Happy #SeabirdSaturday featuring the elegant #GreatShearwater 📷 Great Shearwater (Ardenna gravis) 📷 Region: Atlantic Ocean 📷 Global Risk Status: Least Concern 📷 Fun Fact: Great Shearwaters only have four global breeding colonies 📷 Sydney M. Collins @sydneycollins323

#WomenInSeabirdScience Emily Burt is a PhD Student at McGill University investigating the ecological, social, and evolutionary factors that promote conspecific #broodparasitism in both hosts and parasites using molecular methods and behavioural observations

#WomenInSeabirdScience Alix de Jersey Alix de Jersey is a PhD candidate at University of Tasmania investigating the health consequences of exposure to physical #pollutants (e.g., #plasticpollution) in #seabirds

#WomenInSeabirdScience Alex Day is a Honours Student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador interested in #climate and anthropogenic factors impacting #seabird populations, specifically investigating a North Atlantic #ThickBilledMurre mass mortality event in 2022

Happy #SeabirdSaturday 🐧 Laughing Gull (Leucophaeus atricilla) 🐧 Region: southern North America to northern South America 🐧 Global Risk Status: Least Concern 🐧 Fun Fact: Laughing Gulls are almost exclusively coastal 📸 Sydney M. Collins Sydney Collins

#WomenInSeabirdScience Ruth Dunn @Ruth_EDunn is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Lancaster University and Heriot-Watt University researching the #ecology and #energetics of #seabirds and their influence on the #marineecosystems that they inhabit

#WomenInSeabirdScience Lauren Evans Lauren Evans is a PhD student at Bangor University investigating oceanographic drivers of #foragingbehaviour and diet in #ManxShearwaters using #GPSTracking and #DNAMetabarcoding

Our 2024 eBird/Clements Taxonomy update is dropping TOMORROW! It is set to include: - 3 newly-described species - 141 species gained because of splits - 16 species lost through lumps Read more and let us know what you're most excited for below! buff.ly/3NztKBW

#WomenInSeabirdScience Emily MacDonald Emily MacDonald is a Master’s Student at University of Windsor studying #heatstress effects on nesting #CommonEider to determine a cold-adapted sea duck’s vulnerability to rapid warming in the Canadian Arctic

Happy #SeabirdSaturday featuring the stunning #HornedPuffin 🐧 Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) 🐧 Region: northern Pacific Ocean 🐧 Global Risk Status: Least Concern 🐧 Fun Fact: The 'horns' are the distinctive fleshy spikes protruding from the eyes 📸 Sydney Collins

#WomenInSeabirdScience Reyd Dupuis-Smith is a PhD Candidate at Carleton University who engages in Indigenous-led research of the sub-lethal impacts of oil spills on seabirds & links to foraging ecology, bird health, and potential risks to humans through country food consumption

#WomenInSeabirdScience Kim Stevens is a PhD Candidate, Field Biologist, Expedition Guide at University of Cape Town, South Africa studying #PopulationDynamics and #ForagingEcology of #GreyHeadedAlbatross with broad interest in seabird conservation and island restoration

#WomenInSeabirdScience Charlène Gémard Charlène Gémard is a Postdoc at CNRS studying #VocalCommunication in #BluePetrel and #AntarcticPrion, specifically determinism of male calls and their implications for female mate choice

Happy #SeabirdSaturday featuring the regal #IncaTern 📷 Inca Tern (Larosterna inca) 📷 Region: western South America 📷 Global Risk Status: Near Threatened 📷 Fun Fact: The length of the white mustache signifies body condition in both sexes 📷 Sydney M. Collins Sydney Collins

#WomenInSeabirdScience Emilie Knighton Émilie is a MSc Student at Acadia University working with colonial #RedBreastedMergansers at Kouchibouguac National Park, NB to understand conspecific #BroodParasitism

#WomenInSeabirdScience Tammy Russell @marinamorphosis is a PhD Candidate @ Scripps Institution of Oceanography leading the Penguano Project investigating #plasticpollution in penguins & researching how #seabird distribution abundance & communities are changing with climate change

#WomenInSeabirdScience Ginger Rebstock is a Research Scientist at Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, University of Washington studying all aspects of #MagellanicPenguin behavior and ecology, and training new students and volunteers in the field

Happy #SeabirdSaturday featuring the #glaucouswingedgull 📷 Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) 📷 Region: Northern Pacific Ocean 📷 Global Risk Status: Low Concern 📷 Fun Fact: Glaucous-winged Gulls are commonly known to hybridize with other gulls 📷 Sydney Collins

#WomenInSeabirdScience Katherine Booth Jones @KatBoothJones is a Senior Marine Ornithologist at Scottish Government who uses tracking, remote sensing and molecular ecology to reveal individual differences in seabird behaviour

#WomenInSeabirdScience Lindsay Young is an Executive Director at Pacific Rim Conservation (NGO) conducting applied research and conservation with seabird species across the Pacific to design and implement conservation solutions to protect their breeding habitat