Laura Shearer

Steeple Jason Island. Home to the largest Black-browed Albatross colony in the world. I spent a week in March sampling albatrosses, penguins, giant petrels, shags, and more as part of our work to understand the dynamics of HPAI in the Falklands seabird community

20.04.2025 15:22 — 👍 42    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

Nice!! If you have any more bird editions, please ping them over to me

21.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So cool!!! We just released an issue a few months ago of masked boobies. Nice to see our wildlife being celebrated in different ways ☺️

21.04.2025 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Red footed boobies do not currently nest on mainland Ascension but this season we have seen significantly more around the Letterbox NR... maybe in the next few years... 🤞
#SuperSeabirdSunday

20.04.2025 10:13 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Scuba diver surrounded by lots of small fish

Scuba diver looking at small fish

Easter weekend spent #SCUBA diving on Ascension Island. Loads of fry around, these pics were taken just as we were leaving the water...

19.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Showing a masked booby fledgling our drone controller. The bird seems mildly interested.

One of my favourite things is getting others involved in our seabird research... here's a juvenile masked booby learning about drone surveys #education #seabirds

10.04.2025 21:27 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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.

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...

26.03.2025 16:41 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Diagram showing the preparation of the new plotopterid skull: before, partway, and after acid preparation - the siltstone concretion is consistently smaller in each iteration.

The beautiful skull of the plotopterid bird: the rostrum looks very much like a frigatebird, with a graceful sinuous outline and a reasonably sized hook at the end.

New pub: beautiful new ~35 myo skull of a flightless plotopterid bird (possibly Klallamornis) described from Washington state. Acid prepared! And big - 28 cm long! Same rock unit as some of the oldest known baleen whales on earth. Discovered by Jim Goedert. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

23.03.2025 17:34 — 👍 49    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

Brown noddy nest with an egg

Tiny brown noddy chick

Brown noddy chick getting ready to fledge

It's been a delight to monitor this brown noddy nest! When we checked it out yesterday, it had already fledged- they grow so quick! ☺️

09.04.2025 21:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1