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The Seabird Group
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Promoting the study & conservation of seabirds via conferences, grant provision, newsletters & our open access, free-to-publish journal 🐧🕊️🌊
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 17h
Pour yourself a coffee and have a read of this tragic story about the last pair of Great Auks for #Auktober ♥️
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Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 1d
Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved
DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio
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Dr Ingrid Pollet @ingridpollet.bsky.social · 2d
Come work with me!!
It will be fun.
#seabirds
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d
We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d
We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email [email protected] to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 2d
Love how this looks 👌🌈
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Dan Gornall @dan-gornall.bsky.social · 3d
Fantastic day on the Wirral watching wind blown Leach's Petrels leaving the river Mersey. The last couple of birds passed within metres over the beach on the ebbing tide!
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Lily @landersart.bsky.social · 7d
It's the start of #birdtober2025 - I fell down a rabbit hole of exploring differences between the four extant species of banded penguins and ended up with this graphic as the end product! At first these birds seem so similar but illustrating them is a great way to notice all the small differences!
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome to #AUKTOBER! 🐧🎃

(we know penguins aren't #auks but no emojis!)

Throughout the month we'll be posting pictures, cool facts & generally celebrating the world of the auk ♥️

To start: the clown-faced, people's choice.. the puffin 🤡. Jazzy beak by day, UV disco beak by night 💃 What a bird!
A head-on profile shot of an Atlantic Puffin with a fish in its mouth. Photo by Michael Jerrard.
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 4d
We do!!! 🙋
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Parko John James Park @amigopark.bsky.social · 4d
My New painting. "No one Likes Me"-Acrylics on 60x50cm canvas. #seabirds #seagulls #birds
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 4d
Important date for your diaries ‼️

Our AGM is Wed 12 Nov - 12 midday (online) 📔👩‍💻

ALL our members are welcome & we'd love you to join us if you can. A number of roles have also come up within the committee - details on how to apply to follow.

Not yet signed up? www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership
Membership - Seabird Group
The Seabird Group was founded to promote and co-ordinate the study and conservation of seabirds. We organise conferences and publish the journal SEABIRD.
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 5d
Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)!

📅 7–11 Sept 2026
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event

Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...

#WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology
Advertisement for registration of WSC4 being open, picturing a gannet in flight and text details of the conference.
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 5d
Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏

🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026

Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4
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jocelyngould.bsky.social @jocelyngould.bsky.social · 7d
My contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme birds showing #attitude.

I’ve chosen #seabirds, #waders aka #shorebirds and #waterfowl. 🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #worldbirds
Red-billed Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae scopulinus or tarāpunga, Plimmerton beach, North Island, 31st Oct 2015. They look very disapproving. Salvin's Albatross or Toroa Thalassarche salvini, Kaikoura pelagic, South Island, New Zealand, 2nd Nov 2015. It’s the eyebrows! Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa fighting, The Mere, Martin Mere, 13th Feb 2025. So many fights over grain from the Swan feeds! Canada Goose Branta canadensis pair, Woodend Marsh, Martin Mere, 29th March 2023. Another pair landed nearby, and they weren’t having it.
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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 7d
Yes, that's right!
You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
Graphic displays a Black Guillemot photographed by Edmund Fellowes/BTO with a thought bubble extending from its head and the internal text 'Just one month to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP!'. The SMP logo is positioned in the top left hand corner. The caption reads: 'Yes, that's right! You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds'
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 9d
Congrats @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social K Layton-Matthews @bennett-sophie.bsky.social J Funder Castenschiold @martacruz-flores.bsky.social @aliceedney.bsky.social P Fauchald @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social H Guímaro H Hereward @tystiedan.bsky.social B Merkel S Molværsmyr C Sauser K Snell E Humphreys 🕊️🖊️
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 9d
A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏

⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊
Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
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Dr Sjúrður Hammer @sjurdur.bsky.social · 12d
Very interesting presentation by @bardseyben.bsky.social on lightpollution in the Faroes and some brand new and exciting GPS tracking data of stormpetrels at this year's researchers night #seabirds 🌍🧪
Ben Porter presenting in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn Ben Porter presenting in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn Ben Porter presenting his stormpetrel GPS tracks in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn
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Dr Jenn Lavers ᓲᐊᐧᐦᑫᔨᐤ @seabirdsentinel.bsky.social · 10d
#ornithology friends in south-eastern #Australia: please be on the look-out for #seabirds on beaches. Sadly, they will probably start washing up in ~2 weeks… #CitizenScience #BeachedBirds #AdriftLab #OzBirds
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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 10d
Multiple species of #shearwater have begun arriving in Australian waters after completing their southward migration. We need your help recording if/when #seabirds start washing up on your local beaches #citizenscience
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 9d
#SeabirdSeptember
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Phoebe Owen @phoebeowen.bsky.social · 11d
Summer 2025 - Storm Petrel Tagging and Tracking in Shetland and Scilly, with a short stint of Kittiwake and Gannet work at Bempton Cliffs - Mousa Aurora (!!!), Mousa Broch, Bempton Gannet Tagging Set-up, Sandy Scilly Stormie Chick
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 13d
Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣

Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology
A breeding pair of Gannets on the Bass Rock with their chick. One of the adults clearly has a black eye, an indicator of past exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza, while the other is normal/healthy.
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12d
Worrying..
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Kirsty Franklin @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social · 14d
Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻

Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#seabirds #ornithology
Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring
Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu
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Marta Cruz-Flores @martacruz-flores.bsky.social · 14d
🐥🌊Very happy to have participated in this review about "Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring"

💪Great work led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, as an output of the last @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Conferece

🎖️Selected as Editor's Choice👏

Full paper: 👇
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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 19d
Really sad that this happens. So unnecessary and evil. 💔
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Mckeedi @mckeedi.bsky.social · 20d
Arctic terns at sunset over The Skerries off Angelsey, Wales #terns #arcticterns #TheSkerriesl #Wales #seabirds #nature #wildlife #birds #sunset #silhouette #dusk #islands
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 20d
The numbers have been crunched and we are delighted to report that our breeding European Shag numbers on the Isle of May are up as blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com
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