Population monitoring, ecology, demography of waterbirds; movement ecology; conservation; N. Amer. Great Lakes and beyond. @WaterbirdSociet Views my own.
The @globeandmail continues to expose Doug Ford’s Greenbelt ‘swap’ for the fraud it is.
Nothing to do with affordable housing.
Everything to do with rewarding his developer cronies.
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@fordnation @OntarioPCParty #onpoli
Best bird on the South Peel Naturalist's #ChristmasBirdCount in #Mississauga ... GROUND HORNBILL skulking under the 403 underpass in the thick grass. New species for North America!
The 2022 WbS conference offers student events, cultural activities, a robust set of scientific presentations, symposia, and field trips to see Whooping Cranes, birds of the King Ranch, and flocks of waterbirds on the Laguna Madre. Register now! https://t.co/kAKTNNGiHb
Here's a great new #seabird#restoration resource: a database of past projects for practitioners to learn from! Check it out at https://t.co/VQqmLM6Ef5 and for a great project summary check out this @nature_brains blog: https://t.co/H2GlS0s8wa!
Have a great Tern photo? Want to win a pair of Swarovski binoculars? Submit your best #tern photos to the year of the Tern #photocontest https://t.co/P0xqzFYEWP
Have been working on compilation of the Asian Seabird Colony Registry for the World Seabird Union since December 2021 and the first draft is done now. It will be launched at the World Seabird Day webinar on 1 July 2022. It covers countries from Japan to Indonesia (> 700 sites)
Using wet activity & light data from #geolocators, our new #ArcticTern paper shows individual terns use varied migration strategies🌎Larger terns used more direct routes, and 1 individual even stopped on land for 8 days!🏖️ Read more here😎: https://t.co/jWbLwQJCl0 @AugerMethe
Full annual cycle movements of ~40 GPS-tagged Ring-billed Gulls (1-2 yrs each, 2019-22). Most wintered on the US Atlantic coast; a few in the s.e. US interior; a few on Lake Erie (i.e. non-mig.). Furthest migration: the Bahamas (not shown) #migconnectivity#waterbirds
📢NEW PAPER ALERT!!
The influence of seabirds on their breeding, roosting, and nesting grounds: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Lead by myself and co-authored by my wonderful supervisors, @TheLabAndField and @SeabirdSentinel
Read it here: https://t.co/voltdX2bHG
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1) I'm happy to share our latest paper published in Environmental Pollution. We examined potential effects of perfluoroalkyl acids on thyroid hormones & fitness-associated traits in thick-billed murres, an #Arctic#seabird experiencing #climate change. https://t.co/JS9fJcJofB