Back on Middleton island, my home away from home, with its famous kittiwake tower literally towering over everything else.

Flying to Middleton Island Alaska to retrieve Star-Oddi heart rate loggers to study seabird energetics and climate change McMaster University McMaster Faculty of Science

Birds flying underwater? Guillemots 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Bumper year for Middleton kittiwakes with nests everywhere. So cramped for space that some even decided to do the glaucous-winged gull thing & nest on the ground.

Rice root is the prettiest flower on Middleton Island, Alaska. It's rather stinky (like most Middletoners by this time of year) & attracts a variety of really pretty flies.

This incredible photo of a Middleton island kittiwake is a finalist at: bigpicturecompetition.org/peoples-choice… (Vote for it!) A great photographer can turn a mundane scene I see daily into a breath-taking image. I have hundreds of almost identical photos, and yet this one stole my breath.

As someone who studies heavy metals in birds, I strongly support this.

🚨‼️ This is MEGA‼️ The first record of Spix’ Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) young born in the wild!🤩 The species was considered extinct 24y ago, but 50 individuals bred in captivity were reintroduced in Curaçá-BA in 2020. Congrats to Natalia Diniz (dinizbio on IG) for the record!

Way to go Team Kittiwake!

Félicitations à notre excellente étudiante en maîtrise ‎Anne-Marie Cousineau qui a réussi sa première interview sur sa recherche sur les cardinaux à Montréal ping Kyle Elliott journaldemontreal.com/2024/06/26/le-…

J’ai récemment eu l’opportunité de discuter de mes travaux de recherche avec le journaliste Mathieu-Robert Sauvé pour le Le Journal de Montréal ✍🏻 Si vous désirez en apprendre un peu sur un oiseau iconique au Québec, c’est par ici 👇🏻😊 journaldemontreal.com/2024/06/26/le-… Kyle Elliott Barbara Frei

Looking for dinner

Beautiful to see a SailBuoy collecting data on fish & oceanography alongside our murre GPS tracks. After 20+ years trying to get a boat to measure prey + predator simultaneously in the #Arctic, J. Hentati-Sundberg has finally done it! #ornithology

Monitoring #puffin movement by installing short-term GPS loggers breeding in the Mingan archipelago today! Amazing team @lavoie_raphael Rose Lacombe @ Anaïs Kerric #seabirds 😋❤️

Tenure-track job alert 🚨🚨 We are hiring an avian ecologist (broadly defined) at Trent University. Trent is a great place to build a research program, and ptbo is a wonderful place to live. DEADLINE AUGUST 19. Details: universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?jo…

The survival cost of reproducing in cormorants is not due to increased energy expenditure, despite having large clutches [for a seabird]. Recent paper from Middleton Island led by Teo Barracho and Shannon Whelan onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A great video of ‎Anne-Marie Cousineau's research on cardinals in and around Montreal. Barbara Frei cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

A youtuber made it out to our Middleton Island field site (never thought I'd be saying that!), and the inimitable Eliane Miranda & Katelyn Depot gave him a tour. youtube.com/watch?v=AtyjyF…