🌊The collapse of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation would result in increase of 47–83 ppm of global mean atmospheric carbon dioxide and 0.2°C of additional global warming at higher carbon dioxide background levels.🧪
@pik-potsdam.bsky.social
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Exciting news for seabird and ocean conservation: governments have formally recognised marine flyways at #CMSCOP15!
Read how marine flyways can benefit migratory seabirds in this @mongabay.com article by BirdLife's @tammyedavies.bsky.social and Aline Kühl-Stenzel
➡️ tinyurl.com/MongabayMarFly
Adult Mōlī and chick
What looks like aggressive behavior between adult albatross & chicks isn’t. Chick-rearing is a parent-specific effort—not a shared community task.
=>See more in comments.
Even the harder moments we see on Kuaihelani teach chicks survival.
Credit to USFWS volunteer Sophie Elliott.
#Birds
Line graph time series of monthly global carbon dioxide and methane abundance from January 1984 through 2026. There are seasonal cycles and long-term increasing trends for both greenhouse gases. Current carbon dioxide levels are at 439 ppm, and current methane levels are at 1946 ppb.
The latest monthly status on carbon dioxide and methane levels...
For more data/info: gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/
This is terrifying- especially for Australia and our neighbours immediately to the north. Likely to impact the GBR 🪸 next summer.
Spectrogram of Markham’s storm-petrel.
New paper on acoustic data to estimate the relative density of Markham’s storm-petrel.
#seabirds #OpenAccess #Acoustic
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
Breaking News!
Code UFB!
Global sea surface temperatures continue breaking daily records, with Mar. 23 having a preliminary SST of 21.141°C, ahead of the previous daily record of 21.118°C set in 2024.
This graph shows how fast SSTs are rising compared to pre-2023 temperatures.
A common tern in flight, holding a fish in its beak.
If you're a tern looking for bespoke accommodation on the east coast, we have just the place for you. The Maid of Sterna Stuff III, our new specialised tern raft, is now on-site at Montrose Basin.
Find out more 👇
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Painfully accurate www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWrd.... Well done, @thejuicemedia.com.
Shame on @albomp.bsky.social, Murray Watt, Roger Cook and co.
Photo shows crested terns lined up in the same direction on a jetty above cristal clear water and a bright blue sky with ciro-stratus clouds
Easterly winds apparently!
The data visualization above shows how air temperatures over land areas in 2025 departed from the average for 1951-1980.
The increasing probability of heat extremes, including out of the traditional summer season...
Graph shows shifted distribution of surface air temperature anomalies. Visual by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5613/
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Hell yes! @birdlifeoz.bsky.social
Your 'moment of doom' for Mar. 12, 2026 ~ The less you know!
"The decline in climate news continued to deepen in 2025, when global coverage fell another 14 percent from the year before, and was especially noticeable in the United States."
grist.org/language/glo...
Breaking: APVMA suspends sale of persistent owl poisons in Australia! We have fought tirelessly for years and after meeting with them last week this is not an outcome we had anticipated! www.apvma.gov.au/news-and-pub...
Native plant restoration provides habitat for #Birds on Kuaihelani. Loulu, naio, mili and nehe are propagated and outplanted year-round by USFWS staff and volunteers. Mahalo to volunteer Sophie Elliott for photos.
#ornithology
www.biographic.com/after-the-ou...
requiem for vanished birdsong
Now online in Journal of #Ornithology
Seasonal dynamics of urban bird communities: impact of habitat on breeding and wintering bird communities in a northern temperate region
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#ornithology
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Outrageous. Alcoa has just been granted a Federal exemption to allow it to continue to mine Jarrah forest. It already has a State exemption.The exemptions allow Alcoa to ignore environmental approval processes. Most clearing has occurred since 2010. Rehab has failed is excessively behind schedule
🌊 The CSIRO Marine National Facility (MNF) invites Australian
researchers to apply for sea time on RV Investigator in 2028-29, to deliver research, innovation & training projects supported by MNF infrastructure, equipment & expertise. Applications close 19 May 2026.
Get onboard at www.csiro.au/mnf
#ornithology
r2rbirds.org/news-and-eve...
A dead Puffin lies on wet sand, its black and white feathers darkened and slick against the beach. The bird rests on its side, wings folded, with its distinctive orange bill clearly visible against the pale sand.
Heartbreaking: Right now, thousands of Puffins are washing up along our coasts and further afield.
It is devastating to see.
These birds are Red-listed in the UK and already under serious pressure.
Mass deaths like this, known as a “seabird wreck”, can take years for colonies to recover from...
Massive wreck of #puffins #seabirds in France, Spain and Portugal after successive storms (same period as the 2014 event)
All age classes founded: 1st winter, immature and adults
After some research, from 1869 to 2016, one third of European #seagrass area was lost due to disease, deteriorated water quality, and coastal development
The highest decline was the 1970s and 1980s
#GES4SEAS #MOOC #oceanoptimism
#MarineEcology #Research
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11340-4
How has HPAI affected population level declines? In 2023/23 resulted in drastic decrease in adult survival, a driver of dynamics in long lived seabirds. Resilience analysis revealed HPAI outbreaks couls cause long lasting demographic impacts.
👉 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
On the Falkland Islands Rockhopper penguins often nest with Imperial Shags intermingling closely nests side by side in places. On Sea Lion Island there is a mixed colony like this at the top of a steep and forbidding cliff with a gully that the waves crash into with ferocity. A few years ago a freak wave came over the top of the cliff and all but wiped out the imperial shag's nests and chicks there. The next year very few returned and the penguin colony dwindled as well to try and encourage their return the Island managers placed concrete models in the stones on the top of the cliffs to try and attract the birds - the plan, or just nature, has worked and although the colony is still not as big as it was once it has increased in number each year since - there were a good number of shag nests just out of shot. Photo of an adult rockhopper penguin, standing on rocks, showing the characteristic white front, black head face and neck with yellow eyebrows and black and yellow head tuft feathers. On one side is a half reclining brown fluffy chick and on the other a concrete model of a sitting Imperial Shag.
Rockhopper and chick next to.... hang on, is that a petrified shag???
Story in Alt
Sea Lion Island #FalklandIslands Jan 2026
200mm f9 1:1000 ISO800
#BirdOfTheDay #OddCouples #birds #EastCoastKin #penguin #Twosday #Wildlife #ArtYear #Travel
Dr Beth Cookson , Delegate to WOAH and Chief Veterinary Officer of Australia, informed WOAH that a simulation
exercise, Parks Australia ANBG1, on #H5N1 high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) will be conducted in Canberra, ACT, on 20 February 2026.
www.woah.org/app/uploads/...
The white-backed swallow survives the extreme temperatures of inland Australia by reducing its body temperature to save energy.
👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/tiny-ra...