Just setting up my Twitter. #myfirstTweet

5 yrs ago David Steel set us up with BBC Springwatch to fund geolocators; @NEE_Naturalist members gave more. Some results on activity and diet of Farnes Arctic Terns in the Antarctic are here doi.org/10.1111/jav.02… ; stunning birds! email me if interested.

Toy #kite blown onto Coquet Island had Common Tern tightly #tangled by its wing in control line. Cord cut away & bird fortunately flew after 5 min recovery. #debris #beach

Geolocator data for Roseate Terns just out in Ibis, open access: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12… Cold-water upwellings support wintering groups in the Gulf of Guinea, and during migration via the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem

It’s official: Arctic Tern pairs split up after breeding and only get together again at the colony next year (if not late) doi.org/10.1186/s40657…

More results from geolocators on #FarneIslands #ArcticTerns: doi.org/10.3354/meps14… Their Indian Ocean traverse gives new insights into #SeabirdMigration ecology, and is a behaviour that may have been maintained since the last ice age. Pdf on email request.

Geolocator #Arctic_Terns G65 and G40 paired in 2017 & 2018 doi.org/10.1186/s40657…. Arctics abandoned Inner Farne in 2021. With return of Rangers in 2022, and G65 and G40, also returned and raised a chick together.

On a can of beer: a link to the results of Hilary Brooker-Carey’s 27-year study of Eider ducklings in the Coquet Estuary, Northumberland! #Eider #conservation

People can be a positive benefit for nesting Arctic Terns: data and results from a Farnes study available here doi.org/10.1002/wlb3.0…

Ringing chicks and nesting Arctic Terns in Northumberland reveals high natal philopatry but dispersal to non-natal sites is mainly by females. Recruitment is not affected by the presence of public visitors and females breed at an earlier age than males. doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13…