Maria Saldanha Alho

PhD Student at @ISPAmedia | Conservation Biologist | Seabird ecology | Pelagic seabirds

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

📢NEW PAPER📢 in @Mar_Biology about the foraging movements and diet of the White‑faced #stormpetrel in the NE Atlantic.
@Atlant_Migrants
#seabirds #ornithology #PhD

Here, we present novel data on the foraging movements of the #Pelagodroma marina.

https://t.co/dnf9AnXksk

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

Grateful to be part of this long author list in this brilliant paper! White-faced #stormpetrel is among the 77 species for which exposure risk to plastic has been assessed. Congratulations @BethanyClark36 and team.
🔗https://t.co/HrWU7b8vDI
#plastic #conservation #seabirds

[BirdLife Marine @BirdLifeMarine]

Tracking data for 7137 petrels of 77 species reveal high plastic exposure risk in the Med/Black Seas, NE & NW Pacific, S Atlantic & SW Indian Oceans

Threatened species shared more of the risk, which occurred across many countries' waters & the high seas

https://t.co/erNJ8o2LTY

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

@shrew_master @FC_UL @CESAM_Univ Muitos parabéns!! 🎉

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

Here is the full-text access to a view-only version: https://t.co/XMKam9hjKZ

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

I'm happy to share my first #PhD paper on an extinct #seabird colony in Santa Luzia, #CaboVerde.
Santa Luzia may have hosted the largest White-faced #StormPetrel and Boyd's #Shearwater colonies in the entire Cabo Verde archipelago! #ornithology
👉https://t.co/7x0XsnIYuW👈

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

I had the pleasure of participating in this amazing work! Thank you @TelmaLaurentino for being such an inspiration.

[Telma G. Laurentino, PhD @TelmaLaurentino]

So thrilled to have this paper out!
#evALLution: making basic #evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multisensory tree of life: https://t.co/QlDqg3e8Vv
#Inclusive #Blindness #Outreach #OpenData #OpenAccess #SciComm #Biodiversity

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

Finally back in the field! Fieldwork season on #SelvagemGrande is on! More news to come...
#seabirds #ornithology #petrel #PhD @Atlant_Migrants

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

@arcpatricio @RicardoNature maybe you can help? :)

[Tidal Wings @tidal_wings]

The first field season of 2019 is on! #wadersofbijagos teams of @FC_UL and @UnivAveiro travelling together with @ibapgb from Bissau to attend the first steering committee meeting of the project, held in Bubaque. Collaboration is the lead word! @CESAM_Univ @MavaFdn @prcmarine

[Atlantic Migrants @Atlant_Migrants]

Around this day Cory's #Shearwaters from #SelvagemGrande begin to reach their most popular wintering site - the #BenguelaCurrent.
Here's last year’s #migration of an adult male, ringed as a chick in 2008, after his first breeding attempt. Where's he gone this year?
#seabirds

[Atlantic Migrants @Atlant_Migrants]

Field work on #SelvagemGrande is over for the year!
Ready for next season:
✔️nest boxes installed - ready to welcome white-faced storm #petrels
✔️breeding success of Cory's #shearwaters assessed; adults tagged so we can follow their #migration & chicks ringed
#seabirds

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

@PrincipeTrust @Atlant_Migrants @ednarcorreia @Daniel_C_Lopes Thanks @PrincipeTrust!

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

Last days in #SelvagemGrande!
Now I know how #seabirds feel when walking on land! Waddling through the colony of white-faced storm #petrel to estimate the number of burrows occupied this breeding season #ornithology #fieldwork #PhD @Atlant_Migrants

[Maria Saldanha Alho @Maria_Alho]

Getting ready for the next breeding season of white-faced storm #petrel in #SelvagemGrande! Nest boxes are installed and waiting for the new tenants! #seabirds #ornithology #fieldwork #PhD @Atlant_Migrants

[Atlantic Migrants @Atlant_Migrants]

New paper on Cory's #Shearwater in Selvagem Grande:
Combining tracking data with dietary info to determine the origin of prey provides a new approach to study the distribution of marine biodiversity
https://t.co/OuEwdnMLeD
#seabirds #ornithology @JosePGranadeiro @TeresaCatry

[Atlantic Migrants @Atlant_Migrants]

Field season on Selvagem Grande is on!
Our long-term study of Cory's #Shearwater is underway and we are starting a new project with White-faced #StormPetrel which is already producing exciting results! More new coming soon
#seabirds

[Vitor Paiva @vitorhpaiva]

Inter-sexual habitat and isotopic niche segregation of the endangered Monteiro’s storm-petrel during breeding #ornithology #seabirds @ECOTOP_UC https://t.co/rtx01KgUEp

[Science and Technology Facilities Council @STFC_Matters]

It’s the International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

Here’s just a few ways women in STEM have changed the world:

#WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience @womenscienceday

[Max Planck Society @maxplanckpress]

The Internet of animals: On February 11, a Russian Sojus rocket will carry the antenna of the #Icarus mission to the #ISS. Researchers will soon be able to study the movements of animals and determine the conditions in which they live @animaltracking @martinwikelski @roscosmos