A photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. There is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag
For #SuperSeabirdSunday and #Auktober here's a photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. If you look closely you can just about see there is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag 🥰🥚🐣🐥
I remember @manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social at IIEM using Great Auk as example of why local conservation efforts are so important. Island conservation back then could have saved the species. #seabirds #auktober 🌎🇯🇪🇬🇬🇮🇲 #conservation #ukseabirds
A stuffed Great Auk in London’s Natural History Museum.
Reading about the decline and ultimate extinction of the Great Auk upset me so much that it brought me to tears. So much so that I made a pilgrimage to the NHM to see one of the few remaining specimens. #Auktober
A small, black, fluffy nestling Black guillemot. Photo: Debs Allbrook.
Another day, another #auk. The Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is born black+fluffy, with several years before developing its bright red feet fully. These are associated with sexual maturity @2-4 y/o 👣
Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober
An image of two razorbills sitting on a rock in front of the sea. Photo: Jacqui Glencross.
An #auktober pair of Razorbills (Alca torda) 🖤🤍🖤🤍
These tuxedoed little friends share nesting responsibilities equally between both parents. To avoid conflict on the rocks outside their nests they mirror the body language of their neighbours in a peaceful display! 🤝
#seabirds #razorbill #gentlemen
The Least auklet (Aethia pusilla) everybody! *SO* tiny 👏
#leastbutnotlast #auktober
#Auktober
Ringing and geolocator-tagging Guillemots, Colonsay 2024. We had a great retrieval rate this summer.
And John Hegley has a great poem/song about giillemots, a song shared with me by the late Dave Fox
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A Razorbill with its head tilted back and its bill wide open.
The same Razorbill, sitting, head in a more natural position.
You know the Laughing gull, but do you know the Laughing Razorbill?
This one was encountered in Newfoundland in 2023.
#seabirds #Auktober
Celebrating all-things auk for #AUKTOBER 🐧
I've been remiss in celebrating #Auktober, so here are four delightful pics of the smollest one, the Least Auklet from Kiska Island, Alaska (where there are 1.2 million PAIRS in about 2 km sq).
Bonus early PhD Alex for scale.
A Common guillemot with a large fish in its mouth. Photo: Joshua Pedley.
Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟
These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓
#Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday
Common Murre seen at Praia da Vitória Fishing Harbor (Azores, Portugal), on 06 December 2024. Photo by Rúben Coelho
New short communication: First Common Murre seen off the Azores, by Luis Barcelos et al.
#Auktober #seabirds #ornithology #OpenAccess
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A Bridled guillemot in flight.
Secretary position on our ExComm! Description ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/files/Secret...
Apply by sending max. 200 words to secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk explaining why you're interested 🤩
[Bridled guillemot image: Andreas Trepte, www.avi-fauna.info]
#seabirds #guillemot #auktober
Pour yourself a coffee and have a read of this tragic story about the last pair of Great Auks for #Auktober ♥️
A head-on profile shot of an Atlantic Puffin with a fish in its mouth. Photo by Michael Jerrard.
Welcome to #AUKTOBER! 🐧🎃
(we know penguins aren't #auks but no emojis!)
Throughout the month we'll be posting pictures, cool facts & generally celebrating the world of the auk ♥️
To start: the clown-faced, people's choice.. the puffin 🤡. Jazzy beak by day, UV disco beak by night 💃 What a bird!
