Alice Edney

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New research🪶#seabirds

❗🐧👀 Two new "early-release" papers from the Seabird 38 journal are now available on our website 👀🐧❗

1. Kühn et al. 2025 Group feeding of Northern Fulmars Fulmarus glacialis on the hydrozoan Sarsia princeps on Svalbard doi.org/10.61350/sbj...

Migration strategies of skuas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean revealed by stable isotopes - Marine Biology Stable isotope ratios of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) were measured in feathers to compare the non-breeding distributions and habitat use of adult brown skuas Stercorarius antarcticus lönnbergi f...

Mills et al. Migration strategies of skuas in the southwest Atlantic Ocean revealed by stable isotopes link.springer.com/article/10.1... #ornithology #seabirds #teamskua

Our Belgian chiffchaff recovery is back! 🪶💍

It was ringed on 10th October 2025 in Liège, Belgium, and was re-trapped on 8th December 2025 in Cheshire, UK (669km movement). A small insight into where UK wintering chiffchaffs may breed (although it was likely ringed on migration). #ornithology

Puffins and Shags seem to have been hit hardest by recent storms, with many reports of birds washed ashore. This includes one Isle of May Puffin that was ringed as an adult in 1995, making it at least 34 years old!

#stormChandra #seabirds #winterstorms

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Using our bee-tracking drone, we discovered that honey bees 🐝 have highly precise and individual routes. Now published at @currentbiology.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Big Bird: A global dataset of birds in drone imagery annotated to species level Drones are a valuable tool for surveying birds, but manually detecting and identifying birds in drone images is costly. We assembled a diverse dataset of 23 865 images of birds captured with 21 diffe...

In this work led by Josh Wilson, we labelled 4824 drone-based images containing 49990 birds from 101 species and trained a bird detection and ID model. The model achieved precision = 0.91 for detection & 0.65 for species/age/sex classification.
zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Snow bunting. Photo: Mael Perroud.

Fig. 4 from the article: Change in duration of the active and inactive phase of the snow bunting's diel activity rhythm across the annual cycle.

Fig. 5 from the article: Proportion of snow bunting flights initiated during the different activity phases. (a) The proportion of all longest (≥ 7.72 h, squares) and shorter (< 7.72 h, triangles) flights initiated during phases of the diel activity rhythm. (b) The proportion of longest flights initiated during phases of the diel activity rhythm. (c) The proportion of shorter flights initiated during phases of the diel activity rhythm.

New paper: Most birds use day–night cycles to time activity - but how do Arctic birds cope with nonstop summer light? Male snow buntings keep a daily rhythm year-round, though it weakens during spring migration as flights are scheduled more flexibly

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#ornithology #birds 🪶

Thrilled to share my first PhD publication - gannets put more effort into diving when they are in groups 🐟🐟🐟

Out now in @meps-ir.bsky.social www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...

+Thanks to my coauthors who put a lot of effort into collecting the videos!

#seabirds #ornithology #animalbehaviour

This image shows the cover of issue 37 of SEABIRD journal by The Seabird Group. It is of a ringed guillemot with two small chicks, standing on a rocky wall. There are other parent birds with chicks in the background.

#Seabird Journal issue #37 is complete and has been sent out to those who requested a physical copy 😊
Remember to check your mailboxes!

It is also available to read online here ➡️ www.seabirdgroup.org.uk/seabird-37

#science #seabirds

BB eye: A birder’s guide to High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI, bird flu) virus infections have historically been most commonly associated with wild Eurasian waterfowl with...

Our article, a birder’s guide to HPAI, was published today in @britishbirds.bsky.social - it’s open access this month.

We explain how bird-flu infected seabirds in 2021/22 and the importance of citizen science to montoring future outbreaks in the wild. 🪶🧪

britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...

Energetics link long‐term environmental variations to breeding success in a wild penguin population Using a unique 25-year dataset, we uncover how environmental changes scale up from individual to population responses. We show that sea ice drives individual energetics, while parental foraging effor...

!📃New paper📃!
My 2nd PhD paper is out in @animalecology.bsky.social ky.social !
Using a unique 25-year #biologging and population monitoring🐧 dataset , we uncover how environmental changes 🧊 scale up from individual to population responses.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#move

Drones and artificial intelligence bring new precision to seabird monitoring Traditional seabird surveys have long been time- and resource-intensive, often with a risk of disturbing birds during the breeding season. Drones have made it possible to collect large volumes of…

Drones and artificial intelligence - in SEAPOP we have started to #monitor #seabird #populations with drones. Pictures are analyzed using artificial intelligence. Here's the #method to get from drone pictures to numbers of birds per species: seapop.no/en/2026/01/d...

