The Masked Booby is a large, tropical seabird with a 137–165 cm wingspan, identified by its bright white body, sharp black trailing edge on its wings, and a black, wedge-shaped tail. Its most defining feature is a dark blue-grey to black facial mask contrasting with a sharp yellow bill.

A Masked Booby flying extremely close for a photo. Out of all the seabird species these are by far the least camera shy 😅

#seabirds #photography #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #omsystem

#WSC4 hey seabirders! Can we perhaps begin curating a list of bluesky users who hope/expect/want to attend the World Seabird Conference in Hobart? #seabirds

Herring Gull.
#seabirds #gulls #herringgull #photograph
#photography

Egg collection

Egg collection

Happy Easter fellow Oologists #oology #seabirds

Melanitta nigra

Melanitta nigra

Melanitta nigra

Melanitta nigra

An Easter #SuperSeabirdSunday!

A sea duck features for me this week with the long staying Common Scoter at Roundhay Park, UK.

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social #Seabirds #YorkshireBirding #BirdingUK #UKWildlife 🪶

Black-browed Albatross #SaundersIslands home to 1000s of BBA #birds #oceanlife #mollymawk #seabirds #wildlife #Falklandislands

Walk on the water,
Run on the sea

Guillemot taking off from the waters of #clogherhead #portoriel

#guillemot #birds #birdphotography #photography #seabirds

Oil painting of two male eider ducks swimming in moderate ocean chop off Nantucket, USA.

Common Eider drakes off Nantucket (Somateria mollissima). Oil on canvas, 14 x 18 in.
🧪🐡🌿🌎🪶 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #wildlifeart #illustration #scientificillustration #natureart #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #eiders #OilPainting #Seabirds

Risk to seabirds sees plan to rebuild burnt down pub rejected Changes to rebuild plans for the fire-damaged Pembrokeshire pub were rejected due to light pollution concerns affecting protected seabirds

It’s encouraging to see #seabirds (Manx Shearwaters) being prioritised in a planning decision. Great work by Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.

Caution: the link will take you to a Reach Media webpage with endless pop-up ads!

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Landing.

#seagulls #gulls #ringbilledgull #wildlifephotography #wildlife #nature #naturephotography #photography #birds #seabirds #birdsinflight #🪶

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KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

Link to course: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035 #MarineConservation #Overfishing #Seabirds #Birds #Conservation #MarineLife

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

Close-up of a herring gull sitting on top of a wall. It is facing right and its chest and beak are resting up against a piece of old, cast iron fixed to the wall. The scene is brightly lit by the sun. There is a stone wall in the background which is out of focus.

TFW everyone's having fun but you're in a bad mood and you're determined not to join in...

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Today's Bird of the Day alt. theme is "gulls"

#BirdOfTheDay #Gulls #BirdsOfBluesky #SeaBirds #Nature #UKBirding #WildlifePhotography #Photography #ECK #EastCoastKin #Anglesey #Wales

The puffins are back!!

#puffins #farnes #seabirds #ukwildlife #photography

With the promise of sunshine & #seabirds just around the corner we know many of you will be thinking about getting back out on the water to explore our beautiful #coastline. Use this checklist to take responsibility for #biosecurity on your own #boat & all boats you travel on-help Save Our Seabirds!

The Easter bunny has come early to the Isle of May, delivering us the first Shag eggs of 2026! 🥚🎉🥚

Here's to a bumper breeding season in 2026🤞🙏

#IsleOfMay #seabirds #ornithology
@ukceh.bsky.social

🧪🌏🦉🦑 Proud to have contributed to this landmark report! California's 2026 Coast and Ocean Assessment is the state's first-ever holistic, science-based evaluation of coast and ocean health. The #seabirds & #shorebirds section uses our long-term monitoring data! Check it out: opc.ca.gov/report

A flock of seabirds in flight over open water, with a purple banner reading 'Seabirds Live! May 13, 2026 — Multimedia storytelling with Eric Wagner and Peter Hodum.

What can a rhinoceros auklet tell us about the health of the Salish Sea? Find out at Seabirds Live! A free multimedia event May 13 at UW Tacoma. Register: tinyurl.com/SeabirdsLive
@birdsconnectsea.bsky.social @univpugetsound.bsky.social @kingsbooks.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu
#seabirds #bookevent

KruShan Foundation Community‑rooted, empathy‑driven action for African penguins on the brink #NotBy2035

We're teaching a free 5-day course on the threats facing African penguins and what you can do about each one, no matter where you live.

