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 💌

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off. Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨 We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...

⚠️ BTO research predicts devastating declines in seabird populations in Britain & Ireland under future climate change. Some species face staggering losses by 2050, with up to 90% declines for Puffin and more than 70% declines for Arctic Tern and Fulmar. ➡️ bit.ly/seabirds-climate #Ornithology

We witnessed an exhilarating apex predator event yesterday as the 64s Orcas cruised through Bressay Sound here in Shetland. We've recorded them attacking birds many times in the last 25 years but the skill to hunt this drake Common Eider was incredible. #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK

A sleepy view of a pair of Black-winged petrels on a lazy afternoon, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶

A curious Skokholm puffin #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

⚠️ Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. #UKBirding 📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae... 📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report

Yesterday the Puffin army returned, creeping closer and closer which allowed us to do a whole-island count. A staggering 13,174 were counted rafting, the highest number since 1934! Today, they made their first 2025 landfall, two days earlier than the 2013-2024 first birds ashore mean. Welcome home!

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/...

A puffin with a beakful of nesting material #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Early release: The first paper from Seabird 37 has been released! 📰 "Tracking of Black-legged kittiwakes from an offshore platform in the Dutch North Sea during summer" 🕊️🗼: @robvanbemmelen.bsky.social et al. (2025). Read the full paper here 👀 -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

The Southern Shark Ecology Group has been tracking Tigers in the waters around Norfolk Island, with arrival and departure the same as Wedge-tailed Shearwaters. A huge 75% of their diet is seabirds! We are in the 1st stage of a collab to see if shark and shearwater migration areas match.#Seabirds🪶

Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds

From pilfering chips to swallowing whole starfish, gulls are known for their voracious appetites. University of Salford ecologist @alice-risely.bsky.social wants people to upload their snaps of hungry gulls to the project's website: citsci.org/projects/gul... #seabirds

Ok #superseabirdsunday, I'll play! Here are some northern #fulmars doing what they do best at the flow edge of Admiralty Inlet in #Nunavut #Arctic #Canada

Fluffy fulmar chick #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

From a family of great penguins to the solo little penguin, get to know your penguin family tree this #PenguinAwarenessDay! 🐧💙

Subtropical breeding, surface-nesting Kermadec petrel chick on Phillip Island off Norfolk. Study in its 8th year. At one of our sub-colonies aptly named ‘Mars’. Feeling immensely privileged to have such access. #SuperSeabirdSunday 🪶

A black guillemot making its voice heard #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Happy new year everyone! ✨🎉 Our training grant applications are now open! The deadline for applications is the 28th of February. To apply for our training grants, click the following link or use the website as stated below: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

Portrait of a razorbill #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Had a lovely Christmas bonus this morning while walking the dogs, when a juvenile white-tailed eagle flew super low over the village 🥰🦅

An adult Herring gull with their three chicks #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Great skua recovery at Hermaness and Noss national nature reserves is slow following the H5N1 influenza strain outbreak of 2022. Juan Brown of NatureScot shares more in an article for Sky News https://buff.ly/3BynKqX #seabirds

Puffins in sync #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Marine heat wave confirmed cause of death for 4 million birds (Common Murres) in 2016. Half of Alaska’s Common Murre population at the time. Largest documented animal die-off in modern history. As little as 2C temp increase drastically their altered food chain. 🧪🌎🦉 www.science.org/content/arti...

Think #stormpetrels just wing it to find a meal? 🍽️ Think again! Finally, our study is out: these tiny #seabirds use ocean dynamics to find #foraging grounds in the #WestMed. And guess what? Well-placed #MPAs help keep their ‘favorite restaurants’ open.🧑‍🍳 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fluff ball update! Our last two Storm-petrel chicks in the nest boxes on Nólsoy (Faroe Islands) are SO CLOSE to fledging now. Here's some pics from Jens-kjeld on 28th November. Will they fledge this week?? Fledglings have been seen on Christmas Day before in the Faroes! #TeamPetrel #PetrelPhD

A puffin peaking out from its burrow during my time on Skokholm this spring #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fulmar with two chicks #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

Out now!🔊 The SMP Report provides an overview of the status of the UK’s breeding #seabirds since 1986. It further highlights declines as shown by the recent Seabirds Count, a census of Britain & Ireland’s seabirds. Read the report➡️ www.bto.org/smp-publications @rspb.bsky.social #Ornithology