New research in Conservation Letters from Alex Berryman, @MarsKlaassen, Richard Kingsford, @rohanclarke01, and I demonstrating the potential for HPAI H5N1 virus transmission via food-theft (kleptoparasitism) in seabirds: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/co… Pic: David Tipling

‼️Please help us to identify which animal do these vertebrae belong to... Size 60cmx25cm, found by rangers on a beach, New-Caledonia. Thank you in advance. Please RT

Conservationists are waging a global war on island rats | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Research postdoc position on predators-prey (carnivores-ungulates) relationships. University of Bern (Conservation Biology). Please distribute as broadly as you can.

A decades-long effort to remove dangerous plastic debris from marine and terrestrial habitats has succeeded in lowering endangered Hawaiian monk seal entanglement rates, a new Science study finds, confirming that such efforts are well worth the cost and effort. Learn more in

Why hasn’t deadly bird flu reached Australia yet? nature.com/articles/d4158…

It's that time of year again - #CrowCoG is advertising for 🚨 MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS (APRIL - SEP 2025) 🚨 to help us conduct field- and aviary-based study of the tool-making and -using New Caledonian crows! Advert: bit.ly/3Ys7O2c PLEASE SHARE!

🎉New review celebrates 20 years of collaboration for marine conservation through the BirdLife Seabird Tracking Database! Learn how >43 million locations from our amazing contributors are used to save seabirds🐧🗺️ News: seabirdtracking.org/the-birdlife-s… Paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New PhD opportunity! Our team are developing a remote sensing platform to monitor Antarctic moss & vegetation. This multidisciplinary PhD project offers the chance to develop deep learning algorithms to help process & extract data from the platform. ➡️ uow.edu.au/research-and-i…

AVOTREX: A global dataset of extinct birds and their traits. 🦤🌍 The dataset includes 610 extinct birds from last 130k years. This dataset includes details on species traits, mirroring the morphological data available for extant species in AVONET (1/8) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ge…

Kanakinthus koniambo n gen et sp nov: a new genus of Lebinthini from the north of New Caledonia with ultrasonic calls doi.org/10.1111/syen.1… By Thomas Le Flanchec et al. #taxonomy #orthoptera #lebinthini #newcaledonia Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle ISYEBsp @ISYEB_UMR Romain Nattier Karen Salazar

#ActuScience🐢Une étude révèle que 30% des #tortues caouannes du #Pacifique Sud viennent pondre sur les plages calédoniennes. Les scientifiques ont utilisé un modèle prédictif innovant afin d’estimer le nombre de pontes à l'échelle de l'ensemble des îlots: lemag.ird.fr/fr/la-nouvelle…

Le Consulat Général d'Australie à Nouméa recrute un.e chargé.e d'etudes politiques. Venez rejoindre notre équipe! noumea.consulate.gov.au/nmeafrench/Off…

"Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky" science.org/content/articl…

Bird Conservation New Caledonia now on Bluesky ! Hope you will follow us. @birdnewcaledonia.bsky.social "Fed up with entairtaining a far-right billionaire and his climatoseptic friends"

The call for abstracts is open for the Oceania Seabirds 2025 conference. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025. Learn more oceaniaseabirds2025.com/call-for-abstr…

Mortality of Elephant Seals, pengiuns, and albatross in the Kerguelen and Crozet archipelago confirmed as HPAI. This constitutes a substantial range expansion for the virus. Looking forward to seeing the genome sequences. 👉scar.org/library-data/a…

Exciting news! Archipelago Research and Conservation LLC (ARC) is looking for someone to join their team. This 9-month full-time position will conduct surveys documenting seabird distribution and relative abundance across Kaua‘i. Deadline: 1.15.25 archipelagoresearchandconservation.com/arc-jobs