The head of a Sable Shearwater being held, illuminated with a headtorch light
New paper with @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social in ES&T: We know Sable Shearwaters show measurable harm from plastic ingestion but this isn't just a story about one species. 🧵 1/3
📄 doi.org/10.1021/acs....
‼️🚨New Paper Alert! 🚨‼️
Using a decades-long dataset on puffins in the Faroe Islands, we show a change in population age structure and relate the increase in older birds/decrease in cohort sizes to (pre-)hatch year food availability.
doi.org/10.1002/wlb3...
@kasiawojczulanis.bsky.social
🗞️❗ Another early release from Seabird #38❗🗞️
Scotwin et al. investigate feeding rate and breeding success in Atlantic puffins.
Have a read here 👇:
seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-1
Spring is an amazing time to go outside and enjoy some incredible wildlife encounters, both around the coast and inland. 🌳🌊
However, during breeding season many birds are vulnerable to disturbance, especially those nesting on the ground.
📷©️Greg Macvean
Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
From the May 1968 issue of the @rspb.bsky.social members magazine "Birds"
Our Chair @thelabandfield.bsky.social has found some real treasures in the archive @btobirds.bsky.social ! 🔎🌟
Attending #WSC2026 and have some spectacular seabird photos? 📸
Enter the Seabird Photo Contest below! ⬇️
We would be grateful if you could take part in our 2026 Diversity and Inclusion survey 💙
Within The Seabird Group, we're tracking our progress and working to build a more diverse, inclusive community 👥
It takes just 5-10 minutes to complete ⏲️
Take the survey here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Want to work at @icmcsic.bsky.social with #UrbanEcology, #SpatialData and #Gulls? 🏙️🖥️🧪📊
See the #JAEIntro26 below 👇
sede.csic.gob.es/tramites/pro...
@igue-aeet.bsky.social @imares-group.bsky.social @sibecol.bsky.social @eco-aeet.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @csic.es
More information on the Shag project can be found on the @ukceh.bsky.social website: www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/...
It's a massive collaboration between organisations, ringers, sites and observers!
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #ornithology
Have any of your biologging devices ever failed? ⁉️
If so, we’d like to hear from you! 👂
Researchers at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, are investigating biologger device failure rates to help improve research practices. 🎓
The survey takes just 10 minutes to complete:
forms.gle/fZW9n2dojJVB...
The main changes include:
👉We now accept abstracts in a language other than English, in addition to the mandatory English abstract.
👉We request 3-6 keywords.
👉We encourage authors to make their data publicly available.
A red-tailed tropicbird under a boulder.
Thinking of submitting your manuscript to our journal Seabird? 📜🐧
Check out our new and updated guidelines here:
www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/journal/guid...
📸: Alex Bond
📢 #Postdoc in #seabird #demography
Capture-recapture, IPMs and PVA. Analyses underway - great stage to join the project. Hybrid/remote possible. Apply: bit.ly/3P3yAM1
Please share widely, informal email enquiries welcome
@theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social
Can we overcome the shifting baseline syndrome? At @au.dk they offer at three year PhD project Co-supervised by me, which aims to intertwine local ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to gain insights into seabird breeding distributions prior to rat invasion
phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...
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
