Checked out our new paper yet? Light pollution from ships illuminate seabird cliffs and decreases yelkouan shearwater colony attendance. Calling on @TransportMalta and @sostenibilitamt to adopt proposed measures. https://t.co/R4Gf8Kbd3r @jlugiessen@BirdLife_Malta
Just finished a big project that's been going on for the last 10 yrs or so and delivered to the publisher. Now to focus on some of my own work including a v exciting conservation awareness project, which will feature oil work and illustration...exciting times ahead..!!
Ainley's #StormPetrels#Hydrobates cheimomnestes is a poorly known sps breeding in winter in #GuadalupeIs#Mexico. Now @IslasGECI recovered our 1st geolocator & @FmedranoM made this raw map unveiling completely unknown non-breeding areas. Check our review
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Cool to see the Celebration for my ABA 700th species printed in the latest @ABA magazine! Shoutout to @pterodromas and @dhitchcox for being great birding buds.
If you're interested in working on the impacts of #RenewableEnergy on #Seabirds@_BTO are looking for someone to help lead & develop work in this area. If you're interested, get in touch & I'd be happy to answer your questions #jobs#ornithology
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One main objective of our visit to #MontañaClara is to study the migration of this poorly known cool population of band-ramped #StormPetrel in #CanaryIs. We found 19 nests and deployed 7 #geolocators. Now we have to wait for 1y to get them back!! 🤞🤞@begarcia89 #Hydrobates
Last week, two female Erect-crested penguins went out fitted with https://t.co/dRq1cAPDkn and brought back the first look into the birds' foraging behaviour and feeding preferences.
Right now it seems to be primarily krill. Will that change as chicks grow? #Antipodes2022
Excellent genetic assessment of Atlantic/Mediterranean Puffinus seabird populations reveals that a new taxonomy that better reflects the current stage of speciation across lineages. Great work @JoanFerrerObiol@SeabirdEcology#seabirds#puffinus#species
https://t.co/bNs1U07Vpv
PHENOMENAL ALBATROSS BREEDING SUCCESS: Breeding success for Tristan #albatross is a massive 75.5% in 2022 – more than 2x the 2004-2021 average! Our team counted 1,186 chicks from 1,570 pairs, hardening our resolve to achieve a mouse-free future for #Gough#conservationoptimism
Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr).
https://t.co/Q3vemnrKaF
New tiny article. We expanded the known distribution of Ainley's storm-petrel to U.S waters 🤯 by using tracking devices 🛰️. Important for U.S. endangered species act!
Check it out: https://t.co/ow83lo8oaD
Scopoli's Shearwater! A first for Ireland if accepted. Today on our pelagic from Baltimore!
Totals were 1 Scopoli's, 16 Cory's, 40+ Sooty and 60+ Great Shearwaters. 2 brief Wilson's Storm-petrels, 7 Great Skuas, 1 Arctic Skua, along with hundreds of Manx and Storm-petrels.
🚨NEW PAPER🚨 I'm delighted to share my first, first-author paper! Unfortunately it's not good news for Great Black-backed Gulls. We estimated they've declined by 48% GLOBALLY in the last 36 years and suggest a move to "Vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List. https://t.co/6BH5rdTHVT