Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old!
#stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms
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A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social
#ornithology
Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.
Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation!
We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice.
Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions!
Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106
How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9
!📃New paper📃!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move
I’m excited to share our new paper in Ecology!
Our 9‑year study across an urban–rural gradient shows native trees, especially oaks, boost blue tit breeding success. More native foliage supports more of the birds preferred prey and improves reproductive success.
📃 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #ornithology
✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds
doi.org/10.1002/2688...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social
One year field technician position to work on White Storks in Portugal.
Deadline 3 Feb 2026!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402634
🚨NEW PAPER🚨🦊
The main thing I learned during my PhD is that foxes are smarter than me.
We had gotten funding, we were collaborating with management authorities, we had the fancy collars... We were ready to investigate fox movement ecology. But we weren't catching any foxes. (1/5)
🧪🌍
Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...
A northern fulmar nesting on the Isle of May
Looking at pictures taken during fieldwork on the Isle of May, including this disgruntled fulmar, and excited to feel the warmth of the sun during longer days 😎
Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.
A new study in Marine Biology shows that black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) from two Norwegian colonies adopt distinctly different winter migration strategies. Researchers provide valuable insight for coastal conservation.
🔗 bit.ly/4pEyEya
Our latest blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada”, authored by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra.
buff.ly/wMtD5JT
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
New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...
NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU
New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!
We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮
#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds
Figure with two panels. Left panel: visualisation of a 3D movement track. Right panel: visualisation of the 3D direction of movement as two angles (one horizontal angle and one vertical angle).
We have a preprint about modelling three-dimensional movement tracks, led by @njklappstein.bsky.social.
The model takes the form of a step selection function and, just like in 2D, it can include directional persistence, attraction to targets, and habitat selection.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.
Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?
We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣
🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology
We churned through over 100 million radar samples to quantify the structure of migration through the airspaces across the United States: Just out in Ecology esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
NEW on #theBOUblog from Anya Shackleton-Jones
A Seabird Success Story? Temporal Monitoring of Kittiwakes and Fulmars in East Iceland
bou.org.uk/blog-shac...
#ornithology 🪶
ECOCHANGE RA Job description
ECOCHANGE Research Associate #foodwebs #offshorewind #stableisotopes For more info see www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
A fine black toad with bright white fingers, toes, and lips, and brown pustular blobs along its legs, resting on a dark green leaf.
A black and white toad on a green fern frond. The head and limbs are grey, and the body black.
A toad looking at the camera over a brown leaf, its black body splotched with yellow and white. It is very Halloween-core.
A black toad with huge yellow glands on its legs, head, arms, and parts of the back. Jack Skellington himself could hardly have painted a more Halloween-flavoured toad.
Today we described three new toad species that give birth to fully formed toadlets, from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania! 🇹🇿🧪🐸
vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com/article/1670...
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
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
A European Shag.
🐦⬛ | Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a newly published study led by #EdNapier.
The paper reveals that environmental conditions before the breeding season appear to have an impact on mate faithfulness.
Full story ➡️ orlo.uk/Zfiqf
#MustBeNapier
NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation to track #seabirds from Rathlin Island and analyse data to identify foraging areas (deadline 10 Nov): buff.ly/K0zcdH8
