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Across 6 years, we marked common tern family members to study their provisioning behaviour & energy acquisition. The resulting paper, showing that both parents and offspring vary in quality, reflected in their feeding rate, is out now in Animal Behaviour: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

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Good to see plenty of #gulls in the Forth getting some of their five a day last weekend 🫛 Photo taken under licence. #seabirds #ornithology

This #SeabirdShowOff we have Mairi Grant 🤩 Mairi is a professional, award winning, published photographer based in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. After getting her first camera at the age of 11, Mairi has been hooked with photography ever since, particularly wildlife & #seabirds! 📸🐦

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#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø. Apply by 1st September. nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post... #jobs

Norsk institutt for naturforskning | Postdoctoral position in spatial population modelling in seabirdsnina.attract.reachmee.com IntroductionNorwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) is the leading research institute for applied ecology in Norway. Applications are invited for a two-year postdoctoral research associate posi...

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Access to black-legged kittiwakes at the Middleton Island tower is unparalleled. >30 years of research on this banded population of known-history individuals by the Institite of #Seabirds Research and Conservation (ISRC) and still going. Lucky to be here studying kittiwake behavior and physiology.

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#theBOUblog - Revealing the unknowns of Ancient Murrelet foraging Have a read of this blog summarising a recent #ibisjournal paper about using GPS to understand movement behaviour Blog: bou.org.uk/afm-murre... Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley....#theBOUblog - Revealing the unknowns of Ancient Murrelet foraging Have a read of this blog summarising a recent #ibisjournal paper about using GPS to understand movement behaviour Blog: bou.org.uk/afm-murre... Paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.... #ornithology #seabirds

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Abbott's Booby landing on Christmas Island with its typical feet-down, tail-up pose. It's an endangered species that now only breeds on Christmas Island. #birds #seabirds #WildOz

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Pelagic cormorants are slightly under-appreciated #seabirds on Middleton Island, Alaska. They are extra poopy and parasite-laden (the not-actually-joking joke is that when they regurgitate, the puke gets up and crawls away) but are also mesmerizing dinosaurs with stunning blue eyes.

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📢 FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Applications now open for our Small Research Grants and Career Development Bursaries Funding #ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...#ornithology around the globe Deadline: 31 October 2024 ➡️ Research Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s... ➡️ Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...

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A balmy mill-pond calm morning eventually gave way to wind and rain by dusk and the day's shearwaters reflected the conditions: c90 becalmed Balearics through the mrng and 500+ Manx streaming east during the evening. An Arctic Skua and 50+ Med Gulls also off the Bill. Just a new Reed W on the land.

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Solstice sunset (11PM) at the kittiwake tower on Middleton Island, in the Gulf of Alaska. An amazing place for #seabirds and science.

Make sure you check out this month's #SeabirdShowOff -er, Joshua Pedley, aka 'The Wildlife Man'. 📸 Josh took the wonderful Manx Shearwater photo which we are using as our header photo across all our social media platforms this month. 🌊🐦

Time for a new #SeabirdShowOff! This month, we have Joshua Pedley, otherwise known as ‘The Wildlife Man’. Josh is originally from Windsor but moved to the Welsh coast in 2019 in a bid to surround himself with the amazing marine & coastal wildlife that West Wales has to offer. 📸🐦

🌊 New in SEABIRD 36 (Early Release) 🌊 Jacqui Glencross and colleagues: 'African #penguin Spheniscus demersus foraging on juvenile fish in jellyfish tentacles' 🐧🐟 #SeabirdJournal 🐦 🔗 www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-36-5 📽️ youtu.be/hBNu4ooc2TA?...