Link to course: www.krushanfoundation.org/your-free-pe...

#AfricanPenguins #NotBy2035 #OceanNoise #Seabirds #Birds #Conservation #MarineLife

Puffins talking shop //

A couple buds shooting the breeze in Elliston, Newfoundland.

#puffin #puffins #photography
#bird #birds #birdphotography
#seabirds #wildlife #wildlifephotography
#travel #travelphotography #canada
#rockintuesday #eastcoastkin

Great to see researchers sharing their work beyond academia. A fantastic example: a new #Behaviour article on whether diving #Seabirds use landscape features to ambush prey underwater. The full article is free to read 👏
doi.org/10.1163/1568...

Graphic displays a Black Guillemot in flight with text that reads 'It's lift off on the Black Guillemot colony count surveys for the Seabird Monitoring Programme!'. The Seabird Monitoring Programme logo is in the top left-hand corner.

Black Guillemot survey season is here!
The best time to survey them is from first light to 9 am throughout April. To find out more and take part, head to: www.bto.org/get-involved...
#seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Six marine flyways that were identified from seabird tracking data. Infographic by Hannah Whitman for Birdlife International.

[6/6] Les solutions existent et sont déjà testéescomme l'éradication des invasives, la sécurisation des pêcheries, la restauration des habitats. Le sommet mondial des flyways en 2026 doit accélérer la coopération. #geography #biogeography #migration #seabirds

Marine flyways are the missing map we can use to boost seabird conservation (commentary) Last week, governments, conservationists and civil society from around the world gathered in Brazil for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS-15). In a rare mo...

[1/6] Tammy Davies et Aline Kühl-Stenzel montrent qu’en 2026, la COP15 de la Convention sur les espèces migratrices reconnaît enfin les "routes marines" des oiseaux. Cette cartographie globale transforme la conservation des océans. #geography #biogeography #migration #seabirds #conservation

Zino's Petrel, (c) Christoph Moning

Protection of #seabirds was also strengthened at #CMSCOP15 by listing on CMS Appendices of 23 species of gadfly petrels, the most threatened group of marine birds after Albatrosses, plus Flesh-footed Shearwater, as well as Concerted Actions agreed for the latter & Antipodean Albatross. #birds 4/12

Hernán Casañas crop

Yesterday the Convention on Migratory Species COP15 closed in Campo Grande, Brazil, with government Parties committing to major advances in migratory bird conservation especially for #seabirds, #raptors, #shorebirds, landbirds & the Americas Flyways. #birds #CMSCOP15 #wildlife @cms.int 🧵1/12

Endangered Cahow, One of the Rarest Seabirds in the World, Hatched on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda Though an event neither singular nor inaugural, the hatching of an endangered seabird and national icon of Bermuda is still being celebrated wildly by a special group of conservationists who’ve created a “living museum” on Nonsuch Island. Measuring just 14 acres and found in the northeast corner of the Bermuda island chain, Nonsuch Island is […] The post Endangered Cahow, One of the Rarest Seabirds in the World, Hatched on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda appeared first on Good News Network.

Endangered Cahow, One of the Rarest Seabirds in the World, Hatched on Nonsuch Island in Bermuda: Though an event neither singular nor inaugural, the hatching of an endangered seabird and national icon of Bermuda is… @goodnewsnetwork.org #EndangeredSpecies #Cahow #BirdConservation #Seabirds #Bermuda

#WIP #HerringGull not what I am supposed to be #painting but suddenly #seabirds are calling. #oil on #FabrianoPaper A3

Hydrobates leucorhous leucorhous

A lifer for #SuperSeabirdSunday!

A Leach's Storm-Petrel was found at Idle Washlands, Nottinghamshire today.

Very windy making sea like conditions with the waves on the lake. The Leach's seemed right at home.

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social #SeaBirds #BirdingUK #UKWildlife #NottsBirding 🪶

Black and White - Two birds of the sea

Panasonic TZ90 iso400 f7.1 1/1300s

#photography #wildlifephotography #seabirds #birdphotography #cormorant #herringgull