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David Steel
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
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Manager of Isle of May National Nature Reserve since 2015 having been on Farne Island 2001-2014. Also Scottish Birds Records Committee (SBRC) Chair
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · Nov 20
I co-authored a paper with Dr Chris Redfern looking into how people actually benefit nesting Arctic Terns on the Farne Islands (in complete contrast to what we have believed and thought). Link to the paper: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/57ASV9...
Photo: Siegfried Woldhek #Seabirds
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 19h
Lovely start to the day…
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 1d
Yeah it’s an amazing place and even better with its seabirds!
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 1d
The Isle of May bird observatory looking good in today’s sunshine
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Bill Stedman @steddybirds.bsky.social · 2d
Taking their turn as #BirdOfTheWeek and representing #Seabirds are these common terns in flight. #birds #tern #birdphotography #nature 🪶
Nine common terns fly from left to right as part of a larger flock. The birds sport black caps on their head and red beaks and legs. Photo taken in South Dartmouth MA USA
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kevguttridge.bsky.social @kevguttridge.bsky.social · 3d
Eider Duck. #SuperSeabirdSunday
Male Eider Duck
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Daniel Brown @danjbrown97.bsky.social · 3d
Guillemots on Skomer Island and a Guillemot and Razorbills on the water at Durlston in June. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
Two Guillemots on a cliff on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire in June 2025 Five Razorbills on the sea with part of a Guillemot visible at the left of the photo in the sun at Durlston, Dorset in June 2025
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Elaine Freezer @elainefreezer.bsky.social · 3d
A gorgeous Gannet posing for a photo plus some more Gannets in flight both taken at RSPB Bempton Cliffs for today's #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds #Gannets
Photo of a Gannet Gannets in flight
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PigeonJennie @jenniemunday.bsky.social · 3d
Herring Gull for #SuperSeaBirdSunday
#Birds 🪶 #Gulls #SeaBirds #Nature #Wildlife #Birding #Birdwatching #BirdPhotography
Side on profile of a large Herring Gull floating on grey coloured water, facing to the right. The bird is white with grey wings and black tail feathers. It has a pale yellow eye and a yellow beak with a dark spot at the end on the upperside and a red spot on the underside.
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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 3d
Thought there was something wrong with this Herring Gull on the Tyne this morning, but it seems it's just got an autumn leaf wrapped round its foot. Spent all its time preening, head down all the time, must have an itchy spot there!

He'll do for #SuperSeabirdSunday, though 👍
Herring Gull on the Tyne at Elswick this morning, busy preening and ignoring the leaf wrapped round its foot.
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Peter Howlett @cardiffbirder.bsky.social · 3d
Desertas Petrel between the Desertas Islands and Madeira on a Madeira Wind Birds tour last week #SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #naturephotography
The bird banks away from the photographer showing the mainly dark underwing contrasting with the white undersides and a triangle of white at the base of the wing
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Jono Leadley @birdingdad.bsky.social · 3d
Leach's Petrel, with Black-headed Gull, Wirral, yesterday #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 3d
Even the starlings are impressed! Fair Isle fulmar.
#SuperSeabirdSunday
A starling perched on a drystone wall watching passing fulmar.
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Patrick Finch @lynnpointpat.bsky.social · 3d
A lone Guillemot on the River Great Ouse at Lynn Point on the 24th September this year for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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patrickhen.bsky.social @patrickhen.bsky.social · 3d
Common tern out for a stroll in the surf.
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##SuperSeabirdSunday
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Nick Robinson @nickerobinson.bsky.social · 3d
A pink-footed shearwater shears by whilst on a pelagic off of Valparaíso #Chile in the #PacificOcean on 8th December 2018.
Please check out all posts for #SuperSeabirdSunday and give this a like or a re-post if you like it. #SouthAmerica #Seabirds #Wildlfe #Photography
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diddlydog.bsky.social @diddlydog.bsky.social · 3d
Eyes left!
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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Colin Boorman @colinboorman.bsky.social · 10d
A herring gull at Gorey, Jersey.
#superseabirdsunday
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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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PigeonJennie @jenniemunday.bsky.social · 10d
Two for the price of one on #SuperSeaBirdSunday
#Birds 🪶 #Gulls #SeaBirds #Nature #Wildlife #BirdSky #Birding #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography
A dull, rainy afternoon at Oare Marshes in Kent. The upper background is grey, rippled water. At the bottom is mud convered in dark green vegitation. To the lower left a Black Headed Gull in non-breeding plumage stands in the vegitation, facing to the right. The gull is small and white with grey wings, black ear and head markings, a black eye, and an orange beak. To the upper right a much larger Herring Gull swims in the water, also facing to the right. The gull is white, with grey wings, a black tail with white spots, yellow eye, and yellow beak with black tip and red spot on the underside.
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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 3d
A Ring-billed Gull at home by the St Lawrence in Quebec City #superseabirdsunday
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Russ Boland @russboland.bsky.social · 3d
A tale of two Terns for #SuperSeabirdSunday. Little 'n' large. The world's biggest and smallest sketched at Salinas de Isla Cristina, Spain in May. Gracias.
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Maarten Ornstein @maartenornstein.bsky.social · 3d
Beautiful. Here's a modest little fulmar I saw on Shetland
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Tom Cadwallender @tomcadwallender.bsky.social · 3d
#SuperSeabirdSunday Giant Petrel in the south Pacific Ocean off Chile. This is one impressive bird species. ⁦‪ @steelyseabirder.bsky.social
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Ali @allthingsorca.bsky.social · 3d
Team meeting

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
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Guillemots appear to be in a conversation on a cliff edge. RSPB Bempton Cliffs, 2017.
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is a glorious European Shag on the Isle of May to get us started #SuperSeabirdSunday
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