Looking for experience in conservation? Skomer is recruiting the 2019 long term volunteers. Early season vols helping with seabird monitoring and late season vols getting involved with seal pup monitoring. Deadline 25/01/19, see website for details welshwildlife.org/jobs/skomer-is… WildlifeTrustSWWales 🦡🐬

Come to the European Vulture Conference in Portugal this October - we have some great keynotes lined up + many interesting abstract submissions so far. Submit yours by 27th May - regular presentations, speed talks or posters. More info here: eventbrite.com/e/european-vul… #ornithology

Seeking historic records of #seabird mass mortalities (winter wrecks) around the world but particularly in the North Atlantic to aid my MSc research. If possible, please provide: 1. Date 2. Location 3. Number dead 4. Species Please RT!

It's online now in Journal of Animal Ecology ! Estimates of energy expenditure in free-living animals using accelerometers - led by Rory Wilson and us at SLAM. #movecol besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

One of our current pro-VCs Hilary Lappin-Scott unveiling a picture of Prof. Florence Mockeridge, our first female pro-VC back in 1932. Nice to know women have had a strong hand in shaping STEMM Swansea University for almost 100 years

Our @elife ms on auk landings is out doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…! It brings together airflow modelling round @Skomer_island by Andrew Ross & Moving animals, probabilistic models from Andy Neate @swanseaUni & data from Emma-Louise Cole 's MRes Biosciences, Swansea University. European Research Council (ERC) #ornithology

2/3. We assess the ability of auks to land at cliff nests & show birds cannot land in strong winds, most likely as wind reduces flight control. Runway size also matters; bigger ledges have more airspace for manoeuvring & better chances of landing. #ornithology BES Movement Ecology

3/3. 60% of attempts to land at cliff nests fail in a strong breeze, 80% in near-gale winds. Razorbills (open circles) are better at landing than guilles (closed circles). Strong winds impose costs on both spp, as adults make multiple landing attempts to provision young. #flight

Our Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper is out today! We use #ComputationalFluidDynamics (#CFD) to design & position #biologging devices for minimal #drag, & provide a step-by-step guide for ecologists. Interdisciplinary collaboration w/SLAM & @ZienkiewiczCtr besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/20…

We are having such fun calibrating SLAM daily diaries with the help of the awesome predator team at London Zoo (can you spot the collar?)

A belated link to study led by @EleanorRose30 on the effect of collar fit & weight on acc metrics

Congratulations Richard & team!! The first of a flurry to come from him showing the ecological insight from angular velocity, magnetometers & dead-reckoning, watch this space!