Variation in food availability affects the population age structure of Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica in the Faroe Islands Across their entire Atlantic breeding range, Atlantic puffins Fratercula arctica have experienced decreases in food availability, often leading to population declines. The species is one of the most ....

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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.

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A flying adult Great Black-backed Gull over the water. Photo by Luke Seitz.

🚨 In press: Seasonal variation in trophic niche and resource use in Great Black-backed Gulls by Langlois-Lopez et al.
#seabirds #TeamGull #OpenAccess
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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

Infographic summarising the 2025 Atlantic Puffin breeding season on the Isle of May. It shows two key metrics: breeding success of 0.75 chicks per pair (above average) and adult survival of 82%, which is on the long-term average. The graphic includes simple icons and highlights that adult survival is an important indicator for long-lived seabirds. Source: UKCEH.

Last but not least in our 2025 Isle of May breeding summary:

Puffins nest in burrows, raising a single chick each summer before spending winter at sea. They take ~3 years to mature & can live for >30 years.

📊Breeding success: 0.75, above average
📉Adult survival: 82%, average

#IsleOfMay #Seabirds

Promotional image for the Northern Ireland Seabird Report Launch, featuring photos by Sorrel Lyall / BTO. Text reads: Talk by Daniel Johnston, BTO’s Senior Research Ecologist, GPS Tagging Lesser Black-backed Gulls on Lough Neagh. Location: Coffee Cure, Bangor. Date: Thursday 26th March. Time: 6pm to 8pm. Book your tickets here: bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport-2025

🌍 Find out about the surprising movements of Lesser Black-backed Gulls!

BTO’s Senior Research Ecologist Daniel Johnston will talk about GPS tagging Lesser Black-backed Gulls on Lough Neagh at the Seabird Report Launch on 26th March

Registration closes 19th March! 👇
bit.ly/NI-SeabirdReport-2025

The title block of a research paper in Proceedings B. The title is 'Evidence for latitude-driven changes in diel rhythms in a wide-ranging seabird' by Natasha Gillies and co-authors. It includes the journal logo and the DOI link.

Delighted to see our paper out today in Proceedings B @royalsocietypublishing.org! We investigated how kittiwakes adapt their activity patterns across latitudes in response to the changing day-night cycle ☀️🌃 In short - we find that Arctic kittiwakes don't have bedtimes.. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... 🧵1/4

This survey is looking for more participants outside of France and honestly looking at photos of forests for 10 minutes is a great way to procrastinate 🌳

🚨 new research!
🪽 "environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long-term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic-breeding kittiwakes"
🔍️ read it here: buff.ly/Zj9b7z0

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old!

#stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms

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A lovely article about our research on Gannets featuring interviews with #seabirders @heyjooode.bsky.social and @sue-lewis.bsky.social

#ornithology

Flyer describing the Topical Collection, with an image of a cheetah and journal information. Full details in the link.

Excited to announce our Topical Collection at @ibe.pensoft.net on Individual‑based Conservation!

We aim to highlight approaches integrating individual heterogeneity into management and conservation practice.

Please submit, share, & reach out with any questions!

Details: ibe.pensoft.net/news/1106

Comparison of three temperate rainforest climate envelopes for Britain and Ireland: Where could our rainforest be? There are multiple methods for creating climate envelopes for temperate rainforest, and these climate envelopes result in different extents across Ireland and Britain. An awareness of these differenc...

How much temperate rainforest could there be in the UK and Ireland, and where? Despite campaigns calling for restoration in both countries, these questions have been difficult to answer. In our new paper we assess the evidence base 🌏🧪🌐🌳🌲 1/9

Energetics link long‐term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population Using a unique 25-year dataset, we uncover how environmental changes scale up from individual to population responses. We show that sea ice drives individual energetics, while parental foraging effor...

