🚨NEW PAPER🚨 I'm delighted to share my first, first-author paper! Unfortunately it's not good news for Great Black-backed Gulls. We estimated they've declined by 48% GLOBALLY in the last 36 years and suggest a move to "Vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List. bit.ly/3BJc5TD

Scopoli's Shearwater! A first for Ireland if accepted. Today on our pelagic from Baltimore! Totals were 1 Scopoli's, 16 Cory's, 40+ Sooty and 60+ Great Shearwaters. 2 brief Wilson's Storm-petrels, 7 Great Skuas, 1 Arctic Skua, along with hundreds of Manx and Storm-petrels.

Incredible capture today by Ed Jenkins at Biodiversity Research Institute’s banding station in West Falmouth: WESTERN WOOD-PEWEE!

New tiny article. We expanded the known distribution of Ainley's storm-petrel to U.S waters 🤯 by using tracking devices 🛰️. Important for U.S. endangered species act! Check it out: researchgate.net/publication/36…

Phenomenal. Bar-tailed Godwit has broken its own record: a first-year bird (five months old!) has flown 13,560 km—just shy of the direct flight limit of a Boeing 787—from Alaska to Tasmania, seemingly non-stop, in just 11 days (avg. speed: c.51 km/hr). facebook.com/43794949621875…

PHENOMENAL ALBATROSS BREEDING SUCCESS: Breeding success for Tristan #albatross is a massive 75.5% in 2022 – more than 2x the 2004-2021 average! Our team counted 1,186 chicks from 1,570 pairs, hardening our resolve to achieve a mouse-free future for #Gough #conservationoptimism

This duo of Bermuda Petrels criss-crossed the wash of the boat for a minute or so. Exceptional photo by Kirk Zufelt

Excellent genetic assessment of Atlantic/Mediterranean Puffinus seabird populations reveals that a new taxonomy that better reflects the current stage of speciation across lineages. Great work Joan Ferrer Obiol Seabird Ecology Lab #seabirds #puffinus #species sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Great #shearwater Greta Thunberg now off the coast of Uruguay! She traveled over 4600 km last week during migration. #trackseabirds #seabirds #birds #SciComm #ScienceTwitter #ornithology #ecology

Last week, two female Erect-crested penguins went out fitted with pengu.cam and brought back the first look into the birds' foraging behaviour and feeding preferences. Right now it seems to be primarily krill. Will that change as chicks grow? #Antipodes2022

One main objective of our visit to #MontañaClara is to study the migration of this poorly known cool population of band-ramped #StormPetrel in #CanaryIs. We found 19 nests and deployed 7 #geolocators. Now we have to wait for 1y to get them back!! 🤞🤞@begarcia89 #Hydrobates

If you're interested in working on the impacts of #RenewableEnergy on #Seabirds BTO are looking for someone to help lead & develop work in this area. If you're interested, get in touch & I'd be happy to answer your questions #jobs #ornithology environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/93158-res…

WE JUST SAW A GODDAMN LYNX!!!!

This is crazy 🤯 The fate of the Western Marsh-Harrier:

Cool to see the Celebration for my ABA 700th species printed in the latest Amer. Birding Assoc. magazine! Shoutout to Ed Jenkins and Doug Hitchcox for being great birding buds.

Ainley's #StormPetrels #Hydrobates cheimomnestes is a poorly known sps breeding in winter in #GuadalupeIs #Mexico. Now Conservación Islas recovered our 1st geolocator & Fernando Medrano Martínez made this raw map unveiling completely unknown non-breeding areas. Check our review birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/le…

BRI is looking to hire an Associate Biologist and a Quantitative Ecologist! Feel free to message me with any questions! briwildlife.org/about-us/emplo…

Corvids are famous for their ability to use tools, but the Crested Jayshrike is the only one who *listens* to Tool

Just finished a big project that's been going on for the last 10 yrs or so and delivered to the publisher. Now to focus on some of my own work including a v exciting conservation awareness project, which will feature oil work and illustration...exciting times ahead..!!

Checked out our new paper yet? Light pollution from ships illuminate seabird cliffs and decreases yelkouan shearwater colony attendance. Calling on Transport Malta and Sostenibilità to adopt proposed measures. link.springer.com/article/10.100… Universität Gießen BirdLife Malta