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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · 10d

Another #superseabirdsunday and now it's almost the end of the field season... This is a juvenile captured in a burrow who will probably fledge in the next couple of days.

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World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social · 20d

New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands!

🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands

Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz

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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 23d

Vote for the Subantarctic skua in this year's Bird of the Year www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/subantarctic... #teamskua #seabirds 🌍

Vote for Subantarctic skua in this years Bird of the Year

Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 Gull Drama

Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?

😇/😈
Our original paper about gulls in the Gulf of Maine in Cons Biol:

doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Reply: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Rejoinder: doi.org/10.1111/cobi...

Don't hesitate to DM to chat, or for PDFs!

Interspecies conflict, precarious reasoning, and the gull problem in the Gulf of Maine

Contemporary conservation science requires mediating conflicts among nonhuman species, but the grounds for favoring one species over another can be unclear. We examined the premises through which wil....

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patrickhen.bsky.social @patrickhen.bsky.social · 24d

#SuperSeabirdSunday
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · Jul 5

Providence Petrel defending its burrow to all comers at the world’s 2nd only breeding island, Red Knoll, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · Jun 10

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

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Phil Jones @philj61.bsky.social · May 25

How about a gorgeous Imm Belchers Gull photographed in Peru for #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · May 25

It's #superseabirdsunday and our Newfoundland field season has just begun! A razorbill and some other alcids on Great Island, Witless Bay (NL).

A razorbill standing on a rock, on a slope covered in puffin burrows. There are many puffins in the air and several common murres on rocks at the top of the slope.

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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · Apr 14

Happy national puffin day to the best alcid, the razorbill (it's been a great week already for terrorizing everyone with my binocular photography)

A through-the-binocular photo of three razorbills sitting on a rock, with one flying directly in front of them. There are a few puffins sitting on grassy hummocks around the rock.

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · Apr 12

A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶

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Jeremy BOO! Yoder 🎃💀🕷️ @jbyoder.org · Apr 8

Splicing DNA sequenced from Rev. Thomas Bayes's crypt into a wolf embryo to make Canis parameterensis, the priorwolf

Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · Apr 8

splicing random eDNA from a peat bog into a wolf to make canis sphagnumis, or the quagmire wolf

Jason "Lich Language Model" Sullivan @jason0x21.bsky.social · Apr 8

Splicing pipeweed DNA into wolves to make canis hobbitus, or the shire wolf.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · Apr 6

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a pair of Razorbills on the cliff ledges #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

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Eleanor Gnam @ejgnam2.bsky.social · Mar 20

My favorite quote from you is still "it turns out the best way to see pelicans is to go to where all the pelicans are"

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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · Mar 2

A Yellow-legged Gull from Fuerteventura last week for #SuperSeabirdSunday

A gull sits on a white rail with a sea background. It is facing left. It has a yellow bill, white body, grey back & wings, black wingtips and yellow legs.

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Nicholas @petrel-nut.bsky.social · Mar 1

Kermadec Petrel ‘606’ has done a great job as a first-time parent on Phillip Island, Norfolk. However, nest placement means every blowy day is a bad-hair-day! #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶

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Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social · Mar 1

Just wonderful :)

Conor Ryan @whalenerd.bsky.social · Mar 1

Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · Feb 25

New preprint on why we should care about young seabirds (a.k.a. juveniles, immatures, subadults, prebreeders)

that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#seabirds #conservation

A photograph of two seabirds (American Herring Gulls) standing on a rocky shore. The closer bird is immature, with brown feathers and a dark bill. The further bird is a breeding adult, with gray and white plumage and a yellow bill with a red spot.

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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · Feb 24

Hello from Crystal Palace Park. A classic face-off this morning: ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus vs Gallinula chloropus

colour photo, a Plesiosaur statue ponders a passing Moorhen

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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · Feb 23

A calling Yellow-legged Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday

The foreground is dark grey rock. On the left is a gull with a grey back, black wingtips and a white head and neck which is raised to the sky. The beak is open. The right hand bird is standing up but facing away. It has yellow legs, a dark grey body and white neck & head. The background is the sea.

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Gwennan @gwennanbutler.bsky.social · Feb 9

Fluffy fulmar chick

#SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

A fluffy fulmar chick sitting on a bed of pebbles and grass near a rocky background.

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Tim Marshall @twmar.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ross's Gull, Fraserburgh March 2023. #superseabirdsunday

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · Feb 2

It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday so here’s one of the best seabirds on the planet. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua showing all the salient ID features.

Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷‍♂️😬

Photo from BTO.

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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · Feb 2

Quiet contemplation

#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography

Razorbill on the edge of the cliff looks over the sea.

Inner Farne Island Northumberland 2024

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · Feb 2

#superseabirdsunday #northernfulmar #L #ukbirding

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