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An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

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@masden.bsky.social

Project Officer - Protecting our Urban Kittiwakes We are looking for a highly organised and motivated individual to support our work on urban kittiwakes. Working alongside the Senior Conservation Officer for Yorkshire and Humber, as well as key ...

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#seabirds

Please keep an eye out for seabirds washing up on beaches - these prolonged storms seem to be having an effect. Report dead birds to Defra/Daera and BTO in the UK, live ones to suitable wildlife rehabbers.
#seabirds

Lecturer in Physical Oceanography (ATR1734) in University of East Anglia | UEA View details and apply for this Lecturer in Physical Oceanography (ATR1734) vacancy in University of East Anglia. Faculty of Science School of Environmental Sciences Lecturer in Physical Oceano...

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March.

If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you!

And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders

vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

We are receiving increased reports of dead auks, including Puffins, particularly in North East Scotland. It's quick and easy to report any dead or sick birds you find through the 'Deceased bird' function on the home page of the BirdTrack app

Photo: Puffin by Richard Selman / BTO

#ukbirding

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Large screen above 3 people seated on a stage including on the right Prof Helen Roy from UKCEH

IPBES publications

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UKCEH is excited to be part of #IPBES12 in Manchester, the first IPBES Plenary in the UK. This brings scientists, policymakers & business together to connect #biodiversity science with policy.

Tonight we welcome IPBES Fellows and early career researchers to our Pathways to IPBES networking event.

The MARCIS tool has been launched This bulletin was first published by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on January 15th, 2026 One hundred and fifty years ago, seabirds lived in a very different coastal environment from the…

Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...

A Curlew, a wading bird with a long downcurved bill, stands on an estuary shoreline with water in the background. Wording below reads: PhD opportunity with BTO and Liverpool John Moores University. BTO logo is top right of the image.

📢 We're looking for a PhD student to focus on habitat use of wintering Curlew in and around coastal SPAs. Apply now ➡️ bit.ly/CurlewPhD

The student will be based at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social and BTO, starting in October 2026 for four years.

📆 Deadline to apply: Wednesday 18 February #Ornithology

Ecology jobs!

Ocean warming threatens seabirds in the North Atlantic A warmer North Atlantic Ocean increases the pressure on seabird populations, of which many are already in decline. A large-scale study of 26 populations of five species reveals that increasing tempera...

Read more about the work in news from lead institute the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research www.nina.no/english/Abou...

Demographic responses of North Atlantic seabirds to seasonal ocean warming | PNAS Climate-driven ocean warming is profoundly reshaping marine ecosystems, with cascading effects on biodiversity and trophic interactions. For migrat...

Warming oceans are having widespread and often negative effects on migratory seabirds, new research involving UKCEH shows.

The study compared seasonal sea surface temperatures with seabird numbers to quantify effects on reproduction, survival & population trends. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Isle of May avian ecologist #job #seabirds - come join our team, we’d love to chat if you have questions, please just get in touch ⬇️

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @vogelwarte.bsky.social to unravel the demographic drivers of population change in Alpine #swifts in #Switzerland: buff.ly/crV1rT8

UKCEH Land Cover plus: Fertilisers 2015–2021 (England) is now live!

🔹Annual maps of fertiliser use
🔹1km x 1km resolution + uncertainty estimates

This builds on the 2010–2015 dataset, now with yearly maps instead of averages.

Explore here: catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/0f...

#AgZeroPlus 🧪

Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change - Marine Biodiversity Biodiversity decline jeopardizes the foundation of natural ecosystems and human well-being, a concern that prompted major global agreements aiming to bend the curve towards a net positive biodiversity...

More than a year ago researchers from @hifmb.de and @icbm-uol.bsky.social started to write about different perspectives on marine biodiversity change from natural and social science perspectives. This morphed into a review paper that was published online today link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧪

Ocean warming threatens seabirds in the North Atlantic Climate change is causing ocean warming, acidification and loss of sea ice. This, in turn, is leading to shifting biogeographic distribution and in some cases species extinction.

New large-scale study based on SEAPOP data shows that #ocean #warming threatens #seabirds in the North Atlantic
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Bioaccumulation of legacy POPs in seabirds: A multi-species comparison between Procellariiformes and Suliformes in the South Atlantic - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment This study examines the presence and distribution of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the liver tissues of six Procellariiformes species collected from beach-cast individuals along the Rio Gran...

Padilha et al. Bioaccumulation of legacy POPs in seabirds: A multi-species comparison between Procellariiformes and Suliformes in the South Atlantic link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology #seabirds

Seabirds are more likely to ‘divorce’ in bad weather Wild seabirds are more likely to split up in windy weather, according to a new study involving the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Importantly, birds that remained with the same partner tended to lay eggs earlier, which is strongly tied to how many chicks they rear 🐣.

See our news story: ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Read the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#seabirds #ClimateChange 🧪

A kittiwake ringed as a chick by @ukceh.bsky.social on the Isle of May in 2023 has been reported from Greenland. Our tracking studies over the years have revealed that many of the Isle of May kittiwakes pass Greenland on route to wintering off Newfoundland @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social

Mike Image presenting on insect trends

Emma and Mike speak to attendees at the APPG

Mike, Claire and Emma at the Houses of Parliament

Great to attend the Bees, Pollinators and Invertebrates APPG event at the House of Lords yesterday.

Mike Image & Emma Gardner shared our work with JNCC on the pollinator indicator and @pomscheme.bsky.social, plus DRUID results on predicting effects of land-use policies on wild bees 🐝

#NEB2025 #NationalEmergencyBriefing #climate #biodiversityloss #netzero

Read the blog by UKCEH molecular ecologists on the Springer Nature Research Communities website: 
https://f.mtr.cool/uaqahjasfy

https://f.mtr.cool/hlpsglwcqi

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Weekend reads: Catch up with UKCEH news via our latest newsletter!

🏞️ Insights from historic land use maps
✨ New science director
 🔎 Studies on soils, seabirds etc
📈 Long-term lakes data

and more!
https://mailings.ceh.ac.uk/historic-land-use-sustainability-research-ukceh

#EnvironmentalScience

New UKCEH research shows satellite imagery reveals vegetation stress months before unpredictable 'flash droughts'. That early warning could give farmers, water managers and health authorities time to act: https://f.mtr.cool/usfdpaviie

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

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...

We should broaden models, not narrow them. Models are tools to explore uncertainty, communicate scenarios, and test policy. Managers seek robust strategies, not perfect forecasts.

What a great paper from @cboettig.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Forecasting #Ecology 🌐

Reconsidering space-for-time substitution in climate change ecology - Nature Climate Change Ecologists often leverage patterns observed across spatial climate gradients to predict the impacts of climate change (space-for-time substitution). We highlight evidence that this can be misleading n...

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The #EU collectively failed to deliver #GoodEnvironmentalStatus in its seas. Bold, binding action across all sectors—strong #MPAs, pollution controls, fishing reform—is urgently needed to halt biodiversity loss and restore European Seas.
#MarineEcology #MarineConservation #MSFD #GES4SEAS 🌐🌍🧪🌊🦈🐬🐋

Spring skies

Seal tracks - Embleton