The Seabird Group

If interested, please contact christopher.heward@rspb.org.uk for more details.

A European storm petrel nesting among rocks in Mousa, Shetland.

The RSPB is looking for surveyors to census the UK’s largest Storm Petrel colony on Mousa, Shetland.

We need 2-4 volunteers who are comfortable working and camping in a remote location with limited facilities, to help complete playback surveys during mid-July 2026. 🪺🏝️🏕️

🚨 We’re recruiting!

We’re looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect the Beacon Ponds Little Tern colony at Spurn.

👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

This image shows the cover of issue 37 of SEABIRD journal by The Seabird Group. It is of a ringed guillemot with two small chicks, standing on a rocky wall. There are other parent birds with chicks in the background.

#Seabird Journal issue #37 is complete and has been sent out to those who requested a physical copy 😊
Remember to check your mailboxes!

It is also available to read online here ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37

#science #seabirds

Onni Talas Foundation Marine Science Discovery internship at Tvärminne 2026 | Tvärminne Zoological Station | University of Helsinki The Onni Talas Foundation supports Baltic Sea research at Tvärminne Zoological Station. The Marine Science Discovery internship aims at providing young students with insights into conducting marine re...

BSc summer internships with Onni Talas Foundation (that pay better than my first 2 postdocs): www.helsinki.fi/en/research-...

A photo of a puffin standing amongst a mix of coastal plants and flowers. The puffin's feet are hidden by the plants while its bright white chest feathers, black back and vibrant red and yellow beak emerge above them. Behind the puffin, there are blurred coastal cliffs. Photo taken by Camilla Blasi Foglietti on the Scottish Wildlife Trust's Handa Island Wildlife Reserve.

If you're looking for an adventure this year, we've got some fantastic opportunities to volunteer on Handa Island! These are unique opportunities to join a close knit-team in a wild and remote location! 🌊

Visit our website to find out more and apply today
bit.ly/4bFytiH

Delighted to be at @btobirds.bsky.social today working on the @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social archive - starting with our journal's first issue 60 years ago!

A trail camera in a tree branch, in front of a bright blue sky. [Image: Furkanvari/ Unsplash].

As well as Training Grants, we've also opened up our latest round of Research Grants 📷👛

❓: To fund #seabird research (eg. camera monitoring, ringing/tracking studies, counts/productivity assessments)
👥: All welcome to apply
💲: Up to £500
📅: Deadline 28 Feb

Details ▶️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grants

A puffin stands on a rock in the rain. Photo: Jacqui Glencross.

Seabird Group Training Grants are open 🐧⛺🌃

We offer up to £250 to help with travel, accommodation or food during #seabird fieldwork or training!

We are encouraging applicants from BAME backgrounds, but all are welcome to apply 📋

For all the info ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Deadline: 28 Feb

Abstract submission has been extended until 23rd January 📣

Good luck to all those applying!

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If along with many others you've already given up on your New Years Resolution, here's a simple and achievable one you can easily stick to. Help save our #seabirds from invasive predators like rats by checking your bag, vehicle, cargo and boat for signs every time you get out on the waves this year

Hi Rodney. This is an image of a seabird researcher 'grubbing for Storm petrels'. This is a field technique where you reach an arm into the burrows to check for eggs, chicks or adult birds - it often helps to lie down to achieve maximum stretch distance! Hope that helps 😊

Person lying on a forest floor grubbing for Storm petrels. Image: Ingrid Pollet.

2026 Training Grants are now open! 📢🕊️

Are you:
📏 Hoping to gain experience with #seabirds via unpaid work?
🧑 From a BAME background? (though others may apply too)

💸 A grant of up to £250 could help! (to cover travel, accommodation or food)

Info: www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/grant
Apply by 28 Feb 💌

What do #seabirds have to do with #sharks?
New research shows that seasonal seabird activity draws #tigersharks into certain habitats, prompting other sharks to shift their movements - reshaping habitat use across entire ecosystems.

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Another new year job opportunity! Join the Isle of May @ukceh.bsky.social team in #Edinburgh, studying six species of #seabird 🦅🐣🕊️🐧🐤🐦

ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/CEH_Ca...

Deadline is 16th January. #ecology #seabirds #scotland

Regular reminder that keynote nominations are open for our conference on avian disease ecology. Pls repost or forward to anyone researching avian disease! We are keen to get nominations from underrepresented groups or regions - if you know someone like that please nominate them! #ornithology

Can we communicate our reaserch in more fun and accessible ways? I loved working with Anna @btobirds.bsky.social on her fantastic comic illustrating our recent work using seabird poo to look at their diet!

Find out more at www.bto.org/our-work/new...

#ornithology #seabirds #SciArt

Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!

#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

Looking for an amazing opportunity to work with Manxies this summer?? 👀 #seabirds #fieldwork

First two pages of the comic. Page one features a Kittiwake in the sky wondering where all the birds have gone. Page two shows how climate change impacts the diet of seabirds. One fish looks healthy, the other ones looks smaller and poorer quality.

Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖

Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology

✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree

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 ⬇️

Puffins in sea spray on a windy day in Northumberland 2025

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow ❄️

#seabirds #ukwildlife
#photography
#SuperSeabirdSunday
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social

Graphic displays a Christmas seabird quiz with four images of seabirds obscured by Christmas objects, the caption prompting viewers to guess which species they are. Caption reads: 'Different species are hiding in our second Christmas quiz! Let us know who they are in the comments. Answers and our final quiz tomorrow! Yesterday's answers are: A - Fulmar, B - Razorbill, C - Cormorant, D - Common Gull #birds #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social'

Different species are hiding in our second Christmas quiz! Let us know who they are in the comments. Answers and our final quiz tomorrow!

Yesterday's answers are: A - Fulmar, B - Razorbill, C - Cormorant, D - Common Gull #birds #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

🌊 Share your seabird research at #WSC4! Submit abstracts for oral or poster presentations by 15 Jan 2026. Travel awards available for students & early-career researchers. Connect globally & shape seabird science! 🐦✈️

🔗 tinyurl.com/5n8cjmsk

#SeabirdScience #MarineConservation #WSC4

BirdWatch Ireland is hiring a Marine Advocacy and Campaigns Officer to help secure a better future for Ireland's seabirds. Deadline 5pm Jan 7th 2026 for applications and cover letter. Full details including job description is here
birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved... (pic Brenda Sheridan)

Fantastic to see this outcome of Francis’ internship at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk being out now

Increased foraging effort in poor-food years is related to nutritional state (fat metabolism) in Peruvian Boobies

#seabirds #ornithology

doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Attention any of our Australian members 🚨📣

#Australia #Seabirds

A mass of sooty shearwaters coming into their nests on Kidney Island as dusk falls, in the Falklands #kidneyisland #seabirds #birds #shearwaters #sootyshearwater #falklandislands #kidneyisland #nature #wildlife #southatlantic

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