The Seabird Group

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image of computer screen and seabird tracks with text that reads: - Over 30 million locations uploaded (a 70% increase in total locations) - 186 datasets uploaded -62 species tracked including 12 new (new total = 194 species) - 43 new colonies tracked

What a 2025 it has been for the Seabird Tracking Database, some highlights in the image! 📈

See our latest blog post for even more details➡️ www.seabirdtracking.org/seabird-trac...

A massive thank you to the 363 seabird researchers who have contributed their data over the last 21 years 🐧🌊🌏

An Arctic Skua with rings on its legs on a ground of green grass, purple heather and rocks. Photo: Danni Thompson.

A huge thank you to our panel today on Seabird Careers - @robthomasbirds.bsky.social, Helen Wade, @jaycee161.bsky.social & @seabirdshearer.bsky.social 👏 Many insights, interesting backstories, tips on applying for jobs & more!

The session was recorded & will be available to watch if you missed it 🍿

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Report beached birds, beach-washed birds, seabird mass mortalities Report beached birds, seabirds, and mutton birds. Help us gather data on seabird mass mortality events as a citizen scientist.

🚨We need your help🚨 #Shearwaters are washing up on beaches, particularly around #Tathra. Some #seabirds are still alive. Please do not touch the #birds. Instead, take photos & submit your observations to our new portal ➡️ adriftlab.org/beached-bird... (also, please share this) #ornithology #OzBirds

Fine-scale behavioural responses to mixing fronts are linked to variation in geographic space use in a medium ranging seabird - Marine Biology Marine predators forage in dynamic, heterogeneous environments, where resources are unevenly distributed. Consequently, predators often concentrate foraging activity in areas where oceanographic proce...

Can GPS tracking reveal how #seabirds make use of tidal mixing fronts when foraging? 🧪

New research shows a bird’s use of ocean fronts may relate to its regular foraging areas

Read on for more

Or read the full paper: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

@ellingbry.bsky.social

(PDF) The first drone census of the Gannet colony on St Kilda, 2023 PDF | An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (hereafter drone) survey of Gannets at St Kilda was carried out in June 2023. The survey was the first census at St... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

The first drone census of the St Kilda gannet colony is now published in Scottish Birds!

We counted 59,205 AOS in 2023 - similar to previous years. The overall impact of #HPAI appears less than at some other colonies, with notable declines in flatter areas 🧮

#ornithology #seabirds #NTSseabirds

Research Assistant and Senior Research Assistant - Seasonal Recruitment 2026 | RSPB We are delighted to bring the details of our seasonal Research Assistants and Senior Research Assistants vacancies on a variety of projects within Great Britain in 2026.Full details of the roles curre...

Seasonal field staff needed for @rspbscience.bsky.social projects in 2026 - advert live, closing date 11 Jan. Lots of #seabird (& non-seabird) opportunities!

Get in touch if you’d like to know more about any of the #seabird roles 🌊🐦

app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car... #seabirds #ornithology

Inspector Gannet making sure this stoat trap is set and baited to protect the colony from invasive ferrets, weasels, and stoats.

#gannet #birds #birding #wildlifephotography #NewZealand #Aotearoa #seabirds #birdsofbluesky #photography #ocean #conservation

Laura is Reserves Manager/Scientist for the Ascension Isles govt., Helen is a Senior Marine Advocate @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social, Jenny is a Senior Marine Ornithologist @scottishgov.bsky.social, & Rob is a researcher at Cardiff Uni (amongst other things) & won the Marsh Award for Ornithology 2025!

We can now announce our panel of #Seabird Career experts for this Friday's online panel session 📣

👩‍🔬 Laura Shearer @seabirdshearer.bsky.social
👩‍🔬 Helen Wade
👩‍🔬 Jenny Coomes @jaycee161.bsky.social
👨‍🔬 Rob Thomas @robthomasbirds.bsky.social

Sign up here by Weds to attend! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Flying tern painting.

Day 7 of #artadventcalendar

I can relate to terns. They will fly thousands of miles to enjoy summer. I do the same.

Painting of a common tern flying.

Mixed media on canvas

#painting #superseabirdsunday #seabird

#SuperSeabirdSunday Yearning for a bit of blue sky. Common Terns on the #Northumberland coast, taken with my phone David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social

A pair of ring-billed gulls were 'kissing' along the shores of a local river. It was very adorable.

