Shoney Wind / Nathalie

Thankyou so much!

Ooo could you put a google pin in reply to show exactly where in Vardo this is please? thank you

Choose your playlist.. copulation, nest building, nest defence etc

So ill be posting the good and bad news from Kittiwakery ANS 2025 season over the next few weeks...

First, we have been over-run with corvids in 2025 inc jackdaws, carrion crows and magpies..

see exhibit no 1 - if you look very carefully you can see 4 jackdaws inside and outside Kittiwakery...

Shoney Wind Kittiwakery The Kittiwakery concept was first conceived in 2019 by NJ Stevenson of Shoney Wind (SWL), following research into kittiwake thermoregulation, and a global review of successful and failed artificial n...

So a wee reminder of the videos from 2024 on the Kittiwakery ANS.. we will be posting 2025 videos soon.

The key 2024 videos are here: www.youtube.com/@ShoneyWind_...

Well ahead of the NE urban kits!

Fab data!

A juvenile kittiwake in the hand, wearing a 3-digit coded yellow colour ring, a red plastic ring and a metal ring.

Listen up anyone working in the Irish Sea this summer! We tagged a bunch of kitts in Liverpool Bay and want to gather as many resightings as we can. If you spot these yellow colour rings please give me a shout (dla205@exeter.ac.uk) 🐦💍💛

(Modelled by our very own VIP 😌👑)

#Seabirds #IrishSea

Anthropomorphized comments. #UrbanKittiwake #seabirds #kittiwake #kittiwakehotels #RissaTridactyla

www.shoneywind.com/kittiwakery-...

very similar to the small shortnose i saw in the Hudson decades ago.... apologies... every day is a school day!

hello, do you know what date the first kittiwake were back at dunbar in 202 please?

shortnose sturgeon?

🚨NEW VACANCIES!🚨

Our Offshore Renewables group are seeking TWO ecological statisticians to join the growing team.

Both are permanent roles- more info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/ec...
📆Deadline: 27th Mar 2025

#StatisticalEcology #OffshoreRenewables #Statistics #DataScience #Seabirds #MarineMammals

Amuses me no end!

Good opportunity for someone

Identifying urban hotspots of potential bird and pedestrian encounters through corridor overlap | link.springer.com/ar... | Urban Ecosystems | #ornithology 🪶

UK Government rejects 'emergency' use of neonicotinoids The UK Government has rejected an emergency application of an insect-killing pesticide for 2025. The neonicotinoid thiamethoxam has been banned in the UK since 2018, but had been approved for use on British sugar beet crops annually from 2021 to 2024 under the previous Conservative government. The W...

The UK Government has rejected a request for the emergency application of an insect-killing pesticide to crops in 2025:

I’m not repainting our decoys this year! Official reason: let’s see how long it takes them to deteriorate.. unofficially cos my painting skills are poor!

Looking for a #bird related volunteer opportunity to kick off 2025? Help us count our #fulmar survey photos to update our population estimates! Email me if you're interested.
#seabirds
#conservation
#arctic

Deadline for these exciting seasonal roles with RSPB is fast approaching! Go, go, go 🏃
#ornithology #seabirds #ukbirding #birdingScotland #BirdingWales

Seabirds need your help. Check out the Seabird Action plan consultation which was recently released by the Scottish Government and more importantly they want your feedback on the subject. Check out the blog for the details: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Kittiwake

#northumbria
#birds #ukbirds
#wildlife
#photography
#blueskybirds

Decades of artificial nests towards African penguin conservation—Have they made a difference? | besjournals.onlineli... | Ecological Solutions and Evidence | #ornithology #seabirds 🪶

A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads: "SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male." This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.

We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.

Go on girl. 😍

Breaking news!

November, 2024, came in at the second warmest in recorded history, at 1.62°C above the pre-industrial baseline.

Starting in June, 2023, there have now been 18 consecutive months above the pre-2023 record high, likely the hottest string of 18 months in the last 120,000+ years.

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

Post reproductive mother and Son copyright David Ellifrit Center for Whale Research

Exciting new NERC funded PhD opportunity available with us on #killerwhale #orca #behaviour and #conservation, co-supervised by Stephanie King, Sam Ellis and Dan Franks in partnership with The Center for Whale Research USA
exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... - deadline 13th January 2025 #killerwhale

No5
#seabirds #kittiwake

So you can go here to view example playlists by face or behaviour, so far, ive only added 48 videos that takes about 8 mins to view them all. You can click on different playlists by behaviour, or click on SSE v NNW face etc... up to you

m.youtube.com/@ShoneyWind_...

No4
#seabirds #kittiwake

To give you an idea of how many days it took to go through ‘real’ motion detections.. between us, it was 26 days. We had estimated 37 videos per hoir and it actually translated to 14 videos p/h .. again a serious underestimate of effort.. CPUEK might be a new metric..

No3
#seabirds #kittiwake

From our rapid subsampling of videos half way through the season, SWL had estimated 40% of videos had 'real' kittiwake in them. Erm. No. 70% of videos had 'real' kittiwake in, so we underestimated the task ahead of us...