New @adriftlab.bsky.social paper in Conservation Biology: we estimate 629,000+ seabirds died during Australia's 2023/24 marine heatwave. Fewer than 5,000 were counted on beaches, less than 1% of total mortality conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵

📸: SIlke Stuckenbrock

We related the changes in age-structure to primary production and juvenile fish abundance. Food availability in the (pre-)hatching period was positively correlated with cohort size, but this signal was less strong for the (pre-)sampling period and the age of the sample size (young vs old).

Two graphs showing the change in cumulative cohort size of puffins over time.

Four graphs showing the change in age-group (young vs old) share of the annual sample size of puffins. Two black-and-white bar plots show the raw counts, and two scatter plots below show the GAM results.

Around the year 2000 cohort sizes decrease drastically and the share of older (>4CY) individuals increases. This suggests that the population as a whole is getting older, likely a result of reduced recruitment which may be due to low breeding success.

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 ....

‼️🚨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

🎺 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

We are happy to introduce you to another member of our society, Kristin Piening!

Photo: Uwe Franzen

@trevormaclaurin.bsky.social

Un-brie-lievable: A cheese-eating Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus

NEW SHORT COMMUNICATION by Trevor MacLaurin

www.waderstudygroup.org/article/20174/
#waders #shorebirds #research #ornithology

#seabirds #puffins

Thanks Rob! It was definitely a challenge, but it worth it!

#seabirds #puffins

We related the changes in age-structure to primary production and juvenile fish abundance. Food availability in the (pre-)hatching period was positively correlated with cohort size, but this signal was less strong for the (pre-)sampling period and the age of the sample size (young vs old).

Two graphs showing the change in cumulative cohort size of puffins over time.

Four graphs showing the change in age-group (young vs old) share of the annual sample size of puffins. Two black-and-white bar plots show the raw counts, and two scatter plots below show the GAM results.

Around the year 2000 cohort sizes decrease drastically and the share of older (>4CY) individuals increases. This suggests that the population as a whole is getting older, likely a result of reduced recruitment which may be due to low breeding success.

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 ....

‼️🚨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

Roll up, roll up! Looking for a postdoc? Want somewhere that's academia adjacent? Interested in seabirds, plastics, and conservation? Come work with me and @adriftlab.bsky.social!

If you want to help develop an application, get in touch! #ornithology #seabirds #PhDjobs #PostdocJobs

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Contrasting foraging strategies of seasonally segregated populations of the band-rumped storm-petrel at St Helena, South Atlantic - Movement Ecology Movement Ecology - Allochrony can be a cause or consequence of speciation, either creating temporal reproductive isolation that reduces gene flow between diverging populations or reinforcing...

Band-rumped storm-petrels from St Helena in the South Atlantic reveal differing seasonal #foraging preferences. Thanks to all involved in this manuscript @o-o-frank.bsky.social @steffopp.bsky.social @robthomasbirds.bsky.social
#seabirds #biologging #StHRS #conservation
doi.org/10.1186/s404...

The main changes include:
👉We now accept abstracts in a language other than English, in addition to the mandatory English abstract.
👉We request 3-6 keywords.
👉We encourage authors to make their data publicly available.

A red-tailed tropicbird under a boulder.

Thinking of submitting your manuscript to our journal Seabird? 📜🐧

Check out our new and updated guidelines here:
www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/journal/guid...

📸: Alex Bond

Are you responsible for American Oystercatcher habitat management? If so, this is for you! Our latest paper explores how vegetation and elevation shape nest-site selection and reproductive success in Virginia’s American Oystercatchers.

Link: doi.org/10.1675/063....

Had to rush the cat to the vet because apparently she has a stress induced UTI. 🐈

She is too excited about spring. ☀️

Such a mood.

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...

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

One European shag with a metal ring and blue Darvic colour ring and one sitting on a nest.

Our next ECR talk is all about seabird ringing! 🐦 Join us to learn how ringing works, opportunities to get involved, and how ringing data supports key research and conservation.

🗓️: Friday 20th March
⌚: 09:30- 11:00 (GMT)
📍: Online

Signup here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

📸: Will Brown

Do you live in the UK or Canada? Could you spare an hour to help me with an important science project focused on excessive packaging? (all you need is a ruler and a basic kitchen scale) 🤞🙏♻️

Figure showing photgraphs of three seabird species (Atlantic Puffin, Sooty Shearwater and Eider Duck) plus illustration of new paper, a hand collecting seabird eggs and text reading: 'intentional take of seabirds for human consumption'

🚨New global review and next steps🚨

Intentional take of #seabirds for human consumption is happening in at least 56 countries and affects >100 migratory species. Data on sustainability, population impacts, and human health risks are often missing.

Read more: ➡️ tinyurl.com/ypbadzyr

#BLScience

I knowww! But hooray! 🎉

⏳ Deadline approaching!

This is a final reminder that our Training Grants closes on the 28th of February.

If you are from a BAME background, and would like to gain seabird volunteering/ ringing experience we can provide support up to £250.

For more info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

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. 🎙️🐣

Also about to play our first game of #Wingspan with #Americas! #hummingbirds @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @stonemaiergames.com