Bec Jones

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; nesting Kittiwakes with young #SuperSeabirdSunday

A Yellowhammer perches on a branch with its bill open as it sings. Wording over the image reads: We're hiring. Field Ornithologist/Survey Mentor (BBS Surveys) - Northern Ireland. Field Ornithologists (EFS Surveys) - Northern Ireland. Field Surveyors (LandSpAES Project) - England. The logo for the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and BTO feature at the bottom of the image.

We're hiring Field Ornithologists and Surveyors! Apply now ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs

📝 Full and part time opportunities.
📆 Closing date: Tuesday 17 February.

#Ornithology

At least someone’s enjoying all this rain

Please keep an eye out for seabirds washing up on beaches - these prolonged storms seem to be having an effect. Report dead birds to Defra/Daera and BTO in the UK, live ones to suitable wildlife rehabbers.
#seabirds

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem — it’s time to fix it Globally, more than one million species are threatened with extinction, but often interventions intended to protect biodiversity are not rooted in robust research. The field has an opportunity to chan...

I don't think biodiversity conservation has an evidence problem

I think it has a most of the world's biggest industries depend on destroying nature problem

This isn't an information deficit issue, we pretty much know what to do. The problem is that govs prioritise capital growth over survival

Cool

Seven satellite-tagged Hen Harriers lost on English grouse moors in 2025 The RSPB has announced that seven satellite-tagged Hen Harriers are suspected or confirmed to have been illegally killed in England during 2025, renewing calls for licensing of all gamebird shooting to tackle raptor persecution.

The RSPB has reported that seven satellite-tagged Hen Harriers are suspected or confirmed to have been illegally killed in England during 2025, all on or close to land managed for grouse shooting:

Even in the darkest days of the Nazi regime ordinary people found ways to resist.

Non-compliance is always a choice.

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.

A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

We desperately need economic models that recognise the true value of healthy ecosystems and that we live in a world of finite natural resources.

Infinite growth is going to drive us all off a cliff.

Climate doesn’t care about borders. Nor does climate litigation When residents of the Caribbean island of Bonaire faced the Netherlands in court last October, they had few expectations for what they might achieve.  They had travelled from a place that is particul...

The climate crisis is here – “It’s breathing down our necks, burning our skin, and penetrating our homes”

“climate damage is, by its nature, transboundary” – lawsuits can absolutely come against states by people and organisations outside their territory

Great from @isabellakaminski.bsky.social

Project Officer - Protecting our Urban Kittiwakes We are looking for a highly organised and motivated individual to support our work on urban kittiwakes. Working alongside the Senior Conservation Officer for Yorkshire and Humber, as well as key ...

environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/108715-...
#seabirds

Cut out image of two Black Guillemots by Edmund Fellowes / BTO on a purple background alongside the wording: Work with us! Science & Engagement Intern in Northern Ireland. www.bto.org/jobs. BTO Northern Ireland logo top right of image.

🚨Job alert 🚨
We've got an exciting opportunity for a Science/Engagement Intern to join us at BTO Northern Ireland on a 6 month internship to learn, grow and contribute to our work to make a positive impact for birds.
Find out more and apply ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
#Ornithology

Closing date: 15 Feb 2026

YouTube video by maplesyrupnjam Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)

Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) 🙂

youtu.be/HkOMiA_uGso

🚨 We’re recruiting!

We’re looking for a Head Little Tern Warden and 2 Assistant Wardens to help protect the Beacon Ponds Little Tern colony at Spurn.

👉 Apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

A pathway runs through the middle of a woodland with trees in green leaf. Wording reads: Introductory birding & citizen science. Long Lands Common, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Sunday 15th February, 8.30-11.45. Open to those aged 16-25. Free entry! bto.org/youth-events. Long Lands Common and BTO Youth logo top right.

Join BTO Youth for a FREE birding and survey introduction walk at Long Lands Common in North Yorkshire. Book a space ➡️ www.bto.org/our-work/eve...

📆 Sunday 15 February.
📝 Open to those aged 16-25.

A couple of Turnstones washing in a puddle.

New issue of #BirdStudy now online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/tbis20/c...
White Stork demographics
Automated detection of seabirds
White-tailed Eagle dispersal
Sedge Warbler migration
Wintering raptors in Greece
Container colour selection
Hobby movements
Nesting Black-necked Grebes
#ornithology

Kestrel in flight with wings spread wide against a pale sky. Sussex Wildlife Trust logo and February calendar visible in the corner.

Something to hover over: our February calendar star is this Kestrel by Colin Mitchell. 

Download for free for desktop. 

https://f.mtr.cool/kxhmyjtrkl

Bird with colourful bill flying low over water.

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

A half century of monitoring reveals contrasting survival responses of Icelandic seabirds to climate and fisheries pressures | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Sarah E. Gutowsky et al | #ornithology 🪶

#seabirds

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

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. My contribution today is of Black-browed Albatross colony in the Falklands in January (something different) #SuperSeabirdSunday

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

🌈🙂

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#ornithology

HPAI is having a huge impact on scavengers. Here, 84.3% of dead black vultures in the US HPAI positive. Pathology confirms that digestive tract is the initial site of viral entry during ingestion of high viral doses with strong epitheliotropism.
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Graphic displays an image of an Arctic Skua by Edmund Fellowes/BTO and a map showing rough migration routes to their south American and west to south African coast wintering grounds. Caption reads: 'East or west? Tracking work from 2017-2020 by BTO staff provided the first evidence of Scottish breeding Arctic Skuas wintering off South America! Other individuals wintered along the western and southern African coast. #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social'

East or west? Tracking work from 2017-2020 by BTO staff provided the first evidence of Scottish breeding Arctic Skuas wintering off South America! Other individuals wintered along the western and southern African coast. #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

#ornithology