Eleanor Gnam

Another #superseabirdsunday and now it's almost the end of the field season... This is a juvenile captured in a burrow who will probably fledge in the next couple of days.

New study finds river otters 🦦 prey on seabirds across 73 North American islands!

🔹 Otters prefer small burrow-nesting seabirds
🔹 They’ll swim up to 8 km across open water to reach colonies
🔹 Most attacks occur on nearshore islands

Full study: bit.ly/4mhJZCz

Vote for Subantarctic skua in this years Bird of the Year Forest & Bird’s Bird of the Year recognises our unique birds and with each vote you give them a voice.

Vote for the Subantarctic skua in this year's Bird of the Year www.birdoftheyear.org.nz/subantarctic... #teamskua #seabirds 🌍

Interspecies conflict, precarious reasoning, and the gull problem in the Gulf of Maine Contemporary conservation science requires mediating conflicts among nonhuman species, but the grounds for favoring one species over another can be unclear. We examined the premises through which wil....

🚨 Gull Drama

Seagulls - love em? Hate em? Shoot em? All of the above?

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#SuperSeabirdSunday
An unusual one from yesterday.
A herring gull enjoying a slice of pizza at the beachfront restaurant.

Providence Petrel defending its burrow to all comers at the world’s 2nd only breeding island, Red Knoll, Phillip Island Norfolk. #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶

Balloon wall art inspired by the ggplot2 hex sticker. The display features a hexagonal frame made of black balloons, filled with white balloons inside and surrounded by a background of light and dark blue balloons. A line graph with black balloon segments and round coloured nodes runs across the centre, and the word “ggplot2” is spelled out in black balloon letters below the chart.

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

How about a gorgeous Imm Belchers Gull photographed in Peru for #SuperSeabirdSunday

A razorbill standing on a rock, on a slope covered in puffin burrows. There are many puffins in the air and several common murres on rocks at the top of the slope.

A razorbill standing on a rock, on a slope covered in puffin burrows. There are many puffins in the air and several common murres on rocks at the top of the slope

It's #superseabirdsunday and our Newfoundland field season has just begun! A razorbill and some other alcids on Great Island, Witless Bay (NL).

A through-the-binocular photo of three razorbills sitting on a rock, with one flying directly in front of them. There are a few puffins sitting on grassy hummocks around the rock.

Happy national puffin day to the best alcid, the razorbill (it's been a great week already for terrorizing everyone with my binocular photography)

A peculiar male petrel (and Storm-petrel) habit is the courtship growl- I’ve often heard it from burrows but didn’t realise it involved inflation of the throat. Some species can have a very low register for their body size. Here a White-necked Petrel gives it his all. #SuperSeabirdSunday🪶

Splicing DNA sequenced from Rev. Thomas Bayes's crypt into a wolf embryo to make Canis parameterensis, the priorwolf

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a pair of Razorbills on the cliff ledges #SuperSeabirdSunday #seabirds

My favorite quote from you is still "it turns out the best way to see pelicans is to go to where all the pelicans are"

A gull sits on a white rail with a sea background. It is facing left. It has a yellow bill, white body, grey back & wings, black wingtips and yellow legs.

A Yellow-legged Gull from Fuerteventura last week for #SuperSeabirdSunday

Kermadec Petrel ‘606’ has done a great job as a first-time parent on Phillip Island, Norfolk. However, nest placement means every blowy day is a bad-hair-day! #SuperSeabirdSunday#Seabirds🪶

Just wonderful :)

A photograph of two seabirds (American Herring Gulls) standing on a rocky shore. The closer bird is immature, with brown feathers and a dark bill. The further bird is a breeding adult, with gray and white plumage and a yellow bill with a red spot.

New preprint on why we should care about young seabirds (a.k.a. juveniles, immatures, subadults, prebreeders)

that you!☝️ might find interesting for marine conservation, future movement ecology studies, life history, etc.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#seabirds #conservation

colour photo, a Plesiosaur statue ponders a passing Moorhen

Hello from Crystal Palace Park. A classic face-off this morning: ‘Plesiosaurus’ macrocephalus vs Gallinula chloropus

The foreground is dark grey rock. On the left is a gull with a grey back, black wingtips and a white head and neck which is raised to the sky. The beak is open. The right hand bird is standing up but facing away. It has yellow legs, a dark grey body and white neck & head. The background is the sea.

A calling Yellow-legged Gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday

A fluffy fulmar chick sitting on a bed of pebbles and grass near a rocky background.

Fluffy fulmar chick

#SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

Ross's Gull, Fraserburgh March 2023. #superseabirdsunday

It’s #SuperSeabirdSunday so here’s one of the best seabirds on the planet. A juvenile Long-tailed Skua showing all the salient ID features.

Sadly, not even a description species in Norfolk now, despite their scarcity. 🤷‍♂️😬

Photo from BTO.

Razorbill on the edge of the cliff looks over the sea. Inner Farne Island Northumberland 2024

Quiet contemplation

#SuperSeabirdSunday
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#ukwildlife #seabirds #photography

#superseabirdsunday #northernfulmar #L #ukbirding

#SuperSeabirdSunday Cormorant in reflective mood, David @steelyseabirder.bsky.social #nebirding #birdsoftheworld

Gray Noddy (Norfolk Island, Australia).

#SuperSeabirdSunday #birds #aves

I'm so here for #tubenosestuesday!! Another of our Leach's storm-petrels from Witless Bay, Newfoundland, plus perhaps my favorite LHSP picture yet:

I’d go for #TubenosesTuesday
Colleague doing PhD on terns on Phillip Is, Norfolk sent me a snap yesterday of one of my returning Kermadec fledglings with GLS attached, overflying the colony (in the company of a White-necked Petrel). I’m 1200 km away. Bird didn’t land🫤#Seabirds

Balearic Shearwater, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, August 2017.

My contribution for this week's #SuperSeabirdSunday a Balearic Shearwater which I photographed off Scarborough, North Yorkshire on 27th August 2017.