Luke Halpin

The circular #seabird economy is critical for oceans, islands and people

Good evening #Vancouver

Pilbara Olive python illustration @terngirl.

Population genetic diversity, structure and relatedness in the cryptic Pilbara Olive Python. Zoë Hamilton The Biodiversity Conference

Cartoon by @twisteddoodles showing Halloween costumes to scare scientists.

🎃 Halloween costumes 👻 to scare scientists!!!

Essington's Austral-Stingless Bee Austroplebeia essingtoni illustration by @terngirl

Partnerships between Nyangumarta Warrarn Aboriginal Corporation & DBCA have uncovered diversity of native bees in Walyarta Conservation Park. Sugarbag bee identified as high value to Nyangumarta people. 36 taxa recorded, 9 undescribed. Melaleuca spp. critical host. The Biodiversity Conference 2025.

Great desert skink, Liopholis kintorei, illustration by @terngirl

Dorian Moro & Wiluna Martu Rangers. A site was identified by rangers in healthy spinifex. Ground searches found scats, active burrows & tracks. Remote cameras confirmed tjakurra, the first for Matuwa Kurrawa NP / IPA. Surveys have identified 116 active burrows. Biodiversity Conference 2025.

Great Sea Turtle Chelonia mydas

Great overview of the Yagarrajalajalan Nagula Buru Project which is tagging green sea turtles and dugongs to identify and map how turtles, dugongs and humans all use Yawuru Saltwater Country (around Broome in Western Australia). www.yagarrajalajalan-nagula-buru.org TheBiodiversity Conference 2025

Bogong moth illustration by @terngirl

In spring, over a billion Bogong moths travel from all over SE Australia to a place they have never been before, Alpine caves, to spend the summer in aestivation. In Autumn the same individual returns to its breeding ground & dies. How do they do it? Prof Eric Warrant. The Biodiversity Conference.

Securing the future of the Critically Endangered Margaret River Hairy Marron #crayfish Kim William DBCA The Biodiversity Conference

The toad containment zone illustration @terngirl

@judydunlop.bsky.social tells us about the TOAD CONTAINMENT ZONE to prevent cane toads from reaching the Pilbara. The Biodiversity Conference

Nice one! We had a good haul of boletes and chanterelles last week which a Czech friend turned into a delicious sour mushroom soup.

Common guillemot with a sandeel for a chick. Inner Farne Island UK, 2024

Light lunch

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography

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

Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences Seabirds are among the most threatened bird groups globally, yet research effort is unevenly distributed among species, with some taxa receiving exten…

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...

Good evening from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

Good news everybody! The Independent Planning Commission just REFUSED the bid to restart Redbank Power Station, noting unacceptable negative impacts on native flora and fauna. Common
Sense prevails!
www.ipcn.nsw.gov.au/cases/restar...

Good morning!

Good morning from #BritishColumbia if you zoom in you can see the dorsal of a bull transient killer whale

Good evening from Hartley Bay #BritishColumbia

Central coast of British Columbia 👍🏼

Cracker of a waterfall on the #britishcolumbia central coast 🇨🇦

Good morning!

Estuary goodness on the #britishcolumbia central coast

Steller sea lions in the beautiful Pacific Northwest #britishcolumbia #Canada

Cream brick building with ‘Singleton Council Civic Centre’ on one wall, and a bronze sculpture of a bearded chap with a wide brimmed hat. No relation.

In Singleton to address the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding a proposal to clear half a million hectares of woodlands in Western NSW, intended as biomass feedstock for Redbank Power Station. In my professional opinion this will push embattled outback flora and fauna closer to extinction

Not advised. This plant is super invasive.

New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Adult survival in a small seabird, Hydrobates leucorhous, covaries with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation over the past six decades | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Seabirds’ annual survival is influenced by numerous factors, but oceanic conditions are among the most significant. Indices used to monitor these conditions typically cycle over decades. Using the lon...

Talk about a long-term study! The dataset for our fresh-off-the-press survival paper on Leach's storm-petrel was started before most of the authors were even born!
#seabirds #itsnevertoolatetostartalongtermstudy

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Little Corellas against flag flying. #AusBirds #Cockatoos

Pretty good day at sea in Bass Strait with some nice #seabirds and a few Antarctic Minke #Whales among other cetaceans. 🐋 🐦