One European shag with a metal ring and blue Darvic colour ring and one sitting on a nest.
Our next ECR talk is all about seabird ringing! 🐦 Join us to learn how ringing works, opportunities to get involved, and how ringing data supports key research and conservation.
🗓️: Friday 20th March
⌚: 09:30- 11:00 (GMT)
📍: Online
Signup here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📸: Will Brown
This #WorldWildlifeDay, we’re celebrating the seabirds of the Isle of May — from Puffins & Guillemots to Razorbills & Kittiwakes.
These cliffs support thousands of breeding birds, a powerful reminder to protect our marine wildlife & coastal habitats. 🐦🌊
#IsleOfMay #seabirds #ornithology
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We are looking for an emerging scientist with an interest in #seabirds and #conservation for a 🌟new scholarship position🌟
⏱️Deadline: 13/03/2026
🐧Fixed term 12 months, 35 hrs/pw
📌Cambridge/ Hybird
Come join our fantastic team!
Full #job details ➡️ tinyurl.com/BLIemergings...
⏳ Deadline approaching!
This is a final reminder that our Training Grants closes on the 28th of February.
If you are from a BAME background, and would like to gain seabird volunteering/ ringing experience we can provide support up to £250.
For more info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
Plus breeding season reports from Farne Islands, Flamborough & Filey Coast SPA & Isles of Scilly, our Research & Training Grant reports and introductions to our newest committee members! 🐧💰
Issue #161 of our newsletter should have hit your inbox or doormat! 💌
We call for hosts for our 2027 conference, hear about an ancient storm petrel specimen and are updated on one of Europe's largest Sandwich tern colonies. 🎙️🐣
A Manx shearwater chick being weighed in a plastic bowl on weighing scales.
⚠️ There's just one week left to apply for both our Research Grants and Training Grants ⚠️
Deadline for both is 28th February!
More details can be found on our website here: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
2. Arizaga et al. 2026 Mammal predators as a factor contributing to breeding collapse in the largest Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) colony in the southeast part of the Bay of Biscay. doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
❗🐧👀 Two new "early-release" papers from the Seabird 38 journal are now available on our website 👀🐧❗
1. Kühn et al. 2025 Group feeding of Northern Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis on the hydrozoan Sarsia princeps on Svalbard doi.org/10.61350/sbj...
If interested, please contact christopher.heward@rspb.org.uk for more details.
A European storm petrel nesting among rocks in Mousa, Shetland.
The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland.
We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️
🚨 We’re recruiting!
We’re looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect the Beacon Ponds Little Tern colony at Spurn.
👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news
This image shows the cover of issue 37 of SEABIRD journal by The Seabird Group. It is of a ringed guillemot with two small chicks, standing on a rocky wall. There are other parent birds with chicks in the background.
#Seabird Journal issue #37 is complete and has been sent out to those who requested a physical copy 😊
Remember to check your mailboxes!
It is also available to read online here ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37
#science #seabirds
BSc summer internships with Onni Talas Foundation (that pay better than my first 2 postdocs): www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...
A photo of a puffin standing amongst a mix of coastal plants and flowers. The puffin's feet are hidden by the plants while its bright white chest feathers, black back and vibrant red and yellow beak emerge above them. Behind the puffin, there are blurred coastal cliffs. Photo taken by Camilla Blasi Foglietti on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Handa Island Wildlife Reserve.
If you're looking for an adventure this year, we've got some fantastic opportunities to volunteer on Handa Island! These are unique opportunities to join a close knit-team in a wild and remote location! 🌊
Visit our website to find out more and apply today
bit.ly/4bFytiH
Delighted to be at @btobirds.bsky.social today working on the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social archive - starting with our journal's first issue 60 years ago!
![A trail camera in a tree branch, in front of a bright blue sky.
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A trail camera in a tree branch, in front of a bright blue sky. [Image: Furkanvari/ Unsplash].
As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛
❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb
Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants
A puffin stands on a rock in the rain. Photo: Jacqui Glencross.
Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃
We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!
We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋
For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb
Abstract submission has been extended until 23rd January 📣
Good luck to all those applying!
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If along with many others you've already given up on your New Years Resolution, here's a simple and achievable one you can easily stick to. Help save our #seabirds from invasive predators like rats by checking your bag, vehicle, cargo and boat for signs every time you get out on the waves this year
Hi Rodney. This is an image of a seabird researcher 'grubbing for Storm petrels'. This is a field technique where you reach an arm into the burrows to check for eggs, chicks or adult birds - it often helps to lie down to achieve maximum stretch distance! Hope that helps 😊
Person lying on a forest floor grubbing for Storm petrels. Image: Ingrid Pollet.
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 💌
What do #seabirds have to do with #sharks?
New research shows that seasonal seabird activity draws #tigersharks into certain habitats, prompting other sharks to shift their movements - reshaping habitat use across entire ecosystems.
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Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland
Regular reminder that keynote nominations are open for our conference on avian disease ecology. Pls repost or forward to anyone researching avian disease! We are keen to get nominations from underrepresented groups or regions - if you know someone like that please nominate them! #ornithology
Can we communicate our reaserch in more fun and accessible ways? I loved working with Anna @btobirds.bsky.social on her fantastic comic illustrating our recent work using seabird poo to look at their diet!
Find out more at www.bto.org/our-work/new...
#ornithology #seabirds #SciArt
Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!
#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday
Looking for an amazing opportunity to work with Manxies this summer?? 👀 #seabirds #fieldwork
First two pages of the comic. Page one features a Kittiwake in the sky wondering where all the birds have gone. Page two shows how climate change impacts the diet of seabirds. One fish looks healthy, the other ones looks smaller and poorer quality.
Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖
Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology
✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree
