🎺 Roll-up, roll-up! Another new paper has just been published in Seabird #38! 🎺
Hunter et al. (2026) explore the wintering-site fidelity of Brünnich's guillemots in Greenland.
👇 Read all about it here 👇
seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-38-2
More often than times I visited someone whose toothpaste isn’t doing ok!
I was honoured to join the @adriftlab.bsky.social for a field season on Lord Howe Island. Something that will stay with me forever.
#seabirds
Not islands, but near one close to my heart, there is Lower East Pubnico, Centre East Pubnico, Middle East Pubnico, East Pubnico, Pubnico (!!!), Upper West Pubnico, West Pubnico, MIddle West Pubnico, and Lower West Pubnico.
That's 4 too many! I know they're green, but originality goes a long way. If they can name their towns Heart's Content, Heart's Desire, and Dildo, they should be creative enough when it comes to naming islands!
How many "Green Islands" are there in Newfoundland and Labrador that turn out to be Leach’s storm-petrel colonies?
‼️🚨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
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....
An artistic photo of plastic from one Sable Shearwater chick laid out in a series of concentric circles on a black velvet background. Each circle has larger plastic with forks and tetra-pak lids in and full bottlecaps in the outermost layer.
Sable Shearwaters aren't an outlier—they're a preview. Chick maximum plastic loads rose from ~200 pieces in 2011 to ~900 in 2025. And the plastics treaty has stalled.
More: adriftlab.org/news/the-can... 3/3
#ornithology #PlasticPollution #WildOz #seabirds
Attending #WSC2026 and have some spectacular seabird photos? 📸
Enter the Seabird Photo Contest below! ⬇️
Razorbill Alca torda with an unfamiliar plumage phenotype during banding and morphometric processing at Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick, Canada
New paper alert: Plumage aberration on a Razorbill by Danial Oliker, Tony Diamond, and @heathermajor.bsky.social.
#seabirds #OpenAccess
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡🦆🦅 . 🗓️ Deadline within next 7 weeks (~25th of May).
🔗link: lnkd.in/eKgPNX2m
info below!! 👇
#ornithology #biologging #birds #birdresearch #birdtracking
For #SuperSeabirdSunday why not answering this survey about tracking device failure. Thank you!
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...
Check it out @dmennill.bsky.social !
Atlantic Puffins standing outside burrows at a colony.
First papers from volume 54(1) of @marineorno.bsky.social are coming!
Atlantic Puffin mortality along the Portuguese West Coast in early 2023. by Rute A. Costa et al.
www.marineornithology.org/PDF/54_1/54_...
#seabirds #OpenAccess
For #SuperSeabirdSunday why not answering this survey about tracking device failure. Thank you!
You're invited to complete a short anonymous survey about device failures in bird biologger deployments! 📡 🦆
Responses accepted within the next 8 weeks. 📆
Survey link is in our bio 🔗
If you have questions please email failedbiologgingdevices@gmail.com 📧
Check out the new guidelines for Seabird. You can have your abstract in any language you want (in addition to the mandatory english one)!
#seabirds
The AOS is providing Travel & Caregiver Grants to help defray expenses & accommodate various dependent-care needs to attend #AOS26 in Amherst, MA.
**Applications due 3/15/26.**
Travel: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...
Caregiver: meeting.americanornithology.org/participate/...
Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.
The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…
theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...
So much energy only to get a desk rejection. I haven’t had one of those in a long time ! 😞
And….. submitted!
Why does it always take so much energy to submit a manuscript.
My current brain status:🪫
#seabirds
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. 🎙️🐣
Photo of a sign and recycling container for the California Fishing Line Recycling Program.
Discarded fishing hooks, lines, etc. are deadly for waterbirds. Although there's no US law, many state/local regulations require signs and recycling containers in fishing areas for discarding fishing line, etc. Contact your local Parks & Rec or state Fish & Wildlife for help in your area. 🌎 #birds
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
❗🐧👀 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...
Thank you to @thelabandfield.bsky.social and @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social , @adriftlab.bsky.social for the engaging conversations!
#seabirds
Kirsty stands on the cliffs above a large Gannet colony.
Kirsty Franklin – Seabird ecologist
Last summer I led an all-female field team on Mousa, Shetland. We had been up all night waiting for our tagged bird to return, and at the end of a successful night, we were rewarded with a spectacular Aurora Borealis!