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Holly Pickett

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📖 PhD student @eegcam.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk - foraging ecology of Antarctic seabirds, also interested in the breeding biology of grassland birds and migration 🪶 C permit seabird ringer 🪺 she/her

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Isle of May #seabirdpride 2025. @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

21.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
Image of study site Bluemull Sound, Shetland, and a foraging European Shag

Image of study site Bluemull Sound, Shetland, and a foraging European Shag

1/6 Tidal stream environments are unique marine habitats characterised by fast tidal currents.

Knowledge of how #seabirds use these areas for foraging is scarce.

@tomgale98.bsky.social is at #BOU2025 presenting work on understanding drivers of habitat selection of Shags in these environments...

02.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 21    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 0
A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden

05.02.2025 10:27 — 👍 1818    🔁 957    💬 44    📌 45
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Some birdy art to get through Application Season™️ 🎨 🦅

04.02.2025 10:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
North American avian species that migrate in flocks show greater long-term non-breeding range shift rates

New paper published today in Movement Ecology! We show North American birds that migrate in flocks have greater long-term non-breeding range shifts, particularly if flocks are mixed-age.

We link this to social learning in novel migration route development.

rdcu.be/d57Mw

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#ornithology

14.01.2025 08:36 — 👍 65    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 3
The front cover of Borders Bird Report 2023, featuring a photo of a Waxwing with a purple text box with the text "Borders Bird Report 2023" below.

The front cover of Borders Bird Report 2023, featuring a photo of a Waxwing with a purple text box with the text "Borders Bird Report 2023" below.

Borders Bird Report 2023 is now available

2023 in the Borders saw the second highest species total, four new species and the rediscovery of Marsh Tits.

The report is priced at £13 (plus £3.25 p&p). For full details of how to get hold of your copy, visit www.the-soc.org.uk/pages/local-...

11.12.2024 16:09 — 👍 39    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 2

Ah thank you!

02.12.2024 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Starter packs BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...

Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

26.11.2024 02:47 — 👍 564    🔁 314    💬 49    📌 37

If there’s space please can I be added?

02.12.2024 10:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Conference delegates sat in the Atholl Suite (conference room set up with cabaret seating style) listening to a talk.

Conference delegates sat in the Atholl Suite (conference room set up with cabaret seating style) listening to a talk.

Conference delegates sat in the Atholl Suite (conference room set up with cabaret seating style) listening to a talk.

Conference delegates sat in the Atholl Suite (conference room set up with cabaret seating style) listening to a talk.

Conference delegates ceilidh dancing.

Conference delegates ceilidh dancing.

Wildlife gardening Q&A workshop with a small group sat around a table talking.

Wildlife gardening Q&A workshop with a small group sat around a table talking.

Thank you to all our excellent speakers, workshop leaders and delegates who braved Storm Bert to join us at our Annual Conference in Pitlochry last weekend and made it such an interesting, sociable and fun event.
#SOCconf24

29.11.2024 16:16 — 👍 18    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Differential changes in the morphology and fuel loads of obligatory and partial migrant passerines over half a century in Britain - Movement Ecology Migratory distances and stopover locations are changing for many passerines in response to climate change. Morphological changes have been linked to rising global temperatures in both migrants and res...

🪶Differential changes in the morphology and fuel loads of obligatory and partial migrant passerines over half a century in Britain🪶

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movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

28.11.2024 12:59 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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