distribution of pure birds or hybrids. Can anyone help? #Ornithology #Seabirds

By now issue #60 of our newsletter should've hit your inbox! 📩 This time is a hefty one, inclu. round ups from many #seabird breeding colonies around the UK! 🐣 We've got herons predating kittiwakes, brood patches in stormies & we spotlight Lindsay Young - VP. Research for Pristine Seas (NatGeo) ⭐

Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟 These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓ #Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday

Website Manager position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Websit... Apply by sending max. 200 words to [email protected] explaining why you're interested 🤩 [Common tern image: Debs Allbrook] #seabirds #teamtern #WebManager