!📃New paper📃!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Native trees are related to advanced bird breeding phenology and increased reproductive success along an urban gradient Urban areas are altered from natural landscapes in several ways that can impact wildlife. Birds are widespread in urban areas, and it is well documented that there are phenotypic differences between ...

I’m excited to share our new paper in Ecology!
Our 9‑year study across an urban–rural gradient shows native trees, especially oaks, boost blue tit breeding success. More native foliage supports more of the birds preferred prey and improves reproductive success.
📃 doi.org/10.1002/ecy.... #ornithology

An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

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@seatrackscience.bsky.social
@signecd.bsky.social
@masden.bsky.social

Junior Technician BIOPOLIS Association hereby opens an international selection procedure for the recruitment of a Junior Technician to carry out research activities, under an open-ended fixed-term employment contract w...

One year field technician position to work on White Storks in Portugal.

Deadline 3 Feb 2026!
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402634

Refining Capture and Collaring Protocols for Red Foxes Animal capture is an important aspect of ecological studies, required for fitting tags and collecting biological samples. Capture success can be increased while ensuring high welfare standards throug...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨🦊
The main thing I learned during my PhD is that foxes are smarter than me.
We had gotten funding, we were collaborating with management authorities, we had the fancy collars... We were ready to investigate fox movement ecology. But we weren't catching any foxes. (1/5)
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The MARCIS tool has been launched This bulletin was first published by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on January 15th, 2026 One hundred and fifty years ago, seabirds lived in a very different coastal environment from the…

Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...

A northern fulmar nesting on the Isle of May

Looking at pictures taken during fieldwork on the Isle of May, including this disgruntled fulmar, and excited to feel the warmth of the sun during longer days 😎

Fantastic PhD opportunity available! “Leveraging citizen science data to reveal latent mechanisms regulating bird population dynamics in urbanised landscapes”. Part of the Leverhulme Doctoral Training Program in Ecological Data Science: ecological-data-science.github.io/projects.html. More below.

A new study in Marine Biology shows that black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) from two Norwegian colonies adopt distinctly different winter migration strategies. Researchers provide valuable insight for coastal conservation.

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Our latest blog post tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article, “demographic mechanisms of snowshoe hare population cycles in Yukon, Canada”, authored by Charles Krebs, Stan Boutin and Rudy Boonstra.
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Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!

#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

New Year, new job. Come and join the @ukceh.bsky.social team on the Isle of May
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NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to tag and track #seabirds on Rathlin Island: buff.ly/YXOCMiU

Ocean warming threatens seabirds in the North Atlantic Climate change is causing ocean warming, acidification and loss of sea ice. This, in turn, is leading to shifting biogeographic distribution and in some cases species extinction.

New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
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(PDF) The first drone census of the Gannet colony on St Kilda, 2023 PDF | An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (hereafter drone) survey of Gannets at St Kilda was carried out in June 2023. The survey was the first census at St... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!

We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮

#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds

Figure with two panels. Left panel: visualisation of a 3D movement track. Right panel: visualisation of the 3D direction of movement as two angles (one horizontal angle and one vertical angle).

We have a preprint about modelling three-dimensional movement tracks, led by @njklappstein.bsky.social.

The model takes the form of a step selection function and, just like in 2D, it can include directional persistence, attraction to targets, and habitat selection.

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

ShoalBase | Join, Explore, Contribute Now ShoalBase offers a global database on fish social behaviour, supporting research, conservation, and ecology through community contributions and visual data mapping.

🧵1/9 There are 35,000+ fish species, but we have formal social-behaviour classifications for a tiny fraction. Most knowledge lives in the experience of researchers, fishers, divers, aquarists, naturalists, and Indigenous communities, but almost none of it is centralised. So we built ShoalBase.org.

Studying for an MSc this year & looking for a #seabird research project?

We're looking for a student to help investigate the factors that influence #StormPetrel response rates during playback surveys. 🔊🐣

🔗Do get in touch if you have any Qs: www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu... #seabirds #ornithology