The Seabird Group

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We have vacancies available on our committee! 🕊️👨‍👨‍👧👩‍👩‍👦

We are recruiting for 5 roles:

Secretary 👩‍🏫
Assistant Journal Editor 📉
Social Media Lead 🤳
Assistant Newsletter/ Social Media Support 🤝
Website Officer 🧑‍💻

Feel free to DM for details & email secretary@seabirdgroup.org.uk to apply (deadline 31 Oct) 📥

Love how this looks 👌🌈

Fantastic day on the Wirral watching wind blown Leach's Petrels leaving the river Mersey. The last couple of birds passed within metres over the beach on the ebbing tide!

It's the start of #birdtober2025 - I fell down a rabbit hole of exploring differences between the four extant species of banded penguins and ended up with this graphic as the end product! At first these birds seem so similar but illustrating them is a great way to notice all the small differences!

A head-on profile shot of an Atlantic Puffin with a fish in its mouth. Photo by Michael Jerrard.

Welcome to #AUKTOBER! 🐧🎃

(we know penguins aren't #auks but no emojis!)

Throughout the month we'll be posting pictures, cool facts & generally celebrating the world of the auk ♥️

To start: the clown-faced, people's choice.. the puffin 🤡. Jazzy beak by day, UV disco beak by night 💃 What a bird!

We do!!! 🙋

Important date for your diaries ‼️

Our AGM is Wed 12 Nov - 12 midday (online) 📔👩‍💻

ALL our members are welcome & we'd love you to join us if you can. A number of roles have also come up within the committee - details on how to apply to follow.

Not yet signed up? www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/membership

Advertisement for registration of WSC4 being open, picturing a gannet in flight and text details of the conference.

Registration is OPEN for the 4th World Seabird Conference (WSC4)!

📅 7–11 Sept 2026
📍 Hobart, Tasmania | 💻 Hybrid event

Join the global #seabird community to connect, collaborate & conserve 👉 worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir...

#WSC4 #seabirds #Hobart2026 #ornithology

Exciting news!! The World Seabird Union @worldseabirdunion.bsky.social 4th World #Seabird Conference is now open for registration! 🕊️🌏

🏢Hobart, Tasmania. 📅7-11 Sept 2026

Click the link for all the info 🤓
worldseabirdunion.org/world-seabir... #WSC4

Red-billed Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae scopulinus or tarāpunga, Plimmerton beach, North Island, 31st Oct 2015. They look very disapproving.

Salvin's Albatross or Toroa Thalassarche salvini, Kaikoura pelagic, South Island, New Zealand, 2nd Nov 2015. It’s the eyebrows!

Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa fighting, The Mere, Martin Mere, 13th Feb 2025. So many fights over grain from the Swan feeds!

Canada Goose Branta canadensis pair, Woodend Marsh, Martin Mere, 29th March 2023. Another pair landed nearby, and they weren’t having it.

My contribution to today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme birds showing #attitude.

I’ve chosen #seabirds, #waders aka #shorebirds and #waterfowl. 🪶❤️

#birds #ukbirds #worldbirds

Graphic displays a Black Guillemot photographed by Edmund Fellowes/BTO with a thought bubble extending from its head and the internal text 'Just one month to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP!'. The SMP logo is positioned in the top left hand corner. The caption reads: 'Yes, that's right! You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds'

Yes, that's right!
You have until October 31st to submit your breeding seabird data to the SMP so that it can be utilised in understanding how species have faired this year! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Congrats @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social K Layton-Matthews @bennett-sophie.bsky.social J Funder Castenschiold @martacruz-flores.bsky.social @aliceedney.bsky.social P Fauchald @kirstyfranklin.bsky.social H Guímaro H Hereward @tystiedan.bsky.social B Merkel S Molværsmyr C Sauser K Snell E Humphreys 🕊️🖊️

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

A great outcome from a workshop at our #seabird conference last year in Portugal, this review paper collab has been selected as Editor's choice at ICES Journal of Marine Science! 💪👏

⤵️ academic.oup.com/icesjms/arti...

#seabirdmonitoring #newtechnology #remotecameras #acoustic #biotelemetry #UAVs 🛰️🌊

Ben Porter presenting in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn

Ben Porter presenting in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn

Ben Porter presenting his stormpetrel GPS tracks in the "kings hall" auditorium in Tórshavn

Very interesting presentation by @bardseyben.bsky.social on lightpollution in the Faroes and some brand new and exciting GPS tracking data of stormpetrels at this year's researchers night #seabirds 🌍🧪

#ornithology friends in south-eastern #Australia: please be on the look-out for #seabirds on beaches. Sadly, they will probably start washing up in ~2 weeks… #CitizenScience #BeachedBirds #AdriftLab #OzBirds

#SeabirdSeptember

A breeding pair of Gannets on the Bass Rock with their chick. One of the adults clearly has a black eye, an indicator of past exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza, while the other is normal/healthy.

Very cool new #seabird paper showing no difference in breeding success between healthy and black-eyed gannets, but a worrying overall decline in productivity following the #avianflu outbreak. 🦠🐣

Read the paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #ornithology

Worrying..

Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring Abstract. Monitoring of seabird population size and demography has for decades relied on observer-based methods. While such methods have allowed the accumu

Our new #IJMS Editor's Choice paper using new technologies to monitor #seabird populations is out now! A nice output following a workshop at @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social conference in Coimbra last year 🎥🎵🐣💻

Paper 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ices...
Article ✍️ www.ices.dk/news-and-eve...
#seabirds #ornithology

🐥🌊Very happy to have participated in this review about "Opportunities and challenges for new technologies in seabird population monitoring"

💪Great work led by @seabirdmortenf.bsky.social, as an output of the last @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social Conferece

🎖️Selected as Editor's Choice👏

Full paper: 👇

Really sad that this happens. So unnecessary and evil. 💔

Arctic terns at sunset over The Skerries off Angelsey, Wales #terns #arcticterns #TheSkerriesl #Wales #seabirds #nature #wildlife #birds #sunset #silhouette #dusk #islands

The numbers have been crunched and we are delighted to report that our breeding European Shag numbers on the Isle of May are up as blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Find yourself a man who looks after you like this frigatebird looks after its stick

🚨 PhD alert 🚨 We are looking for a highly motivated student to use 🧬 genomics 🧬 and 🛰️ bio-logging 🛰️ approaches to disentangle cultural and genetic contributions to seabird migration 🐣 Think this is you, or someone you know? Then come to our Q&A session at on 29/09 and check out the ad below!

The first fieldwork season of my PhD is almost over, #GPStracking the ocean wanderer #Cory'sShearwater, noisy #LittleTern and classy #Auduoin'sGull.

Thrilled to explore how these #seabird adapt in warming environment.

#SeabirdSeptember #climatechange #ecology

Sounds like very exciting and interesting research! 🐥

To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - To lead or to follow: disentangling the genetic and cultural contributions to long-distance seabird migration at University of Liverpool, listed on FindAPhD.com

Delighted to be cosupervising this funded PhD with @joewynnbirds.bsky.social on #migration in #birds #seabirds @liverpooluni.bsky.social. Start in early 2026! Register for our online briefing session. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...