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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · Jun 19

It’s World Albatross Day! 🗺️

Albatrosses are iconic, long-lived birds that travel huge distances across oceans! 🌊

From chicks to migrating adults, we can tackle the threats facing these birds.🌏

Read more in our article here 👉 www.birdlife.org/news/2025/06...

World Albatross Day: The Life and Challenges of an Albatross

Albatrosses are impressive, long-lived birds that cover huge distances across oceans! From chicks to migrating adults, we can tackle the threats facing these birds.

www.birdlife.org

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High Seas Alliance @highseasalliance.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎉 We’re on the verge of a historic breakthrough at #UNOC3.

49 countries have stepped up for the #HighSeasTreaty. Let’s not stall now & get the Treaty over the line. Now is the time to ratify and protect our shared ocean. #RaceForRatification

highseasalliance.org/2025/06/09/h...

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Jun 8

Attending #UNOC3? Come and say hi 👋 to the @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Global Team at the following events:

#SaveOurOcean #SDG14 #BirdLifeScience #MarineFlyways
@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @birdlifemarine.bsky.social

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · Jun 8

Today is #WorldOceansDay! 🌊

Most seabirds spend the majority of their lives at sea covering huge areas.🗺️

Our Seabird Tracking Database reveals where seabirds spend their time, enabling more targeted conservation actions.📍

Find out more👉 www.seabirdtracking.org

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BOU @bou.org.uk · Jun 3

The First GPS Observation of a Western Gull (Larus occidentalis) Riding in a Long-Haul Garbage Transfer Truck | doi.org/10.1675/063.... | Waterbirds | #ornithology 🪶

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Jun 4

💡New read! “Scaling up Ocean Conservation using Key Biodiversity Areas” 👉 bit.ly/43JB1XQ
#30x30 #UNOC3 #SaveOurOcean

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · May 31

📚 I'm 9 months in to a 12-month leadership development program #HomewardBound that aims to elevate women in #STEMM to lead with influence and impact.

🙏 I'm fundraising to join the once-in-a-lifetime experiential component in Tanzania this November.

👀 Please take a look: gofund.me/f24e7942
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Donate to Tammy’s transformative leadership journey to Tanzania, organized by Tammy Davies

Hi! I’m Tammy! Driven by an admiration for the wonder of the natura… Tammy Davies needs your support for Tammy’s transformative leadership journey to Tanzania

gofund.me

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Lily Bentley @lilybentley.bsky.social · May 8

Stoked to be able to share my first postdoc paper: 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘭𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯, published today in Nature Communications! 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine megavertebrate migrations connect the global ocean - Nature Communications

Animal migrations are extensive and crucial for ecosystem health but are in decline. This study identifies 1,787 sites and links among them for 109 marine species, highlighting the need for internatio...

www.nature.com

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · May 8

👀 a search is underway for the Kacau ni Gau or Fiji Petrel! Good luck to the team for a successful expedition: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/05...

Search underway for Fiji Petrel

We’re always game for a good round of hide and seek. So we’ve teamed up with National Geographic’s Pristine Seas and our Partner in Fiji, NatureFiji-MareqetiViti, to try to find one of the rarest…

www.birdlife.org

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BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · May 2

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗣𝘂𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗻𝘀😎

Last year, the EU challenged the UK’s decision to close sandeel fishing in English and Scottish waters of the North Sea.

Sandeels are small, but they’re a key food source for #Puffins, Kittiwakes, and many other seabirds.

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Apr 25

🐧Happy World Penguin Day!

These species offer more than just their charisma! Their study and protection benefit whole ecosystems 🌎

Did you know that...?
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#WorldPenguinDay

Picture of a Gentoo penguin in the shore with waves behind and a rainbow on top. Picture by Jonathan Handley.

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Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · Apr 9

After 2 years' development, today we have launched @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social new DataZone! For information on each of the world's 11,000 bird species, 13,000 important sites for their conservation and profiles for 250 countries/territories and 16 global flyways, see datazone.birdlife.org

BirdLife DataZone | BirdLife DataZone

BirdLife International is a world-leader in conservation science. The BirdLife DataZone provides decision-makers and conservation practitioners with biodiversity data, knowledge and tools.

datazone.birdlife.org

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Mar 26

Tracking Ascension Island’s seabirds across borders:

Learn how our Darwin+ project will help us understand how seabirds & fisheries overlap in the High Seas 🌊

Led by Ascension Island Gov with @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, GFW, MMO & @cefasgovuk.bsky.social

www.seabirdtracking.org/tracking-asc...

Tracking Ascension Island's seabirds across borders - Seabird Tracking Database

Protected areas are a vital tool for safeguarding marine wildlife, but seabirds and other marine species often travel beyond these havens.

www.seabirdtracking.org

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Mar 19

Always a great read! 🧪
☑️This issue includes an article on 20years of the @birdlifemarine.bsky.social Seabird Tracking Database, as well as updates from our @imma-network.bsky.social and @iucnshark.bsky.social friends

Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative @gobisecretariat.bsky.social · Mar 19

After a temporary break from publication last year, the GOBI newsletter is back - packed with news from around the GOBI community and beyond. Happy reading!
gobi.org/the-gobi-new...

