Back from the holidays with a splash, the latest episode of Fieldnotes is out. We think you'll find this episode all about seabirds is well worth the wait. Ariel-Micaiah Heswall shed light on why our city lights make rough nights for seabirds.  Listen now on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/3k85...

Absolutely loving the first year PhD Lightening talks at our annual Dept. research & teaching celebration. @kamyabio.bsky.social tells us about her project on sleep disturbance in birds. 🧪🌏🐦 #SBS @aucklanduni.bsky.social

Want to learn about the iconic Tuatara?🦎 Listen to this episode of fieldnotes where we have Cam Hoffbeck, PhD student at the University of Auckland talk about the tuatara gut microbiome, the secrets of microbiomes in space and what the tuatara sound like: open.spotify.com/episode/24xr...

Olfactory and visual acuity differences between seabirds may make some families more susceptible to plastic ingestion than others, hypothesises @kamyabio.bsky.social. Shags were most likely to have ingested microplastics. #AOC2023

So excited to be involved in this project - the research and the team are absolute dreams!!!!

Last weekend, I saw a kiwi in the wild for the first time!! Crazy considering 1) I am a kiwi 2) I am an #ecologist 3) I STUDY BIRDS I am truly grateful for how far kiwi conservation has come, but I'm wondering how many kiwis (people) go their whole lives without ever seeing a kiwi (bird).

Absolutely terrifying considering the extent of mice invasion 🫣

What an absolutely incredible achievement! So stoked!!! Well done!!!!