Fiona and her crew hard at work testing the #radar system for use in monitoring #Leachsstormpetrels. So far it can detect a #drone up to 200m away!

The #puffins are back in #Newfoundland! Check out our brand new bird blind for focal observations of #socialbehavior in #atpu

Meet our newest #NSERC USRA student Lily! She is super excited to get her first field experience under her belt and is already loving seeing the #puffins up close

First trip to #Fogo Islands for Raul's #productivity study was a success! Thanks to our wonderful assistant Joelle, Shorefast, and local fishers for the support

Check out our WISE NL student for the summer, Jasmine, on her first trip to the field to assess the contents of #puffin burrows on Great Island!

We've been lucky to have Chandler Anstey as one of our research assistants this summer! He's already picked up #puffin grubbing and #radar testing like a pro

#CorkSeabirds: Posters Amy Wilson from Visual Ecology @MUN: "Assortative mating in Atlantic Puffins? An approach using geometric morphometrics, perceived bill colour, & body condition" While assortative mating has been shown to exist in some alcids, Amy asks if it occurs in puffins.

#CorkSeabirds: Posters Pierre-Paul Bitton: "Atlantic puffins as a model for visual and social communication research" Pierre-Paul describes how the Visual Ecology @MUN lab investigates the social networks of puffins & how the birds could use their bills for individual recognition.

#CorkSeabirds: Posters Raul Zabala Belenguer Visual Ecology @MUN: "Estimating breeding success on Atlantic Puffins: A methodological comparison" Raul presents preliminary results of a study comparing the accuracy of grubbing & burrowscoping, as well as data on puffin breeding success.

#CorkSeabirds: Posters Katja Kochvar Katja Kochvar: "Does the colourful bill of Atlantic puffins reflect parental provisioning effort?" Katja investigates the relationship between bill colour, body condition and provisioning effort for puffins breeding on Gull Island, Canada.

We had some fantastic posters too! Congratulations to Fred Tremblay Fred Tremblay for first place, runner-up Katja Kochvar Katja Kochvar, and highly recommended posters by Sophie Crouch Sophie Crouch and Katrina Davies Katrina Siddiqi-Davies 🥇 #CorkSeabirds

Incredible talk given by our own PhD student Fiona and folklore student Karin Murray-Bergquist The Rooms on the significance of #stormpetrels to NL culture and ecology and the threats they currently face #conservation

What the hell are you doing biting that auk?

(1/6) I had the great honor and pleasure of working with #Atlanticpuffins for my master’s thesis at Memorial University. The driving question behind my research was: what is the adaptive function of their conspicuously colorful bill? #AnimBehav2023

Followed by Dr. Carolyn Walsh, Visual Ecology @MUN Dr. Pierre-Paul Bitton, and @CarolynfrNL

Funding from NSERC and Memorial's Office of Public Engagement is helping researchers like Fiona Le Taro, a PhD student in the Cognitive and Behavioural Ecology (CABE) Program, with conservation efforts for Leach's storm petrels. gazette.mun.ca/research/signi…

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