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · Mar 7

A good Friday afternoon read 📙 on how @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social Seabird Tracking Database has changed the face of marine conservation! MPAs, bycatch, policy and more 🕊️📈 #Seabird #SeabirdTracking

Imane Romangin @imanebliss.bsky.social · Nov 18

1/10 How have 20 years of tracking data shaped #marine #conservation? 🌍This article by @tammyedavies.bsky.social
& colleagues explores the #BirdLife #Seabird Tracking Database’s journey from data collection to policy impact🐧 A must-read 🧵👇
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Mar 19

Excited to participate in the MoveBON strategy workshop (led by @smithsonianmag.bsky.social @wildlabs.bsky.social)

Looking forward to sharing the work we do at @birdlifemarine.bsky.social with the #SeabirdTrackingDatabase to support knowledge brokering at the science-policy interface 🧪🐧

The broad themes (community, threats, sites, policy) associated with how seabird tracking data can contribute to global policy frameworks and indicators

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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · Mar 18

Great news for the Critically Endangered African Penguin! 🐧

South Africa has agreed to establish no-fishing zones around six major breeding colonies, a huge victory thanks to the relentless efforts of our National Partner @birdlifesa.bsky.social 🌍💙

Read more: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hope for endangered penguins as no-fishing zones agreed off South Africa

Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

www.theguardian.com

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Autumn-Lynn Harrison, Ph.D. @autumnlynn.bsky.social · Feb 18

For first post on @bsky.app seems fitting to share our blue sky and #marine flyways 🌊 paper out yesterday. A global collaboration of researchers led by @birdlifemarine.bsky.social sharing #tracking data to describe common #seabird #migration routes over the #ocean.

BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways using #seabird #tracking data & novel analytical methods

➡️ doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004

🧪 #ornithology #migration #BLScience
@birdlifeglobal.bsky.social

We are grateful to GOBI @iki-germany.bsky.social for funding the project

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Infographic map showing the six marine flyways (Atlantic Ocean Flyway, North Indian Ocean Flyway, East Indian Ocean Flyway, West Pacific Ocean Flyway, Pacific Ocean Flyway, Southern Ocean Flyway) in a spilhaus projection, and the general direction of travel by migratory seabirds

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BirdLife Marine @birdlifemarine.bsky.social · Feb 17

Tracking data from 48 long-distance pelagic #seabird species, shared by >100 collaborators, were analysed to reveal the consistent & repeatable #migratory routes, including a circumpolar navigation of the Southern Ocean & transhemispheric ‘figures of 8’ in the Pacific & Atlantic oceans

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Figure 1 from the paper showing a world map centred over the Pacific Ocean, with the colony locations of tracked seabirds and the six delineated marine flyways

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Feb 17

🚨NEW OPEN ACCESS PAPER🚨details how we delineated six #MarineFlyways applying a novel approach onto #seabird #tracking data: doi.org/10.1111/geb.70004 🧪

See the short animation via: www.seabirdtracking.org/case-studies... explaining how the marine flyways can be a framework to support #conservation

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Prof David Sims @thesimslab.bsky.social · Jan 26

NEW PAPER - we think we've discovered an open-ocean nursery for endangered shortfin #mako #sharks in the SE Pacific Ocean..... only trouble is, it's in a Global Fishing Hotspot - likely exacerbating popn declines already occurring @thembauk.bsky.social
OA here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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High Seas Alliance @highseasalliance.bsky.social · Jan 14

🗺️ Is your country a High Seas champion? Tell us where you are in the world and we will tell you if your country has signed and/or ratified the Treaty already 👇

Discover our interactive #HighSeasTreaty Ratification Tracker to know more.
➡️ highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

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Stu Butchart @stubutchart.bsky.social · Jan 9

20 yrs ago I started comparing the 3 lists of threatened birds BirdLife had published and working out overall trends. The Red List Index resulted from the ensuing collaboration & is now used by the world's governments & UN. Our new paper reviews the history royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Measuring trends in extinction risk: a review of two decades of development and application of the Red List Index | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The Red List Index (RLI) is an indicator of the average extinction risk of groups of species and reflects trends in this through time. It is calculated from the number of species in each category on t...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Denis Karcher @deniskarcher.bsky.social · Jan 4

Just published - led by @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social we conducted a systematic lit review to identify the top barriers and enablers for knowledge brokers at the interface of environmental science and policy
(..and all the ‘invisible’ work they do) 🔍

doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

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Dr Tammy Davies @tammyedavies.bsky.social · Dec 21

Timely review of the links between AI and conservation by @csandbrook.bsky.social

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧪

Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence

Conservation AI—the deliberate application of artificial intelligence technology to achieve conservation goals—has great potential to boost productivity, make existing conservation actions more effic....

conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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