#SeaBirds #BirdOfTheDay #Manitoba #BirdPhotograhy #Birds

Two people wearing coloured coats, sitting on a cliff overlooking the sea. They are using binoculars to watch birds in the distance. [Photo: Danni Thompson]

Coming to the end of your studies and thinking about career options? We've got another exciting ECR talk lined up, this time on #Seabird Careers 🦢💼

📆 Fri 12 December
🕥 9.30 - 11 am (UK)
📍 Online

Sign up HERE to attend ⤵️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

And stay tuned for who's on our panel! 👀

As I'm planning next years field season, I wonder if anyone on here would like to run a small island project on Skúvoy with me. I will be catching and samling great skuas, but there will be good opportunities to investigate other aspects of seabird island ecology 🌍🧪 #seabirds

On the move! An Isle of May Kittiwake has just been recovered from Peamiut, Greenland, some 1,710 miles away as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Doing research on #Arctic #seabirds? Consider submitting an abstract to the session 'Safeguarding seabird populations in a rapidly changing Arctic' at www.uarcticcongress.fo/programme/ca... in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands 26-29 May 2026

An incredible opportunity to work with the @rspb.bsky.social and Storm petrels as part of your Master's degree! 🕊️

#research #seabirds

We're delighted to announce that our Scottish Seabird Photography Exhibition is now open!🙌

Featuring the best images from our recent competition, this exhibition includes at least one image of every seabird which breeds in Scotland🪶🌊

Loggers attached to birds can affect foraging behaviour Loggers have become a central part of research on seabirds and other groups of animals over the past 20 years. In seabird research, loggers provide very useful documentation of diving behaviour…

#biologging #research is booming - but do #loggers actually impact the birds? Yes, they do - depending on the mass and attachment location. If you work with biologging, you should read our latest publication seapop.no/en/2025/11/l...
@ninanatureresearch.bsky.social #seabirds

There’s such beauty in variety – and the eggs laid by our terns show it too. In our newest paper we try to find patterns in this variety and test how female identity and age, as well as laying order, affect the colour, spottiness, shape, and size of eggs: doi.org/10.1002/ece3...

Graphic displays an amalgamated image of three Arctic Skuas by Alex Penn/BTO. On the left is a pale morph individual, in the centre a juvenile, and a dark morph individual on the right. In the top right hand corner is the SMP logo. The caption reads: 'The Arctic Skua, one of two Skua species covered by the SMP. Look out for the adult's prominent 'pointed tail spike' and their variable colour gradations, caused by mixed breeding pairs of pale and dark morph individuals! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social'

The Arctic Skua, one of two Skua species covered by the SMP.
Look out for the adult's prominent 'pointed tail spike' and their variable colour gradations, caused by mixed breeding pairs of pale and dark morph individuals! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Spatial overlap alone downplays the level of interaction between a central place forager and the local fishery While spatial overlap is commonly used to quantify interactions, it may underestimate the true degree of competition between foraging predators and fishing vessels. Our alternative population-level m...

My first PhD paper is now out! We calculate overlap intensity between African penguins and the local purse seine fishery 🐧🐟

Check it out in @jappliedecology.bsky.social
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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#Seabirds at risk: Common Guillemots concentrate for moulting where wind farms are planned in the German North Sea: see latest aerial suveys by #DDA in September 2025: www.dda-web.de/downloads/ma...

Kittiwake Seabird illustration

Kittiwake seabird illustration sticker on water bottle

kittiwake seabird illustration on a hat

Happy Seabird Sunday! A new Kittiwake illustration inspired by watching them dive for capelin over the summer...

A little appreciation for one of our smaller black and white seabirds.

find it here: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1758...

#seabird #superseabirdsunday #seabirdsunday #kittiwake

Automating the Count: Advances in AI-Based Seabird Monitoring Drones and deep learning are rewriting how we count seabirds. On the remote Bounty Islands, AI and 3D mapping reveal colonies with new clarity.

Drones and deep learning are rewriting how we count seabirds. On the remote Bounty Islands, AI and 3D mapping reveal colonies with new clarity.

Read more in The Ornithologist.

theornithologist.org/automating-t...

#TheOrnithologist #seabirds #ornithology

Surveying Lord Howe geckos between the two mountains here, showcased this year’s production of Providence Petrel fledglings- some still needing a good preen. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds

🐦✨ WSC4 Keynote Nominations Open!

Share your vision for seabird conservation. Early-career & international voices encouraged!
📍WSC4 In-person & Hybrid: 7–11 Sept 2026, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

🔗 bit.ly/3Jv71c9
#WSC4 #SeabirdScience