Controlled exposure experiments and focal follows with drones improve our understanding of how whales respond to boats, by showing that whales respond to boat noise level 🚤🔊🎵🐋 See our new publication in eLife - the journal bit.ly/2BRBSfv

🐳 Southern right whale migration routes 🐳 🇦🇷 Argentina, Siguiendo Ballenas 🇳🇿 New Zealand, Tohorā Voyages 🇦🇺 Australia, Mirnong Maat 🇿🇦 South Africa, Whale Unit 🇬🇸 South Georgia Right Whale Project by L.Oliveira, Instituto Aqualie #rightwhale southernrightwhaleconsortium.org

Neotropic cormorants in Lima, Perú ingested less plastic during the anthropause caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more in PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environment peerj.com/articles/17407 #AnimalBehavior #ConservationBiology #Zoology #EnvironmentalImpacts #COVID-19

Our new paper is out as an early release! We document #Africanpenguins feeding on fish amongst jellyfish tentacles 🐧🐟🪼 Check it out! -> seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-36-5

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***PUFFIN NUMBERS UP*** the Isle of May Puffin population has increased since our last full census of the population in 2017. The blog has the full story; isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

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More penguin molt research!

Seabirds can follow fishing boats for hours, at risk of bycatch; now, we can better estimate how long 🎣 Time geography can be used for any two tracked objects - so could help us protect other animals too 👇 with SoGE, University of Oxford BirdLife International bit.ly/3VQ1grn

African penguins should now be classified as Critically Endangered. Breeding numbers are down 77.8% in 30 years 🐧💔 tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.29…

New study finds at least 44,000 seabirds are killed each year due to bycatch in trawl fisheries worldwide: seabirdtracking.org/new-study-find… Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Debido a su constante movilización y retorno, los piqueros fueron las aves seleccionadas para ser las centinelas del mar peruano. Un proyecto liderado por la Universidad Científica del Sur buscó conocer cómo interactúan estos animales con las embarcaciones pesqueras.

This study, led by Lauren Roman, used our 30 year plus banding data from Gould’s petrel on Cabbage Tree Is, NSW. The 1st ever epigenetic clock for a bird- makes that 6000 banding effort to creat this known-age population all really worth it! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/17…

New research indicates that as much as 77% of the Antipodean and Gibson's #Albatross population has some spatiotemporal overlap with pelagic longline #fisheries. Given fisheries mortality is a major threat for these #seabirds, this is a serious concern. bmis-bycatch.org/system/files/z…

Thrilled to share my first #PhD paper!🎉 We developed a risk assessment framework to identify #seabirds and #seals most at risk from #climatechange and the key threats they face.🦭🐧Huge thanks to my amazing team and experts who made this possible! #Conservation #ExtremeWeather

Cada flecha roja es un barco Chino pescando pota. La mayoría lo hace en el borde de nuestras 200 millas creando una barrera de hierro. Muchos entran a nuestros puertos (+ de 300 este año). Por eso nuestra ley los obliga a usar un sistema satelital para entrar. No cumplen. (1/3)

So happy to have presented the results of my masters project at #ISBE2024. Amazing conference full of incredible talks. First conference ✅🐦! Let’s keep talking shearwater!

Científicos peruanos utilizan cámaras GPS en piqueros peruanos para observar su actividad en la costa y estudiar cómo interactúan con las embarcaciones pesqueras de anchoveta, su principal alimento. Esto permite un mejor cuidado de los recursos marinos en el Perú. #AvesCentinelas

A few people were asking me about manta ray social behaviour recently- so here's a little video explaining all! Videography and production: Me :) Sound: Neil Grant Thanks to Marine Megafauna Foundation and Papua Explorers !

El equipo de la Unidad de Investigación de Ecosistemas Marinos de la Universidad Científica del Sur, en colaboración con expertos, está trabajando en un proyecto innovador que estudia tres especies de aves marinas después del brote de gripe aviar H5N1 🦠🦜⬇️