Maria Mudd Ruth’s latest book on Pigeon Guillemots, “The Bird with the Flaming Red Feet: Seasons with an Uncommonly Common Seabird”, her book on Marbled Murrelets, “Rare Bird: Pursuing the Mystery of the Marbled Murrelet”, and an adorable trinket dish with those bright red guillemot feet!

The most exciting mail to arrive this week!

As a result of the Pacific #Seabird Group charity auction, I was fortunate enough to take home Maria Mudd Ruth’s latest book on Pigeon #Guillemots, her book on Marbled #Murrelets, and an adorable trinket dish with those bright red #guillemot feet! ❤️

A young Julia with two coworkers, putting insects in ethanol in a hotel bathroom.

Three people wearing bee suits examining a hive frame, standing amongst a row of beehives.

Three beetles in a Tupperware container.

A close up of a beehive frame, including a few uncovered pupae, with honeybees crawling all over the honeycomb.

10 years ago today, I accepted my first #research job in an #entomology lab, focusing on #bee research. That summer, I knew I wanted a career in #science.

Past Julia couldn’t have imagined where that opportunity would eventually lead her, but present Julia is so happy that she took that chance. 🥰❤️

Marine Plastic & Seabird Research | Adrift Lab Adrift Lab is a research group focused on seabirds and marine plastics research. Our mission is to use insights gathered from our long-term research to inform marine and waste policy, and to drive pos...

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@adriftlab.bsky.social has never had government funding. What we have had - for nearly two decades - is a small group of deeply committed people, long-term datasets, and a community who makes it possible.

Our website now celebrates that out loud. 🔗 adriftlab.org

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds have increased tremendously over the past decades - and that #UAV monitoring can reveal the full extent of these colonies: buff.ly/ocefm59

Great news from the Convention on Migratory Species @cms.int
Marine #flyways are recognized for #seabirds. 🌊 🪶 www.seabirdtracking.org/special/mari...

>30% seabird species are threatened and >50% are declining.

Great example of #science informing #policy. #sciencepolicy

This research on how changes in #seaice can impact penguin distribution highlights the importance of #adaptivemanagement of #protectedareas.

#climatechange #seabirds #conservation

Great synthesis on threats to #seabirds in the #Atlantic.

“Addressing invasive alien species on Tristan da Cunha & Gough and on the islands of the Canary Current are the interventions with the greatest potential to stimulate seabird population recovery across the Atlantic Ocean.“

Article below ⬇️

Image displays a lighthouse on a small island with the text 'Northern Ireland Seabird Report 2025'. The BTO logo is in the bottom right hand corner.

The 2025 Northern Ireland Seabird Report has now been published! Head to: www.bto.org/our-work/sci... to read about how Northern Ireland's breeding seabirds fared in 2025 #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @bto-ni.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Diving ecology of Procellaria #petrels highlights the need to combine bird-scaring lines, weighted branch lines, and night setting in pelagic longline #fisheries zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #bycatch @wileyecology.bsky.social

The image announces the publication of the Seabird Population Trends and Causes of Change: 1986-2024 report. The main image displays a pair of Kittiwakes and features the logos of the SMP, BTO, JNCC, and RSPB.

We’re pleased to announce the release of the 2024 Seabird Monitoring Programme report, in partnership with JNCC, in association with the RSPB.

Click here to read the report: www.bto.org/our-work/sci...

Read on for key findings ⬇️
#seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Assessment of land‐based threats to Atlantic pelagic seabirds Highly mobile pelagic seabirds face numerous land-based threats during their breeding seasons, including invasive alien species, climate change, and diseases, which drive population declines. Using f...

🚨New paper & dataset - Assessment of land-based threats to #Atlantic pelagic #seabirds 🌊 🪶 , led by @ioannis-kalaitz.bsky.social

Highlights the most impactful threats & regions.

Supports the #conservation of 49 #migratory species & implementation of mitigation measures
doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

I have a bunch of great skuas frozen whole in freezers, that I need to take apart due to lack of storage. I will take samples tomorrow, but get in touch if you want random reference material of a North Atlantic top predator

#seabirds 🧪🌍

📢 #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

Black-legged kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) readily consume Arctic cod (Boreogadus saida) in the Canadian Arctic: insights from stomach content and stable isotope analyses The Arctic is undergoing rapid declines in sea ice and changes in Arctic ecosystems. The diet of one of the Arctic’s most abundant seabirds, the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla), has been use...

Interested in learning more?

Read the full article in #ArcticScience here:

cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/10....

Future work should include other methods, such as #regurgitates and #faecalsamples, to better understand #black-leggedkittiwake diet in Arctic Canada.

