#JobAlert 🪶
Come work with us!
3-year #research position with a focus on #seabird and prey interaction 🐟🪶🌏
📍Based in wonderful Tromsø, Norway ☃️
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
📢 #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
🔊 JOB VACANCY
Would you like to work at the heart of a global ornithological membership society?
BOU are seeking a Journal and Engagement Manager to play a central role in delivering our mission
⏰ Apply by 14 April
bou.org.uk/vacancy-j...
#ornithology 🪶
New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social
🎉 Abstract submission is open for the EOU Fledglings Meeting 2026 in Gdańsk, Poland (27–29 March 2026)!
📝 Submit your oral/poster abstract:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📅 Deadline: 16 Jan 2026
More info: eounion.org/fledglings
#EOU26 #Ornithology
📢 BOU COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN
➡️ Awards Nominations Committee
➡️ Engagement Committee
➡️ IBIS Management Committee
➡️ Meetings Committee
➡️ Records Committee
Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme
More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
#ornithology 🪶
📢 APPLICATIONS OPEN
For BOU Member Conference Attendance Grants
Now funding member attendance at any #ornithology conference 🪶
Low-carbon travel encouraged
⏰ Deadline: 5 January 2026
bou.org.uk/funding/m...
📢 REGISTRATION OPEN
#BOU2026 | Birds and people | 31 March - 2 April 2026
University of Nottingham & Zoom & Bluesky
Check out the programme and book your place today!
bou.org.uk/event/bir...
#ornithology 🪶
Small step in tech needed to upscale tropical island eradications!
Our new paper in Biological Invasions outlines the tech needed to eradicate rats from islands with large areas of mangroves - currently a major barrier for tropical island eradications. The paper is available at: rdcu.be/euJjf
🔈 APPLICATIONS OPEN...
...for BOU Small Research Grants & Career Development Bursaries
Application deadline: 31 Oct 2025
Full details via links ⬇️
Grants: bou.org.uk/funding/s...
Bursaries: bou.org.uk/funding/c...
#ornithology 🪶
📢 CALL FOR KEYNOTE NOMINATIONS
#BOUasm25 | A day at the museum | 18 Nov 2025
We're seeking nominations for keynotes at #BOUasm25
Anyone can nominate and you can do so here: bou.org.uk/event/a-d...
Nomination deadline: 31 Oct 2024 | #ornithology
📢 REGISTRATION OPEN!
#BOUasm24 | Birds and net zero: mechanisms, impacts and solutions in the transition to clean energy
24 Oct 2024 | York, UK & Zoom & X (Twitter)
➡️ In-person & online
➡️ 5 keynotes
➡️ 11 short talks
➡️ Summaries on X
bou.org.uk/event/birds-...
#ornithology
‼️ DEADLINE EXTENSION ‼️
#BOUsci24 | Avian conservation translocations | 12-13 Nov 2024
We've received some fantastic poster & X-only abstracts for #BOUsci24, but there's still space for more. Submit now!
⏰ New deadline: 14 August
bou.org.uk/event/avi...
📢Call for abstracts open
#BOU2025 Frontiers in ornithology
Check our the keynote lineup and submit your abstract now!
bou.org.uk/event/fronti...
Deadline: 2 Sept 2024
#ornithology
📢 REGISTRATION OPEN!
#BOUsci24 Avian conservation translocations | 12-13 Nov 2024 | Zoom & X
➡️ 8 x keynotes
➡️ 21 x short talks
➡️ 1 x panel discussion
➡️ BOU member reduced-rate
➡️ Hub attendance option
➡️ Free BOU LMIC member places
bou.org.uk/event/avian-...
#ornithology
📢 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...
#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø.
Apply by 1st September.
nina.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/57-post...
#jobs
Image shows the journal title 'Marine Biology' as well as the paper title 'From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird', the author list (Ruth Dunn, Robin Freeman, Malcolm Nicoll, Julia Ramsden, Alice Trevail, Hannah Wood and Steve Votier), a map of red-footed booby foraging tracks and dive bout locations, a photo of a red-footed booby and some text that reads 'Red-footed booby dive bout dynamics vary across their foraging journeys and are impacted by environmental conditions and the diurnal cycle'
Out now in Marine Biology: "From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird" 🐦🐟
doi.org/10.1007/s002...
We found that red-footed booby habitat selection varied between their foraging routes in comparison to their dive locations 🌊🌞
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 🐦
‼️ Call for abstracts open
#BOUasm24 Birds and net zero
24 Oct 2024 | York, UK & Zoom & X (Twitter)
bou.org.uk/event/birds-...
Deadline: 30 June 2024 (0900 BST)
#ornithology
We're pleased to announce the 3️⃣ successful applicants of our 2024 training grants 🥳
Gwennan is heading to Skokholm Island, Jelaine is visiting Isle of May Bird Observatory, and Jonathan is going to Bardsey Bird and Field Observatory!
We hope they have wonderful #seabird -filled experiences!
🚨 Applications open for 2024 Brenda & Tony Gibbs Award
The #BOUGibbsAward is for studies tracking the movements and migrations of birds 🦅📲
bou.org.uk/funding/b...
Single award of £20,000 available
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2024 | #ornithology
Logo for the 16th International Seabird Group Conference with added text of 'call for abstracts now open'. The logo features the Coimbra clock tower with a Cory's shearwater flying in front of it.
⚠️ Abstract submission closing soon!! ⚠️
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Come share your awesome #seabird research with us at the 16th International Seabird Group Conference in Portugal, 2-6 September 2024.
Deadline: 15th April 2024 📅
Abstracts to be submitted online here: ucpages.uc.pt/events/coimb...
Great #scicomm project led by my colleague Signe Christensen-Dalsgaard illustrating the dramatic declines of #seabird populations in Norway.
The article is in Norwegian but the photos speak for themselves.
www.nrk.no/trondelag/xl...
#ornithology #birds
Really cool paper by @anflack.bsky.social’s group providing strong support for the “exploration-refinement” hypothesis - the idea that learning shapes how individual #migration routes develop in long-lived species.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#ornithology
Screenshot of The Seabird Group’s Bluesky profile.
It’s really great to @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social join us over here in the Bluesky! Looking forward to some great #seabirds posts and #ornithology from this pioneering society.
#birds #birding #ukbirding
‼️ APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN ‼️
...for the 2024 Brenda & Tony Gibbs Award
The #BOUGibbsAward is for studies tracking the movements and migrations of birds
bou.org.uk/funding/bren...
Single award of £20,000 available
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2024 | #ornithology
Fresh off the press: new study on winter-feeding and migratory strategies of Atlantic puffins and black-legged kittiwakes from Røst, Norway #seabirds #migration #stableisotopes
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The migration tracking programme of @seapop.bsky.social, SEATRACK, are now deploying geolocators on large numbers of juvenile seabirds including puffins, so in a few years we should know much more about the post fledging movements of North Atlantic seabirds!
A puffin chick with a geolocator
Happy to see this new #seabird paper out in SEABIRD (Early Release)
'Post-fledging movements of Atlantic Puffins from Skomer Island'
Very small sample size but interesting first insight into what puffins get up to after leaving their nest!
www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-36-1