Needing to model impacts on seabird populations in Northwest Europe? Not sure where to find useful values for demographic variables? Look no further! In this new paper, we provide model-derived values for age-specific survival of 25 species. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Super excited to share the first paper from my PhD! 🎉 We found that rivers don’t just matter for wetland birds - they also help support terrestrial insectivores, thanks to the flow of energy and nutrients from aquatic insects. 🌊🦟 Read more here: 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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

New study on factors influencing collisions of Red Kite Milvus milvus with wind turbines: findings suggest that turbines with rotor diameters <90m and clearances > 60m may pose a lower relative threat to Red Kites. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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

Out now in Behavioral Ecology. We built weigh bridges that allow us automatically to track the energetics of a sensitive, nocturnal seabird. We show how these devices can help answer fundamental questions about parental care. doi.org/10.1093/behe...

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

#OpenAccess in #BirdStudy Herring Gulls really don't like people staring at them (antipredator response). The eyes have it: the response of European Herring Gulls Larus argentatus to human eye-gaze doi.org/10.1080/0006... #ornithology

New paper out about elevational shifts in European birds lead by @josephinecouet.bsky.social: "Solar Radiation Affects Bird Distributions but Not Elevational Shifts in European Mountains" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @emmamarjakangas.bsky.social @andreasantangeli.bsky.social @ebcc.info

📣 New publication in the journal Animal Behaviour from our Adam Butler led by @edinburghnapier.bsky.social in collaboration with @ukceh.bsky.social. 📰 Read the summary here: www.bioss.ac.uk/case-studies... 📕 Read the full paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project results published today with Adrian Smith & @sheldonbirds.bsky.social 212 host-parasite interactions, including 70 not previously reported, & a recent switch to gulls by some Louse Flies, Hippoboscidae. @btobirds.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Why are Procellariiform seabirds most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere? Our study found that wind patterns and time since evolutionary origin best explain the extratropical peak in breeding species richness of these remarkable seabirds. 🐦💨 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The UK is among the most nature depleted counties in the world. A horrendous fact. Can you help reverse this by donating some cash to help the Wildlife Trusts buy the enormous Rothbury Estate so they can bring back wildlife? www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

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 💚

NEW PAPER: Artificial nest boxes trap more heat than natural burrows, pushing little penguins beyond safe thermal limits. As temperatures increase, nest box design improvements are critical to prevent population declines. ➡️ vist.ly/4bz8w #ornithology #birds #climate 🪶

We are still interested in any found twite feathers for a study on the relationships and genetic diversity between the British groups - particularly now for birds of Scottish origin in the NE of England or, birds on the Avon. DM me for me more info. #birdringing

Egg abandonment leads to biased estimates of hatching failure in birds | doi.org/10.1017/S095... | Bird Conservation International | #ornithology 🪶

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...

One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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...

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

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised

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!

Going west or going east? Wintering strategies impact population trends in Brünnich’s guillemots from Svalbard - work by the Norwegian Polar Institute #seabirds seapop.no/en/2025/10/d...

New preprint! 🪶 We analysed 60 years of data on 83,000+ great tits to show how extreme climate impacts on nestling growth and survival are stage-specific and context-dependent 🐣 🌍🔥❄️ With @davididiaquez.bsky.social @iremsepil.bsky.social @sheldonbirds.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Job vacancy 🧪 Principal Conservation Scientist, RSPB Cymru Can you provide the evidence needed to save and restore the iconic species and landscapes of Wales? Deadline: 3rd Nov Location: Flexible within Wales Duration: Permanent Apply here: app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... 📷Jake Stephen

Large citizen science datasets are powerful tools for biodiversity science, but they may have biases. Nice new paper from @louisbackstrom.bsky.social et al. showing that for eBird and Birdtrack lists there is a tendency for rare species to be over-represented onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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) ⭐

A nice thread highlighting key findings from our new paper estimating parameters of #HPAI in subsequent outbreaks in common terns. We developed a Bayesian inference approach to infer parameters from just carcass counts. #seabirds #statisticalecology #diseaseecology doi.org/10.1111/1365...

