White stork low over Penzance YHA just now with ~12 red kites. Wonder where that came from? (Slight damage to tight primaries so poss identifiable to ind).

Out now in Marine Biology: "From route to dive: multi-scale habitat selection in a foraging tropical seabird"🐦🐟 doi.org/10.1007/s00227… We found that red-footed booby habitat selection varied between their foraging routes in comparison to their dive locations 🌊🌞

NEW PAPER: #LyellCentre researchers in #SeabirdEcology Ruth Dunn & Steve Votier used GPS and time-depth recorder loggers to track and analyse the foraging habits of tropical seabirds. Read their findings at 👇link.springer.com/article/10.100… #GlobalResearch #GlobalImpact

Re-tweet myself? .. how very gauche. But thanks ⛴ 🌏 Marine Science 🐠 🐟 & Bertarelli Foundation for this. It’s my job (well part of it) to study seabirds. I feel incredibly lucky and privileged. Lyell Centre

There’s something so mind-boggling about long-term studies like this. All those birds, people, data points… I really think they are one of the most extraordinary things in science. Congrats to everyone ever involved.

Pretty surprised to chance upon this singing male Serin outside the Brook Inn, St Ishmael, Pembrokeshire. Lovely to see West Coast Birdwatching and Lisa Morgan too!

"Seabirds are a highly threatened group of species that play an important role in ecological connectivity that we are only just beginning to understand." Ruth Dunn Lancaster Environment Centre #ScientistSpotlight

NEW PAPER: red-footed boobies show migratory residency and dependence on terrestrial roost sites year-round, with important implications for seabird monitoring and management. ➡️ vist.ly/3b3cw Alice Trevail Steve Votier Uni of Exeter's ESI #ornithology #movement #seabirds

Red-footed boobies are great. They don't migrate in the tropical Indian Ocean making them particularly important year-round guano producers to fertilise coral reef ecosystems. They're very bonnie to boot Lyell Centre Hannah Wood Nick Graham Ruth Dunn Rob Freeman

#Postdoc position in #seabirds spatial population dynamics at NINA Tromsø with Tone Reiertsen Apply by 1st September. #jobs

Incredibly important to have the updated bycatch estimates in this study - hundreds of thousands of seabirds are still be being killed each year. There's still lots of work to be done to reduce this.

Do any members of The Seabird Group have any experience of Newcastle Disease/avian paramyxovirus infection in seabirds? We have a situation in Seychelles where Newcastle disease has been detected in samples taken from dead lesser noddies.

New article about stormies! In this article we (Seabird Ecology Lab&@IslasGECI) described the migratory routes of two threatened species from NW Mexico (using GLS), finding that Ainley's storm-petrel migrates to an unexpected area, N off Hawaii 🤯Check more in shorturl.at/wTgIL

Frigatebirds are awesome. Flying machines that wander huge distances across tropical oceans they have the longest rearing period of any bird (~13 months) and skeletons lighter than their feathers. This imm. great frigate was in the tropical Indian Ocean #seabirdsunday

Grey-headed Albatross in #SriLanka! Amazing find by dedicated sea watcher Lahiru Prasanna Walpita at his regular watchpoint on the Laccadive Sea coast near Mannar Is. 1st #albatross in Sri Lanka and seems to be new species for South Asia and indeed the Northern Hemisphere.

New in Science Magazine: 🦈 With warming seas & human activity, the roles of sharks are changing. 🌎 Conservation action should seek to protect sharks & their ecological roles. doi.org/10.1126/scienc… Amazing work pulling this together, Simon Dedman & Jerry Moxley, Ph.D! 📸 Andy Mann

BAROLO SHEARWATER west past the Bridges of Ross, Co. Clare @ 10:05 this morning. Found and pics by the legend Niall Keogh! It is impossible not to turn to jelly when “Little Shear” is called. One or two deep breaths and I was on it!! Sensational stuff. Thanks Niall! BirdGuides

Another BAROLO!!! Absolutely insane stuff. The Bridges of Ross is on fire 🔥 This time found by Noel Keogh. Some stills from a short bit of video I managed.

Ooooof!

Did you ever have Osprey when you were on the Smalls, Scopac?