Highlands & Islands Our Highlands & Islands region includes: Fair Isle, Caithness, Sutherland & Ross, Inverness & Nairn, Moray, Skye, Lochaber & Badenoch, the Western Isles…

If you've LOVED this feed and fancy working on a cracking island in the Outer Hebrides this summer with brilliant seabirds and a top class team at the National Trust for Scotland then the Mingulay Seabird Ranger 2026 job is up for grabs! 🐦

Apply here: www.nts.org.uk/volunteering...

#NTSSeabirds

marsh tit, www.garthpeacock.co.uk

Very pleased to share #OpenAccess paper, which we think is important to understand woodland bird declines and impact of forestry on native ancient woodland in Britain.
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #ornithology @ukceh.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @mizpas.bsky.social
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🐧 Record phenological responses to climate change in three sympatric penguin species

"We deployed 77 cameras across Antarctica and the Sub Antarctic islands to monitor three different species of penguins". @penguinacho

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/5myREFf

An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on seabirds A novel individual-based model to predict the impacts of offshore wind farms on seabirds during the non-breeding season, using long-term tracking data from SEATRACK. We demonstrate the model by simul...

✨New paper!✨
An individual‐based model to quantify the non‐breeding season impact of wind farms on #seabirds

doi.org/10.1002/2688...

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For years, experts have warned that nature loss would become a security threat.

Now a national security assessment confirms it: biodiversity collapse risks food shortages, economic instability and global disorder.

Nature underpins our global safety. So why is UK Government failing to protect it?

Gentoo penguins resting and standing on rocky terrain with snowy mountains and icy waters in the background under a clear blue sky.

There's been a record shift in the breeding season of Antarctic penguins 🐧

Gentoos are advancing breeding by an average of 13 days per decade, and Adélies and Chinstraps by an average of 10 days, likely in response to climate change.

Led by @penguinacho.bsky.social 👇
https://bit.ly/4svQWnX

The MARCIS tool has been launched This bulletin was first published by the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research on January 15th, 2026 One hundred and fifty years ago, seabirds lived in a very different coastal environment from the…

Marine industries & #seabirds - how can they coexist? Marine spatial planning is the word. Using SEAPOP data, the MARCIS project just launched an MSP-tool for seabirds in the North Atlantic seapop.no/en/2026/01/t...

For those of us who involved in running long-term studies, our work's value can be increased by synthetic studies like this one, which included Wytham Great Tit data, and suggests that plasticity in timing in response to temperatures buffers against population change
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global review of shorebird tracking data to identify research gaps and conservation priorities Tracking has enabled rapid advances in knowledge of the movement behavior and habitat use of shorebirds and is thus making a growing contribution to their conservation. However, realizing the full po...

Tracking has revolutionized the study of migratory birds - shorebirds included! 🐦
In this paper, we explore the global and historical patterns of tracking effort on these birds, and suggests some species that would benefit from future tracking efforts
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

A new study in Marine Biology shows that black guillemots (Cepphus grylle) from two Norwegian colonies adopt distinctly different winter migration strategies. Researchers provide valuable insight for coastal conservation.

🔗 bit.ly/4pEyEya

Different migration patterns uncovered in black guillemots Coastal zones are rich in biodiversity but also vulnerable to human impacts such as fisheries, kelp harvesting, aquaculture and climate change. The black guillemot is a seabird that breeds along the…

How far do black guillemots migrate during winter? Do individuals revisit the same wintering areas in consecutive years? You find the answers to these and more questions in our latest publication #seabird #migration @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social seapop.no/en/2026/01/d...

Happy to share our new paper published in @cp-iscience.bsky.social We deployed 300+ multi-sensor loggers across 17 species to investigate how different species adapt their flight strategies when crossing deserts and marine areas during migration. tinyurl.com/2c8y8xvf #ornithology #birds

📖Published📖

Authors review the current usage of uncrewed vehicles in ecological monitoring and highlight how these applications could be extended to further biodiversity research 🌍 🧪 Read more here 👇

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Last years field assistant holding a Manx Shearwater on the isle of Rum (under a towel), retrieving a GPS device after a bird has returned from a foraging trip!

We are looking to hire a Seabird Field Assistant for 2026 for our Manx Shearwater research project.

Please share this to anyone who'd like to get out in the field this summer and learn about biotelemetry, bird handling and research into animal behaviour.

drive.google.com/file/d/1SGZt...

Out now in ‘Evolutionary applications’, the last chapter of Anna’s PhD thesis, in which she used whole genome sequencing data of contemporary and historic European gull-billed terns to assess whether the population decline in part of their range has had genetic consequences: doi.org/10.1111/eva....

First two pages of the comic. Page one features a Kittiwake in the sky wondering where all the birds have gone. Page two shows how climate change impacts the diet of seabirds. One fish looks healthy, the other ones looks smaller and poorer quality.

Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖

Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology

✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree