Eric Vidal

Seabird Research Officer | RSPB About RSPB Bempton RSPB Bempton Cliffs is at the heart of the Flamborough and Filey Coast Special Protection Area (SPA), the UK's largest mainland seabird colony. The towering chalk cliffs support eig...

New opportunity for a Seabird Research Officer in Bempton! If you’re interested please see below for details! 🐧 #ornithology

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Very Nice Paper by @seabirdecology.bsky.social and coll!

Life history, population dynamics and impacts of cat predation on an endemic gadfly petrel in Cabo Verde

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CR2025_18: Migration strategies and activity in a wide-ranging tropical seabird at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - CR2025_18: Migration strategies and activity in a wide-ranging tropical seabird at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com

New PhD project, based at ZSL, on the migration strategies of Trindade petrels from Round Island, Mauritius!

Fab opportunity to work on an amazing long-term ecological dataset, supervised by Malc Nicol, Emily Sheppard and Ken Norris 🔗⬇️

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Exciting PhD opportunity to investigate tropical seabird migration strategies with Malcolm Nicoll at the Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#ornithology #seabird #PhDopportunity

Call for abstracts is now open The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025. Abstract submissions will be through this form – click here to get started. Abstracts should be written in English and should clearly state the rese…

❗The call for abstracts is open for the Oceania Seabirds 2025 conference
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2025.

More info 👇
oceaniaseabirds2025.com/call-for-abs...

Role of low‐impact‐factor journals in conservation implementation Academic review, promotion, and tenure processes place a premium on frequent publication in high-impact factor (IF) journals. However, conservation often relies on species-specific information that i...

Role of low-impact-factor journals in conservation implementation
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If you care about democracy (and hate Elon Musk), join Bluesky The more we can make Musk seem like a loser, the less chance his austerity package has of decimating what’s left of the American welfare state.

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The more we can make Musk seem like a loser, the less chance his austerity package has of decimating what’s left of the American welfare state

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Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede

"Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky"
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Inauguration of the "Reef Lab" in Noumea, funded by
IRD, Fonds Pacifique, VicUniWgtn, UTS, JCU

28 experimental flumes with controlled T°, pH, oxygen and flux, opening up new collaborations in the Pacific

Supervisor: R Rodolpho-Metalpa

Thanks to #GIEP for hosting us

This is the first bird extinction in mainland Europe in 500 years.

1400 birds are globally threatened with extinction.

230 are Critically Endangered.

The Slender-billed Curlew is just the latest in over 200 bird extinctions since 1500. 😢🪶🧪

Global extinction of Slender‐billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) In the current biodiversity crisis, conservation efforts are often focused on extinction prevention. However, it can be difficult to determine if a species is extinct, especially if the species has a...

Global extinction of Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) @ibisjournal.bsky.social #ornithology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Oceania Seabirds 2025: talking, listening & hands-on Visit the post for more.

Oceania Seabirds 2025
14-17 April 2025
University of Auckland, city campus, Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand
Co-hosts: The Pacific Community (SPC), Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), University of Auckland & the World Seabird Union (WSU)

oceaniaseabirds2025.com

Islands are key for protecting the world’s plant endemism - Nature A standardized checklist of all known vascular plants shows the distribution of island native and endemic species, identifies their conservation status and highlights the need for actions to conserve ...

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Exciting opportunity! 🌱Join our Lab of Quantitative Ecology at Charles University, Prague! 🇨🇿
Fully funded PhD in Functional Vegetation Paleoecology.

📅Start October 2025 - Apply by January 15

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The new issue of @marineorno.bsky.social is out!
Have a browse:

#OpenAccess #Seabirds #conservation
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