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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · 15d

Seabird scientists from UKCEH in Montpellier earlier this month, presenting their latest work. Conference on Wind Energy and Wildlife Impacts www.cww2025.org #CW2025 #UKCEH 🪶🌊

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · 29d

Just launched, spmapper is a new marine spatial planning tool from UKCEH! By estimating where and how much seabirds eat, spmapper can help with siting new offshore windfarms and protection areas. nerc-ceh.github.io/spmapper-pkg...

spmapper

A spatial planning tool to indicate the foraging value of marine areas to breeding seabirds.

nerc-ceh.github.io

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Aug 25

Results are in for the Isle of May seabird breeding season. Fulmar breeding success was 41%. An average season with the long term mean at 40% @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @smp-seabirds.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Aug 25

Important progress by @bennett-sophie.bsky.social on the immensely challenging topic of estimating abundance and breeding success in burrow-nesting seabirds using Bioacoustics doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 13

Bioacoustics as a Measure of Population Size and Breeding Success of European Storm Petrels Hydrobates pelagicus | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Aug 20

The post breeding season fieldwork has begun with shag ring resighting on the go. Please send any colour ringed shag sightings from the UK east coast to [email protected]

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Aug 18

We are back on the Isle of May for the final bit of breeding season monitoring. Fulmar checks are now complete. We'll be sharing all the Isle breeding season results very soon. @smp-seabirds.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Aug 5

Exploring the intersection of art and marine science with Neil Banas and friends. Check out marvellous oceanic origami, stop-motion animation and more here origamiplankton.org 🧜‍♂️

Origami plankton – and other ocean micro-worlds

origamiplankton.org

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Neil Banas @neilbanas.bsky.social · May 31

We've got a new website to collect the ventures of the Waterways Collective (waterwayscollective.org), a group of artists and scientists who came together in 2024 to see where we'd get following wild #salmon journeys up into the Scottish #landscape and out into the #Atlantic.

Screenshot of front page of waterwayscollective.org. White text on black background, along with a digitally fuzzed bluegreen image of leaping salmon (credited to Marie-Chantal Hamrock). "Waterways is a Scotland-based art-science collective following Atlantic sallmon and their migrations into local landscapes, distant seascapes, multi-species histories, and possible futures."

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 9

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 9

The final 5am watch of the season

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 8

UKCEH researchers Kate Searle and Chris Pollock recently spoke about UKCEH modelling at a workshop in Leiden. Networking and discussing with European researchers on using models to predict offshore windfarm impacts on wildlife, to develop more joined-up solutions across national boundaries

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 8

New paper on avian flu in seabirds from an Edinburgh Uni PhD student published! Edinburgh University has been working on the Isle of May with UKCEH and other partners to investigate the effects of this virus among seabirds. Read about it here: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Asymptomatic infection and antibody prevalence to co-occurring avian influenza viruses vary substantially between sympatric seabird species following H5N1 outbreaks

doi.org

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 8

The view today on a kittiwake trip duration watch. The puffins seem curious too

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jul 7

Epic day yesterday with watches, puffin fledgling rescue, puffin chick weighing, kittiwake logger deployment and puffin netting from 5am to 9.30pm. Similar vein today with everyone out for 5am with mire kittiwake watches and concurrent puffin netting. We'll have a fair bit of seabird data by the end

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Chloe Cargill (She/Her) @meta-kittiwake.bsky.social · Jul 2

Using #genetics to sex #Seabirds? 👉 New #openaccess #Methods note published today (optimize don't reinvent👍). No PhD student is an island: huge thanks to co-authors, collaborators and funders. #ornithology @ukri.org @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s126... @springernature.com

A modified primer-pair designed for the molecular sex identification of black-legged Kittiwake (Laridae: Rissa tridactyla) - Conservation Genetics Resources

In studies of avian populations accurate sex identification facilitates the study of sex-linked behaviour, ecology, social structure, decision-making, and life histories. To improve molecular sex iden...

doi.org

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 29

Stunning evening on the cliffs

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 29

Odd plumaged puffin. White nape feathers and washed out bill

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our base for today. From 0300-2330 we are conducting a guillemot & Razorbill feeding watch, following diet and feeding rate

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 23

New #UKCEH dataset published on how breeding seabirds spend their time and energy. These data will help us to model the potential impacts of any changes in seabird behaviour in response to new offshore windfarms catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/07...

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 21

Isle of May #seabirdpride 2025. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · Jun 10

Cracking sky tonight

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · May 27

Kittiwake puppetry. Still windy on the west cliffs giving the kittiwakes conditions to 'play' in the wind

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · May 25

After weeks of easterly winds it's quite a shock when we return to the prevailing westerlies, especially of this strength. Fortunately not too many losses so far

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · May 22

Finally the first Kittiwake egg! Three days later than last year and ten days later than average. Only five later dates. Due to birds being in poor condition or the dry conditions making nest building difficult? Maybe time will tell

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UKCEHseabirds @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social · May 17

One of the few annual social nights on the Isle. 30min costume creation and ready for Eurovision

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