Starting to investigate herring gull #plastics and #diet in pellets we collected this field season 🦴🐦 with my honors student today, excited to see what we find #ecology #seabird #teamgull

From a couple weeks ago on Île de Bellechasse! #NewProfilePic

Happy Canada Day!🇨🇦 So grateful to call this beautiful place my home #CanadaDay2023

How was your Wednesday? Did you spontaneously drive 3 hours back to your field site to successfully collect a gps ✅, and 50 new pellets 🤪😜 #phdlife #teamgull Rose Lacombe Sofia Higgs

I’m dissecting herring gull pellets that we collected earlier this summer Christina Petalas So far, seeing lots of variation in diet, and definitely finding plastics and other debris!🗑️🪳🦀🦴 #ecology #seabird #plastics

Another day, another #pellet … Working on #herringgull pellets from chick rearing and still finding lots of anthropogenic debris🗑️🐟🥚

Update on pellets!! I’ve been working on the plastic and non-plastic debris between classes. Massing, describing, etc. Here are some of my most interesting ones so far🧪🔬🥼 #herringgull #ecology #PlasticPollution #seabird

Had an amazing time at #SQEBC annual conference over the weekend!! Thanks to everyone that came by to ask questions about my project!

That’s a wrap on my honours thesis, next onto publishing!! It was a rewarding experience and I’m grateful to all who helped me along the way! Big thanks to Christina Petalas 💕🐦 Bye McGill Macdonald Campus and hello @BioUqam ! My masters focuses on harbour porpoises in the St Lawrence🐳🧪

Had a great time at #CEW2024 where I presented my poster on #plastic in herring gulls pellets collected during the 2023 breeding season! Thanks to all who came by and to Christina Petalas for attending with me <3

A huge thank you to everyone who stopped by my poster at the #SQEBC2024 conference this past weekend Concordia University ! Always happy to talk about the St. Lawrence and the animals it supports🐳🧪 UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal

🚨 New paper out! We found #plastic debris in breeding herring #gulls in the St. Lawrence is linked to breeding stage 🐣—offering new insight into exposure during key life phases. Big congrats to Sofia Higgs! @lavoie_raphael Kyle Elliott Dr. Jennifer Provencher 🔗authors.elsevier.com/a/1k%7EHn,asiD…

My first paper!!🚨Here are the results from my bachelor’s thesis - 2 years in the making!🐣👩‍🔬 We assessed changes in plastic ingestion over the breeding season using herring gull pellets from the St. Lawrence… click the link for more! kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…