🚨 New paper alert!🚨 Using biogeochemical markers, we showed that offshore stranded juvenile Leach's storm-petrels are different from inshore stranded juveniles and nestlings. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @thelabandfield.bsky.social

Biogeochemical markers in juvenile Leach's storm-petrels (Hydrobates leucorhous) stranded offshore are distinct from inshore stranded juveniles and nestlings

Pelagic seabirds are one of the most threatened bird groups globally. Attraction to, and disorientation by, artificial light at night (ALAN) is a key …

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A little Leach’s storm-petrel fluff ball for #SuperSeabirdSunday ! #seabirds

Thank you to @penguinacho.bsky.social, Ellie Leech & Andie McQuillan for a brilliant 'Being queer in seabird science' panel discussion this morning! ❤️🏳️‍🌈💭 There's still time to fill out our EDI survey so we can work to make The Seabird Group more inclusive for all. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The Seabird Group Diversity and Inclusion questionnaire

The Seabird Group is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion within the seabirding community. Summary statistics on these data will be used to monitor our progress on increasing diver...

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An unusual storm-petrel was collected off Newfoundland and Labrador, and we (including @thelabandfield.bsky.social ) wrote a paper about it! #seabird

The Seabird Group@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 4d ago

🔔Another new Seabird 38 paper is available online!🔔 Pollet et al. (2026) discuss an unusual storm-petrel collected offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. 🤔 doi.org/10.61350/sbj... #seabirds #ornithology

Another great #seabirds paper by amazing @liamtaylor.bsky.social !

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now on the cover @esajournals.bsky.social Front. Ecol. Env. with @ejgnam2.bsky.social beautiful photo from world's coolest site by Francesco Ventura Young seabirds are mysterious - but we need to keep learning about them! They matter for biology, and for conservation! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Taylor et al. Prebreeding populations and the importance of life history for conserving imperiled seabirds esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology #seabirds

Prebreeding populations and the importance of life history for conserving imperiled seabirds

Seabird conservation often focuses on nestlings and breeding adults. Yet imperiled seabird populations also contain prebreeders, including juveniles and subadults, that wait several years before bree...

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Momentarily moving away from #seabirds. Butterflies can also fly! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extensive climate-induced range shifts in butterflies across the globe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Insects are increasingly pressured by climate change. Here the authors compile global evidence of range shifts in butterflies and call for more co-ordinated efforts in documenting such trends across c...

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I hope you enjoy my headless Gray heron!

Congratulations to Laurianne on completing the first field season of her graduate studies! She’s studying the bioacoustics of Leach’s Storm-Petrels with Dr. Ingrid Pollet and me, as part of a big collaborative petrel team led by Dr. Patty Jones. @ingridpollet.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

🎨🐦 Calling all creative seabird enthusiasts! 🐦🎨 We’re launching 'Creative Seabird Pursuits', a newsletter feature celebrating seabird-inspired art, photography, writing, sculpture, cooking & more! Send your work to newsletter@seabirdgroup.org.uk (subject line 'Creative Seabirds') to be featured!

You know what they say: if you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes ! 18 minutes between those two pictures.

Arrived at Shag Harbour tonight. On my way to Bon Portage Island in a few days. It’s hard to imagine that in the morning I won’t be able to chat with Captain Lee, the island caretaker for many many years as he passed away last fall.

A lovely Leach’s storm-petrel for #SuperSeabirdSunday

On our way to North Green Island to survey for Leach’s storm-petrel. #seabirds

Off to Kent Island via Grand Manan. Time to do some field work with new student Laurianne Bazinet (co-supervised with @dmennill.bsky.social ) on Leach’s storm-petrels. #seabirds

can anyone point me to good work on behavior, timing, and coordination of egg-laying at nests and burrows in #Seabirds ?

For our new study of acoustic communication in Leach's Storm-petrels, Laurianne and I deployed Song Meters at the entrances of birds nests to sample their vocal behaviour during incubation. A collaboration with Ingrid Pollet @ingridpollet.bsky.social, Patty Jones, and an A+ group of colleagues.

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Michelle Wille@duckswabber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally published, is the outcome of surveys and HPAI detections in skua species in 2024/25. Detections as far south as Marguarite Bay. 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We focus on the benefits to #seabirds of keeping #islands free of invasive non-native mammalian predators but removing invasive predators from islands or ideally using #biosecurity to prevent them reaching islands in the 1st place benefits the entire #ecosystem www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Lord Howe Island got rid of its rats and mice – now its ‘wonderful’ insect life is back

Invasive vermin decimated the island’s native flora and fauna – but its unique cockroaches and beetles are thriving once again

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Today is #WorldOceanDay ! 🌊 Seabirds navigate vast, predictable marine flyways – superhighways in the sky – across the open ocean, linking nations, ecosystems and hemispheres.🌏 Six marine flyways are used by more than 150 migratory seabird species.🗺️📍 Find out more👉 www.seabirdtracking.org

Cis folks - this is what I mean when I say allyship is having skin in the game.

Weird Alex@jackalpants.bsky.social · last yr.

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

Laurianne has joined our Leach's Storm-petrel research team! This summer she is conducting field research on Kent Island. In September she will begin a Master's degree, co-supervised by myself and Dr. Ingrid Pollet. Welcome to our team Laurianne! @ingridpollet.bsky.social @ibiouwindsor.bsky.social

For decades, researchers have measured #PlasticPollution by counting individual pieces. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story: internal damage caused by plastic (eg. inflammation) is largely invisible

It has been an honour to work with the long-term data set from Kent Isl. After a survival paper (doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2710), here is a mate-switching paper. Huge thanks to @liamtaylor.bsky.social on this one! A third one is under review. #seabirds #OpenAccess www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Permanent and temporary mate switching in a long-lived seabird: insights from a 64-year study

In long-lived socially monogamous animals, pair bonds play a crucial role in breeding success. In many predominantly socially monogamous animals, howe…

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Just a just days late for #WorldBeeDay, a swarm of bees circled our garden today!

Do you know of an inland or coastal Common Gull colony? Any abundance or productivity data on this under-monitored gull would be incredibly valuable for the @smp-seabirds.bsky.social #seabirds #ornithology #ScottishBirds

strom-eptrel , storm-eptrel, sotrm-peltre, storm-petrel!!! All those years working on storm-petrels and I still struggle to coordinate my fingers to type it correctly on the first try! #seabirds

Didi Typing Fast in Dexter's Laboratory

ALT: Didi Typing Fast in Dexter's Laboratory

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What must the average lifespan of a seabird species be for it not to be considered long-lived? Asking for all those "long-lived seabirds" I read all the time! #seabirds

Colony managers know it The literature ignores it! Many seabirds are young - juvenile, immature, subadult, prebreeder - and we know v little about them! Here's our paper on why you should care about young seabirds for conservation! W/ @ejgnam2.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/fee....

Watch our local organising committee preview what you can expect at WSC4, from albatrosses and shearwaters to little penguins, all within reach of Hobart. bit.ly/4vnwNBU WSC4 | Hobart, Australia | 7–11 September 2026 #WSC4 #MeetInAus

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Discover Hobart’s Extraordinary Seabird Coast A Preview from the Local Organising Committee wsc4 announcements Find the latest information on the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4), includin…

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