Luke Halpin

Good evening from Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 🍁

Good news everybody! The Independent Planning Commission just REFUSED the bid to restart Redbank Power Station, noting unacceptable negative impacts on native flora and fauna. Common
Sense prevails!
www.ipcn.nsw.gov.au/cases/restar...

Good morning!

Good morning from #BritishColumbia if you zoom in you can see the dorsal of a bull transient killer whale

Good evening from Hartley Bay #BritishColumbia

Central coast of British Columbia 👍🏼

Cracker of a waterfall on the #britishcolumbia central coast 🇨🇦

Good morning!

Estuary goodness on the #britishcolumbia central coast

Steller sea lions in the beautiful Pacific Northwest #britishcolumbia #Canada

Cream brick building with ‘Singleton Council Civic Centre’ on one wall, and a bronze sculpture of a bearded chap with a wide brimmed hat. No relation.

In Singleton to address the NSW Independent Planning Commission regarding a proposal to clear half a million hectares of woodlands in Western NSW, intended as biomass feedstock for Redbank Power Station. In my professional opinion this will push embattled outback flora and fauna closer to extinction

Not advised. This plant is super invasive.

New paper led by PhD student Ben Viola. We used shipboard data to better understand how snow petrels associate with their marine habitat!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Adult survival in a small seabird, Hydrobates leucorhous, covaries with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation over the past six decades | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Seabirds’ annual survival is influenced by numerous factors, but oceanic conditions are among the most significant. Indices used to monitor these conditions typically cycle over decades. Using the lon...

Talk about a long-term study! The dataset for our fresh-off-the-press survival paper on Leach's storm-petrel was started before most of the authors were even born!
#seabirds #itsnevertoolatetostartalongtermstudy

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Little Corellas against flag flying. #AusBirds #Cockatoos

Pretty good day at sea in Bass Strait with some nice #seabirds and a few Antarctic Minke #Whales among other cetaceans. 🐋 🐦

You just won gif of the year competition though

Crocs are in!
#SuperSeabirdSunday
#seabirds #albatross #MidwayAtoll

Rainbow

All the way across the sky!

Conservation implications of wide-ranging year-round movement and distribution of Aleutian Island breeding Aethia cristatella (Crested Auklets) Abstract. Despite representing a crucial conservation concern, challenges in measuring seabird movement outside the breeding season remain. Among Alcidae,

Our new paper (early view out now!) details an unexpected triangular pattern of migration for Crested Auklets. 95% of our tagged birds spent time in the Chukchi Sea and Sea of Okhotsk before returning to their nesting site. Is it time to re-write the distribution maps? 🧪🐧🦑 doi.org/10.1093/orni...

Spatial distribution of seabird biomass removal and overlap with fisheries in a large marine ecosystem Abstract. Globally, seabirds remove a prey biomass equivalent to commercial fishery landings, suggesting likely competition for resources that will vary sp

New #seabird paper by @gannetguy.bsky.social et al. finds "...discrete areas of co-occurring prey consumption by seabirds and fishing effort..." academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

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#Seabird #Pride 2025 winning design by @terngirl.bsky.social
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A Common guillemot with rings and a red GLS logger, which has seaweed growing from it.

Third paper from our #Seabird Journal #37 - @bennett-sophie.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social 📄📘

"Growth of seaweed species on GLS logger attachments" (short note) 🌱⌚

Check it out here! -> doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

An obligate nocturnal foraging seabird: the Swallow-tailed Gull. Happy to have been part of Sebastian Cruz’s research on this topic:
www.marineornithology.org/article?rn=1...

#seabirds #gulls #Galapagos 🇪🇨

Wilson's storm petrels, feeding in shallow waters (on amphipods, I think). Watch closely to see some fully submerging. This is the second time I've seen them diving. At Melchior Islands. #seabirds

Join us in solidarity—fly your American flag upside down, the traditional signal of distress and extreme emergency.

Ok #superseabirdsunday, I'll play! Here are some northern #fulmars doing what they do best at the flow edge of Admiralty Inlet in #Nunavut #Arctic #Canada

A picture of the head of a kittiwake, a seabird found breeding around the UK

Are you looking out for a #PhD on #seabirds? *New* competition-funded project to understand and share biologging data to reduce consenting risk from offshore wind farms. Exciting collaboration with @olliepadget.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social (1/3)

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council