1/Wintering seabirds in the Baltic Sea have suffered significant declines in recent decades. At least 76 000 seabirds in the Baltic are victim to bycatch in gillnets each year. Improved data collection is key to better understand+find solutions to tackle bycatch #FishSesh2 #WSTC7

Thank you Robert Blackmore, that was really interesting! I'm sure people will be interested in knowing more about this, if you have any questions at this time direct them to Robert using also the #WSTC7 #FishSesh2 hashtags!

Check out our piece in the next issue of the Journal of Ocean Technology’s special issue: Smart Fisheries.

New lab paper out now in Marine Ornithology now @marineorno.bsky.social! On-land foraging by Leach's Storm Petrels Oceanodroma leucorhoa coincides with anomalous weather conditions: marineornithology.org/content/get.cg… #seabirds #stormpetrel #animalbehaviour

Didn’t have a mug to #seabirdmugshot but I do have some local beers to show off. Happy Friday #WSC3

Well look at this!!! Anyone for a Whale of a Time? A Special collaborative brew between Landwash Brewery and Faculty of Science, Memorial University. Memorial University Memorial University Alumni...coming sooner than you think!

@Kyle_dEntremont's first thesis chapter is now published in ICES Journal of Marine Science! Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus) breeding at their southern limit struggle with prey shortages as a result of warming waters: academic.oup.com/icesjms/advanc… @ICES_ASC Oxford Journals

It was graduate student/post-doc Jeff Hutchings +deposed DFO Research scientist Ram Myers who stood and called out the DFO bureaucracy in its misinformation actions and campaign in the unprecedented and unnecessary demise of the northern cod. They stood out and they stood alone.

New paper led by PhD student Sydney Collins out now in Frontiers - Marine Science! It examines foraging #behaviour of Leach’s Storm-Petrels in incubation + chick-rearing & association with oil platforms frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #seabirds #stormpetrel #riskassessment #WomenInSTEM

Robert Blackmore worked with Montevecchi Lab (The Other Guys) and Visual Ecology @MUN for his research “Considerations from visual ecology in fisheries research design” Faculty of Science, Memorial University

1/4 #WSTC8 #LightSesh #lightattraction has been exhibited by many seabirds & may be contributing to the Leach’s Storm-Petrel population decline. #Stormpetrels amass around light and can subsequently strand on-land, making them vulnerable to starvation, injury, & predation.

Very excited to present my research on the influence of anthropogenic light on Leach’s Storm-Petrels! #teampetrel #LESP

Have you ever seen a #puffin fledgling "move toward the light"? Neither had I 😳🤯 Truly a jaw-dropping moment for me in the field. Trent ENLS Grad Trent University Research & Innovation #birds #research #LightAttraction *Part of scientific experiment conducted with ethics approval & federal permits*

Teamwork makes the dream work! Congratulations to Faculty of Science, Memorial University Cognitive and Behavioral Ecology graduate students, whose collective effort has resulted in a paper accepted for publication with Conservation Biology. tinyurl.com/27r3hvyf

I am very excited to share my most recent publication! This was the effort of 17 grad students and post-docs Faculty of Science, Memorial University We investigated the relevance and integration of #animalpersonality to #conservation doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

(2/6) To generate an informed hypothesis, I first looked at the bill’s characteristics. Specifically, I assessed the lability and condition-dependence of color across the breeding season to ask whether this trait aligns more with a #quality or #identity signal. #AnimBehav2023

Power down for Petrels! Faculty of Science, Memorial University Student Tori Burt presented her study PacificSeabirdGroup’ 2023 annual conference in San Diego, CA, finding that turning off lights significantly reduced the number of Leach’s Storm Petrel strandings at a mass stranding site in Bay de Verde, NL.

Do you study birds at night? Do you use light while handling birds at night? We want to hear about your experience! Dm us or fill out the survey at this link: forms.gle/73G4NRFmZtjbde… #lightattraction #ornithology #fieldwork

Check out the new Montevecchi Lab publication in the most recent issue of Marine Ornithology, which includes a fun video showcasing the high-contrast banners (Appendix 1 online, screenshot below)!