Nevertheless, as #climatechange impacts increase, this study provides benchmark data for monitoring changes in this #sentinel #seabird and its prey.

Plot with stable carbon on the X-axis and stable nitrogen on the Y-axis, showing the difference in isotope values between predator (black-legged kittiwake) and prey (fish and invertebrates). Black-legged kittiwakes are in the middle of the plot, below Arctic cod.

After accounting for dietary discrimination, #δ13C and #δ15N #isotope values in kittiwake livers were at a lower #trophiclevel than Arctic cod.

What does this mean? While kittiwakes do consume Arctic cod (as seen in stomachs), stomach analysis may underestimate soft tissue prey, such as #inverts.

Bar graph showing Arctic cod as the dominant prey type, where Arctic char, Northern prawn, and Euphasiidae species only have one occurrence each.

Based on #StomachContents alone, #prey did not differ between regions, where the dominant prey was Arctic #cod.

However, only two soft-bodied #invertebrates were identified in stomachs, as most prey items were heavily digested.

So what are we missing? #StableIsotopes can help answer this.

The diet of one of the most abundant Arctic #seabirds, the black-legged #kittiwake, has been used as an #EcosystemIndicator in Europe, yet little is known about diet in #ArcticCanada.

We examined the diet of kittiwakes near #Qikiqtarjuaq and #Mittimatalik, #Nunavut, using multiple methods.

🚨 #HotOffThePress in @cdnsciencepub.com

"Black-legged #kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla) readily consume #ArcticCod (Boreogadus saida) in the Canadian #Arctic: insights from #StomachContent and #StableIsotopeAnalyses"

This is the last chapter of my #PhD to be published!

A thread🧵of the main results:

The evening of the blizzard. A house, barely visible through the haze from blowing snow, has a faint glow from the lights on inside. A streetlight glows in the background, shining light on blowing snow.

The morning after the blizzard. A window with snow blown onto the window ledges outside, covering 1/4 of the window, with more snow dotting the rest of the window.

My favourite part about #blizzards in the #north: lighting a candle, cuddling up with a blanket and a good book, and listening to the winds as they rock these buildings on stilts.

Nature is beautiful.

#seabirds

As a #seabird #biologist, I know all to well how difficult it can be to deploy tracking devices that last long enough on the #bird! This new study uses 3D-printed clamp systems to deploy tracking devices on #seabirds.

Read the full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’

- @thecccuk.bsky.social finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds Rising temperatures making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions

‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds

- “Hundreds of millions of people can no longer safely go about their daily lives outside during hottest parts of the year” says @lukeaparsons.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Alyssa Eby and Samantha Smuk, helping with Eastern Canada Seabirds at Sea surveys on a boat in Frobisher Bay.

Jennifer Provencher, teaching the Environment and Technology Program at the Nunavut Arctic College how to look for parasites in intestines.

Sarah Gutowsky, helping a small snow bunting get unstuck from some twigs and line.

Carina Gjerdrum and I, teaching Eastern Canada Seabirds at Sea surveys on a boat in Frobisher Bay.

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the #women in my life.

I’ve been so fortunate to have had incredible female role models throughout my career, from having a female supervisor in my undergrad, my masters, and my PhD, to now being surrounded by incredible women at work.

I am so grateful. 👩‍🔬💪

The image shows two figures, a and b. Figure a shows a map of Europe with thermal positions indicated by color-coded hexagons, ranging from -1.0 to 1.0. Arrows point to "Reduced negative impacts" and "Increased negative impacts." Figure b shows a scatter plot of effect size vs thermal position with a fish illustration on top. "Biomass change estimates" indicated by circle size.

A study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution reports that long-term ocean warming reduces global fish biomass by up to 19.8% annually. Warmer years and marine heatwaves were linked to sharp biomass losses of up to 43.4%. go.nature.com/40b6AIB 🧪 🌍

Arctic Eider Society A registered Canadian charity supporting Indigenous driven solutions for thriving communities through self-determination in research, education and stewardship.

#ornithology
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‘A real dark situation to be in’: thousands of starving seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and terns are washing up on shores across Europe, after a string of storms affected their ability to find food

“A real dark situation to be in”: thousands of starving #seabirds stranded in biggest ‘wreck’ in a decade.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#BlackGuillemots are widely distributed #seabirds, nesting under rocks along coastlines, which makes surveying an entire population challenging.

This project is a great example of #CommunityBasedMonitoring that will support the assessment of #guillemot populations in the UK!

Really interesting #PhD opportunity combining #LocalEcologicalKnowledge and #science to better understand changes in #seabird distributions over time in the context of #InvasiveSpecies.