Seabird 36-5: S1 Jellyfish fish prey captureyoutu.be S1 Jellyfish fish prey captureSupplementary video for https://doi.org/10.61350/sbj.36.5

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June is a great month to visit some of Scotland's wonderful seabird colonies, such as the Isle of May, Fowlsheugh, or even St Kilda for the very adventurous! Find some of the best sites on our free app: www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/birdin... #birding #soc #scottishbirding #seabirds #nature #puffins

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Golden Bosun at Christmas Island last year. This golden form of White-tailed Tropicbird is a Christmas Island special. #seabirds #birds

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In order to make the trapping as good as possible, I estimate predicted hatching date using egg volume over mass Aldará et al (doi.org/10.61350/sbj...) #fieldcraft #seabirds 🌍🧪

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This looks good, by @robthomasbirds.bsky.social "The first definitive work on the European Storm-petrel and its relatives, by one of the world's leading experts on the species." There's a pre-order offer before publication on 18 July. #Seabirds #Ornithology www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stormpetr...

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Rangers are hopeful the Farne Islands are clear of bird flu as they prepare to start the first full puffin count since 2019. #Seabirds #Ornithology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hopes Farne Islands are clear of bird flu as puffin count startswww.bbc.co.uk An outbreak of avian flu killed thousands of birds and closed the islands to visitors for two years.

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Another encounter with #fishing nets that are killing #seabirds. We couldn't save the shag anymore, but the guillemot got to live. #fieldwork at Sklinna #Norway for @seapop.bsky.social

It's #PrideMonth! Follow in @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social's steps and head to our Teemill store to buy your #seabird themed pride merch: seabirdgroup.teemill.com 🏳️‍🌈🌊🐦

This month excitingly I've got Edinburgh Pride with my amazing cousin and Dundee Pride with my wonderful friends @mkhardywrites.bsky.social so I've treated myself to one of the excellent pride-themed t-shirts from @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social seabirdgroup.teemill.com

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Helping the Walney gull census earlier this week, some of the nests were very early with chicks looking about 10-14 days old! Early nesting is said to be a sign of a healthy gull colony. Numbers didn't feel significantly bigger than last year, but will wait for the warden to work out the final tally

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Seabirds on a Welsh island could face "catastrophic consequences" after a lifeboat got stuck on rocks and started leaking fuel, a conservation group has said. #Seabirds #UKBirding www.bbc.com/news/article...

Skokholm: Seabirds 'at risk' from stuck lifeboat leaking fuelwww.bbc.com There are fears birds like puffins face "catastrophic" consequences from the stuck lifeboat.

Are you based near Plymouth, Devon UK? This weekend they are holding an arts festival (#GullFest) to celebrate their wonderful #seabird cohabitants, the gulls! 🐦 Find out more below: www.instagram.com/gullfestplym... 🎨 eventbrite.com/o/gullfest-8... 🎟️ #TeamGull #seabirds

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Kittiwake count in Rørvik. #Seabirds #fieldwork for NINA & @seapop.bsky.social. Looks like the #avianinfluenza outbreak last year had no major impact on this population #HPAI #H5N1

Great opportunity to join the @rspb.bsky.social's Marine Team as a Project Manager (12 months, part-time) on an exciting tracking feasibility project 🌊🐦 #seabirds app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... Deadline 5th June 📅 📸: David Stanley

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Our latest paper on #plasticpollution and trace elements in #Arctic #seabirds www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Petrel field work positions available in Iceland and Faroe Islands this summer! One paid field assistant position (up to 3 months), as well as volunteer positions (1 month minimum) in both Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Applications are sought ASAP for a mid-June start ⬇️🧵 #seabirds 🐦

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Black Iris in a gull on trail camera; the adult at the same distance has a very obvious yellow iris, but the 3cy does not, I know the iris can look very dark but this looks unusually so? Thinking of dark iris in Gannets who survive HPAI #seabird #gulls @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

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New preprint out now about foraging ecology of the endangered Bermuda petrel (Cahow)! Check it out on @biorxiv-behav.bsky.social 👇

Fine-scale movement data of the endangered Bermuda petrel highlights surface foraging and greater nocturnal flight activity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.08.593164v1

Fine-scale movement data of the endangered Bermuda petrel highlights surface foraging and greater nocturnal flight activity. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.08.593164v1 www.biorxiv.org Foraging behavior plays a fundamental role in animal fitness and population dynamics, particularly i