Out @animalecology.bsky.social today - a paper with David Ewing in which we explore the #HPAI outbreak in the terns. We find bird-to-bird transmission to be the main driver of infection and estimate the probability of mortality to drop from 0.26 to 0.14 from 2022 to 2023: doi.org/10.1111/1365...

New paper: Females Red phalaropes arrive at wintering ground before males. By Yerko Vilina et al. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.marineornithology.org/PDF/53_2/53_...

Excited to be helping with this! Always love working with ringing data, and great to do so working on such an interesting question ☺️

This collar-ringed European White-fronted Goose (T7Z) was ringed in Netherlands in Nov 2024 and had previously been reported at 2 other sites in Netherlands before turning up on #SKilda today. Reported to cr-birding.org. Incredible what we can learn about birds' movements from ringing projects!

We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦 We are recruiting for 5 roles: Secretary 👩‍🏫 Assistant Journal Editor 📉 Social Media Lead 🤳 Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝 Website Officer 🧑‍💻 Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

Temporal Variation in Early-Life Conditions Impacts on Later-Life Levels of Infection in Sex Specific Ways | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Important date for your diaries ‼️ Our AGM is Wed 12 Nov - 12 midday (online) 📔👩‍💻 ALL our members are welcome & we'd love you to join us if you can. A number of roles have also come up within the committee - details on how to apply to follow. Not yet signed up? www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership

Many lichen species are sensitive to nitrogen pollution, making them natural indicators of air quality. 📱LicheN is a new app enabling people to help monitor air quality using lichens. Data gathered will improve understanding of N pollution and its impacts on ecosystems. buff.ly/AmWAOQB 🧪 1/

Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏 🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026 Click the link for all the info 🤓 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4

🚨 Master’s project! Curious how birds find their way? 🧭🐦 Analyze decades of ringing data to study abnormal migratory routes and uncover what these deviations can reveal about the mechanisms guiding birds on their journeys. Drop me an email for details! #ornithology www.vogelwarte.ch/de/wir/mitar...

Just launched, spmapper is a new marine spatial planning tool from UKCEH! By estimating where and how much seabirds eat, spmapper can help with siting new offshore windfarms and protection areas. nerc-ceh.github.io/spmapper-pkg...

A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏 ⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti... #seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

1/ New study! #Seabirds are among the most threatened groups of birds globally, and a new study looked at how emerging technologies can be optimally harnessed in seabird monitoring. ➡️ www.bto.org/new-tech-seabird-monitoring #Ornithology

Been great fun visiting @flamboroughbird.bsky.social last week, and am super excited to be back in a few days! Awesome start to the project with 4 birds sampled in the last 4 days, we're hoping to use #genomic data derived from feather samples to see where these enigmatic birds come from ☺️

We’ve been delighted to host @joewynnbirds.bsky.social this week at FBO as part of the Trans-Siberian genoscape project tracing geographic origins of vagrant birds with 3 Yellow-browed Warbler sampled.

🌐🧪🦤 Automated cameras in remote field sites captured breeding data for at-risk #doublecrestedcormorant in #StraitofGeorgia #BritishColumbia. Multievent capture-recapture models were used to understand negative effects on nest success across entire breeding season. bit.ly/esr_58_85

EARLY VIEW in IBIS Effect of a previous high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAIV) infection on the breeding success of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) | onlinelibrary.wiley.... Sue Lewis et al | #ornithology 🪶

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...

📡 New insights for seabird monitoring New tech could reshape how we track seabird populations in a changing world. ✍️ New Editor’s Choice in #IJMS www.ices.dk/news-and-eve... 👉 Read the paper doi.org/10.1093/ices... 📸 @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social

🚨 New #seabirds paper 🚨 Following a workshop at the International Seabird Group Conference 2024 & led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, we review opportunities & challenges for new technologies in seabird monitoring 🎥💻🐣 Link below! ⬇️ #ornithology doi.org/10.1093/ices...